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Cameron, Milo Louis. "Rifting and subduction in the papuan peninsula, papua new guinea| The significance of the trobriand tough, the nubara strike-slip fault, and the woodlark rift to the present configuration of papua new guinea." Thesis, The University of Alabama, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3620068.
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The calculated extension (~111 km) across the Woodlark rift is incompatible with the > 130 km needed to exhume the Metamorphic Core Complexes on shallow angle faults (< 30°) using N-S extension in the Woodlark Basin. High resolution bathymetry, seismicity, and seismic reflection data indicate that the Nubara Fault continues west of the Trobriand Trough, intersects the Woodlark spreading center, and forms the northern boundary of the Woodlark plate and the southern boundary of the Trobriand plate. The newly defined Trobriand plate, to the north of this boundary, has moved SW-NE along the right lateral Nubara Fault, creating SW-NE extension in the region bounded by the MCC's of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and Moresby Seamount. Gravity and bathymetry data extracted along four transect lines were used to model the gravity and flexure across the Nubara Fault boundary. Differences exist in the elastic thickness between the northern and southern parts of the lines at the Metamorphic Core Complexes of Goodenough Island (Te_south = 5.7 x 103 m; Te_north = 6.1 x 103 m) and Fergusson Island (Te_south = 1.2 x 103 m; Te_north = 5.5 x 103 m). Differences in the elastic strength of the lithosphere also exist at Moresby Seamount (Te_south = 4.2 x 103 m; Te_north = 4.7 x 103 m) and Egum Atoll (Te_south =7.5 x 103 m; Te_north = 1.3 x 104 m). The differences between the northern and southern parts of each transect line imply an east-west boundary that is interpreted to be the Nubara Fault. The opening of the Woodlark Basin resulted in the rotation of the Papuan Peninsula and the Woodlark Rise, strike slip motion between the Solomon Sea and the Woodlark Basin at the Nubara Fault, and the formation of the PAC-SOL-WLK; SOL-WLK-TRB triple junctions. The intersection of the Woodlark Spreading Center with the Nubara Fault added the AUS-WLK-TRB triple junction and established the Nubara Fault as the northern boundary of the Woodlark plate.
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Koudashev, Oleg. "Large-Scale Structure and Geochronology of Porphyry and Epithermal Deposits Along the Northern Collisional Margin of the Australian Continental Lithosphere." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144451.
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In this thesis I combine 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and tectonics to investigate porphyry and epithermal deposits along the northern collisional margin of the Australian continental lithosphere using case studies on the islands of New Guinea and Sulawesi. The tectonic evolution of these islands reflects the effects of progressive northward movement after rifting off from Gondwana, with this movement involving interaction with multiple subduction zones and several accretion events. The island of New Guinea contains a number of world-class porphyry deposits forming the New Guinea copper-gold belt, including the world’s largest gold producer Grasberg. In comparision, the island of Sulawesi hosts multiple small and medium sized deposits but no major porphyries like New Guinea. The work reported here established the age of the hydrothermal system at the Yandera porphyry, located in the northern highlands of Papua New Guinea. The 3 Ma age obtained is younger than lithologies observed in drill core, or at the surface, suggesting that mineralisation in Yandera is genetically unrelated to the Yandera Porphyry suite of intrusives, making Yandera a detached/wallrock porphyry. Argon geochronology using step heating diffusion experiments was shown capable of identifying the age of hydrothermal overprinting, and providing an age for mineralisation U-Pb geochronology from an earlier study showed the porphyry suite to be 6.3-7.1 Ma. The age of ductile fabrics, interpreted to be related to an extensional shear zone, and metamorphism in the Bundi Fault Zone, north of the Yandera deposit, was established to be 8-13 Ma, which is coeval with the emplacement of the Bismarck Intrusive Complex and smaller satellite intrusives. These ages were much older than the mineralisation at Yandera. Thus the surface geology, except for younger fauts, was largely irrelevant to the formation of the deposit, except in respect to ground preparation. Geochronology of the Tombulilato, Tapadaa and Gunnung Pani deposits on the North Arm of Sulawesi also produced very young ages ranging from 5.5-1.8 Ma. Similar to Yandera,the Tapadaa porphyry deposit was also found to be hosted in an igneous intrusion that was older than the age of mineralisation, placing Tapadaa in a similar time period to the nearby epithermal deposits in Tombulilato. This thesis also reports the analysis of earthquake hypocenters and seismic tomography datasets, used to interpret the geometry and structure of subducted lithosphere beneath the areas of interest. The Yandera deposit and deposits in the North Arm of Sulawesi were found to be located above portions of subducted lithosphere adjacent to slab tears. Deposits were also found to be associated with structures and processes that should allow the fast ascent of magmas through the crust such as major strike-slip faults and uplift. Formation of the deposits of Tombulilato and Tapadaa was interpreted to occur as a result of north-directed subduction and rollback of the Molucca Sea Slab. Formation of the Yandera deposit was interpreted to occur due to tearing of subducted lithosphere as the result of oblique collision with the Finisterre terrane. The formation of these deposits was proposed to coincide with initiation of movement on nearby major strike-slip faults. (U-Th)/He geochronology showed that the Yandera deposit formed during a period of rapid denudation/exhumation of the New Guinea Highlands. Analysis of published ages conducted in this thesis for deposits in the Southwest Pacific indicates that the temporal distribution of these deposits is not random, suggesting region-scale controls on the formation of such deposits. This implies large scale tectonic and/or mantle processes play a part in the formation of such deposits. Possible geodynamic scenarios are discussed in the final chapter.
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Koloa, Mura, and n/a. "National development planning in Papua New Guinea." University of Canberra. Management, 1993. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060815.124347.
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Lomas, G. C. J. (Gabriel Charles Jacques). "The Huli language of Papua New Guinea." Australia : Macquarie University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22313.
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Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, School of English and Linguistics, 1989.Bibliography: leaves 385-393.
Introduction -- Traditional Huli society -- Segmental phonology -- Prosodies -- Verbs -- Adverbials -- NominaIs -- Word complexes -- Group complexes -- Semantic patterns -- Linguistic and social change -- Texts.
This thesis describes the language of the Huli speech community of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The first chapter situates the speech community in its historical setting, and refers to previous, mainly non-linguistic, studies. The second chapter situates the commuity in its geographical and 'traditional' setting, recording putative migrations and dialectal variations. The third chapter describes segmental phonology at a level of detail not previously given in accounts of the language, while the fourth chapter presents a tentative exploration of prosodic features. The fifth chapter describes verbs, the sixth adverbials, and the seventh nominals: in each instance there is an emphasis on morphology and morphophonemic processes hitherto unrecorded for Huli. The eighth chapter describes word complexes, and the ninth group complexes, using a systemic-functional approach that establishes a descriptive framework that indicates useful insights into the pragmatics of the language. Chapter ten selects and explores, in varying degrees, semantic features that are typologically interesting, while chapter eleven re-focusses the thesis on sociolinguistic issues. The twelveth chapter presents a dozen texts, which it interprets and comments on in the light of linguistic and sociological descriptions presented previously. The appendices that follow give the data bases for some of the descriptions given in the thesis body. The body of the thesis is concerned with describing the language as it is being created and used by living, real, people. Hence, the language forms at each level are described and interpreted in relation to their functions in creating meaning. This has necessitated presenting in some detail phonological and morphological data that need to be described if the language is to be seen as the growing, changing expression of the living society that uses and creates it.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barnish, G. "Studies on Strongloides in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383456.
