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The ecology of Papua
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ISBN: 0794603939 9780794603939 Year: 2007 Publisher: Singapore Periplus

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Mister Pip.
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ISBN: 0385341067 9780385341066 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York Dial Press

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Flora malesiana.
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ISBN: 9789071236655 Year: 2007 Publisher: Leiden : Nationaal herbarium Nederland. Universiteit Leiden branch,

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Photographing Papua : representation, colonial encounters and imaging in the public domain
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ISBN: 1282190571 9786612190575 1443806749 1847182887 9781847182883 9781443806749 Year: 2007 Publisher: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards. Readers :knew"" Papua because many tho...


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Le jardin du casoar, la forêt des Kasua : épistémologie des savoir-être et savoir-faire écologiques, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
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ISBN: 2735111962 9782735111961 9782271065490 2735119394 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris : Maison des sciences de l'homme : CNRS,

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En quoi les savoir-faire écologiques des Kasua de Nouvelle-Guinée seraient-ils plus à même de préserver la présence humaine et l'extraordinaire biodiversité tropicale, aussi complexe que fragile ? Pour résoudre cette énigme, Florence Brunois nous entraîne au cœur de ce monde forestier où cohabitent plus d'un millier d'êtres vivants et d'êtres spirituels avec lesquels les Kasua entrent quotidiennement en interaction au cours de leurs multiples activités forestières. C'est à partir d'une description systématique des relations que cette population expérimente avec l'ensemble des êtres forestiers, sur les plans de l'écologie, des techniques, de l'imaginaire, du mythe, du rituel, du rêve, et finalement des émotions, que l'auteur dresse une analyse critique de l'immense somme de connaissances naturalistes, éthologiques et écologiques mises en pratique par cette société forestière. Ce faisant, elle propose une nouvelle manière d'appréhender les autres en révélant un savoir-être « avec » la pluralité des existants qui reconnaît que la régénération de la vie sociale est absolument interdépendante de la régénération de la vie sous toutes ses formes et des relations qui les unissent. Par cet ouvrage, Florence Brunois réintroduit l'ethnologie de la Nouvelle-Guinée au centre des débats qui animent l'anthropologie de la nature et nos propres sociétés quant aux manières de penser la place de l'homme dans l'environnement.


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Malaysian fungal diversity
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ISBN: 9789832085935 Year: 2007 Publisher: Kuala Lumpur : Mushroom research centre, University of Malaya Ministry of natural resources and environment Malaya,


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Conflict and resource development in the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea
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ISBN: 1921313455 1921313463 9781921313462 9781921313455 Year: 2007 Publisher: Canberra ANU Press

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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.


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Papua New Guinea : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix.
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ISBN: 1462368484 1452773912 1280919817 1452721513 9786613741998 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper examines and tests the existence of political budget cycles in Papua New Guinea during the period 1988–2004. Several factors point to the existence of political budget cycles in Papua New Guinea. The paper provides an overview of the political business cycle literature, and Papua New Guinea’s political structure and processes. It also describes the data set and the empirical methods used to test for the presence of election-influenced spending, and presents the results of a time-series analysis.


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The Kula Ring of Bronislaw Malinowski : a simulation model of the co-evolution of an economic and ceremonial exchange system
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ISSN: 03425991 ISBN: 9783769616415 3769616413 Year: 2007 Volume: 2007 (1) Publisher: München : Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,

Biology unmoored
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ISBN: 1282358375 9786612358371 0520939476 1433701383 9780520939479 9781433701382 9781282358379 9780520247123 0520247124 9780520247130 0520247132 6612358378 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Biology Unmoored is an engaging examination of what it means to live in a world that is not structured in terms of biological thinking. Drawing upon three years of ethnographic research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sandra Bamford describes a world in which physiological reproduction is not perceived to ground human kinship or human beings' relationship to the organic world. Bamford also exposes the ways in which Western ideas about relatedness do depend on a notion of physiological reproduction. Her innovative analysis includes a discussion of the advent of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), the mapping of the human genome, cloning, the commodification of biodiversity, and the manufacture and sale of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

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Genetic engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Ethnobiology --- Ethnoecology --- Human body --- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Genetic recombination --- Biotechnology --- Transgenic organisms --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Folk biology --- Folkbiology --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional biology --- Biology, Economic --- Ethnoscience --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Anga (Papua New Guinean people) --- Hamday (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kamea (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kapau (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kukukuku (Papua New Guinea people) --- Kukukuku (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kukukuku (Papuan people) --- Watut (Papua New Guinean people) --- Ethnology --- Papuans --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Social aspects --- Psychology. --- Agriculture. --- Ethnobiology. --- Ecology --- Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) --- Gulf District (Papua New Guinea) --- Social life and customs. --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- assisted reproductive technologies. --- biodiversity. --- biologists. --- biology. --- biotechnology. --- cloning. --- environmental impacts. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic research. --- genetically modified organisms. --- gmos. --- human condition. --- human genome mapping. --- human impact. --- human relationships. --- melanesia. --- natural world. --- nonfiction. --- organic life. --- papua new guinea. --- physiological. --- reproduction. --- reproductive technologies. --- sex and culture. --- sexual reproduction. --- social science. --- western ideas.

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