Paul Sillitoe

Managing Animals in New Guinea

Preying the Game in the Highlands

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Produktbeschreibung

Paul Sillitoe's rigorously argued new book, combining 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 behaviour, 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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Managing Animals in New Guinea analyzes the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 821g
• ISBN-13: 9780415280976
• ISBN-10: 0415280974
• Artikelnr.: 21652171

Autorenporträt

Paul Sillitoe is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham and former Nuffield Fellow in Tropical Agriculture. He has worked extensively in Papua New Guinea. His previous books include Participating in Development (Routledge, 2002), Horticulture in Papua New Guinea (2002), Indigenous Knowledge Development in Bangladesh (2000) and A Place Against Time: Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of tables Liust of plates Introduction PART 1 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 Taxonomy 1.10 Agreeing to Disagree PART 2
WHERE'S THE GAME? HUNTING AND FORAGING 2.1 First Impressions 2.2 Access to
Forest 2.3 Forest Resources 2.4 Knowing Animals 2.5 Spell Knowledge 2.6
Hunting Techniques 2.7 Returns on Hunting Efforts 2.8 Hunting and Social
Status 2.9 Sharing Game 2.10 Wild Plant and Other Foods 2.11 Hunter
Gathering in the Highlands? 2.12 Managing Limited Wild Resources PART 3
WHEN THEY'RE TAME? PIG MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION 3.1 Pigmanship in the New
Guinea Highlands 3.2 The Pigs 3.3 Pig Management 3.4 Bespelling Pigs 3.5
Ethnovetinary Practices 3.6 Pig Herd Demography 3.7 Pig Ownership 3.8 Pig
Politics 3.9 The Work of Pig Management. 3.10 Pigs in the Past, Present and
Future. 3.11 Conclusion REFERENCES