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Lomas, G. C. J. "The Huli language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22313.
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Abers, Geoffrey Alexander. "Active tectonics and seismicity of New Guinea." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51475.
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Wittwer, Glyn. "Price stabilisation of coffee in Papua New Guinea /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EC/09ecw832.pdf.
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Bun, Krufinta. "MONITORING WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI ELIMINATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1560346194908835.
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Stewart, Lynn Leslie. "Our people are like gardens" : music, performance and aesthetics among the Lolo, West New Britain Province, Papua, New Guinea." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30917.
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Relationships among the Aesthetic, culture, and music are problematic- Frequently considered as epiphenomenal to culture, music and the arts are typically seen as adjuncts to ceremonial activity- This dissertation examines the nature of the Aesthetic, music and performance in the context of the Lolo, Araigilpua Village, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to develop a definition of the Aesthetic applicable for cross-cultural research and to discover the ways in which the Aesthetic and culture articulate.
For the purposes of this dissertation, the Aesthetic is defined as that facet of religion focused on responses to extraordinary powers thought to maintain what are considered to be proper relationships between human members of a community and extraordinary powers. Three forms of aesthetics, social, performance, and musical, are taken as the means and methods of directing interactions between man and extraordinary powers.
At present, the Lolo are engaged in a process of secularisation resulting primarily from the introduction of Christianity, Western medicine and money. This dissertation examines the relationship between the Aesthetic and social life, and addresses the impact of changes to the Aesthetic.Arts, Faculty of
Anthropology, Department of
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Crockett, John Steven. "Unraveling the 3-D character of clinoforms: Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11066.
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Nordhagen, Stella. "Cultivating change : crop choices and climate in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709283.
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Watson, Amanda H. A. "The mobile phone : the new communication drum of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/47170/1/Amanda_Watson_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines the role of mobile telephony in rural communities in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It is a threshold study which reports on research conducted in the earliest stages of mobile phone adoption in these areas. It explores the ways in which this new technology changes people’s lives, social structures and relationships. The research focuses on non-urban communities, which previously had little or no access to modern communication technologies, but which are in some cases still using traditional forms of communication such as drums. It has found that the introduction of mobile telecommunications has generally been viewed positively, although several negative concerns have been strongly felt. Specific benefits related to enhanced communication with relatives and friends living away from home villages, and use of the technology in time-critical emergencies or crises. Difficulties have arisen with respect to the cost of owning and operating a handset, as well as financial and logistical challenges when recharging handset batteries, particularly in areas with no mains electricity supply. Perceived damaging effects of mobile phone access related to sex, crime and pornography.
The changes taking place are described through a social lens, by foregrounding the perceptions of villagers. The perspectives of key informants, such as telecommunication company managers, are also discussed. Employing the technique of triangulation (using different methods and sources) has helped to validate the findings of the research project. The sources constantly overlap and agree on the main themes, such as those outlined above.
PNG is a developing country which performs poorly on a wide range of development indicators. A large majority of the people live outside of the major towns and cities. It is therefore worthwhile investigating the introduction of mobile phone technology in rural areas. These areas often have poor access to services, including transport, health, education and banking. Until 2007, communities in such regions fell outside of mobile phone coverage areas. In the case of all ten villages discussed in this thesis, there has never been any landline telephone infrastructure available. Therefore, this research on mobile phones is in effect documenting the first ever access to any kind of phone in these communities.
This research makes a unique contribution to knowledge about the role of communication in PNG, and has implications for policy, practice and theory. In the policy arena, the thesis aids understanding of the impact which communication sector competition and regulation can have on rural and relatively isolated communities. There are three practical problems which have emerged from the research: cost, battery recharging difficulties and breakage are all major obstacles to uptake and use of mobile telephony in rural communities. Efforts to reduce usage costs, enable easier recharging, and design more robust handsets would allow for increased utilisation of mobile phones for a range of purposes. With respect to the realm of theory, this research sits amongst the most recent scholarship in the mobile phone field, located within the broader communication theory area. It recommends cautionary reading of any literature which suggests that mobile phones will reduce poverty and increase incomes in poor, rural communities in developing countries. Nonetheless, the present research adds weight to mobile phone studies which suggest that the primary advantages of mobile phones in such settings are for the satisfactions of communication of itself, and for social interaction among loved ones.
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Harper, Jodi Leigh. "Rascals, resistance, and ethnographic reticence in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30795.pdf.
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Carneiro, Iiona Anne-Marie. "Non-severe malarial disease in Madang, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360153.
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Whittaker, Keith Duncan. "Micro and mini hydro-power in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14664.
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Flannery, Wendy. "Contextual theology in Papua New Guinea a mythic paradigm /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Usman, Asnani. "Border tensions in the Indonesia/Papua New Guinea relationship." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111183.
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The relationship between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has been significantly
affected by problems associated with the border between them. This has not been a
dispute about the boundary itself. There is a line on the map which the two countries
have agreed to accept Rather, the border problem which has arisen between the two
countries concerns an independence movement called the ‘Organisasi Papua Merdeka’
(Free Papua Movement - OPM) which since 1963 has been active against Indonesia and
has repeatedly crossed the border to seek refuge in neighbouring Papua New Guinea;
incursions in Papua New Guinea by the Indonesian military in pursuit of the OPM; and
thousands of Irian Jayan refugees who have crossed the border to seek sanctuary in
Papua New Guinea. Since Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975 the border problem has intensified,
especially in 1984 when an uprising in Jayapura resulted in an influx of 12,(XX) refugees
into Papua New Guinea territory. This heightened security concerns in the two
countries. For Jakarta, the refugees could become bases for the OPM to threaten
Indonesia’s security; for Papua New Guinea on the other hand, there were concerns
about possible Indonesian border incursions in an attempt to destroy the OPM.
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de, Sousa Hilário. "The Menggwa Dla language of New Guinea." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1341.
