Download or read book Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea written by J.L. Gressit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. L. Gressitt New Guinea is a fantastic island, unique and fascinating. It is an area of incredible variety of geomorphology, biota, peoples, languages, history, tradi tions and cultures. Diversity is its prime characteristic, whatever the subject of interest. To a biogeographer it is tantalizing, as well as confusing or frustrating when trying to determine the history of its biota. To an ecologist, and to all biologists, it is a happy hunting ground of endless surprises and unanswered questions. To a conservationist it is like a dream come true, a "flash-back" of a few centuries, as well as a challenge for the future. New Guinea is so special that it is hard to compare it with other islands or tropical areas. It is something apart, with its very complicated history (chapters I: 2-4, II: 1-4, III: I, VI: I, 2). It is partly old but to a great extent very young, yet extremely rich and complex. It has biota of different sources - to such a degree that it is still disputed in this volume as to what Realm it belongs to: the Paleotropical or Notogaean (Australian); or what Region: Oriental, "Oceanic," Papuan or Australian. The terms Papuasian, Indo-Australian and Australasian also have been applied to the area.

Download or read book The Dermatoglyphics of the Peoples of New Guinea written by C. C. Plato and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Guinea written by James Bennett Watson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Composition Linguistique Des Nations Du Monde written by Heinz Kloss and published by Presses Université Laval. This book was released on 1981 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cultures of Highland and Lowland New Guinea written by Anne Higgins Porter and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Melanesian Dwarf Tribe of Aiome New Guinea written by Reginald Ruggles Gates and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Papua New Guinea written by Papua New Guinea. Office of Information and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Guinea Big Man Island written by Edward S. Rogers and published by [Toronto, Ont.] : Royal Ontario Museum. This book was released on 1970 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume attempts to make known in published form the fine ethnological material from New Guinea and adjacent islands held by the Royal Ontario Museum, and the peoples who made these items."--Introduction.

Download or read book The Gidra written by Toshio Kawabe and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Japanese in 2010 by University of Tokyo Press, as Human ecology of the tropical forest: life traditional culture and natural environment of Gidra."--T.p. verso.

Download or read book Growth and Development in New Guinea written by Laurence Allan Malcolm and published by Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research. This book was released on 1970 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cataloguing the World s Endangered Languages written by Lyle Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project. Based on the findings from the most extensive endangered languages research project, this is the most comprehensive source of accurate information on endangered languages. The book presents the academic and scientific findings that underpin the online Catalogue, located at www.endangeredlanguages.com, making it an essential companion to the website for academics and researchers working in this area. While the online Catalogue displays much data from the ELCat project, this volume develops and emphasizes aspects of the research behind the data and includes topics of great interest in the field, not previously covered in a single volume. Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages is an important volume of particular interest to academics and researchers working with endangered languages.

Download or read book Papua New Guinea written by E. Löffler and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea written by Australian National University. Department of Anthropology and Sociology and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Readings in New Guinea History written by Peter Biskup and published by Sydney : Angus and Robertson. This book was released on 1973 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Papua New Guinea written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Archaeologies of Island Melanesia written by Mathieu Leclerc and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The island world of Melanesia—ranging from New Guinea and the Bismarcks through the Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia—is characterised more than anything by its boundless diversity in geography, language and culture. The deep historical roots of this diversity are only beginning to be uncovered by archaeological investigations, but as the contributions to this volume demonstrate, the exciting discoveries being made across this region are opening windows to our understanding of the historical processes that contributed to such remarkably varied cultures. Archaeologies of Island Melanesia offers a sampling of some of the recent and ongoing research that spans such topics as landscape, exchange systems, culture contact and archaeological practice, authored by some of the leading scholars in Oceanic archaeology.’ — Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i Island Melanesia is a remarkable region in many respects, from its great ecological and linguistic diversity, to the complex histories of settlement and interaction spanning from the Pleistocene to the present. Archaeological research in Island Melanesia is currently going through a vibrant phase of exciting new discoveries and challenging debates about questions that apply far beyond the region. This volume draws together a variety of current perspectives in regional archaeology for Island Melanesia, focusing on Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea. It features both high-level theoretical approaches and rigorous data-driven case studies covering recent research in landscape archaeology, exchange and material culture, and cultural practices.

Download or read book Hunting the Gatherers written by Michael O'Hanlon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that look back at the artefact-producing societies and their interaction with the collectors, but also forward to the fate of the collections in metropolitan museums, as the artefacts have been variously exhibited, neglected, re-conceived as indigenous heritage, or repatriated. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture.