Contested knowledge, contingent classification: Animals in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

American Anthropologist

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1162-1171

  Sillitoe, Paul ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnozoology; Papua New Guinea; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036905165     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2002.104.4.1162     Document Type: Article

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