K David Harrison
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 109030 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K David Harrison |
| PRENOMES | K David |
| SOBRENOME | Harrison |
| ASSINATURA | HARRISON K D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York Botanical Garden |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4002-7668 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Drones, Tones, and Timbres
The Boat That Rocked the Ocean
This article offers critical reflections on the Evergreen Maritime Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. It examines six key artifacts from the permanent collection as windows into the museum's curatorial priorities and the tensions between its corporate identity and its Taiwan-specific maritime heritage. The six objects are the bamboo sailing raft of Kaohsiung, the Wang Ye ceremonial boat and koi pennant, the stellar board (qianxingban) replica, the paintin…
Documenting Environmental Knowledge in the Bahnar Language of Vietnam
Environmental knowledge encoded in Bahnar, an Indigenous language of Vietnam, is vital to the Bahnar community and contributes to broader understandings of biodiversity, climate resilience, and sustainable lifeways. We describe a collaborative approach to documenting Bahnar that integrates computational methods with ethnographic, lexicographic, and linguistic fieldwork. Because Bahnar knowledge is transmitted almost entirely through oral traditio…
An ethnographic study of Vietnamese-Ukrainian identity
Vietnamese Ukrainians are a largely unstudied identity group that has recently attracted attention due to the impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Our study examines Vietnamese-Ukrainian bicultural identity as experienced by 10 university student refugees of the war in 2022–23. Researchers conducted semi-structured ethnographic interviews in which each participant examined identity formation experiences as second-generation Vietnamese Ukrainians. …
The Bahnar canoe and environmental knowledge in the central highlands of Vietnam
Dugout canoes are a means of water transportation for many local communities around the world. In Vietnam's ethnic minority communities, dugout canoes have their own characteristics in terms of materials, size, and design in accordance with intended uses and river topography (e.g. rapids, or underwater rocks). Our study considers prior research on dugout canoes worldwide, including in Vietnam, and focuses on the plung dugout canoe of the Bahnar e…
Wind Lore as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu
Wind lore constitutes an important domain of environmental knowledge in eight cultures of southern Vanuatu (Aneityum, Futuna, Aniwa, Nafe, Naka, Netwar, Nanu, and Nahual). Our study reviews previous studies in Oceania which document wind systems as used primarily for long-distance navigation. The named winds of southern Vanuatu are not merely abstract directional markers, nor primarily for use in navigation, but are closely tied to the local geog…
Introduction
We are pleased to present this special edition of Sociolinguistic Studies devoted to the triadic relation among people, the plants they rely upon and nurture, and the languages they speak. Given the current global recognition of threats to biodiversity, and of the language extinction crisis, it is fitting that a leading sociolinguistics journal should explore how languages reflect human adaptation and coexistence with plants. Renewed attention to…
Message plants of Southern Vanuatu
People in the southern Vanuatu islands of Aneityum and Tanna use plants as communication devices, a function which we call ‘message plants’. Certain species of plants are held, worn, or placed in specific locations with the intention of delivering messages with varied semantic content. In the cultural context of southern Vanuatu, message plants serve as an important parallel channel of communication, alongside spoken languages, and in some cases …
Baskets of wisdom
The backpack basket has become an iconic element of Highlanders’ culture in public media and cultural heritage representations in Vietnam. The dominant Vietnamese language in those domains has only one term, gùi, to denote the most common types of ethnic backpack baskets, despite each group creating very diverse basket types. The use of outside overgeneralized terms can potentially contribute to cultural stereotypes and consequently hide diverse …
Who Eats the Forest
In this paper, we explore Bahnar perspectives on the agency of plants and forest, and human-forest relations in Vietnam. The Bahnar are among Vietnam's 54 recognized ethnic minority peoples 1 , many of whom live in proximity to the forest, gather its resources, and regard it as a spiritual abode in their cosmology. The Bahnar (Ba Na) people who inhabit the Central Highlands and are the main focus of this article have traditionally relied on the f…
Calendar Plants in Southern Vanuatu
The Palolo Worm as a Cornerstone of Pacific Ecological Time-Reckoning
