THE FUTURE OF RAINFOREST PEOPLES — Papua New Guinea Working Group (FRP—PNG)
Principal Research Themes, with manuscripts and publications
I.

ECOLOGY AND
PRODUCTION

 II.

COMMUNITIES
IN FOREST AREAS

 III.

THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE AND
PERCEPTIONS OF THE FUTURE

 IV.

THE ROLE OF
ANTHROPOLOGY


 

  • Ethnohistory
 

  • Perceptions of Development and the Future; Millennarianism
 
Klappa, S. forthcoming:
"Pigs are dirty, pork makes sick" — a taboo on pork and its meaning for the new Millennium (submitted to Travaux de la S.E.H)
 
Kocher Schmid, C. 1998:
The New Millennium, the European Monetary Union and the Pope, APFT Briefing Note 5
 
Kocher Schmid, C. forthcoming:
Rainforest Dreams and Millennial Nightmares, Introduction to: Kocher Schmid, C., ed., forthcoming: Expecting the Day of Wrath: Versions of the Millennium in Papua New Guinea
 
Kocher Schmid, C., ed., forthcoming:
Expecting the Day of Wrath: Versions of the Millennium in Papua New Guinea
 
Kocher Schmid, C. & Klappa, S. forthcoming:
Profile of a leader, or the world according to Yulu Nuo, in Kocher Schmid, C. 1999, ed., forthcoming: Expecting the Day of Wrath: Versions of the Millennium in Papua New Guinea
 
Kocher Schmid, C. & the FRP-PNG Working Group forthcoming:
Money, Food, and Time. Constructions of the Future in Papua New Guinea, Focaal Special Issue on construction of the future
 

  • Logging — causes, perception, impact
 
Kameata, R. & Topni, F. 1998:
"We have no problems but just people: people just want money": the local politics of landowning entities of the Vanimo TRP in the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea, manuscript
 
Leklek, I. 1996:
Impact of Logging upon the Local People, University of Papua New Guinea Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Honors Special Project
 

  • Forest–Town Interface; Impact of Roads
 
Ellis, D.M. forthcoming:
Where there are no roads, contribution to APFT / FRP Working Paper on Roads
 
Klappa, S. forthcoming:
The road to development, contribution to APFT / FRP Working Paper on Roads
 
Kocher Schmid, C. forthcoming:
Roads to nowhere, contribution to APFT / FRP Working Paper on Roads


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