Southern New Ireland Papua New Guinea

Author : St. Louis Art Museum,Musée du quai Branly
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015067712680

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New Ireland by St. Louis Art Museum,Musée du quai Branly Pdf

Despite the incredible artistry and skill evident in the prolific output of New Ireland artists of the late 19th century, their work is still largely unknown. This compelling exhibition catalogue intends to rectify that by presenting a broad panorama of artistic expressions developed in New Ireland, a Pacific island northeast of Papua New Guinea, and home to one of the most sophisticated sculptural traditions in the Pacific region. The works of art featured are of such a quality that the design and craftsmanship would be undeniable in any context. However, the narrow range of time and place are especially important to our understanding of them. There is less than one hundred years between the oldest and newest works on view, yet they represent an artistic tradition that is at least four hundred years old. The story of how these arts flourished before, and even during, the period when contact with the outside world was resulting in a major dislocation of traditional cultural practices, is the subjec

Author : William Frawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 2198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195139778

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International Encyclopedia of Linguistics by William Frawley Pdf

This updated edition contains over 900 articles, which provide a detailed overview of theory and research in all branches of linguistics. Every known language is covered and each article is followed by a detailed bibliography.

Author : Bruce McP. Beehler
Publisher : Conservation International
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1881173615

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Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea by Bruce McP. Beehler Pdf

Biologically, New Ireland is one of the least biologically studied regions of Papua New Guinea—its mountainous southern zone has long been considered both a high priority for biodiversity conservation and a major "scientific unknown." Conservation International agreed to organize a rapid assessment of the forests and wildlife of southern New Ireland. The purpose of the rapid assessment exercise was threefold: to assess the biodiversity of southern New Ireland, to field-test rapid-survey methodology in Papua New Guinea, and to share expertise and methodologies with staff scientists from Papua New Guinea's Department of Environment and Conservation.

Author : Tyrone Lavery,Tim Flannery
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781486312634

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Mammals of the South-west Pacific by Tyrone Lavery,Tim Flannery Pdf

Islands are special because they promote unique forms of life, and large proportions of the species they hold are found nowhere else on Earth. The mammals of the South-west Pacific are no exception, with many distributed only across single islands or archipelagos. Mammals of the South-west Pacific details the natural history for more than 180 species of marsupials, bats and rodents from 24 Pacific nations and territories. Species profiles are accompanied by distribution maps, illustrations and photographs – many being the first images ever captured for the species. By combining available knowledge with unpublished data collected over years of field work, Mammals of the South-west Pacific forms a definitive guide to the mammals from this region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : New Ireland Province (Papua New Guinea)
ISBN : 0724708162

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Provinces of Papua New Guinea ; New Ireland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gregory D. S. Anderson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191535642

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Auxiliary Verb Constructions by Gregory D. S. Anderson Pdf

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it' and 'she does eat cheese'. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns, and he presents his results within a new typological framework. The book's impressive range includes data on variation within and across languages and language families. In addition to examining languages in Africa, Europe, and Asia the author presents analyses of languages in Australasia and the Pacific and in North, South, and Meso-America. In doing so he reveals much that is new about the language families of the world and makes an important contribution to the understanding of their nature and evolution. His book will interest scholars and researchers in language typology, historical and comparative linguistics, syntax, and morphology.

Author : Bruce M. Beehler,Thane K. Pratt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781400880713

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Birds of New Guinea by Bruce M. Beehler,Thane K. Pratt Pdf

New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350 are found nowhere else on Earth. This comprehensive annotated checklist of distribution, taxonomy, and systematics of the birds of New Guinea is the first formal review of this avifauna since Ernst Mayr's Checklist, published in 1941. This new book brings together all the systematic, taxonomic, and distributional research conducted on the region's bird families over the last 70 years. Bruce Beehler and Thane Pratt provide the scientific foundation for the names, geographic distributions, and systematic arrangement of New Guinea's bird fauna. All technical information is annotated and a geographic gazetteer and bibliography are included. This book is an ideal complement to the Birds of New Guinea field guide also published by Princeton, and is an essential technical reference for all scientific libraries, ornithologists, and those interested in bird classification. The first complete revision of the New Guinea bird fauna since 1941 Accounts for 75 bird species new to the region Includes a geographic gazetteer, bibliography, and explanations of taxonomic and systematic classifications

Author : Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1599671522

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Important African & Oceanic Art Auction by Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Earthquake prediction
ISBN : UCSD:31822032688301

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Preliminary Determination of Epicenters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert John Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521483328

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Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia by Robert John Foster Pdf

In much of Melanesia, the process of social reproduction unfolds as a lengthy sequence of mortuary rites - feast making and gift giving through which the living publicly define their social relations with each other while at the same time commemorating the deceased. In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing these large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their historical context and demonstrating how the effects of participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and foreign practices of 'business'. His examination synthesizes two divergent trends in Melanesian anthropology by emphasizing both the radical differences between Melanesian and Western forms of sociality and the conjunction of Melanesian and Western societies brought about by colonialism and capitalism.

Author : Adam Kendon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261823

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Sign Language in Papua New Guinea by Adam Kendon Pdf

This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980, for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed descriptive analyses that the author provided are still fresh today, and in some respects they anticipate insights into the nature of sign languages that were not further explored until much more recently. The monograph is accompanied by two essays: Sherman Wilcox comments on value and relevance of the author’s work in the light of much more recent work on the linguistics of sign languages. An essay by Lauren Reed and Alan Rumsey provides an up to date survey of what is now known about sign languages in Papua New Guinea. Information about sign languages in the Solomon Island is also included.

Author : Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 3564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110884012

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Comparative Austronesian Dictionary by Darrell T. Tryon Pdf

Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.

Author : Birgit Abels
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789089640857

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Austronesian Soundscapes by Birgit Abels Pdf

Birgit Abels is a cultural musicologist with a primary specialization in the music of the Pacific and Southeast Asian islands. --

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 26924 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080547848

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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field

Author : Courtney Nimura,Rebecca O’Sullivan,Richard Bradley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259346

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Sentient Archaeologies by Courtney Nimura,Rebecca O’Sullivan,Richard Bradley Pdf

Archaeology in the past century has seen a major shift from theoretical frameworks that treat the remains of past societies as static snapshots of particular moments in time to interpretations that prioritize change and variability. Though established analytical concepts, such as typology, remain key parts of the archaeologist’s investigative toolkit, data-gathering strategies and interpretative frameworks have become infused progressively with the concept that archaeology is living, in the sense of both the objects of study and the discipline as a whole. The significance for the field is that researchers across the world are integrating ideas informed by relational epistemologies and mutually constructive ontologies into their work from the initial stage of project design all the way down to post-excavation interpretation. This volume showcases examples of such work, highlighting the utility of these ideas to exploring material both old and new. The illuminating research and novel explanations presented contribute to resolving long-standing problems in regional archaeologies across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Oceania. In this way, this volume reinvigorates approaches taken towards older material but also acts as a springboard for future innovative discussions of theory in archaeology and related disciplines.