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  3. The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 January 2012
      03 December 1987
      ISBN:
      9781139084994
      9780521131759
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084994
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
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    This book is an explicitly comparative, anthropological analysis of the societies of the eastern and western highlands of Papua New Guinea. Particular societies have been documented by anthropologists since the 1950s yet until this book's publication in 1987, there had been relatively few attempts at rigourous comparison of the findings. This book argues that the highlands cannot be treated as a homogeneous region, socially, culturally, historically or environmentally. Rather, societies of the eastern highlands have followed markedly different paths of development in the past to those of the western highlands, and it is upon this divergence that a comparative treatment of the twentieth century should be mounted.

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