The Role of Habitus in the Maintenance of Traditional Noongar Plant Knowledge in Southwest Western Australia

Human Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 673-682

  Rusack, Eleanor May ^a   Dortch, Joe ^a   Hayward, Ken ^c   Renton, Michael ^a,b   Boer, Mathias ^a   Grierson, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Habitus; Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling; Noongar; Southwest Western Australia; Traditional plant use

Indexed keywords

CIVIL RIGHTS; CULTURAL HERITAGE; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL TRADITION; FOOD; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80053950904     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-011-9420-0     Document Type: Article

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