The Lost World of Irian Jaya
Author | : Robert D. Mitton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9780909197230 |
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Author | : Robert D. Mitton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9780909197230 |
Author | : Robert D. Mitton |
Publisher | : Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Foto's en beschrijvingen van het landschap en de verschillende bevolkingsgroepen - met hun eigen culturen - in het voormalige Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea
Author | : Ronald Petocz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2023-07-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004642978 |
Author | : Bruce M. Beehler |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0300149522 |
Perhaps it is not possible to experience all the mysterious sounds, the unfamiliar smells, and the spectacular sights of a tropical rainforest without ever visiting one. But this exhilarating and honest book comes wondrously close to taking the reader on such a journey. Bruce M. Beehler, a widely traveled expert on birds and tropical ecology, recounts fascinating details from twelve field trips he has taken to the tropics over the past three decades. As a researcher, he brings to life the exotic rainforests and the people who inhabit them; as a conservationist, he makes a plea for better ways of managing rainforestsa resource that the world cannot do without. Drawing on his experiences in Papua New Guinea, India, Madagascar, Indonesia, the Philippines, Panama, and the Ivory Coast, Beehler describes the surprisesboth pleasant and unpleasantof doing science and conservation in the field. He explains the role that rainforests play in the lives of indigenous peoples and the crucial importance of understanding local cultures, customs, and politics. The author concludes with simple but tough solutions for maintaining rainforest health, expressing fervent hope that his great-grandchildren and others may one day also hear the rainforest whisper its secrets.
Author | : Peter Bang |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 8743001017 |
"Papua Blood" is a documentary account taking the reader through the western part of the island of New Guinea. Over an interval spanning three decades the author and photographer Peter Bang describes his experiences among the indigenous people of West Papua, who are threatened by a continuing history of genocide and extinction. "... Excellent written with outstanding and valuable photos from a culture that one day will be gone. The author enlightens and entertains while delivering a deeply engaged statement for West Papua's independence ... " - Jorgen Bjerre / journalist, former Chief Editor.
Author | : Jim Elmslie |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003-07-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780824826352 |
Jim Elmslie traces events in Irian Jaya/West Papua from the departure of the Dutch in 1963 to December 1999. The majority of the indigenous people of the area consider themselves West Papuans living in the land of West Papua, a country incorporated into the Indonesian state without their consent or approval. Made up of Melanesian peoples, the western part of New Guinea is one of the least developed places on earth with the largest expanses outside the Amazon of untouched and, in some cases still unexplored, rainforest and wilderness. It is a region ripe for economic exploitation. Irian Jaya under the Gun chronicles the rapid changes that are taking place under the guise of Indonesian economic development and its generally pro-crony, pro-military, pro-multinational corporation, and anti-Papuan thrust. It describes what can happen to an indigenous population when insensitive governments and avaricious multinationals are more concerned about profits than the environment or the people inhabiting the land.
Author | : John Saltford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2003-08-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135785988 |
In this study John Saltford examines the unhelpful role of the international community, in particular the United Nations, in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s.
Author | : Pierre Perequin |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789253896 |
New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the wholemanufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarryextraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blades of PNG has evolvedover the years, following changing philosophies and research agendas. While it is clearthat an exceptional sum of information has been gathered, it remains centered on thatsmall part of the Highlands where conditions for field research were more pleasantthan elsewhere. Our presentation of Irian Jaya axes therefore tackles a topic thatremains mostly unexplored.Until now, stone tool research in New Guinea has followed an anthropocentricapproach, in which tools are seen more as vectors for social exchanges than as meansof acting on the environment. This monograph will take a different approach. Here,polished stone blades are placed at the center of the world, between, on one side, thetransformed natural environment, and, on the other, the social and economicenvironment. This approach will allow us to suggest new avenues of inference inarchaeology, as well as to test and abandon existing ones.In this volume, the stone blade is considered as a living being, existing in balancewithin its biotope. This idea is not far removed from the beliefs of Irian Jaya farmers,for whom life animates certain objects of their material culture.Following a brief presentation of Irian Jaya, we will describe the function of polishedstone blades in Irian Jaya societies and the distribution of hafting styles, define andstudy the quarrying zones and the areas of diffusion and use of their production, and,if possible, the different trends noted in each area of polished blade production andexchanges. Finally, we will conclude with a discussion of the ethnoarchaeologicalpotential of these contemporary observations.
Author | : Terence Wesley-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Melanesia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter W. Van Arsdale |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2006-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0739155067 |
'The Modern Refugee Era' began with the end of World War II. An extensive literature has been created on the issue of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons during this period. While much of this has focused on refugee 'flight' and 'post-flight,' Forced to Flee uniquely looks at the 'pre-flight' environment and the factors contributing to human rights violations therein. It is due to these abuses that many people flee their homelands. Author Peter W. Van Arsdale presents first-hand fieldwork conducted over a 30-year span in six refugee homelands ranging from Sudan to Bosnia. This expert research bridges the emergent refugee and human rights regimes, while addressing theories of obligation, justice, and structural inequality. Van Arsdale also deftly tackles the difficult ideas of compassion, suffering, and evil, and introduces the concept of 'pragmatic humanitarianism.' Forced to Flee is a comprehensive study that should be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of anthropology, sociology, social work, political science, and environmental studies.