LEADER 03344 am 2200625 n 450 001 9910294542503321 005 20181121 010 $a2-9563981-8-0 024 7 $a10.4000/books.pacific.690 035 $a(CKB)4100000007159128 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-pacific-690 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52545 035 $a(PPN)232658986 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007159128 100 $a20181126j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaenge gardens $eA study of Maenge relationship to domesticates /$fFrançoise Panoff 210 $aMarseille $cpacific-credo Publications$d2018 215 $a1 online resource ([XV]206 p.) 311 $a2-9537485-7-1 330 $aDomesticates play a central part both in the everyday and ritual life of the Maenge people of New Britain. Maenge relationship to this category of plants is here analysed through their horticultural techniques, their systems of classification and appellation, their utilisations and finally through myths and rites. Gardening techniques as well as the systems of classification and appellation emphasise the importance of the notion of cultivar in Maenge eyes. While the taxonomy of domesticates is relatively shallow, keys are built by taking into account minute differences between cultivars, as is shown with reference to taro and cordyline. As men may receive names of taro cultivars or give their own names to cultivated trees, the boundaries between nature and culture are suppressed: domesticates appear as part of humans? culture, a point made even clearer by the attribution of a soul to cultigens since this soul endows them with powers similar to those of men: ability of feeling, agency. The distinction between hot and cold categories is fundamental for an understanding of Maenge medicine and gardening rites. The category of the rotten is also essential for a population of gardeners who fully recognise the part played by rotten matter in rebuilding the topsoil during the fallow period. Gardens, in the Maenge setting, thus appear not only as food reserves but as laboratories where experiments are ceaselessly going on as well as sanctuaries. Gardening provides not only social prestige but intellectual and aesthetic pleasures. 606 $aSociology & Anthropology 606 $aMaenge people 606 $aplants 606 $adomesticates 606 $agardening 606 $arite 606 $aethnobotany 610 $adomesticates 610 $agardening 610 $aplants 610 $arite 610 $aMaenge people 610 $aethnobotany 615 4$aSociology & Anthropology 615 4$aMaenge people 615 4$aplants 615 4$adomesticates 615 4$agardening 615 4$arite 615 4$aethnobotany 700 $aPanoff$b Françoise$0733927 701 $aFreedman$b Françoise Barbira$0686119 701 $aMitev-Grey$b Dr Nathalie$01316939 701 $aStrathern$b Professor Dame Marilyn$01316940 701 $aBarbira-Freedman$b Françoise$0686119 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910294542503321 996 $aMaenge gardens$93032820 997 $aUNINA