The Nuaulu World of Plants: Ethnobotanical Cognition, Knowledge and Practice Among a People of Seram, eastern Indonesia

This book provides an account of how Nuaulu people of Seram in eastern Indonesia make sense of their world of plants through processes of categorisation. It draws on ethnographic fieldwork and botanical collaboration over a period of 50 years to provide a rare near-comprehensive picture of a plant knowledge system. It provides a rich resource for locals and professionals alike, as well as critically engaging with the 'new normal' formal-universalist model of how folk classification works established by Brent Berlin, Scott Atran and others. It offers evidence for a more situated and dynamic model, drawing on recent developments in cultural cognition.