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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)Menggwa Dla is a Papuan language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea and Kabupaten Jayapura of Papua Province, Indonesia. Menggwa Dla is a dialect of the Dla language; together with its sister language Anggor (e.g. Litteral 1980), the two languages form the Senagi language family, one of the small Papuan language families found in North-Central New Guinea. The main text of this thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the linguistic, cultural and political landscapes of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border area where the Dla territory is located. Chapter 2 introduces the phonology of Menggwa Dla; described in this chapter are the phonemes, allophonic variations, phonotactics, morpho-phonological processes, stress assignment and intonation of the language. The inventory of phonemes in Menggwa is average for a Papuan language (15 consonants and 5 vowels). The vast majority of syllables come in the shape of V, CV or C1C2V where C2 can be /n/ /r/ /l/ /j/ or /w/. In C1C2V syllables, the sonority rises from C1 to V (§2.2.2). Nevertheless, there are a few words with word-medial consonant sequences like ft /ɸt/, lk /lk/, lf /lɸ/ or lk /lk/ where the sonority drops from the first to the second consonant; the first consonant in these sequences is analysed as the coda of the previous syllable (§2.2.3). Chapter 3 is an overview of the word classes in Menggwa Dla; the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of the three major word classes (nouns, adjectives and verbs) and the minor word classes are compared in this chapter. Chapter 4 describes the properties of nouns and noun phrases; the person-number-gender categories, noun-phrasal syntax, nominal clitics and personal pronouns are outlined in this chapter. Menggwa Dla has a rich array of case, topic and focus markers which comes in the form of clitics (§4.5). Subject pronouns (‘citation pronouns’) only mark person (i.e. one for each of the three persons), whereas object and genitive pronouns mark person (including inclusive/exclusive first person), number, and sometimes also gender features (§4.6). Chapter 5 introduces various morphological and syntactic issues which are common to both independent and dependent clauses: verb stems, verb classes, cross-referencing, intraclausal syntax, syntactic transitivity and semantic valence. Cross-referencing in Menggwa Dla is complex: there are seven paradigms of subject cross-reference suffixes and four paradigms of object cross-references. Based on their cross-referencing patterns, verbs are classified into one of five verb classes (§5.2). There is often a mismatch between the number of cross-reference suffixes, the semantic valence, and the syntactic transitivity within a clause. There are verbs where the subject cross-reference suffix, or the object suffix, or both the subject and object suffixes are semantically empty (‘dummy cross-reference suffixes’; §5.3.2). Chapter 6 outlines the morphology of independent verbs and copulas. Verbal morphology differs greatly between the three statuses of realis, semi-realis and irrealis; a section is devoted to the morphology for each of the three statuses. Chapter 7 introduces the dependent clauses and verbal noun phrases. Different types of dependent verbs are deverbalised to various degrees: subordinate verbs are the least deverbalised, chain verbs are more deverbalised (but they mark switch-reference (SR), and sometimes also interclausal temporal relations), and non-finite chain verbs even more deverbalised. Further deverbalised than the non-finite chain verbs are the verbal nouns; verbal noun phrases in Menggwa Dla functions somewhat like complement clauses in English. In younger speakers speech, the function of the chain clause SR system has diverted from the canonical SR system used by older speakers (§7.2.2). For younger speakers, coreferential chain verb forms and disjoint-reference chain verb forms only have their coreferential and disjoint-referential meaning — respectively — when the person-number-gender features of the two subject cross-reference suffixes cannot resolve the referentiality of the two subjects. Otherwise, the coreferential chain verb forms have become the unmarked SR-neutral chain verb forms. At the end of this thesis are appendix 1, which contains four Menggwa Dla example texts, and appendix 2, which contains tables of cross-reference suffixes, pronouns, copulas and irregular verbs.
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Veldhuis, Djuke. "Human adaptability : behavioural and endocrinological adaptation in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608534.
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Volken, Maria Carmen. "Biological and phytochemical investigations of Euphorbiaceae from Papua New Guinea /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1999. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=13294.
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Flavelle, Alix J. "A traditional agroforestry landscape of Ferguson Island, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29837.
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A study of a traditional land use system was conducted at Nade, Fergusson Island, in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. An ethnobotanical inventory of useful and culturally significant plants, and a series of transects and vegetation profiles were used to identify, and map the distribution of, 15 different plant communities in the Nade landscape. Interviews were conducted with local gardeners about land use decision-making, land tenure, and ecological knowledge.
The land use strategy practiced at Nade can be characterized as a polyphase agroforestry system. A spectrum of management techniques are used in the different phases, including the selecting, ignoring, transplanting and/or planting of wild, semi-domesticated, and domesticated tree species. A variety of subsistence products are available throughout the year, from the range of vegetation types.
The distribution of successional phases in the landscape was found to depend on topography and soil conditions which vary within the subsistence territory of Nade. Overlying the environmentally determined pattern of the shifting mosaic are the social factors; land use decision-making based on the traditional system of susu land and plant tenure, labour-saving strategies, and agricultural tradition.
The study provides baseline data for monitoring changes in the culturally modified landscapes of Fergusson Island. This in turn can be used to facilitate a land-use planning process with local people.Forestry, Faculty of
Graduate
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Corris, Miriam. "A grammar of Barupu : a language of Papua New Guinea." University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3655.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis is a descriptive grammar of Barupu, the easternmost member of the Skou family of languages. Barupu is spoken by around 3000 people on the north eoast of New Guinea; its grammar has not previously been described. Barupu is a tone language in which words belong to one of five tone classes and it exemplifies a type of pitch-accent system where for the most part tone is attracted to penultimate stressed syllables and spreads one syllable to the right. Some words, however, have tones lexically specified to one of the final two syllables ofthe word. A key feature of Barupu grammar is that there is no oblique marking on NPs - no particles, adpositions or case markers provide information about a nominal's role in the clause. Instead, Barupu is head-marking. Underived verbs show multiple exponence of subject, which can take the form of double prefixing or prefixing and infixing. There is a set ofsuffixing morphemes that function like applicatives in adding participants to the clause, but which are very atypical in appearing outside verbal inflection and showing extra agreement for subject. Barupu also has a prefixing Benefactive paradigm that replaces regular subject agreement and can be extended to mark external possession. Finally, Barupu is a polysynthetic language and, as such, makes almost no use of f9rmal subordination. Appendices to this thesis include a set of interlinearised texts and a draft of a Barupu-English dictionary with an English-Barupu finderlist.
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Yoko, James, and n/a. "Western education and social change in Papua New Guinea society." University of Canberra. Education, 1991. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061112.110812.
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Papua New Guinea, a society with diverse natural environments
(muddy swamps to soaring mountains, snake-shaped winding
rivers, open seas) and cultural environments (different languages,
customs, traditions) is undergoing massive and rapid social changes.
The occurrence of these social changes and social problems are due
to a combination of diverse exogenous and endogenous changes in
different areas such as politics, economic, cultural, bureaucratic
structure, technology and changes in other societies. These changes
are explicitly stipulated and reflected during the process of the
discussion and analysis.
The purpose of this paper is an attempt to analyze social change and
the emerging social problems in light of the colonisation process
right up to the post independence era. The social functions and
dysfunctions of the innovated Western type education system
during the contemporary modernisation and development process
are also examined. The theoretical frameworks used to analyze
social change are (1) the structural functionalism theory, (2)
modernisation theory, and (3) the theories of change and
development.
The rapid social changes, modernisation and other developments
occurring in Papua New Guinea are a new experience. Prior to this,
people have lived in Papua New Guinea for 50,000 years,
developing material and nonmaterial cultures such as the use of
simple technology including stone axes, digging sticks, dug out
canoes etc., houses made of sago or kunai grass, reciprocity or
gift-exchanges, interdependence, sharing, consensus, behaviour
controlled by established social norms, and the overall social,
political, economic and cultural structures and functions fused into a
single dynamic institution, predominantly through the family units
and kinship relationships. The destabilisation of this traditional
social structural system occurred as a consequence of the
introduction of profound changes and transformations when Great
Britain annexed Papua and Germany proclaimed New Guinea in
1884. Further developments that occurred during the colonisation
process are discussed in the paper.
Education, a powerful agent of social change, has and is playing a
crucial role during the modernisation and development process in
meeting such requirements as manpower needs of the country or
enabling political and economic development. Not only that but it is
maintaining the new social strata that are emerging in the society.
The top cream of the new social strata, called here the social,
political, and economic elite are enjoying the perks and privileges
associated with the positions they hold. They have been
emancipated from the hard rural life as far as Western schooling is
concerned.
Simultaneously, being a heterogeneous society, the dysfunctions of
education are also playing a role in which students are screened
using examinations as the criteria and a majority of them are
leaving school annually along the different levels of the education
system. This is contributing to the over-production of educated
people for the limited supply of jobs in both the government and
private sectors,'consequently leading to unemployment and an
upsurge in social problems. It is argued here that it would be
completely a false assumption if people believe that education is
wholly responsible for the social stratification, social inequality,
instability and unemployment related problems such as the break
down of law and order, disrespect for authority and established
social norms, or rascalism.
According to Etzioni and Etzioni, all efforts to explain societal
change, whether positive or negative, as originating in one single
factor have so utterly failed, thus, contemporary sociologists have
almost unanimously have adopted a multifactor approach (1964:7).
Etzioni and Etzioni also claim that social change may originate in any
institutional area, bringing about changes in other areas, which in
turn make for further adaptations in the initial sphere of change.
Technological, economic, political, religious, ideological, invention,
demographic and stratificational factors are all viewed as
potentially independent variables which influence each other, as
well as the course of society.
The current social situation in Papua New Guinea appears daunting
and pessimistic and for the masses of the people, the prospect is one
of rising inequalities, more intensive exploitation, chronic
unemployment and insecurity, misgovernment, social disruptions
and blighted opportunity during the modernisation and
development process. The paper suggests some ways in which the
national education system and the national government could
address some of these socio-economic problems to bring about
positive social changes in society. There is a need for strong genuine
political will, firm policy direction, diversification and
industrialisation of the economy, prudent planning, educational
reforms, constitutional reforms, increased training of skilled
manpower, coordinated integration, wise spending of available
resources and critical examination and analysis of wider social,
political, economic, and cultural issues and implications by those in
power. Perhaps these actions may help in some ways to bring about
equilibrium in the different components that make up the whole
social system, consequently creating a more just and stable society.
Social, political, and economic stability is vitally essential for
economic investment, modernisation and industrial growth.
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Crook, T. "Growing knowledge : exploring knowledge practices in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598173.
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Precisely because of their own elaborate knowledge practices, the Min of Papua New Guinea have proven uniquely problematic to the knowledge practice called social anthropology. Ethnographers have concluded that Min cultural processes are beyond both indigenous and anthropological explanation. This dissertation analyses knowing and growing by looking at explanatory practices of the Angkaiyakmin male cult in Bolivip village. I came to understand them as descriptions on a scale unfamiliar to conventional anthropological expectations. My research offers an alternative perspective on the Min, and an understanding of quite why the Min have proven so problematic to anthropological interpretation. In requiring an interlocutor to do the work of adding a half to complete their compositions of knowledge, the methodological basis of an interpretive anthropology is undermined. This assumption that any discursive encounter elicits another side in completion, is made evident in the responses of Angkaiyakmin to education, Catholicism and the development of the nearby Ok Tedi copper project. In Part One of the dissertation I discuss the practical and methodological problems also presented here, and inspect the implications of Fredrik Barth's paradigmatic analysis. I move on in Part Two to present my interests in knowing through the relational divisions of kinship and gender in both domestic and cult sociality. I consider the paths and means to knowing, the relational and discursive processes impinging upon knowing and revelation. Having formulated a methodology in response to these dislocated explanatory practices, I apply this in Part Three to inspect the Angkaiyakmin claim that their initiation rituals are like garden magic, and that their yolam ancestor spirit house replicates (kikseip) a planted taro garden. I attempt throughout to reflexively account not only for what the data might mean, but for why it appears to western anthropologists as it does.
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Small, Robert David Stuart. "Sustainable insects, sustainable organisations? : butterfly trading in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608632.
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Fairio, Mary. "Women and Politics in Presence: Case of Papua New Guinea." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1399559917.
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Salonda, Ludmilla Luddy. "Exploration of university culture: a Papua New Guinea case study." Thesis, full-text, 2008. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/2027/.
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The primary purpose of this case study on Divine Word University (DWU) is to explore the drivers that influence the organization to assume a particular model of organizing work and managing people in the pursuit of its goals. The key research questions therefore, focus on DWU culture, that is, the deeply embedded taken-for-granted basic assumptions whose influences are made visible in the organization’s behaviour and discourse. In particular, this thesis explores the behaviour and discourse associated with two aspects of the organization, the structure of decision-making and HR practices and processes. In exploring DWU culture, the study serves to explore the broader theme of university cultural emergence, embedding, cultural change, and organizational redefinition.
Three ethnographic tools are used in the exploration: the semi-structured interview, documentary sources and observations. Having multiple data sources serves to triangulate the emerging cultural themes across the data sources. The data was collected over a period of six months. Documents were collected and observations made over the first five months. These serve to surface issues, concepts and themes around which interviews are conducted in the final month of data gathering.
The findings show that the primary assumption defining DWU’s practices and which influences patterns of behaviour is the ideal of service linked to the missionary commitment to social advancement. This ideal has a profound impact on the culture of DWU. It provides the impetus for people to intervene to provide a service in a context where resource security is tenuous. Service in the context of this thesis is the ideal that serves as the impetus that motivates people, religious and altruistic oriented non-religious people, to render service for none or minimal material reward. This concept is contrasted with the concept of service associated with the university and taken as one of the tripartite knowledge functions. The findings also show that the outcome of the influence of service on DWU is that the behavioural expectations it promotes locate the university away from the behavioural expectations, as they are manifested in its decision-making structure and HR processes, of the collegial values-based organization. However, the findings also show that the distancing from the collegial cultural values and beliefs is nevertheless not a de-legitimization of the organization from the university field. In the contemporary context of organizational change that is allowing for the broadening of the university concept, emerging models of the university, such as DWU, occupy the contemporary end of the continuum of university models.