Indigenous knowledge systems that uniquely encode environmental knowledge are vanishing globally in tandem with environmental changes and globalization. In this paper we explore knowledge and uses of the palolo polychaete worms (Palola spp.) in time-reckoning, as documented in the anthropological literature on Polynesia and Melanesia. We then introduce preliminary findings from three contemporary cultures, the Raga-, Vureas-, and Netwar-speaking …
Weather Magic as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu
This paper presents weather magic practices from the islands of Tanna and Aneityum, in southern Vanuatu, and highlights how this phenomenon is a critical domain of Indigenous environmental knowledge, particularly knowledge involving plants. Recent literature suggests that diverse cultural systems, such as music, can be viewed as domains of environmental knowledge, and we propose that magical systems should be afforded the same recognition. Althou…
Environmental Linguistics
Environmental linguistics is an emerging field at the intersection of linguistics and natural sciences. It recognizes the mutual relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, documenting linguistic structures and verbal practices by which speakers conceptualize, encode, and transmit knowledge about the natural world. It surpasses the largely metaphorical and narrative program of ecolinguistics to position language as the preeminent conc…
Munda mimetic reduplication
The Munda languages of South Asia exhibit sound symbolism in their use of mimetic reduplication, to which they devote a surprisingly large percentage of their lexicons, typically upwards of ten percent. We present an extensive empirical typology of mimetic reduplication in seven Munda languages: Ho, Kera Mundari, Kharia, Mundari, Remo (Bondo), Santali, and Sora (Savara). Munda Mimetic forms can depict sensory qualities of sound, space, movement, …
Excavations at Fin Cop, Derbyshire
A programme of archaeological investigation took place on Fin Cop hillfort, in the Derbyshire Peak District, during the summers of 2009 and 2010. In total fifty test-pits and eight trenches were excavated, revealing evidence for a Mesolithic quarry site, and sporadic evidence for Neolithic and Beaker period activity. An assemblage of Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age ceramics was recovered from the interior of the fort in association with rock-cut p…
Lessons from documented endangered languages
"This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific-documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is…
When Languages Die
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a peopleʼs science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disappearance of a language is a loss not only for the community of speakers itself but also for our common human knowledge of mathematics, biology, geography, ph…
Language as an Emergent System
Human language is a biological system: All humans are neurologically predisposed to acquire whatever language they are exposed to in their early years. Language itself is socially transmitted. A rich interaction between genetic (brain) structures and social behavior gives rise to what linguists call a “grammar”, which is the knowledge (part innate, part learned) of language complexity found inside the brain of every speaker. The task of Linguisti…
Towards Developing a Framework for Analysing Tourism Phenomena
The social and cultural phenomena related to tourism have been studied for more than three decades, but evaluations of their role and importance are inevitably subjective. In addition, despite contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, there is no single paradigm in tourism studies. In this paper, explicitly written from a sociological perspective, three basic and complementary levels of analysis are indicated, focusing on globalisation…
Ethical Concerns in Documentary Linguistics With Special Attention to Language Endangerment
Na(t)ive orthographies and language endangerment
Poster from the 2006 LSA annual meeting
Tuvan Reduplication and Harmony
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Caucasian, Dravidian, and Turkic Linguistics (2000)
Towards Developing a Framework for Analysing Tourism Phenomena
The social and cultural phenomena related to tourism have been studied for more than three decades, but evaluations of their role and importance are inevitably subjective. In addition, despite contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, there is no single paradigm in tourism studies. In this paper, explicitly written from a sociological perspective, three basic and complementary levels of analysis are indicated, focusing on globalisation…
Environmental Linguistics
Environmental linguistics is an emerging field at the intersection of linguistics and natural sciences. It recognizes the mutual relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, documenting linguistic structures and verbal practices by which speakers conceptualize, encode, and transmit knowledge about the natural world. It surpasses the largely metaphorical and narrative program of ecolinguistics to position language as the preeminent conc…
The Palolo Worm as a Cornerstone of Pacific Ecological Time-Reckoning
