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MANAGING ANIMALS IN NEW GUINEA
PREYING THE GAME IN THE HIGHLANDS
Paul Sillitoe
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The fractious Wola zoological taxonomy and their disputed classifications are described in Part 1. Their approach to taxonomy is understandable when seen in uncentralised political context, rendering parallels with hierarchical scientific taxonomies inappropriate. The attitude of people to hunting, investigated in Part 2, is also puzzling at first sight in its off-handedness – which has important albeit unvoiced conservation implications. It becomes clearer when viewed in terms of the implications of production for a transactionally structured social order. The Wola perspective on pig husbandry and management, explored in Part 3, is likewise perplexing in the light of capitalistic assumptions of scarcity and maximisation. It makes more sense when set in the context of the obfuscation of the control of production in an exchange-focussed society- coming to terms with these arrangements is central furthermore to understanding gender relations in this culture.
The Contents:
BOOK CONTENTS
Introduction
PART 1 WHAT’S THE GAME? THE FOREST AND ITS ANIMALS
1.1 What’s that Bird?
1.2 The Birds.
1.3 Methods and knowledge
1.4 Furry Animals.
1.5. Disagreements over Identifications
1.6 Frogs and ‘Others’
1.7 Insects and Small Reptiles
1.8 Taxonomic politics
1.9 Negotiated Taxonomy
1.10 Agreeing to Disagree
PART 2 WHERE’S THE GAME? HUNTING AND FORAGING
2.1 First Impressions
2.2 Access to Forest
2.3 Forest Resources
2.4 Knowing Animals
2.5 Spell Knowledge
2.6 Hunting Techniques
- 2.6.1 Traps:
- 2.6.2 Bow and Arrows:
- 2.6.3 Dogs:
- 2.6.4 Ambushes and Hides:
- 2.6.5 Other Tactics:
2.7 Returns on Hunting Efforts
2.8 Hunting and Social Status
2.9 Sharing Game
2.10 Wild Plant and Other Foods
2.11 Hunter Gathering in the Highlands?
2.12 Managing Limited Wild Resources
PART 3 WHEN THEY’RE TAME? PIG MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION
3.1 Pigmanship in the New Guinea Highlands
3.2 The Pigs
3.3 Pig Management
- 3.3.1 Husbandry
- 3.3.2 Reproduction
- 3.3.3 Control
3.4 Bespelling Pigs
3.5 Ethnoveterinary Practices
3.6 Pig Herd Demography
3.7 Pig Ownership
3.8 Pig Politics
3.9 The Work of Pig Management.
3.10 Pigs in the Past, Present and Future.
Conclusion
References