Download or read book New Guinea and its Inhabitants Part I and II written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1879 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'New Guinea and its Inhabitants' is a general sketch of the island and the peculiar forms of life that inhabit it, and to discusses briefly some of the interesting problems connected with its indigenous races. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.
Download or read book History of New Guinea and Its People written by Alfred R Wallace and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the History of New Guinea and its ihabitants. "Immediately north of Australia, and separated from it at Torres Straits by less than a hundred miles of sea, is the largest island on the globe - New Guinea, a country of surpassing interest, whether as regards its natural productions or its human inhabitants, but which remains to this day less known than any accessible portion of the earth's surface... It was discovered in 1511, even earlier than Australia; and from that time Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English vessels have continually passed along its coasts. Most of our early navigators -Forrest, Dampier, and Cook - visited New Guinea, and have given us some account of its inhabitants..."
Download or read book British New Guinea written by Sir William Macgregor and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 1897 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey to the heart of British New Guinea with this informative and engaging work by Sir William MacGregor. Learn about the natural beauty of the land, the customs and cultures of its people, and the history of British colonization and administration. MacGregor's vivid account is an essential read for anyone interested in the history and geography of this fascinating region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book New Guinea and Its Inhabitants written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on New Guinea and Its Inhabitants written by William George Lawes and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan written by Thomas Forrest and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1779 account of the archipelago between Malaysia and New Guinea, its inhabitants, and colonial rivalries over the spice trade.
Download or read book British New Guinea and Its Inhabitants written by E. T. Howell and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagining the Other written by Regis Tove Stella and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions of Papua New Guineans. Paying special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and colonial reports, laws, and legislation, Regis Tove Stella reveals the complex and persistent network of discursive strategies deployed to subjugate the land and its people.
Download or read book Papua New Guinea History Timeline written by Flowers Jonathan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinea was originally known as Papua, a Malay word given by Portuguese explorer Jorge de Menezes, which means tightly curled hair characteristic of most of its inhabitants. The name New Guinea was given by Spaniard Yñigo Ortiz de Petez in 1545 because of the striking similarity in appearance between the inhabitants of the African Guinea coast and those of the island. In 1870, Russian anthropologist Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai wrote a treatise on the life of the inhabitants after he had made expeditions to the island and lived with some of the native tribes for many years. The southern half of eastern New Guinea was annexed by the Colony of Queensland in 1883 before the before the British New Guinea, a British protectorate, was proclaimed over the southern coast and nearby islands. This led to the annexation of the protectorate in 1902 with the Commonwealth of Australia exercising authority over it. The Australian administration thus began on the heels of the passage of Papua Act of 1905.
Download or read book Highland Peoples of New Guinea written by Paula Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-06-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago the New Guinea highlands were isolated and unknown to outsiders. As the highland peoples of New Guinea are among the last large groups to be brought into the world community, they are of major interest to ecologists, social anthropologists and cultural historians. This study synthesises previous anthropological research on the New Guinea highland peoples and cultures and demonstrates the interrelations of ecological adaptation, population and society. In describing, analysing and comparing the technology, culture and community life of peoples of the highland and the highland fringe, Professor Brown shows the special character of these societies, which have developed in isolation. In addition to examining the unique regional development of the New Guinea highland peoples, this book, a study in ecological and social anthropology, brings together theses two analytical fields and demonstrates their interrelationships.
Download or read book The Earth and Its Inhabitants Australasia written by Elisée Reclus and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Voyage to Guinea written by William Smith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1744, this account describes the "customs, manners, soil, climate, habits, buildings, education, manual arts, agriculture, trade, employments, languages, ranks of distinction, habitations, diversions, marriages and whatever else is memorable about the Inhabitants.
Download or read book The Kaluli written by K. Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Earth and Its Inhabitants written by Elisée Reclus and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papua New Guinea written by Carmel Reilly and published by Nelson Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinea is a country on the Pacific Ocean. Its population of five million is made of people from around 1000 different cultural groups.
Download or read book The Abelam written by Diane Losche and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation Is Our Government Now written by Paige West and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999. She describes the interactions between those who ran the program—mostly ngo workers—and the Gimi people who live in the forests surrounding Crater Mountain. West shows that throughout the project there was a profound disconnect between the goals of the two groups. The ngo workers thought that they would encourage conservation and cultivate development by teaching Gimi to value biodiversity as an economic resource. The villagers expected that in exchange for the land, labor, food, and friendship they offered the conservation workers, they would receive benefits, such as medicine and technology. In the end, the divergent nature of each group’s expectations led to disappointment for both. West reveals how every aspect of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area—including ideas of space, place, environment, and society—was socially produced, created by changing configurations of ideas, actions, and material relations not only in Papua New Guinea but also in other locations around the world. Complicating many of the assumptions about nature, culture, and development underlying contemporary conservation efforts, Conservation Is Our Government Now demonstrates the unique capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between the global and the local, between transnational processes and individual lives.
