Managing Animals in New Guinea

Preying the Game in the Highlands

Paul Sillitoe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:9th Sep '13

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Managing Animals in New Guinea analyzes the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment.

'A scientifically detailed presentation of the attitudes to, and thereby the uses and appreciation of, animals ... This book is written in the ethnographically rich manner of his previous publications ... Sillitoe deals thoroughly with a whole range of interesting issues connected with debates in anthropology ... gives an unusually comprehensive account of the management of pigs ... makes a spirited defence of his approach
of ethnographic determinism' - TheJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

ISBN: 9780415863056

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 589g

416 pages