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This book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branch of the Keram family. A Sketch Grammar of Pondi includes ethnographic information, with ample discussion of language vitality and endangerment. The grammatical description begins with phonetics and phonology, before turning to major and minor word classes. The description of nominal morphology focuses especially on Pondi's irregular number affixation and stem alternation, while the description of verbal morphology is largely concerned with aspect and mood suffixation. Syntax is discussed both at the level of the phrase and at the level of the clause. Topics in syntax, such as questions, commands, negation and conditionals are discussed. Following the grammatical description, there is a lexicon of over 600 Pondi words, presented both as a Pondi-to-English word list and as an English-to-Pondi finder list.

Papuan languages. --- East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea) --- Papua New Guinea --- Languages --- Grammar. --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua-Neuguinea --- Papua Niu Gini --- Papua Niugini --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papua Nugini --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua

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This book examines important questions which Papua New Guinea must ask in the development of intellectual property legislation. The chapters are written by specialists in the fields of medicine, law, the environment, music, genetics and traditional cultural knowledge.

Intellectual property. --- Intellectual property --- Cultural property --- Biotechnology --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- IP (Intellectual property) --- Proprietary rights --- Rights, Proprietary --- Law and legislation --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Intangible property --- Papua New Guinea --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua-Neuguinea --- Papua Niu Gini --- Papua Niugini --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papua Nugini --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua

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The 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.

Papua New Guinea --- Natural resources. --- Public administration. --- Intergroup relations. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua-Neuguinea --- Papua Niu Gini --- Papua Niugini --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papua Nugini --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua --- Politics & government --- natural resources --- papua new guinea --- social conflict --- management --- southern highlands province --- integroup relations --- Hela Province --- Kiap

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In 2008 intensive archaeological surveys began at Caution Bay, located 20km to the northwest of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This was followed by the excavation of 122 stratified sites in 2009-2010, and detailed analysis of the well preserved and abundant faunal, ceramic and lithic finds has continued ever since. The Caution Bay Archaeology Project is providing new and exciting contributions to western Pacific prehistory. It has radically expanded the known geographic distribution of the Lapita Cultural Complex to include, for the first time, the southern coast of Papua New Guinea; it has established the relationship of Lapita to later cultural expressions in this area; it has pinpointed the time of arrival of domesticated animals along the southern coast of Papua New Guinea and, by inference, on the larger island of New Guinea; it has provided new insights into the impact of resident populations on local terrestrial and marine environments over a 5000 year time period; and perhaps of greatest significance, it has provided a unique opportunity to document, using multiple strands of archaeological evidence, interactions between resident and colonizing populations at a time of cultural transformation c. 2900 years ago. The first volume of the Caution Bay monographs is designed to introduce the goals of the Caution Bay project, the nature and scope of the investigations and the cultural and natural setting of the study area. To this end a series of chapters are included on the ethnographic and linguistic setting, the present and past natural environment, archaeological surveys of the study area and investigative and analytical methods. These background chapters will be repeatedly referred to in all the other monographs, as foundational reference materials for the broader study.

Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities, Prehistoric. --- Papua New Guinea --- Papua New Guinea. --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistory --- Prehistoric peoples --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua-Neuguinea --- Papua Niu Gini --- Papua Niugini --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papua Nugini --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- Social Science --- EXCAVATIONS (ARCHAEOLOGY) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Excavations (archaeology) --- Social science

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For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. This book contains the transcriptions, translations, and descriptions of the songs he recorded. The texts of women's sago songs (obedobora), men's ceremonial songs (sorohabora), and women's sorohabora are included. Men turn the prosaic content of womenís sago songs into their own sorohabora songs, which are performed the night following large-scale inter-community pig kills, called dawa. While women sing sago songs by themselves, men sing their ceremonial songs in groups of paired men. Women also have their own ceremonial versions of such songs. The songs are memorial in intent; they are designed to commemorate the lives of men who are no longer living. Most commonly they do so by naming the places the deceased inhabited during his lifetime. These song texts and translations are introduced by Weiner. Ethnomusicologist Don Niles then brings together information about each type of song and considers these Foi genres in relation to those of neighbouring groups, highlighting aspects of regional performance styles. Consideration is also given to the poetic devices used in Papua New Guinea songs. Eighteen recordings illustrating the Foi genres discussed in this book are available for download. It remains uncertain how such songs may be affected by the major oil extraction project that has been undertaken in the region for more than two decades. This book will interest students of anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, verbal art, aesthetics, and cultural heritage

Foi (Papua New Guinean people) --- Ethnomusicology --- Folk music --- Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania --- History & Archaeology --- Music --- Papua New Guinea --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Comparative musicology --- Foe (Papua New Guinean people) --- Foi (Papua New Guinea people) --- Mubi River (Papua New Guinean people) --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Papua Niugini --- Papua-Neuguinea --- PNG --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- Papua Nugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua Niu Gini --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Folklore --- Ethnology --- Musicology --- Papuans --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua --- Foi (Papua New Guinean people). --- foi --- papua new guinea --- ethnomusicology --- anthropology --- Bamboo --- Bird --- Eye Eye --- Fasu language --- Iowa --- Kaluli people --- Longhouse --- Sago