Diet among the Huli in Papua New Guinea Highlands when they were influenced by the extended rainy period

Ecology of Food Nutrition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 409-427

  Umezaki, Masahiro ^a   Yamauchi, Taro ^a   Ohtsuka, Ryutaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climatic perturbation; Dietary intake; Food consumption; Modernization; Papua New Guinea Highlands; Population pressure

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOOD CONSUMPTION; NUTRITION;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0032778948     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.1998.9991558     Document Type: Article

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