| A Place Against Time: Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Contributor(s): Sillitoe, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138978493 ISBN-13: 9781138978492 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Natural Resources - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 333.730 |
| Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 464 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |