One Head, Many Faces: New Perspectives on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea

by Jelle Miedema and G Reesink

The Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea covers some 30,000 square kilometres of enormously varied landscape. Although it is home to an indigenous population of just 114,000, these people share more than twenty languages. Wider knowledge of the peninsula was recently gained through an extensive interdisciplinary research project (ISIR) involving anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists, demographers, geologists, linguists, and specialists in public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 906718229X
• ISBN13: 9789067182294
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"