Managing animals in New Guinea : preying the game in the Highlands / Paul Sillitoe.
Managing animals in New Guinea : preying the game in the Highlands / Paul Sillitoe.
Managing animals in New Guinea : preying the game in the Highlands / Paul Sillitoe.
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New York : Routledge, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N639.10995/1
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Pt. I. What's the game? The forest and its animals -- 1.1. What's that bird? -- 1.2. The birds -- 1.3. Methods and knowledge -- 1.4. Furry animals -- 1.5. Disagreements over identifications -- 1.6. Frogs and 'others' -- 1.7. Insects and small reptiles -- 1.8. Taxonomic politics -- 1.9. Negotiated ta...
3.7. Pig ownership -- 3.8. Pig politics -- 3.9. The work of pig management -- 3.10. Pigs in the past, present and future.
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Publisher
New York : Routledge, 2003.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2003.
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"Managing Animals in New Guinea investigates the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classifications, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural and cultural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and t...
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Managing animals in New Guinea : preying the game in the Highlands / Paul Sillitoe.
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Studies in environmental anthropology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N639.10995/1
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74VKDB8djDzd
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ISBN
0415280974
9780415280976
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639.1099561
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991019133549702626
