Paradise
Author: Michael O'Hanlon
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 120
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New Guinea Highlands
Author: John Friede
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 3791350552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major publication on the art of the New Guinea Highlands, this extraordinary volume is destined to become the definitive resource on this little-known region. The Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco consists of hundreds of objects and represents hundreds of clans and villages throughout the island of New Guinea. This lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the Highlands—a region of rugged mountains, fertile valleys, and a civilization that dates back fifty thousand years. Here, in more than six hundred pages, are intricately crafted shields, masks, and headdresses, along with other remarkable ceremonial and personal objects—the majority of which have never before been published or exhibited. Historic and field photographs, maps of key locations, and authoritative essays by preeminent scholars covering a wide range of subjects, from prehistoric carvings to body adornment, make this book a collector’s dream.
The Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Author: Brian Miller
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13:
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Author: Isabella Tree
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the fascinating account of Tree's journeys in the remote Highlands of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya--one of the most dangerous regions on Earth. The author travels with a PNG Highlander who introduces her to his complex, traditional world, a world that is changing rapidly as it encounters new ideas, modern technologies, and the economic and political challenges of the 20the century.
Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Author: Nicole Haley
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1921313463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Southern Highlands is one of Papua New Guinea's most resource-rich provinces, but for a number of years the province has been riven by conflict. Longstanding inter-group rivalries, briefly set aside during the colonial period, have been compounded by competition for the benefits provided by the modern state and by fighting over the distribution of returns from the several big mining and petroleum projects located within the province or impinging upon it. Deaths from the various conflicts over the past decade number in the hundreds. As a result of inter-group fighting, criminal activity and vandalism, a number of businesses have withdrawn from the province. Roadblocks and ambushes have made travel dangerous in many parts and expatriate missionaries and aid workers have left. Many public servants have abandoned their posts with the result that state services are not provided. Corruption is rife. Police are often reluctant to act because they are outnumbered and outgunned. This volume brings together a number of authors with deep experience of the Southern Highlands to examine the underlying dynamics of resource development and conflict in the province. Its primary purpose is to provide some background to recent events, but the authors also explore possible approaches to limiting the human and economic costs of the ongoing conflict and breakdown of governance.
A Place Against Time
Author: Paul Sillitoe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1134377533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date.
Out of Place
Author: Michael Goddard
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0857450956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its practitioners claimed that it could adequately accommodate the cultural variation among Melanesian societies. This book compares the intent and practice of transcultural psychiatry with Kakoli interpretations of, and responses to, madness, showing the reasons for their occasional recourse to psychiatric services. Episodes involving madness, as defined by the Kakoli themselves, are described in order to offer a context for the historical lifeworld and praxis of the community and raise fundamental questions about whether a culturally sensitive psychiatry is possible in the Melanesian context.
Highland Peoples of New Guinea
Author: Paula Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1978-06-30
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521217484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty years ago the New Guinea highlands were isolated and unknown to outsiders. As the highland peoples of New Guinea are among the last large groups to be brought into the world community, they are of major interest to ecologists, social anthropologists and cultural historians. This study synthesises previous anthropological research on the New Guinea highland peoples and cultures and demonstrates the interrelations of ecological adaptation, population and society. In describing, analysing and comparing the technology, culture and community life of peoples of the highland and the highland fringe, Professor Brown shows the special character of these societies, which have developed in isolation. In addition to examining the unique regional development of the New Guinea highland peoples, this book, a study in ecological and social anthropology, brings together theses two analytical fields and demonstrates their interrelationships.
The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies
Author: D. K. Feil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-12-03
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0521334233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKD. K. Feil's study focuses on the divergent regions of the eastern and western highland of Papua New Guinea.
Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies
Author: Andrew Strathern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-16
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521107846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Guinea is now reissued with a new preface. The five papers in this volume seek to set these inequalities into a context of long-term and recent social changes that aim to develop schemes of analysis which will permit discussion of the societies over extended periods of time.
