Plumes from Paradise: Trade Cycles in Outer Southeast Asia and their Impact on New Guinea and Nearby Islands Until 1920

Author:   Pamela Swadling
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
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Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
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Author:   Pamela Swadling
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
Weight:   0.681kg
ISBN:  

9781743325445


ISBN 10:   1743325444
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Pamela Swadling is visiting research fellow at the Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific. She carried out archaeological fieldwork in the Solomon Islands before coming to Papua New Guinea in late 1972. Her study of the former plume trade on the Sepik coast and subsequently along the Ok Tedi led to the writing of this book. Billai Laba is from Waidoro village in the Daru district of Western Province. He graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea in 1978 and currently works as an environmental planner in the Department of Environment and Conservation. Roy Wagneris professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, USA. He has done anthropological field research among the Daribi people of Karimui and the Usen Barok of central New Ireland, and has also collected texts and origin-accounts among Polopa speakers at Lake Tebera and on the lower Erave River.

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