One Head, Many Faces: New Perspectives on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea

The Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea covers some 30,000 square kilometres of enormously varied landscape. Although it is home to an indigenous population of just 114,000, these people share more than twenty languages. Wider knowledge of the peninsula was recently gained through an extensive interdisciplinary research project (ISIR) involving anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists, demographers, geologists, linguists, and specialists in public administration. In analysing the findings of the project, this book provides a systematic comparison with earlier studies, addressing the geological past, the latest archaeological evidence of early human habitation (dating back at least 26,000 years), and the region s diversity of languages and cultures.

Product details

• Authors: G. Reesink
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9789067182294
• ISBN: 978-90-6718-229-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 237 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Series: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninkl
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology