A Place Against Time
Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
| Author: | Paul Sillitoe | ISBN: | 9781134377534 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | October 31, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Paul Sillitoe |
| ISBN: | 9781134377534 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | October 31, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
