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Ryan Schram\\
ANTH 3603: Melanesian worlds\\
ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au\\
Social Sciences Building 410 (A02)\\
Week of May 17, 2021 (Week 11)

Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2700/2021/11

**Main reading:** Biersack (1999); Biersack (2006)

===== References and further reading =====

Biersack, Aletta. 1999. “The Mount Kare Python and His Gold: Totemism and Ecology in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.” //American Anthropologist// 101 (1): 68–87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/683342.


———. 2006. “Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place on the Porgera River.” In //Reimagining Political Ecology//, edited by Aletta Biersack and James B. Greenberg, 233–80. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.