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New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History.(Book Review)
Pacific Affairs
; NEW GUINEA: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2003. xiv, 274 pp. (Maps, B & W photos.) US$50.00, cloth. ISBN 0-8248-2485-7. This may well be the first comprehensive history attempted for New ...
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Will Papua New Guinea become a 'failed state'?A downward spiral
International Herald Tribune
; 00-00-0000 Papua New Guinea is rich in natural resources. Yet it is facing a very difficult future. The economy has stagnated and the outlook for growth is bleak. Corruption is rife. Law and order have broken down, violent crime rates are escalating, and the government is struggling to maintain
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Early culture found in New Guinea.
Science News
; Early culture found in New Guinea Investigators have uncovered evidence of the earliest known human occupation of the island of New Guinea, at least 40,000 years ago. This provides the first archaeological support for the suggestion that New Guinea was inhabited at an early stage in the settlement
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Rimbunan Hijau versus the world bank and Australian miners: Print media representations of forestry policy conflict in Papua New Guinea
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; This article reviews some recent print media representations of Papua New Guinea's changing sense of its regional place by an analysis of debates over forestry policy. While mining and forestry both destabilise Papua New Guinea's internal structures, forestry also uniquely destabilises its sense of
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The Northeast coast of Papua New Guinea: a bibliographic survey.
The Australian Library Journal
; National bibliographies for Papua. New Guinea have been compiled in the past and more may be completed in the future; there is also a need for regional or provincial bibliographies to help researchers working at these levels. This paper stems from the recent publication of bibliographies of Morobe,
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Papua New Guinea Has Much to Offer to Foreign Investors.
Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
; Papua New Guineans will celebrate their Independence Day on 16 September 2000, which will mark the 25th Anniversary, a silver jubilee. Democracy and democratic institutions of governance in Papua New Guinea are very much entrenched therefore, the National Day Celebrations are also going to be
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Agriculture's roots get a South Pacific twist. (New Guinea Went Bananas).
Science News
; Situated in the South Pacific islands, remote New Guinea seems an unlikely place for the invention of agriculture. Yet that's precisely what happened there nearly 7,000 years ago, according to a new investigation. Inhabitants of this tropical outpost cultivated large quantities of bananas about 3
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Why we return to Papua New Guinea
Anthropological Quarterly
; In this article we reflect upon the continued significance of Melanesian ethnography to anthropology. To do so, we consider what of importance has compelled us to return frequently to Papua New Guinea. Focusing primarily on a confrontation between a Chambri big man and a Chambri evangelical woman,
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The West New Guinea Debacle: Dutch Decolonisation and Indonesia, 1945-1962.(Book Review)
The Australian Journal of Politics and History
; The West New Guinea Debacle: Dutch Decolonisation and Indonesia, 1945-1962. By C.L.M. Penders (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002), pp. 490, US$30.00. An American official once described the western half of New Guinea as a few thousand square miles of cannibal land , and yet during the
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Modern Papua New Guinea.(Review)
The Contemporary Pacific
; ... ISBN cloth, 0-943549-51-5; paper, 0-943549-57-4; vi + 424 pages, maps, tables, figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth ... is enhanced by a chronology of recent history, and tables and maps that include socioeconomic strata in urban areas, current and ...
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