Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea, Paperback - Paige West

When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they deva...

An ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New GuineaPublisher: Duke University...

West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops ...

This work addresses the global-local tension evident in much work on development issues, through the example of fresh food markets in Papua New Gui...

In 1942, US and Australian forces waged a brutal war against the Japanese in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Plunged into a primitive, hostile wor...

Explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on p...

A taxonomic treatise of the tropical fruit flies of Papua New Guinea, Indonesian Papua, associated islands and Bougainville, with an updated record...

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Publisher: Redback PublishingAuthor(s): Jane HincheyNumber of pages: 32Collection: GlobetrottersPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 223 x 277 x 13Cov...

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Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw "globalization" come and go. Suau pe...

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The ceremonial houses of the Abelam people (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea), rank as architectual masterpieces. This book offers a unique do...

Covers an early little known but strategically important Pacific War campaign.

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An ethnographically framed account of the long, bitter fight for freedom that challenges the dominant international narrative that West Papuans' qu...

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Stuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights...

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This ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua New Guinea is complicated by ...

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