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Islands, Islanders and the World

The Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji

By: Tim Bayliss-Smith,Richard Bedford,Harold Brookfield,Marc Latham

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Islands, Islanders and the World

The Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji

By: Tim Bayliss-Smith,Richard Bedford,Harold Brookfield,Marc Latham

The authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of colonial and post-colonial experience in Fiji.

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345

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Cambridge University Press

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0521030080

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9780521030083

Islands of Rainforest

Agroforestry, Logging and Eco-Tourism in Solomon Islands

By: Edvard Hviding,Tim Bayliss-Smith

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Islands of Rainforest

Agroforestry, Logging and Eco-Tourism in Solomon Islands

By: Edvard Hviding,Tim Bayliss-Smith

This title was first published in 2000: An original and thought-provoking analysis of modern initiatives in the tropical rain forest. While issues such as logging, eco-timber, eco-tourism have been widely analyzed from an outsider’s perspective, this book considers them from the local people’s viewpoint, in terms of a long history of the rainforest uses. The authors demonstrate that the relationship of indigenous people to the tropical forest is not essentially timeless, nor is it primarily spiritual or mystical. It is in fact firmly connected to modern realities, while still being rooted in historical beliefs and practices. Standing at the intersection of anthropology, historical geography and rainforest ecology, and also at the interface of the local and the global, this ethnographically grounded study dispels a number of commonly held assumptions. It reveals how processes of ’impact’ are actually two-way interactions, as local communities in Melanesia incorporate industries like logging into rapidly evolving post-colonial society and economy.

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400

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Routledge

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1351778595

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9781351778596

Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea

Plot, Mound and Ditch

By: Tim Denham

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Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea

Plot, Mound and Ditch

By: Tim Denham

In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The intention is twofold: to clearly establish New Guinea as a region of early agricultural development and plant domestication; and, to develop a contingent, practice-based interpretation of early agriculture that has broader application to other regions of the world. The multi-disciplinary record from the highlands has the potential to challenge and change long held assumptions regarding early agriculture globally, which are usually based on domestication. Early agriculture in the highlands is charted by an exposition of the practices of plant exploitation and cultivation. Practices are ontologically prior because they ultimately produce the phenotypic and genotypic changes in plant species characterised as domestication, as well as the social and environmental transformations associated with agriculture. They are also methodologically prior because they emplace plants in specific historico-geographic contexts.

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314

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Routledge

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1351115286

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9781351115285

Understanding Green Revolutions

Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia

By: Bertram Hughes Farmer

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Understanding Green Revolutions

Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia

By: Bertram Hughes Farmer

This book is a critical examination of the truth behind the stereotype that there is a Green Revolution in agricultural technology. Twenty-one specialists in the field of development studies look at the reality of agrarian change, either through historical analysis, or through in-depth village field-work, or from their experience as development planners.

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412

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Cambridge University Press

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0521249422

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9780521249423

The Place of Geography

By: Tim Unwin

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The Place of Geography

By: Tim Unwin

The Place of Geography is designed to provide a readable and yet challenging account of the emergence of gepgraphy as an academic discipline. It has three particular aims: it seeks to trace the development of geography back to its formal roots in classical antiquity; provides an interpretation of the changes that have taken place in geographical practice within the context of Jurgen Haberma's critical theory; and thirdly, describes how the increasing separation of geography into physical and human parts has been detrimental to our understanding of critical issues concerning the relationship between people and environment.

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288

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Routledge

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1317899962

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9781317899969

Comp Ency Anthropology

By: Tim Ingold

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Comp Ency Anthropology

By: Tim Ingold

This comprehensive survey of contemporary thought in biological, social and cultural anthropology sets the foundation for their future development and integration. The principal rationale behind the Encyclopedia is to overcome the division and fragmentation within the approaches of the humanities and natural sciences to anthropology. It emphasizes interconnections between perspectives and sub-disciplines, producing a complete perspective on what it means to be human. The work consists of three parts--Humanity, Culture, and Social Life--and 40 major contributions. Part One emphasizes human beings as members of a species, how that species differs from others, how it has evolved, and how human populations have adapted to and in turn transformed their environments. Part Two deals with the origin and structure of human culture, and on the role of culture in action, perception, and cognition. Part Three examines the various aspects of the relationships and processes that are carried on by persons and groups in the course of social life. Useful features such as cross-references within the text, full biographical references, suggestions for further reading and carefully illustrated line drawings make this an indispensable resource for all students of anthropology or sociology.

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1162

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Taylor & Francis

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1000443132

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9781000443134

Book's by Tim Bayliss-Smith

Islands, Islanders and the World

Islands, Islanders and the World

Islands of Rainforest

Islands of Rainforest

Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea

Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea

Understanding Green Revolutions

Understanding Green Revolutions

The Place of Geography

The Place of Geography

Comp Ency Anthropology

Comp Ency Anthropology

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