{"id":66606,"date":"2024-09-07T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/07\/weather-magic-and-wind-lore-the-push-to-preserve-ancient-knowledge-in-vanuatu"},"modified":"2024-09-07T05:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:00:04","slug":"weather-magic-and-wind-lore-the-push-to-preserve-ancient-knowledge-in-vanuatu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66606","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Weather magic\u2019 and wind lore: the push to preserve ancient knowledge in Vanuatu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Talking dictionaries\u2019 among the tools used by researchers to document languages and record Indigenous environmental knowledge<\/p>\n<p>Joe Natuman watches for falling leaves and new shoots on trees as a sign it\u2019s time to garden. Then, when a southern wind begins to blow in his small village in Vanuatu\u2019s Tafea province, he is the first to plant yams. Soon, others will follow his lead.<\/p>\n<p>Like his forefathers, Natuman is a tupunus, meaning he was born into a lineage that is trained to develop an understanding of how natural forces impact agriculture and wellbeing. As a tupunus, Natuman is respected for his knowledge and ability to identify and use hundreds of plant species and special inherited stones to practise \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.2993\/0278-0771-42.4.383\">weather magic<\/a>\u201d. He also senses winds and uses weather<strong> <\/strong>to help his community.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/07\/weather-magic-and-wind-lore-the-push-to-preserve-ancient-knowledge-in-vanuatu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Talking dictionaries\u2019 among the tools used by researchers to document languages and record Indigenous environmental knowledgeJoe Natuman watches for falling leaves and new shoots on trees as a sign it\u2019s time to garden. Then, when a southern wind begin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1758,874,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-language","category-pacific-islands","category-vanuatu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66607,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions\/66607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}