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Precedence
This collection of papers is the sixth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers that comprise this volume examine the concept of precedence as a form of local discourse and as a mechanism for ordering status, at different levels, within specific Austronesian-speaking societies. This is the first volume of its kind to focus entirely on precedence and to provide an explication of its social uses and the way in which it is contested. Each paper is ethnographically-focused and offers its own distinctive approach to the examination of precedence. The papers, however, relate closely to one another and are thus able to proffer a variety of comparative reflections.
Monographic Series
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Northern Australia
Northern Australia: The Arenas of Life and Ecosystems on Half a Continent provides a geographical study of the interplay of environmental challenge and human endeavor in the vast arena of Northern Australia. This book is organized into three parts. Part A presents the contextual setting for Parts B and C. It includes a historical geographer's perspective on the ecological impact of 200 years of European settlement; a description of the use of satellite imagery; and discussion of some of the interactions among natural subsystems as they impinge on human activities (especially in the extensive rangelands). Part B discusses some of the human ecosystems which extend over a very large geographical territory. In these ecosystems the human population is small in terms of absolute number and relative to the population of other living things. These include the tropical marine ecosystems and their growing utilization for mariculture; and rangeland ecosytems dominated by cattle and the overlapping semi-arid grasslands. Part C discusses intensive ecosystems, where the human population is dominant in number.
The Island Microcosm
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Subject Catalog
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A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.
Voices from the Forest
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damagin...
International Migration Into the 21st Century
Presents papers given at the conference on "International Migration into the 21st Century" (U. of Western Australia, November/December 1999). Fourteen contributions from international scholars examine different aspects of global migration. The focus is on the impact of changing economic trends on international migration, causes and trends in illegal migration and trafficking, the politics of selection and restriction, the changing determinants of return migration, and refugee migration. A sampling of topics includes economic integration and migration between Mexico and the US, the economics of illegal migration for the host economy, globalization and migration systems in Pacific Asia, the impact of immigration on the aging of Australia's population, and the rise of forced migration in sub-Saharan Africa. c. Book News Inc.
