Conservation Is Our Government Now : The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea


Paige. West
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Durham : : Duke University Press, , 2006.
Omfang
1 online resource (353 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; New Guinea-New York; Making Crater Mountain; Articulations, Histories, Development; Conservation Histories; A Land of Pure Possibility; The Practices of Conservation-as-Development; Exchanging Conservation for Development; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Ethnography and critique of conservationist efforts in Papua New Guinea, focusing on the misunderstandings, mistranslations, and complexities that arise in the discourse between conservation/biologists and local people.
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ISBN
0822337126. - 0822337495. - 9780822337126. - 9780822337492

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