Where all the rivers flow west: Maps, abstraction and change in the Papua New Guinea lowlands

‘Abstraction’ has been often identified as a key element in social change. Analyses, however, have often conflated the ideas of abstraction as ‘object’ and as ‘process’. This paper discusses two maps drawn by or on behalf of Kubo men, of the interior lowlands of southern Papua New Guinea. They were...

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Authors: Dwyer, Peter D. (Author) ; Minnegal, Monica (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2014
In: The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 2014, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-53
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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