@article{oai:minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004340,
 author = {秋道, 智彌 and Akimichi , Tomoya},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {国立民族学博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {Pwukof is a basic item of traditional navigational knowledge
among navigators in the Central Caroline Islands of Micronesia.
Pwukof categorizes the sea life encountered when sailing in
particular directions from individual islands. This paper
describes the elaborate system of pwukof from 18 islands in
Micronesia, using data from my fieldwork on Satawal Island.
Each set of knowledge of a given island contains sea birds,
fish, other marine creatures, and oceanographic phenomenon,
together with submerged reefs and islands. Fish and birds highlight
the nature of this knowledge, since they are unique in having
particular proper names, and in being endowed with behavioral
and morphological features. Often these animals are inferred
as esoteric and sometimes abnormal in appearance; i.e., yellow
frigate birds, barracuda in an upright position, swordfish with
a coconut leaf ornament around the neck, a boneless shark, floating
shellfish, or such phenomena of a pair of a croaking and
a voiceless sooty terns, or a white-spotted and a non-spotted
frigate birds, and the like.
Despite their probable emergence in certain sea areas, and
accidental encounters en route, birds and fish designated in
pwukof are believed to survive by means of self-recruitment, even
after accidental capture or killing. This suggests that this
knowledge has served not only for educational and recitational
purposes, but also as a cognitive device for space allocation during
voyaging, rather than as useful indications for actual locationfinding
and landfall per se.},
 pages = {127--173},
 title = {航海術と海の生物 : ミクロネシアの航海術におけるPwukofの知識},
 volume = {13},
 year = {1988},
 yomi = {アキミチ, トモヤ}
}