Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of plates
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	What's the game? The forest and its animals	9
1.1	What's that bird?	11
1.2	The birds	13
1.3	Methods and knowledge	43
1.4	Furry animals	47
1.5	Disagreements over identifications	62
1.6	Frogs and 'others'	71
1.7	Insects and small reptiles	84
1.8	Taxonomic politics	101
1.9	Negotiated taxonomy	109
1.10	Agreeing to disagree	114
Pt. II	Where's the game? Hunting and foraging	117
2.1	First impressions	119
2.2	Access to forest	124
2.3	Forest resources	128
2.4	Knowing animals	133
2.5	Spell knowledge	139
2.6	Hunting techniques	153
2.7	Returns on hunting efforts	182
2.8	Hunting and social status	193
2.9	Sharing game	199
2.10	Wild plant and other foods	206
2.11	Hunter-gathering in the Highlands?	222
2.12	Managing limited wild resources	231
Pt. III	When they're tame? Pig management and production	239
3.1	Pigmanship in the New Guinea Highlands	241
3.2	The pigs	243
3.3	Pig management	250
3.4	Bespelling pigs	263
3.5	Ethnoveterinary practices	277
3.6	Pig-herd demography	281
3.7	Pig ownership	293
3.8	Pig politics	301
3.9	The work of pig management	312
3.10	Pigs in the past, present and future	322
	Conclusion	335
	Notes	340
	References	353
	Index	371