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19 August 2021 | dataset

Wildlife is our gold: political ecology of the Torassi river borderland, southwest Papua New Guinea

This thesis is a critical ethnographic account of the Wartha people, a small group of hunter-horticulturalists living on the Torassi or Bensbach River, in the southwest corner of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). This area is adjacent to the international border between PNG and Indonesia's Papua Province (West Papua).

Available online|A thesis submitted to the School of Social Science, the University of Queensland for the degree of Doctor or Philosophy

Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 438 p.

Field Value
Publisher The University of Queensland
Modified 15 February 2022
Release Date 19 August 2021
Source URL https://library.sprep.org/content/wildlife-our-gold-political-ecology-torassi-r…
Identifier VL-34268
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location SPREP LIBRARY
Relevant Countries Papua New Guinea
License Public
[Open Data]
Author Hitchcock Garrick
Contact Name SPREP Records and Archives Officer
Contact Email [email protected]