caa a22 4500 445806796 CHVBK 20180317145159.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9420-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9420-0 The Role of Habitus in the Maintenance of Traditional Noongar Plant Knowledge in Southwest Western Australia [Elektronische Daten] [Eleanor Rusack, Joe Dortch, Ken Hayward, Michael Renton, Mathias Boer, Pauline Grierson] We examine the role that habitus, an individual's or group's dispositions, has played in the retention of traditional ecological knowledge among the Noongar people of south-western Australia. We sought to determine if current plant knowledge reflects Noongar habitus or, alternatively, the use of fall-back species that were important due to the intermittency of agricultural employment and the social exclusion of Aboriginal people up until at least the 1960s in Western Australia. We compared the seasonal availability of Noongar food plant resources currently known by Noongar Elders to those described at the time of European settlement. We used non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (nMDS) and multivariate statistics to compare the seasonal availability of plant resources with the seasonal availability of work prior to the introduction of civil rights for Aboriginal Australians in the 1960s. We show that the seasonal pattern of plant knowledge has changed little since settlement and that there was no significant relationship between the seasonal availability of work and plant knowledge. This result suggests that prior to 1960 Noongars maintained a reasonably traditional round of seasonal activities involving traditional plant use. We suggest that Noongar habitus guided their response to the colonising culture and helped preserve traditional ecological knowledge. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Traditional plant use nationallicence Habitus nationallicence Southwest Western Australia nationallicence Noongar nationallicence Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling nationallicence Rusack Eleanor School of Plant Biology M090, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut Dortch Joe School of Social and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut Hayward Ken South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC), 6107, Cannington, WA, Australia aut Renton Michael School of Plant Biology M090, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut Boer Mathias School of Plant Biology M090, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut Grierson Pauline School of Plant Biology M090, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/5(2011-10-01), 673-682 0300-7839 39:5<673 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9420-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9420-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rusack Eleanor School of Plant Biology M090, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dortch Joe School of Social and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hayward Ken South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC), 6107, Cannington, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Renton Michael School of Plant Biology M090, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boer Mathias School of Plant Biology M090, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grierson Pauline School of Plant Biology M090, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/5(2011-10-01), 673-682 0300-7839 39:5<673 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer