• ISBN13: 9780415280976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2003
• Pages: 416
• Original Price: GBP 150.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 822 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Hunting and Anthropology / General

Managing Animals in New Guinea analyzes the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment.

Paul Sillitoe is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham and former Nuffield Fellow in Tropical Agriculture. He has worked extensively in Papua New Guinea. His previous books include Participating in Development (Routledge, 2002), Horticulture in Papua New Guinea (2002), Indigenous Knowledge Development in Bangladesh (2000) and A Place Against Time: Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (1996).