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Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands
Supplementary material for the book of the same name by Paul Sillitoe about animal husbandry among the Wola (Mendi) People.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/paul.sillitoe/animals...
History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology
Full text of the 1992 book edited by James G. Carrier.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft509nb347...
Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea Project
Aims to explore the relationships between material culture on the one hand, and language, geographical propinquity, population, subsistence and environment on the other, in two adjacent regions of Papua New Guinea.
http://uscngp.sai.net.au/
Pioneers of Island Melanesia
Investigates the prehistory of Island Melanesia, from the time of first settlement some 40,000 years ago until the arrival of speakers of Austronesian languages less than 4,000 years ago.
http://www.eastpapuan.ling.su.se/
At Home in Vanuatu
A photo-exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences showing cultural aspects of Vanuatu.
http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/vanuatu...
The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality
Full text of the 1988 book by James F. Weiner.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7w10087d...
Melanesian Archive Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection
This collection contains single manuscripts, typescripts and other materials which have been given to the Melanesian Archive since 1982. It includes many conference papers and other unpublished reports, most concerning anthropological topics.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/h...
Coaxing the Spirits
The first major exhibition about the art of the Papuan Gulf in over 40 years. On display from April 1-September 17, 2006.
http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibition...
Melanesia: Beyond Diversity
Complete text of the 1982 book edited by R. J. May and Hank Nelson.
http://papuaweb.org/dlib/bk1/rspas-1982/in...
The Finished Course, Being Recollections of Bishop Patteson on the Anniversary of His Death (1873)
Full text of the 1873 publication, "The Finished Course, Being Recollections of Bishop Patteson on the Anniversary of His Death".
http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/brooke_...
Maring Hunters and Traders: Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Full text of the book by Christopher Healey.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2k4004h3...
"A Selection of Fundamentals": The Intellectual Background of the Melanesian Mission of the Church of England, 1850-1914
Full text of a 1988 Ph.D. dissertation by Sara Harrison Sohmer.
http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/sohmer1...
Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State
Full text of the 1989 book by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6b69p0gx...
Oksapmin Society and World View
PhD thesis on culture in Oksapmin, West Sepik Province: an aesthetic oneness of opposites.
http://www.perey-anthropology.net/Oksapmin...
MelanesiaGenWeb Project
Genealogy and History from the Islands of Melanesia.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~melwgw/
A Geographical Information System Archive of Gardens in the Wola Region of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
Detailed summary of a CD-ROM containing Geographical Information System data from the Wola area.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology.gis/
The New Guinea Villager
Complete text of the 1965 book The New Guinea Villager by Charles Rowley.
http://papuaweb.org/dlib/bk1/rowley/index....
Vanuatu Cultural Center
The VCC is an organisation that works to record and promote the diverse cultures of the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu.
http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/vks/vks.ht...
Melanesian Studies Resource Center & Melanesian Archive, University of California San Diego
an overview of library materials, both published and unpublished, pertinent to the study of Melanesia.
http://sshl.ucsd.edu/melanesia/
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