Field Notebook for Papua New Guinea
Author | : Lucy Evelynne Cheesmann |
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Release | : 1938 |
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Author | : Lucy Evelynne Cheesmann |
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Release | : 1938 |
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Author | : Vojtech Novotny |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0191580325 |
This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much modern science, in a lab full of gleaming apparatus. Instead, he chose as his 'laboratory' the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea, where he has established a research station. Supported by a team of Papuans whom he has trained up so that they can combine their wide and intimate knowledge of the plants and animals of their tropical forest with the knowledge of modern science, Novotny studies the ecological interactions of butterflies and plants. Clearly this is no ordinary scientist. Combined with his intrepid courage (PNG is one of the most dangerous places on Earth, with a very high homicide rate), he is a shrewd observer of human nature. In the richly varied notes and reflections of this very individual volume are not only descriptions of natural history and scientific research in the rainforest, but accounts of the local peoples and their culture, the challenges of working across very different cultures, and amusing portraits of the antics of Western tourists, separated by a few 'intermezzi' - episodes when the author fought bouts of malaria. Novotny is that rare combination of excellent scientist and superb storyteller. The faithful translations by David Short bring these notes and reflections on science, nature, and human beings to a wide audience, without any loss to their richness, warmth, humility, and wisdom. The volume is illustrated with beautiful drawings by a self-taught Papuan artist, Benson Avea Bego, who lives in a remote village.
Author | : Thane K. Pratt |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2014-10-26 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0691095639 |
Previous edition by Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt, and Dale A. Zimmerman.
Author | : Vojtech Novotny |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
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Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : 9781383046083 |
Vojtech Novotny - a leading tropical biologist - is based in Papua New Guinea, one of the world's last wild frontiers. In this unique and engaging collection of notes and reflections, he brings to life with warmth and wisdom the place, the people, the doing of science deep in the jungle, and the curious antics of Westerners.
Author | : Daphne Lithgow |
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Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780726302053 |
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Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : John Barker |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781442601055 |
In Ancestral Lines, which is based on 25 years of research among the Maisin people, Barker offers a nuanced understanding of how the Maisin came to reject commercial logging on their traditional lands.
Author | : Daphne Lithgow |
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Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780726302053 |
Author | : Adam Reed |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Prison discipline |
ISBN | : 9781571816948 |
What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living.
Author | : Michael R. Canfield |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2012-07-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0674072065 |
Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson’s 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does such insight into nature develop? Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions. What did George Schaller note when studying the lions of the Serengeti? What lists did Kenn Kaufman keep during his 1973 “big year”? How does Piotr Naskrecki use relational databases and electronic field notes? In what way is Bernd Heinrich’s approach “truly Thoreauvian,” in E. O. Wilson’s view? Recording observations in the field is an indispensable scientific skill, but researchers are not generally willing to share their personal records with others. Here, for the first time, are reproductions of actual pages from notebooks. And in essays abounding with fascinating anecdotes, the authors reflect on the contexts in which the notes were taken. Covering disciplines as diverse as ornithology, entomology, ecology, paleontology, anthropology, botany, and animal behavior, Field Notes offers specific examples that professional naturalists can emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with practical advice that amateur naturalists and students can use to document their adventures.