Dispossession and the environment : rhetoric and inequality in Papua, New Guinea /

When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produces and reinforces...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: West, Paige, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Series:University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea.
Ethnoecology > Papua New Guinea.
Indigenous peoples > Papua New Guinea > Social conditions.
Ethnologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Ethnoécologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ecology.
Ethnology.
Ethnoecology.
Indigenous peoples > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Papua New Guinea > Social conditions.
Papua New Guinea > Environmental conditions.
Papua New Guinea.
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