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  title info:
    title: Wild partners
    sub title: indigenous worlds and industrial giants in Papua New Guinea
  title info:
    title: Indigenous worlds and industrial giants in Papua New Guinea
  name:
    name part: Guinness, Patrick
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Australian National University Press
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: aca
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 268 pages illustrations 24 cm
  abstract: Wild Partners traces the history of the Maututu Nakanai of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. According to a Maututu ontology, or worldview, they are surrounded by a forest filled with threatening wild forces. It is believed that outstanding men and women pioneer ways to engage these forces to bring benefit to their village community. In recent times, the Maututu have had to engage with human outsiders, including government officers, church administrators, industrial managers and migrant settlers, who like their mythological counterparts have threatened to disrupt the established world. This study captures Maututu approaches to the threats and challenges they have faced over the last hundred years-the proclamation of the Christian world, the dislocation of the Pacific war, the development programs of the colonial and independent governments and the industrial expansion of oil palm. The challenges have at times threatened the very essence of their being through the destruction of forests, loss of land, competition for schooling and health care, marginalisation within the oil palm industry and the emergence of 'big shot' individuals who ignore community obligations. Maututu have adapted to these threats, becoming successful oil palm producers and prominent professionals throughout Papua New Guinea while seeking to rejuvenate Christianity, protect forest and marine environments and build partnerships that benefit their village communities. Central to these efforts has been partnership with outside forces.
  target audience: general
  note: Patrick Guinness
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wild partners : Indigenous worlds and industrial giants in Papua New Guinea
    origin info:
      publisher: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2026
    identifier: (OCoLC)1548601515
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Monographs in anthropology series
  identifier: 9781760467159
  identifier: 1760467154
  identifier: 9781760467166
  identifier: 1760467162
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: ANV
    record creation date: 251106
    record change date: 20260406152517.9
    record identifier: in00005777766
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng