Notebooks From New Guinea

Author : Vojtech Novotny
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191580325
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notebooks from New Guinea written by Vojtech Novotny and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much modern science, in a lab full of gleaming apparatus. Instead, he chose as his 'laboratory' the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea, where he has established a research station. Supported by a team of Papuans whom he has trained up so that they can combine their wide and intimate knowledge of the plants and animals of their tropical forest with the knowledge of modern science, Novotny studies the ecological interactions of butterflies and plants. Clearly this is no ordinary scientist. Combined with his intrepid courage (PNG is one of the most dangerous places on Earth, with a very high homicide rate), he is a shrewd observer of human nature. In the richly varied notes and reflections of this very individual volume are not only descriptions of natural history and scientific research in the rainforest, but accounts of the local peoples and their culture, the challenges of working across very different cultures, and amusing portraits of the antics of Western tourists, separated by a few 'intermezzi' - episodes when the author fought bouts of malaria. Novotny is that rare combination of excellent scientist and superb storyteller. The faithful translations by David Short bring these notes and reflections on science, nature, and human beings to a wide audience, without any loss to their richness, warmth, humility, and wisdom. The volume is illustrated with beautiful drawings by a self-taught Papuan artist, Benson Avea Bego, who lives in a remote village.

Author : Vojtech Novotny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199609640
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notebooks from New Guinea written by Vojtech Novotny and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the world's most advanced work on biodiversity is being carried out deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea by a team including local tribes-people. Novotny's entertaining, engaging, and unique diaries reflect on the wisdom of the ancient culture, bringing to life the people and the sometimes tragi-comic interactions between it and the West

Author : Vojtech Novotny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383046083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notebooks from New Guinea written by Vojtech Novotny and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vojtech Novotny - a leading tropical biologist - is based in Papua New Guinea, one of the world's last wild frontiers. In this unique and engaging collection of notes and reflections, he brings to life with warmth and wisdom the place, the people, the doing of science deep in the jungle, and the curious antics of Westerners.

Author : Marios Forsos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780464318545
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Tribes of Papua New Guinea written by Marios Forsos and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief introduction to the amazing tribal people of Papua New Guinea through a journey across the eastern highlands.

Author : David Lipset
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178238376X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vehicles written by David Lipset and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures. Analyses include canoes in Papua New Guinea, pedestrians and airplanes in North America, lowriders among Mexican-Americans, and cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe, as well as among African-Americans in the South. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics and history.

Author : Mes Kar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781712228500
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PNG written by Mes Kar and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notebook For many people, a notebook is an important part of their daily planning. No matter whether to-do lists, shopping lists or other notes, once written down you will never forget anything so quickly. And if so? - Then you know where it stands! A notebook is a book with blank pages that is used to collect ideas, comments and notes of all kinds. This notebook is lined and has 120 pages.

Author : Travel Journal Publishers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086661675
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papua New Guinea Is Where the Heart Is written by Travel Journal Publishers and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinea: Flag A5 Notebook (6 x 9 in) to write in with 120 pages White Paper Journal / Planner / Notepad White paper large 6" x 9" (A5 sized ) notebook for writing in Professionally designed 120 pages of blank lined paper Please leave a review to help us improve the products to learn how to better suit you. We value all feedback. Thank you.

Author : Bruce Hunt
Publisher : Investigating Power
ISBN 13 : 9781925495409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia's Northern Shield? written by Bruce Hunt and published by Investigating Power. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to draw extensively on the recently released highly classified notes of the cabinet room discussions of successive Australian Governments, from 1950 to the mid-1970s. It details the changing attitude of the nation's leaders towards the place of Papua New Guinea in Australia's defense and security outlook. The Cabinet Notebooks provide an uncensored and unprecedented insight into the opinion of Australia's leaders towards Indonesia under Sukarno, Southeast Asia and Indo-China in general; the changing nature of relations with Britain and the United States; and towards Papua New Guinea. The cabinet room discussions reveal attitudes towards Asia and Australia's place in the region which are more nuanced, varied, and sensitive than previously known. They also illustrate the dominant influence of Prime Minister Robert Menzies and Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen in shaping Australia's response to the critical events of the time. Australia's Northern Shield? shows how, since colonial times, Australia has assessed the importance of Papua New Guinea by examining the ambitions of and threats from external sources, principally Imperial Germany, Japan, and Indonesia. It examines the significant change in Australia's attitude as this region approached independence in 1975, amid concerns as to the new nation's future stability and unity. The terms of Australia's long-term defense undertaking are examined in detail, and an examination is offered of the most recent attempts to define the strategic importance of Papua New Guinea to Australia. (Series: Investigating Power) [Subject: Politics, History, Southeast Asian Studies]

Author : Astrid Anderson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450344
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Relations and Belonging written by Astrid Anderson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape. This innovative study demonstrates how Wogeo worldviews and social organization can be described in relation to terms of movements, flows and placements in the landscape while, in turn, the landscape is constituted and made meaningful through people’s activities and buildings. The author not only addresses some of the key issues in contemporary anthropology concerning place, gender, kinship, knowledge and power but also fills an important gap in Melanesian ethnography.

Author : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklaĭ
Publisher : Madang, P.N.G. : Kristen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Guinea Diaries, 1871-1883 written by Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklaĭ and published by Madang, P.N.G. : Kristen Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non Aboriginal material.