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One head, many faces : new perspectives on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea

Title
  1. One head, many faces : new perspectives on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea / Jelle Miedema and Ger Reesink.
Published by
  1. Leiden : KITLV Press, 2004.
Author
  1. Miedema, Jelle, 1946-

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Additional authors
  1. Reesink, Ger P.
Description
  1. xii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "Wider knowledge of the peninsula was recently gained through an extensive interdisciplinary research project (ISIR) involving anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists, demographers, geologists, linguists, and specialists in public administration. In analysing the findings of the project, this book provides a systematic comparison with earlier studies, addressing the geological past, the latest archaeological evidence of early human habitation (dating back at least 26,000 years), and the region's diversity of languages and cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
Series statement
  1. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 219
Uniform title
  1. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 219.
Subject
  1. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
  2. Hatam language > Texts
  3. Mai Brat language > Texts
  4. Abun language > Texts
  5. Mpur language (Indonesia) > Texts
  6. Meyah language > Texts
  7. Tehit language > Texts
  8. Inanwatan language > Texts
  9. Ethnology > Indonesia > Doberai Peninsula
  10. Abun language
  11. Ethnology
  12. Hatam language
  13. Inanwatan language
  14. Language and languages
  15. Mai Brat language
  16. Manners and customs
  17. Meyah language
  18. Mpur language (Indonesia)
  19. Tehit language
  20. Kultur
  21. Linguistik
  22. Papoea's
  23. Etnografie
  24. Geografie
  25. Etnoarcheologie
  26. Interdisciplinair onderzoek
  27. Doberai Peninsula (Indonesia) > Languages
  28. Doberai Peninsula (Indonesia) > Social life and customs
  29. Indonesia > Doberai Peninsula
  30. Provinz Papua
  31. 5.580
  32. New Guinea > Civilization
Genre/Form
  1. Texts
Contents
  1. I. Introduction / Jelle Miedema -- II. Geography and early human settlement / Ger Reesink -- III. Language groups / Ger Reesink -- IV. Kinship, exchange, and change / Jelle Miedema and Ger Reesink -- V. Land, exchange, and change / Jelle Miedema -- VI. Shifting clusters of myth themes across the peninsula / Jelle Miedema -- VII. Shifting notions of witchcraft and adat / Jelle Miedema -- VIII. Language and identity / Ger Reesink -- IX. Culture and identity / Jelle Miedema -- X. Main findings and new perspectives for interdisciplinary research / Jelle Miedema and Ger Reesink.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.