Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands [Hardcover]

Paul Sillitoe (Author)

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Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Jun 27 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415280974
ISBN-13: 978-0415280976
Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.1 x 2.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 821 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,030,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #60 in Books > Travel > Australia & South Pacific > Papua New Guinea

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A scientifically detailed presentation of the attitudes to, and thereby the uses and appreciation of, animals ... This book is written in the ethnographically rich manner of his previous publications ... Sillitoe deals thoroughly with a whole range of interesting issues connected with debates in anthropology ... gives an unusually comprehensive account of the management of pigs ... makes a spirited defence of his approach
of ethnographic determinism - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Managing Animals in New Guinea combines expert academic knowledge with years of first-hand observation of New Guinea societies, seeks to explain the often perplexing values that underlie Wola relations with animals in the light of sustainability issues and social politics. Looking at linguistic, political, fiscal and gender behavior, it considers how Wola hunting and farming methods make sense within the framework of an exchange-based society, where politics are transactional and dependent on compliance with an egalitarian social structure. At the same time, it challenges the ecological assumption that tropical forest resources can support human populations, putting the relative notion of hunter-gatherer affluence into an intriguing comparative context.

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