Book Description
Managing Animals in New Guinea analyses the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment.
About the author
Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham and former Nuttfield Fellow in Tropical Agriculture. He has worked extensively in Papua New Guinea. His previous book include Participating in Development (Routledge 2002), Horticulture in Papua New Guinea (2002), Indigenous Knowledge Development in Bangladesh (2000) and A Place Against Time: Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (1996).