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Salonda, Ludmilla Luddy. "Exploration of university culture a Papua New Guinea case study /." full-text, 2008. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/2027/1/salonda.pdf.
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The primary purpose of this case study on Divine Word University (DWU) is to explore the drivers that influence the organization to assume a particular model of organizing work and managing people in the pursuit of its goals. The key research questions therefore, focus on DWU culture, that is, the deeply embedded taken-for-granted basic assumptions whose influences are made visible in the organization’s behaviour and discourse. In particular, this thesis explores the behaviour and discourse associated with two aspects of the organization, the structure of decision-making and HR practices and processes. In exploring DWU culture, the study serves to explore the broader theme of university cultural emergence, embedding, cultural change, and organizational redefinition. Three ethnographic tools are used in the exploration: the semi-structured interview, documentary sources and observations. Having multiple data sources serves to triangulate the emerging cultural themes across the data sources. The data was collected over a period of six months. Documents were collected and observations made over the first five months. These serve to surface issues, concepts and themes around which interviews are conducted in the final month of data gathering. The findings show that the primary assumption defining DWU’s practices and which influences patterns of behaviour is the ideal of service linked to the missionary commitment to social advancement. This ideal has a profound impact on the culture of DWU. It provides the impetus for people to intervene to provide a service in a context where resource security is tenuous. Service in the context of this thesis is the ideal that serves as the impetus that motivates people, religious and altruistic oriented non-religious people, to render service for none or minimal material reward. This concept is contrasted with the concept of service associated with the university and taken as one of the tripartite knowledge functions. The findings also show that the outcome of the influence of service on DWU is that the behavioural expectations it promotes locate the university away from the behavioural expectations, as they are manifested in its decision-making structure and HR processes, of the collegial values-based organization. However, the findings also show that the distancing from the collegial cultural values and beliefs is nevertheless not a de-legitimization of the organization from the university field. In the contemporary context of organizational change that is allowing for the broadening of the university concept, emerging models of the university, such as DWU, occupy the contemporary end of the continuum of university models.
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Najike, Samuel Vegola. "Learning Science In A Secondary School In Papua New Guinea." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15922/1/Samuel_Najike_Thesis.pdf.
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This study investigated teaching and learning, and the classroom learning environment in which the electricity topic was taught by the regular class teacher within the prescribed Grade 9 syllabus in a Secondary School in Papua New Guinea. The study was motivated by the perceived problems students had with understanding science concepts and the lack of classroom-based studies that provide a better understanding of teaching and learning science and the influence of the classroom learning environment on students' learning. An interpretive with embedded case study was conducted in a Grade 9 class over a period of 12 weeks in which data was gathered using mixed and multiple methods. Findings of the study revealed the presence and influence of aspects of the indigenous traditional teaching and learning approach impacting on the formal modern Western oriented teaching and learning approach in this particular classroom. The study recommended that in order to maximise students' learning and understanding of science concepts in the classroom observed, cultural sensitivity should be incorporated in the pedagogy.
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Najike, Samuel Vegola. "Learning Science In A Secondary School In Papua New Guinea." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15922/.
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This study investigated teaching and learning, and the classroom learning environment in which the electricity topic was taught by the regular class teacher within the prescribed Grade 9 syllabus in a Secondary School in Papua New Guinea. The study was motivated by the perceived problems students had with understanding science concepts and the lack of classroom-based studies that provide a better understanding of teaching and learning science and the influence of the classroom learning environment on students' learning. An interpretive with embedded case study was conducted in a Grade 9 class over a period of 12 weeks in which data was gathered using mixed and multiple methods. Findings of the study revealed the presence and influence of aspects of the indigenous traditional teaching and learning approach impacting on the formal modern Western oriented teaching and learning approach in this particular classroom. The study recommended that in order to maximise students' learning and understanding of science concepts in the classroom observed, cultural sensitivity should be incorporated in the pedagogy.
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Dandava, McClintock Jesse 1957. "Computer assisted mathematics learning in distance education in Papua New Guinea." Monash University, Faculty of Education, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8464.
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Flower, Scott Jason. "The growth of Islam in Papua New Guinea : implications for security and policy." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109597.
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Since 2001 the Muslim population of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has increased by over 500 percent as a result of religious conversions by indigenous Papua New Guineans. The spike in Islamic conversions in this largely Christian nation has coincided with a period of increased Islamic missionary activity, and a rise in media coverage on Muslims following the attacks by Islamic extremists on September 11, 2001. This thesis analyses the growth of Islam in PNG and seeks to determine whether the growing Muslim population is likely to have an impact on the security environment. This research also contributes to a very small body of literature which seeks to understand potential security risks posed by Muslim converts (as opposed to born Muslims). Since 1950 Islamic minorities have been engaged in more internal conflicts than any other type of religious or non-religious minority. The conversion of non-Muslims to Islam is a key strategy employed by Islamic extremists to recruit new members who can be engaged in radicalism across the globe. In the last decade the number of converts involved with radical and militant Islamic networks has noticeably increased. In addition, PNG borders Indonesia, a country that houses the world's largest population of Muslims and is home to a number of activist, radical and extremist Islamic groups. Based on five months of fieldwork during which I lived among Muslim communities in urban and rural regions of PNG, I examined the empirical foundations of Islam's growth to write what is the first comprehensive history of the establishment and institutionalisation of Islam in PNG. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and using interview data and fieldwork observations, I applied knowledge from the religious conversion and security studies literatures to analyse the causes and processes of Islamic conversion in PNG. This approach enabled new insights into which factors of conversion may subsequently influence the radicalisation of converts and affect security in PNG the Pacific region, and globally.
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Wallius, Julia. "New concept for monitoring SO2 emissions from Tavurvur volcano in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Geofysik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-337344.
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Wagner, John Richard 1949. "Commons in transition : an analysis of social and ecological change in a coastal rainforest environment in rural Papua New Guinea." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38435.
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This study describes the resource management practices of a rural community located in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Lababia, a community of 500 people, is located in a coastal rainforest environment and is dependant for its livelihood on swidden agriculture and fishing. Lababia is also the site of an integrated conservation and development project facilitated by a non-governmental organisation based in a nearby urban centre.The key resources on which Lababia depends are managed as the common property of either the village-as-a-whole or the various kin groups resident in the village, and for that reason common property theory has been used to inform the design of the research project and the analysis and interpretation of research results. However, the social foundations of resource management systems and the influence of external factors, commodity markets in particular, are not adequately represented in some of the more widely used analytical frameworks developed by common property theorists. These factors are of fundamental importance to the Lababia commons because of the many social, political and economic changes that have occurred there over the last century. For that reason the Lababia commons is referred to as a commons-in-transition .
Ethnographic and historical analysis, informed by common property theory, is used to develop a description of the property rights system existing at Lababia and resource management practices in the key sectors of fishing and agriculture. The management of forest resources is described on the basis of a comparison with Kui, a nearby village that, unlike Lababia, has allowed industrial logging activities on their lands. The impact of the conservation and development project on village life is also assessed and the study concludes by developing an analytical framework suitable to the Lababia commons and one that facilitates the development of policy appropriate to the planning of sustainable development projects generally and conservation and development projects in particular.
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Liu, Keyu. "Sedimentation and tectonics of the Markham Suture, Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/140054.
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Quarles, van Ufford Andrew I. (Andrew Ian) 1967. "Stratigraphy, structural geology, and tectonics of a young forearc-continent collision, western Central Range, Irian Jaya (western New Guinea), Indonesia." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30179.
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New Guinea has long been recognized by geologists as the location of geologically recent mountain building. This study combined field mapping, stratigraphic and remote sensing analysis along and near the Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) mine road and mining district in order to analyze the geologic development of the collisional New Guinea orogen. As a result of the youthfulness and the quality of data, it is possible to constrain distinct parts of orogenic evolution to 1 or 2 m.y. The southern Central Range of New Guinea is located on the northern Australian continental margin. The southern one-third of the Central Range, exposed along the Gunung Bijih mine access road, is a 30-km-wide, north-dipping homocline exposing an apparently 18-km-thick Precambrian or Early Paleozoic to Cenozoic sequence. Following rifting in the early Mesozoic and until the Middle Miocene, the northern Australian continent was a passive margin. The Central Range of Irian Jaya formed when the Australian passive margin was subducted beneath and collided with a north-dipping subduction zone in the Middle Miocene. Litho- and biostratigraphic analysis of the New Guinea Limestone Group in the Gunung Bijih mining district and regional stratigraphic correlation indicates that the first evidence of subaerial exposure and erosion of the orogen is the widespread deposition of siliciclastic, synorogenic strata at ~12 Ma. I name this event the Central Range Orogeny. There is no evidence of an Oligocene orogenic event in the Irian Jaya region as has been described to the east in Papuan New Guinea. Deformation in the Central Range is dominated by ~12 to ~4 Ma southwest verging (210°-220°) contraction and minor east-west wrenching. This deformation is equally accommodated, there is no evidence for strain partitioning in the Central Range. Lithospheric-scale cross sections, incorporating field observations, predict the Central Range Orogeny is divided into a pre-collision and collisional stage. The pre-collision stage is the bulldozing of passive margin sediments in a north dipping subduction zone. The collision stage occurs when buoyant Australian lithosphere can not be subducted. The collision stage results in basement involved deformation and lithospheric delamination of the already subducted Australian plate.text
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Deacon, Geoff. "Shoreline sedimentation at modern plate boundaries, Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea." Master's thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/141405.
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Richards, Jeremy Peter. "The Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea : geology, geochemistry and geochronology." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12535.
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The Porgera gold deposit, located in the highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), contains ~410 tonnes Au and ~890 tonnes Ag, distributed between a large lower-grade ore zone (78.6 million tonnes, 3.5 g/tonne Au, 9.9 g/tonne Ag), and a smaller highgrade zone (5.0 million tonnes, 26.5 g/tonne Au, 22.1 g/tonne Ag). Lower-grade mineralization occurs as stockworks and disseminations of auriferous arsenical pyrite associated with strong sericite-carbonate alteration, which cross-cut and overprint a suite of epizonal mafic stocks and dykes of the Porgera Intrusive Complex (PIC) and their sedimentary host rocks (Jurassic-Cretaceous shelf sediments). Minor free gold also occurs in base metal-sulphide veins associated with these alteration zones. Later, high-grade mineralization (locally up to 3000 g/tonne Au) occurs in quartz-oscoelite veins associated with the Roamane Fault (an extensional structure which cross-cuts the intrusive complex and the earlier dissemiriated ore). Abundant visible gold occurs with Au-Ag-Ag-tellurides in these epithermal-style, vuggy, banded veins. Deposition of both types of ore is shown by K-Ar dating of sericite (illite) and roscoelite to have occurred within 1 Ma of the time of emplacement of the PIC at 6.0 ± 0.3 Ma (2a; K-Ar dating of igneous biotite, and 40Ar/39 Ar dating of hornblende). Geochemical, isotopic, and petrographic studies of the PIC indicate that the intrusions represent a comagmatic, volatile-rich alkali basalt/gabbro - hawaiite (trachybasalt) -mugearite (basaltic trachyandesite) fractionation suite, derived from a larger fractionating magma chamber located deeper in the upper crust (aeromagnetic evidence). The intrusions are medium- to coarse-grained, and textures vary from porphyritic to ophitic. Mafic rocks contain olivine (pseudomorphs) and Cr-rich diopside phenocrysts, whereas hornblende (titanian magnesio-hastingsite), Ti-rich salite, and plagioclase phenocrysts occur in hawaiites and mugearites. Fluor-apatite and
magnetite (Cr-rich in mafic rocks) occur as phenocrysts throughout the suite. High
Fe3+/Fe2+ ratios in whole-rock samples, pyroxenes and amphiboles, and the presence
of primary chromite/magnetite microphenocrysts indicate that the magma crystallized under conditions of high fo2.
Least-evolved samples are characterized by low Ba/La (8 to 10), La/Nb (0.6 to 0.7)
and Sr/Nd (~25) ratios, and LREE-enrichments ([La/Yb]cn = 15 to 19), which are similar to those of intra-plate alkali basalts, and distinguish the PIC from other Late Tertiary K-rich alkaline and calc-alkaline volcanics and intrusions found on the PNG mainland. Isotopic compositions are relatively depleted (ENd= +6, 87Sr/86Sr = 0.7035, 206Pb/204Pb = 18.64, 207Pb/204Pb = 15.55, 208Pb/204Pb = 38.45), and evidence is found for only limited amounts of crustal contamination. These data suggest derivation of the Porgera magmas by partial melting of a garnet-lherzolite source in the upper
mantle. The incompatible element-, volatile-rich nature of the magma suggests that the mantle source region had undergone metasomatic-enrichment prior to melting ( < 0.5 Ga), and the timing of magmatism suggests that both metasomatism and melting may have been related to the elimination of an oceanic microplate segment by double subduction beneath the Australasian (PNG) and Pacific (Bismarck Sea) plates. A model is proposed which involves metasomatism in the back-arc asthenosphere by fluids or melts derived from the subducted slab at depths below ~150 km. Isotopic tracing studies in the ore deposit indicate that hydrothermal Pb and Sr were derived from a mixture of igneous and sedimentary sources, located within the Jurassic Om Formation (carbonaceous, pyritic siltstones). These fluids carried K, Rb, Mn, S, C02 and other components including Au and Ag into depositional zones in the overlying Cretaceous Chim Formation. Mass balance calculations indicate a significant magmatic involvement in the source of hydrothermal Pb, but show that Sr was largely derived by leaching of the sedimentary sequence. Analyses of precious metal abundances in unaltered intrusive rocks-and sediments show that neither rock-type represents a significantly gold-enriched protore, but evidence for the evolution of a volatile phase during crystallization of the magma suggests that Au and other elements may have been partitioned into a magmatic fluid. It is suggested that mixing between this fluid and warm, reduced, sulphide-rich groundwaters circulating in the Om
Formation sediments resulted in rapid deposition of base metals, but gold was retained in solution as a bisulphide complex until precipitation at higher levels in the Chim Formation. Gold deposition was controlled by a combination of cooling, wallrock reaction, fluid mixing, and/or boiling, which resulted in destabilization of bisulphide complexes. A late influx of fresh magma into the parental magma chamber, probably triggered by tectonic activity, resulted in the emplacement of a suite of feldspar porphyry dykes, and the release of a final pulse of hydrothermal fluid. These fluids ascended along late faults and subsidiary structures, and rich deposits of gold were formed where they boiled or mixed with cool, descending groundwaters.