Indigenous knowledge systems that uniquely encode environmental knowledge are vanishing globally in tandem with environmental changes and globalization. In this paper we explore knowledge and uses of the palolo polychaete worms (Palola spp.) in time-reckoning, as documented in the anthropological literature on Polynesia and Melanesia. We then introduce preliminary findings from three contemporary cultures, the Raga-, Vureas-, and Netwar-speaking …
Baskets of wisdom
The backpack basket has become an iconic element of Highlanders’ culture in public media and cultural heritage representations in Vietnam. The dominant Vietnamese language in those domains has only one term, gùi, to denote the most common types of ethnic backpack baskets, despite each group creating very diverse basket types. The use of outside overgeneralized terms can potentially contribute to cultural stereotypes and consequently hide diverse …
Who Eats the Forest
In this paper, we explore Bahnar perspectives on the agency of plants and forest, and human-forest relations in Vietnam. The Bahnar are among Vietnam's 54 recognized ethnic minority peoples 1 , many of whom live in proximity to the forest, gather its resources, and regard it as a spiritual abode in their cosmology. The Bahnar (Ba Na) people who inhabit the Central Highlands and are the main focus of this article have traditionally relied on the f…
Calendar Plants in Southern Vanuatu
Ethical Concerns in Documentary Linguistics With Special Attention to Language Endangerment
Tuvan Reduplication and Harmony
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Caucasian, Dravidian, and Turkic Linguistics (2000)
Na(t)ive orthographies and language endangerment
Poster from the 2006 LSA annual meeting
When Languages Die
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a peopleʼs science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disappearance of a language is a loss not only for the community of speakers itself but also for our common human knowledge of mathematics, biology, geography, ph…
Language as an Emergent System
Human language is a biological system: All humans are neurologically predisposed to acquire whatever language they are exposed to in their early years. Language itself is socially transmitted. A rich interaction between genetic (brain) structures and social behavior gives rise to what linguists call a “grammar”, which is the knowledge (part innate, part learned) of language complexity found inside the brain of every speaker. The task of Linguisti…
Towards Developing a Framework for Analysing Tourism Phenomena
The social and cultural phenomena related to tourism have been studied for more than three decades, but evaluations of their role and importance are inevitably subjective. In addition, despite contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, there is no single paradigm in tourism studies. In this paper, explicitly written from a sociological perspective, three basic and complementary levels of analysis are indicated, focusing on globalisation…
Ethical Concerns in Documentary Linguistics With Special Attention to Language Endangerment
Lessons from documented endangered languages
"This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific-documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is…
Excavations at Fin Cop, Derbyshire
A programme of archaeological investigation took place on Fin Cop hillfort, in the Derbyshire Peak District, during the summers of 2009 and 2010. In total fifty test-pits and eight trenches were excavated, revealing evidence for a Mesolithic quarry site, and sporadic evidence for Neolithic and Beaker period activity. An assemblage of Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age ceramics was recovered from the interior of the fort in association with rock-cut p…
Munda mimetic reduplication
The Munda languages of South Asia exhibit sound symbolism in their use of mimetic reduplication, to which they devote a surprisingly large percentage of their lexicons, typically upwards of ten percent. We present an extensive empirical typology of mimetic reduplication in seven Munda languages: Ho, Kera Mundari, Kharia, Mundari, Remo (Bondo), Santali, and Sora (Savara). Munda Mimetic forms can depict sensory qualities of sound, space, movement, …
Weather Magic as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu
This paper presents weather magic practices from the islands of Tanna and Aneityum, in southern Vanuatu, and highlights how this phenomenon is a critical domain of Indigenous environmental knowledge, particularly knowledge involving plants. Recent literature suggests that diverse cultural systems, such as music, can be viewed as domains of environmental knowledge, and we propose that magical systems should be afforded the same recognition. Althou…
Environmental Linguistics
Environmental linguistics is an emerging field at the intersection of linguistics and natural sciences. It recognizes the mutual relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, documenting linguistic structures and verbal practices by which speakers conceptualize, encode, and transmit knowledge about the natural world. It surpasses the largely metaphorical and narrative program of ecolinguistics to position language as the preeminent conc…
