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10 - Seasonal Environmental Practices and Climate Fluctuations in Island Melanesia: Transformations in a Regional System in Eastern Papua New Guinea

from Part II - Our Changing Homelands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2018

Douglas Nakashima
Affiliation:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), France
Igor Krupnik
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Jennifer T. Rubis
Affiliation:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), France
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