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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bill Palmer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-12-04
Total Pages: 1142
ISBN-13: 3110567261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.
Author: William C. McCormack
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-15
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 3110800039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles E.M. Pearce
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-06-17
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9048138264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOceanic Migration studies the prehistoric peopling of the Pacific. It uses science and mathematics to expand the research base of Pacific prehistory and casts new light on this final human expansion. It explores the fundamental roles of oceanography and of global climate change in determining the paths, sequence, timing and range of Spice Island-based maritime migrations ranging across a quarter of the globe. The book is of interest to Pacific prehistorians, oceanographers and American anthropologists concerned with the diffusionist debate. For oceanographers it presents the new idea of the role of the West Pacific Warm Pool and of three of its four major currents in determining the evolution of voyaging in two oceans. For diffusionists it provides new chronological and technological contexts in which the issue of diffusionism needs to be reconsidered. For prehistorians it creates a paradigmatic shift by establishing a new time depth and mechanism for Polynesian exploration, offers a new view of voyaging and exploration strategies and of economic imperatives and adds a new dimension to the debate on Polynesian origins.
Author: Andrew J. Marshall
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2011-07-19
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 1462906796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ecology of Papua provides a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge on all aspects of the natural history of western (Indonesian) New Guinea. Designed for students of conservation, environmental workers, and academic researchers, it is a richly detailed text, dense with biogeographical data, historical reference, and fresh insight on this complicated and marvelous region. We hope it will serve to raise awareness of Papua on a global as well as local scale, and to catalyze effective conservation of its most precious natural assets. New Guinea is the largest and highest tropical island, and one of the last great wilderness areas remaining on Earth. Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is noteworthy for its equatorial glaciers, its vast forested floodplains, its imposing central mountain range, its Raja Ampat Archipelago, and its several hundred traditional forest-dwelling societies. One of the wildest places left in the world, Papua possesses extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Today, Papua’s environment is under threat from growing outside pressures to exploit its expansive forests and to develop large plantations of oil palm and biofuels. It is important that Papua’s leadership balance economic development with good resource management, to ensure the long-term well-being of its culturally diverse populace.
Author: Andrew Strathern
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 352
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-04-12
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 019926662X
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Author: Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-05-19
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 069118030X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining a wealth of information, a descriptive and story-filled narrative, and more than 200 stunning color photographs, the book unlocks New Guinea's remarkable secrets like never before
Author: Patricia May
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780824823443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea ever produced. The authors have made a thorough analysis of pottery-making throughout Papua New Guinea based on eight years of field work. They proffer a first-hand account of clay preparation, pottery formation, and firing techniques, interwoven with information on the functions of pottery and the various approaches to decoration.