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Holm, Robert J. "Magmatic arcs of Papua New Guinea: insights into the late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the northern Australian plate boundary." Thesis, 2013. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/32125/1/32125_Holm_2013_thesis.pdf.
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Papua New Guinea, as part of the southwest Pacific, lies in a complex tectonic setting of oblique convergence between the Pacific and Australian plate, and trapped between the converging Ontong Java Plateau of the Pacific plate and the Australian continent. Through studying the tectonic evolution of Papua New Guinea we can gain insight into how the region formed through time and explore the relationships between the driving forces of tectonics and the responses or feedbacks reflected in the geology. At present we lack the evidence to fully constrain the evolution of Papua New Guinea, however, through the study of arc magmatism I illustrate how we might approach defining a geodynamic framework for the region and unraveling the complex tectonic history.
In general, the deformation history of Papua New Guinea is well constrained but the same robust records do not exist for magmatism. To progress with unravelling the tectonic evolution of the region we require a time and cost effective means of robust age dating in young rocks. Investigation into the timing of two Quaternary magmatic occurrences by LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon dating compared with CA-TIMS and SHRIMP dating methods reveal good correlation and age agreement between dating methods. This is one of only few studies utilizing LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon dating for Quaternary ages. Uncertainty in such young rocks is relatively large due to potential matrix effects related to differential alpha dose accumulation and limitations on instrumental precision with an associated error threshold of 5% for a determined age. This makes LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating a useful tool in regional studies of this nature.
The Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Papua New Guinea is set in motion with initial convergence at the Australia-Pacific plate boundary from 45 Ma. Combined U-Pb zircon geochronology and geochemical investigation into the evolution of the Melanesian arc from the Simuku Igneous Complex of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea reveals development of the embryonic island arc from at least 43 Ma. Progressive arc growth was punctuated by distant collision of the Ontong Java Plateau and subduction cessation from 26 Ma. This change in subduction dynamics is represented by emplacement of the adakitic Simuku Porphyry Complex between 24 and 20 Ma. Petrological and geochemical affinities highlight genetic differences between contemporaneous “normal” arc volcanics and adakite-like signatures of Cu-Mo mineralized porphyritic intrusives. Not only is this one of few studies into the geology of the Melanesian arc, it is also among the first to address the distant tectono-magmatic effects of major arc/forearc collision events and subduction cessation on magmatic arcs.
Understanding of the tectonic evolution of mainland Papua New Guinea throughout the Miocene is hampered by a lack of robust geological evidence. The Maramuni arc of Papua New Guinea represents the only continuous tectonic element throughout this dynamic period. I present the first detailed U-Pb geochronology and geochemical investigation of the Maramuni arc from intrusive rocks of the Kainantu region of the eastern Papuan Highlands. Arc magmatism related to north-dipping subduction at the Pocklington trough is punctuated by arrival of the Australian continent at approximately 12 Ma and growth of the New Guinea Orogen. Arc geochemistry from 12 Ma highlights a changing tectonic setting, marked by anomalous enrichments in high-field strength elements at 9 Ma. Crustal delamination from approximately 7 Ma is coincident with porphyry intrusion bearing similarities to adakitic rocks and renewed uplift of the New Guinea Orogen from 6 Ma. Although the fundamental controls on arc evolution are yet to be conclusively determined, this study contributes understanding of subduction dynamics in Papua New Guinea during the Miocene.
Papua New Guinea is a unique part of the planet in that Cenozoic orogenesis is superimposed on an earlier basement structure that has, in turn, influenced how the New Guinea Orogen has grown over time. Specifically, the underlying/underthrust Australian continental basement is characterized by a major accretionary boundary referred to as the Tasman Line separating a younger Paleozoic-Mesozoic Tasmanide orogenic belt from Precambrian cratonic rocks to the west. Using precise age dating of inherited zircon from Quaternary magmatic rocks in the overriding Cenozoic fold belt coupled with an evaluation of orogen-scale deformation and magmatic morphology, I show where the Tasman Line extends to the north beneath younger crust. This result is significant as it demonstrates that with the use of a well established technique combined with detailed structural and tectonic assessment, deep crustal boundaries can be traced in relatively young terrains.
The Bismarck Sea region of Papua New Guinea is marked by recent arc-continent collision giving rise to a highly dynamic tectonic environment. We present a new crustal and upper mantle architecture model for northeastern Papua New Guinea and western New Britain that reveals overprinting slab subduction and partial continental subduction. Earthquake hypocentre databases are combined with detailed topography and seafloor structure together with geology and regional-scale gravity in conjunction with an updated 3-D slab map to unravel this sub-surface structure. Subducting continental crust has resulted in a complex pattern of arc-related geochemical signatures from east to west along the Bismarck arc. In the east where the Solomon Sea plate is subducting beneath New Britain, the sedimentary component is low whereas in the west the arc volcanics exhibit a greater sedimentary component, consistent with subduction of Australian crustal sediments. As a result, a new plate reconstruction is provided for the region together with forward-looking reconstructions.
Overall the studies presented here reflect a region controlled by compounding major collision events resulting in increasing levels of tectonic complexity acting on decreasing spatial-scales. This thesis presents an insight into the tectonics of Papua New Guinea and significantly contributes to our understanding of the dynamic Australia-Pacific plate boundary zone, while also providing new tools that we can use to unravel complex tectonic scenarios at both the present day and at ancient plate boundary settings.
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Daimoi, Joshua Kurung. "Nominalism in Papua New Guinea." 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/15340896.html.
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Lewis, D. C. "Planter Papua 1884-1942." Phd thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/123103.
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This is an account of European settlement and settler plantation agriculture in the region of Papua New Guinea formerly known as British New Guinea (1884-1905) and subsequently as the Territory of Papua when the country was administered as a separate Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia until 1942 under the Papua Act of 1905.
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Green, Michael K. "Prehistoric cranial variation in Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116758.
