| A Place Against Time: Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Contributor(s): Sillitoe, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 3718659255 ISBN-13: 9783718659258 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: "A Place Against Time" is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to-date. Popular support for Green causes evidences current widespread concern over environmental degradation, unsustainable agricultural practices, forest destruction, and so on. While land management inevitably implies some modification of Nature's arrangements to meet human food needs, a crucial question is whether these interventions are sustainable in the long-te |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Natural Resources - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 333.730 |
| LCCN: 99521843 |
| Series: Performing Arts Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 7.06" W x 10.22" (2.69 lbs) 464 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date. |