Place in the Anthropocene: A mangrove lagoon in Papua New Guinea in the time of rising sea-levels

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 215-243

  Lipset, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Mangrove lagoons; Murik Lakes; Papua New Guinea; Place; Rising sea levels; Sepik; Tragedy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929146244     PISSN: 25751433     EISSN: 20491115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau4.3.014     Document Type: Article

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