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This thesis is an investigation of recent prehistoric cranial
variation in Papua New Guinea. It presents for the first time metric,
non-metric and anatomical data recorded on crania from the Central
Highlands and Highlands Fringe regions, as well as data for a number
of regions from the North and South Coasts. The majority of the data
have been recorded in the field from skeletal remains located in
ossuaries. Supplementary data from a number of museum collections -isalso
presented.
Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses of the metric
data indicate that the populations of the Central Highlands and
Highlands Fringe have been biologically isolated from coastal and
lowland regions for a substantial period of time. The demonstration
of craniometric homogeneity throughout the Central Highlands further
indicates an original genetic unity for these populations. Factors of
craniometric size and shape are both identified as contributing to the
morphological pattern throughout Papua New Guinea, and it is shown
that extraction of significant environmental effects clarifies the
assessment of phylogenetic relationships. The potential for a
cultural component in the morphological pattern of the Papuan Gulf is
also raised.
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Priestley, Carol. "A grammar of Koromu (Kesawai) : a trans New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150382.
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Stoneking, Mark Allen. "Human mitochondrial DNA evolution in Papua New Guinea." 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18809629.html.
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Onishi, Masayuki. "A grammar of Motuna (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)." Phd thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12476.
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This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Motuna, a Non-Austronesian language spoken by several thousand people in the south-western part of Bougainville (called Siwai), Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Buin Family of the Eastern Bougainville stock, in the Bougainville Phylum. This grammar is based on the analysis of narrative texts provided by four speakers of the standard Motuna. Motuna is a both head and dependent marking agglutinative language with complex
morphology. Like most Non-Austronesian languages in Papua NewGuinea, it is verb
final, and has medial and non-medial verbal categories. In addition, verbs have basic
voice distinction between active and middle voices, and have extensive tense/aspect/
mood categories. Nouns have six genders and are also classified by fifty-one classifiers.
Chapter 1 discusses the typological characteristics, as well as the genetic relations and dialectal variations of Motuna. It also briefly summarises previous work done on this language, and provides the scope and data base of this thesis. Chapter 2 deals with phonetics, phonology and orthography. It includes an introduction
to morphophonemics which will be discussed fully in later chapters, particularly in
Chapter 4 (nouns), Chapter 8 (classifiers, numerals and the 'all' quantifier), and
Chapter 13 (verbal morphology). Chapter 3 outlines the word-classes and the clausal syntax of this language. Chapters 4 - 9 deal with the mopho-syntax of all the word classes except for verbs, participles and verbal nouns. Chapter 10 discusses the internal structure of the NP, and Chapter 11 possessive, kinship and other constructions.
Chapter 12 outlines the morpho-syntax of verbs. I give a gist of verbal morphology in this chapter, so that readers may skip Chapter 13 which is a lengthy discussion of
complicated verbal morphology. Chapter 14 discusses valency of verbs including valency-changing derivations (stimulative, causative, applicative and reciprocal). Chapter 15 deals with tense/aspect/mood. Chapter 16 deals with two word classes
derived from verbs .,.-- verbal nouns and participles. Chapter 17 discusses the interclausal relations in Motuna, mainly chaining of medial verbs and relative clauses. Finally, three narative texts of this language are provided in Appendix.
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Anere, Ray L. "Australian aid to Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu." Master's thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148746.
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Castillo, Martinez Edwin Moises. "Ethnomycology and Bioprospecting Studies from Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117296.
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Papua New Guineans have medicinal knowledge based on thousands of years of using flora, fauna and fungi as medicines. However, factors such as poor documentation and an increase in the use of allopathic medicine within the island have promoted the rapid loss of such medicinal knowledge. Thus the work presented in this thesis has been directed towards the preservation of first hand traditional knowledge, as it pertains to the use of mushrooms by indigenous inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, in particular those mushrooms with medicinal potential. A compilation of biologically active secondary metabolites isolated from terrestrial and marine fungi from Papua New Guinea under ethnomycology is presented in chapter one. A brief account of ethnomycology by early Europeans and inhabitants of the new world in pre-Columbian times is also presented. Chapter two describes the in vitro biological testing of mushrooms used by the Kiovi, Waefo and Kopanka clans. Turbidity-MTT microdilution assay was used to determine the susceptibility of Gram (+) and Gram (-) bacteria against 52 crude mushroom extracts resulting in approximately 31% of the samples tested active against at least one of the organisms used. Ethnomycological comparisons between the Kiovi, Waefo and Kopanka are also presented. The work described in chapter three includes ethnomycological and taxonomical background of Fulaga dive, common name given to a mushroom member of the Amanitaceae family and used by the Kiovi tribe for its edibility and because it makes them “feel well”. Bioassay guided isolation, purification and structural elucidation of two novel furan fatty acids is detailed. Chapter four details the synthetic route of the two novel furan fatty acids isolated from Fulaga dive. The synthesis was achieved from commercially available furan. Degradation of this class of compounds is also discussed, where (Z)-9-(5-pentylfuran-2-yl)-non-8-enoic acid isomerises to the more stable (E)-diastereoisomer followed by olefinic cleavage producing 5-pentyl-2-furaldehyde. Chapter five reports the synthesis of 26 compounds, that are furan based homologues and thiophene based analogues of (Z)-9-(5-pentylfuran-2-yl)-non-8-enoic acid. Homologues and analogues were assayed for their antibacterial potential against a panel of bacterial human pathogens using the turbidity-MTT assay and their radical scavenging properties using the DPPH assay. Finally, chapter six includes ethnomycological and taxonomical background of Igura hivi, a mushroom also used by the Kiovi tribe for its edibility and treat stomach complaints. Bioassay guided isolation, purification and structural elucidation of the known antibiotic grifolin is presented. The spectroscopic data obtained for the isolated fungal metabolite matched that reported in the literature.
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Chowdhury, Mamta B. "Resources booms and macroeconomic adjustment : Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144217.
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Sai, Anastasia. "Tamot: masculinities in transition in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2007. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/1494/.
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This thesis is an exploration of gender relations in contemporary Papua New Guinea. It is dedicated to unveiling the standpoints of senior men in a range of powerful senior positions towards issues of gender, and asks the question ‘How do contemporary big men conceptualise their own and others’ masculinity?’ Firstly, it begins with a discussion of the legacy of the colonial era in terms of gendered power and looks at some of the ways in which Western Anthropologists typified masculinities and, to a lesser extent, femininities. Secondly, it surveys a range of literature written within the West which deals with theories of gender and attempts to apply these to the Papua New Guinean context. Following this is the chapter which gives an overview of the methodological considerations and research methods employed in the thesis. Using a feminist perspective, it goes on to investigate the perspectives of a number of men who hold senior positions within the education system, the public service, non-government organisations and the government itself in order to ascertain what, if any, contribution they offer the project of developing gender equity. In doing so, it considers the typologies of masculinity problematised by the participants and a model of their interrelation and intersections is offered.