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2002 •
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
Where all the rivers flow west: Maps, abstraction and change in the Papua New Guinea lowlands2014 •
ABSTRACT ‘Abstraction’ has been often identified as a key element in social change. Analyses, however, have often conflated the ideas of abstraction as ‘object’ and as ‘process’. This paper discusses two maps drawn by or on behalf of Kubo men, of the interior lowlands of southern Papua New Guinea. They were drawn in the context of recent exposure to a vast Liquefied Natural Gas project initiated on the land of their neighbours and both, as abstractions from new observations and experiences, were intended as assertions of rights to land. They derived, however, from entirely different logics: one more compatible with ‘Western’ understandings of ownership, the other more in keeping with earlier Kubo understandings of belonging. By reference to these maps, we consider the role of abstraction in social change and argue that while, as object, abstraction is relative as a process it is universal.
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Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
Paniyai, Kamu-Tigi and Mapiya, Paniai district, Papua. Introduced and translated by Anton Ploeg2002 •
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Long-term ethnographic research in an area of the Markham Valley, near Lae, which has become progressively " suburbanized " as the city expanded, nevertheless shows how variable the speed and extent of change in the relations between a centre and its neighbouring hinterland can be. The expectations raised by and the establishment of large-scale capital-intensive projects such as mining, for example, creates new economic opportunities that promote the establishment of new social centres linked in novel ways to the city and other rural locations. Based on fieldwork among the Wampar my paper will historically situate the significance of transport hubs (airstrips, Highways) and novel socioeconomic forms (mission stations, markets, mining projects) in the processes of peri-urbanisation. It also discusses the expectations, opportunities and inequalities emerging in regional relations even before mining began. Due to knock-on effects large scale capital-intensive projects affect not only their immediate environment but in a much larger social and political arena. This article presents an account of the spread and intensification of socioeconomic links between a rural hinterland and the expanding city of Lae since the early twentieth century.1 The discovery of gold near Wau, not far from Lae, in 1926 provoked a gold rush and the exploitation of rich deposits in the Watut river system (Lucas 1972: 260, Willis 1974: 80). It was decisive for the growth of the town of Lae, the need for an airport, and the political economy of the Markham Valley up to today. The story suggests two factors at work in the complex social processes that weave continuity and (modest) discontinuity into a historical thread: the increase in the extent to which rural residents are bound to the socioeconomic networks that define the urban locale; the reconfiguration of consequential social differences within the rural network.
Asia Pacific Report
West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not development2020 •
The 4300-km Trans-Papua Highway costing some US$1.4 billion was supposed to bring “wealth, development and prosperity” to the isolated regions of West Papua. At least, that’s how the planners and politicians envisaged the highway far away in their Jakarta offices. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is so enthusiastic about the project as a cornerstone for his infrastructure strategies that he had publicity photographs taken of him on his Kawasaki trail motorbike on the highway. But that isn’t how West Papuans see “The Road”. In reality, writes Australian journalist John Martinkus in his new book The Road: Uprising in West Papua published today, the highway brings military occupation by Indonesian troops, exploitation by foreign companies, environmental destruction and colonisation by Indonesian transmigrants.
Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
High frequency somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from zygotic embryo-derived callus cultures of three Allium species1992 •
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Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Modeling the effects of management and elevation on West Texas dryland cotton production2017 •
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2015 •
Jurnal Matematika Sains dan Teknologi
Penentuan Harga Opsi Beli Atas Saham Pt. Antam (Persero) Menggunakan Model Binomial Fuzzy2018 •
Revista Colombiana …
Identificación por PCR-SSCP de genes de cefotaximasas en aislamientos hospitalarios de Enterobacteriaceae2009 •
Parasites & vectors
Genetic diversity and selection of three nuclear genes in Schistosoma japonicum populations2017 •
FUDMA JOURNAL OF SCIENCES
Multi-Criteria Indicators for Irrigation Schemes Sustainability Performance AssessmentInternational Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
Oncogenic challenge of bromocriptine and L-arginine versus conventional antidiabetics on diethyl nitrosamine-induced liver tumorigenesis in diabetic rats: focus on AMPK activationSocioloski pregled
Free access to information of public importance in theory and practice in the Republic of Serbia2021 •
Ekonomska Misao i Praksa
Uloga beneficija u poticanju angažiranosti zaposlenika2015 •
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Deep North Atlantic Last Glacial Maximum Salinity Reconstruction2021 •
Materials Letters
Mechanochemical route for sulphide nanoparticles preparation2003 •
DergiPark (Istanbul University)
A Case of CEH- Pyometra Complex with Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumour in a Dog2020 •
Freshwater Science
Macroinvertebrate size–mass relationships: how specific should they be?2012 •