- Abstract:
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As elsewhere in coastal and island New Guinea, population in the Purari delta underwent severe decline after European contact, showing resurgence only across the second half of the twentieth century. While population processes in New Guinea after about 1950 are reasonably mapped, understanding of population change at earlier times remains poor. In this chapter, patterns of population change in one region of lowland Papua, the Purari delta, are described from early colonial times to the year 1...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books Publisher's website
- Pages:
- 67-89
- Series:
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality
- Host title:
- Population, reproduction and fertility in Melanesia
- Publication date:
- 2005
- URN:
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uuid:343f0528-ecb0-4904-8ebb-361a11ef53f2
- Local pid:
- ora:8348
- ISBN:
- 9781571816443
- Copyright holder:
- Stanley J. Ulijaszek
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- The full text of this book chapter is not available in ORA.
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Purari population decline and resurgence across the twentieth century
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