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Managing animals in New Guinea : preying the game in the Highlands / Paul Sillitoe.
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .S546 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-
- Series:
- Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 7.
- Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wola (Papua New Guinean people)--Hunting.
- Wola (Papua New Guinean people).
- Hunting.
- Wola (Papua New Guinean people)--Ethnobiology.
- Ethnobiology.
- Wola (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Exchange--Papua New Guinea.
- Exchange.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- "Managing Animals in New Guinea "combines expert academic knowledge with years of first-hand observation of New Guinea societies, seeks to explain the often perplexing values that underlie Wola relations with animals in the light of sustainability issues and social politics. Looking at linguistic, political, fiscal and gender behavior, it considers how Wola hunting and farming methods make sense within the framework of an exchange-based society, where politics are transactional and dependent on compliance with an egalitarian social structure. At the same time, it challenges the ecological assumption that tropical forest resources can support human populations, putting the relative notion of hunter-gatherer affluence into an intriguing comparative context.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415280974
- OCLC:
- 50982216
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