Paige West

Conservation Is Our Government Now

The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethnography and critique of conservationist efforts in Papua New Guinea, focusing on the misunderstandings, mistranslations, and complexities that arise in the discourse between conservation/biologists and local people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337126
• ISBN-10: 0822337126
• Artikelnr.: 21679158

Autorenporträt

Paige West is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Abbreviations and Acronyms xxix
1. New Guinea-New York 1
2. Making Crater Mountain 27
3. Articulations, Histories, Development 52
4. Conservation Histories 125
5. A Land of Pure Possibility 147
6. The Practices of Conservation-as-Development 183
7. Exchanging Conservation for Development 215
Appendices 239
Notes 251
Bibliography 279
Index 311