Explanatory Notes on the Lake Kutubu Geological Sheet
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Page : 59 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Geology
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Page : 59 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Geology
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Author : T. Petr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400972636
One of the major river systems of our country, the Purari River, finds its outlet to the sea in the Gulf of Papua on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. All highlands provinces contribute to this mighty river: the Erave of the Southern Highlands Province joins with the Kaugel and Wahgi Rivers (Western High lands), the Tua River (Simbu), and Asaro and Aure Rivers of the Eastern High lands Province to make the Purari the third largest river in P. N. G. Unlike its rivals, the Fly and the Sepik, the distance between its escape from the mountains and its entrance to the sea is short. After winding its way mostly through deep gorges flanked by high mountains, the river leaves the foothills of the southern slopes of the central cordillera barely eighty kilometers from the sea. The energy potential of such a river is enormous. Could the waters be utilised in any way to the advantage of the nation? Twelve years ago the Electricity Com mission of Papua New Guinea proposed an answer to this question: the building of a dam across the river in the Wabo area of the Gulf Province. The generation of vast quantities of hydro-electric power could be fed into a national distribu tion grid and heavy industries could be established in the Gulf Province and other suitable localities to benefit from this power.
Author : James F. Weiner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520336933
For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a number of myths of the Foi people, elegantly bringing together significant ethnographic materials in a way that has important implications for the development of social theory in anthropology and in Melanesian studies. Scholars of semiotic-symbolic anthropology and of comparative religion will also share the author's interest in the meaning and role of mythology in Foi culture. Instead of relying on orthodox methods of Freudian or structuralist interpretation, James Weiner assumes there is a dialectical relationship between the images of Foi myth and the images of the Foi's social world. He demonstrates how each set of these images is dependent upon the other for its creation. This innovative study locates Foi social meaning in the re-creation and attempted solution of the moral dilemmas that are crystallized in mythology and other poetic usages. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134377460
A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date.
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Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Geology
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Author : Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1998
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Anthropology
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Author : David J. Grainger
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Mines and mineral resources
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Page : 720 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 1984
Category : New Guinea
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Author : David J. Radcliffe
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Page : 158 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Geomorphology
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