Forbidden sea turtles: Traditional laws pertaining to sea turtle consumption in Polynesia (Including the Polynesian Outliers)

Forbidden sea turtles: Traditional laws pertaining to sea turtle consumption in Polynesia (Including the Polynesian Outliers)

Throughout the Pacific regions of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia, sea turtles are recognised as culturally significant species. The specifics of human-sea turtle interactions in these regions, however, are not well known, in part because ethnographic and historic reports documenting these inter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rudrud Regina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2010-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
Subjects:
sea turtle
Oceania
Pacific
Polynesia
taboo
kapu
tapu
traditional take
cultural take
cultural value
traditional ecological knowledge
traditional conservation measures
Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2010;volume=8;issue=1;spage=84;epage=97;aulast=Rudrud

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