When Horticulturalists Are like Hunter-Gatherers: The Sawiyano of Papua New Guinea

Navigating the Future

“…They appear as well in some Papua New Guinean societies that are better described as hunter-horticulturalists; in Sawiyanö of the Sepik (Guddemi 1992) and, we have argued, in Kubo (Dwyer and Minnegal 1998).…”

Revisiting the ‘Neolithic Problem’ in Australia

“…When New Guinea societies became 'agricultural' in terms of any of the above general defi nitions is almost impossible to assess -the best example of this being Kuk Swamp in the Highlands (Denham et al 2004b, and references therein. In fact, according to these defi nitions many New Guinea societies are probably not 'agricultural' even today (Guddemi 1992;Roscoe 2002).…”

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“…Though engaged in hunting and gathering, these foragers combine and navigate between hunting and gathering, shifting cultivation, trade and occasional wage labor -depending on conditions and available resources -ecological parameters, technology, and relations with neighbors (cf. Tharakan 2003:323; see also Lee and De Vore 1968;Denbow 1984;Myers 1988;Lee 1992;Bird-David 1988Guddemi 1992). The purpose of this article is to attempt to understand the human ecology of the Muduga and Kurumba of South India, and examine the extent to which hunting and gathering is accompanied by other modes of subsistence and why.…”