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Kokoda Initiative

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

The Kokoda Initiative is a partnership between the Government of Papua New Guinea and Australia to sustainably develop and protect the Kokoda Track and the surrounding Owen Stanley...
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Sex affiliation and its implications in Koiari

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

THE present paper discusses a form of social classification which may be referred to provisionally as sex affiliation. The essence of it is that male children are classed with their...
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Wild meat: the bigger picture

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Massive overhunting of wildlife for meat across the humid tropics is now causing local extinctions of numerous species. Rural people often rely heavily on wild meat, but, in many areas,...
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Framework for assessing compensation for the wrongful loss of customary land in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

This is an economic evaluation of the compensation to which Papua New Guinea’s customary landholders - wrongly dispossessed through Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL) - might be...
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Papua New Guinea and Culture

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

A four-week mission was undertaken in Papua New Guinea to evaluate the work of the National Cultural Council and the Provincial Cultural Centres and the relationships between them, and to...
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STATE OF SAFEGUARDING PNG’S INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Our cultures and traditions are deeply entrenched in every Papua New Guinean, in our families, our homes and basically in our way of life. Our cultures and traditions are also preserved...
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Talking it Through Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

The belief that illness, death and misfortune of all sorts is frequently caused by the deliberate interventions of individuals with special powers or magical knowledge is pervasive...
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PNG prehistory, history and archaeology

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Lecture Notes
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Prehistoric stone artefacts from Enga and the implication of links between the highlands, lowlands and islands for early agriculture in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Two of the unanswered questions of Papua New Guinea prehistory are: (1) whether agriculture was present in the mid-Holocene not only in the highlands but also in the lowlands and Bismarck...
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New Guinea stone age trade

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the region south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia - lands that...
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Language

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

How can linguistics contribute to our knowledge about human dispersals in the distant past? We will consider the case of New Guinea and surrounding islands, one of the most linguistically...
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Lapita sites in the Central Province of mainland Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

For over forty years, archaeologists working along Papua New Guinea’s southern coastline have sought evidence for early ceramics and its relationship with Lapita wares of Island...
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The Hiri in History

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

In days gone by some of the Motu-speaking peoples around Port Moresby used to go on annual trading expeditions to the Gulf of Papua. There they would exchange with the inhabitants of that...
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Karawari caves Precinct

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Midway up the slopes of the Andogoro, Moirutapa, and Kundiman mountains that rise up from the surrounding floodplains and separate East Sepik Province from Enga and Western Highlands...
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EXOGENOUS CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE GENERATIONAL CHANGE: THE CASE FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

An analysis of cultural change and generation gaps in the local community of the Nungon ethnic group in the state of Papua New Guinea will be the subject of the study. This ethnic group...
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History of Agriculture

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

The history of agriculture in PNG is about 10 000 years old. This history is reviewed here in the context of 50 000 years of human occupation of the Australia – New Guinea region. 1 More...
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ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY II

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) forests and forestry have played an important role in the livelihoods of the people of the country for many years. Forests have provided a source for food, fruits...
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Bulldozing Progress: Human rights abusses and corruption in Papua New Guinea's large sacle logging industry

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Tropical forestry and logging are complex subjects, encompassing a range of diffi cult issues, including land ownership, the sustainability of natural resources, the impact on climate...
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THE GREAT TIMBER HEIST THE LOGGING INDUSTRY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

With 3.8 million cubic meters of tropical wood exported in 2014, primarily to China, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has become the world’s largest exporter of tropical wood, surpassing Malaysia,...
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Infrastructure expansion challenges sustainable development in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

The island of New Guinea hosts the third largest expanse of tropical rainforest on the planet. Papua New Guinea—comprising the eastern half of the island—plans to nearly double its...