Calendar Plants in Southern Vanuatu
The Palolo Worm as a Cornerstone of Pacific Ecological Time-Reckoning
Indigenous knowledge systems that uniquely encode environmental knowledge are vanishing globally in tandem with environmental changes and globalization. In this paper we explore knowledge and uses of the palolo polychaete worms (Palola spp.) in time-reckoning, as documented in the anthropological literature on Polynesia and Melanesia. We then introduce preliminary findings from three contemporary cultures, the Raga-, Vureas-, and Netwar-speaking …
Wind Lore as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu
Wind lore constitutes an important domain of environmental knowledge in eight cultures of southern Vanuatu (Aneityum, Futuna, Aniwa, Nafe, Naka, Netwar, Nanu, and Nahual). Our study reviews previous studies in Oceania which document wind systems as used primarily for long-distance navigation. The named winds of southern Vanuatu are not merely abstract directional markers, nor primarily for use in navigation, but are closely tied to the local geog…
Introduction
We are pleased to present this special edition of Sociolinguistic Studies devoted to the triadic relation among people, the plants they rely upon and nurture, and the languages they speak. Given the current global recognition of threats to biodiversity, and of the language extinction crisis, it is fitting that a leading sociolinguistics journal should explore how languages reflect human adaptation and coexistence with plants. Renewed attention to…
Message plants of Southern Vanuatu
People in the southern Vanuatu islands of Aneityum and Tanna use plants as communication devices, a function which we call ‘message plants’. Certain species of plants are held, worn, or placed in specific locations with the intention of delivering messages with varied semantic content. In the cultural context of southern Vanuatu, message plants serve as an important parallel channel of communication, alongside spoken languages, and in some cases …
Baskets of wisdom
The backpack basket has become an iconic element of Highlanders’ culture in public media and cultural heritage representations in Vietnam. The dominant Vietnamese language in those domains has only one term, gùi, to denote the most common types of ethnic backpack baskets, despite each group creating very diverse basket types. The use of outside overgeneralized terms can potentially contribute to cultural stereotypes and consequently hide diverse …
Who Eats the Forest
In this paper, we explore Bahnar perspectives on the agency of plants and forest, and human-forest relations in Vietnam. The Bahnar are among Vietnam's 54 recognized ethnic minority peoples 1 , many of whom live in proximity to the forest, gather its resources, and regard it as a spiritual abode in their cosmology. The Bahnar (Ba Na) people who inhabit the Central Highlands and are the main focus of this article have traditionally relied on the f…
An ethnographic study of Vietnamese-Ukrainian identity
Vietnamese Ukrainians are a largely unstudied identity group that has recently attracted attention due to the impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Our study examines Vietnamese-Ukrainian bicultural identity as experienced by 10 university student refugees of the war in 2022–23. Researchers conducted semi-structured ethnographic interviews in which each participant examined identity formation experiences as second-generation Vietnamese Ukrainians. …
The Bahnar canoe and environmental knowledge in the central highlands of Vietnam
Dugout canoes are a means of water transportation for many local communities around the world. In Vietnam's ethnic minority communities, dugout canoes have their own characteristics in terms of materials, size, and design in accordance with intended uses and river topography (e.g. rapids, or underwater rocks). Our study considers prior research on dugout canoes worldwide, including in Vietnam, and focuses on the plung dugout canoe of the Bahnar e…
Drones, Tones, and Timbres
The Boat That Rocked the Ocean
This article offers critical reflections on the Evergreen Maritime Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. It examines six key artifacts from the permanent collection as windows into the museum's curatorial priorities and the tensions between its corporate identity and its Taiwan-specific maritime heritage. The six objects are the bamboo sailing raft of Kaohsiung, the Wang Ye ceremonial boat and koi pennant, the stellar board (qianxingban) replica, the paintin…
Documenting Environmental Knowledge in the Bahnar Language of Vietnam
Environmental knowledge encoded in Bahnar, an Indigenous language of Vietnam, is vital to the Bahnar community and contributes to broader understandings of biodiversity, climate resilience, and sustainable lifeways. We describe a collaborative approach to documenting Bahnar that integrates computational methods with ethnographic, lexicographic, and linguistic fieldwork. Because Bahnar knowledge is transmitted almost entirely through oral traditio…
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