Birds of my Kalam Country
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Why read it?
1 author picked Birds of my Kalam Country as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have shelves full of bird guides to all sorts of places. However, this guide is unique. It is a “bird guide” to the exotic avifauna of highland Papua New Guinea as understood by and in the words of a native.
It honors a decades-long collaboration between the ethnobiologist Bulmer and his Kalam colleague and teacher, Saem Majnep. This began when Bulmer arrived to document the ethnozoological knowledge and ecological practices of this isolated Papuan community. Saem Majnep, then a young boy, eagerly assisted.
The book is a conversation: Saem Majnep describes all the birds of his local habitat, writing…
From Eugene's list on Indigenous Natural History.
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