Professor Paul Sillitoe's Outputs (27)

Known and Unknown Stone: Papuan Petrology and Reciprocity (2024)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (2024). Known and Unknown Stone: Papuan Petrology and Reciprocity. Archaeologies, 20(1), 214-238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-09496-7

What is knowable about stone tool users’ knowledge? The people of the New Guinea Highlands were among the last to use stone implements routinely in their daily lives. These comprised both lithic flake tools and polished stone axes. Their classificati... Read More about Known and Unknown Stone: Papuan Petrology and Reciprocity.

Pigs in Rites: Rights in Pigs: Porcine Values in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (2021)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (2021). Pigs in Rites: Rights in Pigs: Porcine Values in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Anthropozoologica, 56(8), 117-136. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2021v56a8

This paper discusses the place of pigs in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, particularly in the Was valley of the Southern Highlands Province. After a brief introduction to the pigs of the region and their herding arrangements, it gives an ethnograp... Read More about Pigs in Rites: Rights in Pigs: Porcine Values in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.

Soil ethnoecology (2020)
Book Chapter
Sillitoe, P. (2021). Soil ethnoecology. In T. F. Thornton, & S. Bhagwat (Eds.), Handbook of indigenous environmental knowledge : global themes and practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315270845-8

This chapter takes on the complexities in understanding the Indigenous Knowledge about soils, ‘ethnopedology’. This is a type of Indigenous Knowledge that has received relatively little attention, unlike ethnobotany or ethnozoology. The author’s rese... Read More about Soil ethnoecology.

The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation (2020)
Journal Article
Koster, J., McElreath, R., Hill, K., Yu, D., Shepard, G., van Vliet, N., …Ross, C. (2020). The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation. Science Advances, 6(26), Article eaax9070. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax9070

Human adaptation depends on the integration of slow life history, complex production skills, and extensive sociality. Refining and testing models of the evolution of human life history and cultural learning benefit from increasingly accurate measurem... Read More about The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation.

Some Challenges of collaborative research with local knowledge (2018)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (2018). Some Challenges of collaborative research with local knowledge. Antropologia pubblica, 4(1), 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1473/anpub.v4i1.126

Collaboration is an increasingly significant issue in anthropology. This paper outlines what it involves and the possible implications.

Indigenous knowledge:enhancing its contribution to natural resources management. (2017)
Book
Sillitoe, P. (. (2017). Indigenous knowledge:enhancing its contribution to natural resources management. CABI Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780647050.0000

Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (2017)
Book
Sillitoe, P. (2017). Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. (2nd edition). Sean Kingston Publishing

Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (2017)
Book
Sillitoe, P. (2017). Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Sean Kingston Publishing

Durham anthropology: a provincial history of a provisional discipline (2017)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (2018). Durham anthropology: a provincial history of a provisional discipline. History and Anthropology, 29(2), 233-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2017.1279158

A history of anthropology in the Northumbrian region of England from the early Christian era, through the age of exploration and subsequent period of industrialization, to the twentieth century. Focussing on the various anthropological strands in the... Read More about Durham anthropology: a provincial history of a provisional discipline.

Indigenous Knowledge (2015)
Book Chapter
Sillitoe, P. (2015). Indigenous Knowledge. In A. Strathern, & P. (. Stewart (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology (343-368). Ashgate Publishing

The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands’ Perspective (2015)
Book Chapter
Sillitoe, P. (2016). The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands’ Perspective. In Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge (129-163). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21900-4_7

What Local People Want with Forests: Ideologies and Attitudes in Papua New Guinea (2014)
Book Chapter
Sillitoe, P., & Filer, C. (2014). What Local People Want with Forests: Ideologies and Attitudes in Papua New Guinea. In E. Gilberthorpe, & G. Hilson (Eds.), Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalisation (201-220). Ashgate Publishing

‘Why did the fish cross the road?’ Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge in Bangladesh. (2012)
Book Chapter
Sillitoe, P., & Alam, M. (2012). ‘Why did the fish cross the road?’ Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge in Bangladesh. In A. Hornidge, & C. Antweiler (Eds.), Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge: Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change (145-183). Transcript Verlag

From land to mouth: the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands. (2010)
Book
Sillitoe, P. (2010). From land to mouth: the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands. Yale University Press

Trust in development: some implications of knowing in indigenous knowledge. (2010)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (2010). Trust in development: some implications of knowing in indigenous knowledge. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16(1), 12-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01594.x

Challenges to conservation: land use change and local participation in the Al Reem Biosphere Reserve, West Qatar (2010)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P., Alshawi, A., & Al-Amir Hassan, A. (2010). Challenges to conservation: land use change and local participation in the Al Reem Biosphere Reserve, West Qatar. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 6(1), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-6-28

Grass-clearing man : a factional ethnography of life in the New Guinea Highlands. (2009)
Book
Sillitoe, P., & Sillitoe, J. (2009). Grass-clearing man : a factional ethnography of life in the New Guinea Highlands. Waveland Press

Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands (2003)
Book
Sillitoe, P. (2003). Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands. Routledge

Managing Animals in New Guinea analyses the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parame... Read More about Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands.

After the 'affluent society' : cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands according to time and energy expenditure- income (2002)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (2002). After the 'affluent society' : cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands according to time and energy expenditure- income. Journal of Biosocial Science, 34(4), 433-461. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932002004339

What is the cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands? An answer is sought using a time and energy accounting approach. The subsistence regime of Wola-speaking highlanders, the subjects of this investigation, comprises three components. The pr... Read More about After the 'affluent society' : cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands according to time and energy expenditure- income.

Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands (2002)
Book
Sillitoe, P., Stewart, P., & Strathern, A. (2002). Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands. University of Pittsburgh

This monograph provides a range of materials on subsistence gardening practices in different parts of the highlands region of Papua New Guinea. It consists of one main case study executed in considerable depth of detail on a single people, the Wola,... Read More about Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands.

Participating in development: approaches to indigenous knowledge (2002)
Book
Sillitoe, P., Bicker, A., & Pottier, J. (Eds.). (2002). Participating in development: approaches to indigenous knowledge. Routledge

Indigenous knowledge development in Bangladesh: Present and future. (2000)
Book Chapter
Sillitoe, P. (2000). Indigenous knowledge development in Bangladesh: Present and future. . London: Intermediate Technology Publications & Dhaka: University Press

Beating the boundaries: land tenure and identity in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. (1999)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (1999). Beating the boundaries: land tenure and identity in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Journal of Anthropological Research, 55(3), 331-360

The development of indigenous knowledge: a new applied anthropology (1998)
Journal Article
Sillitoe, P. (1998). The development of indigenous knowledge: a new applied anthropology. Current Anthropology, 39(2), 223-252. https://doi.org/10.1086/204722

The widespread adoption of bottom‐up participation as opposed to top‐down modernisation approaches has opened up challenging opportunities for anthropology in development. The new focus on indigenous knowledge augurs the next revolution in anthropolo... Read More about The development of indigenous knowledge: a new applied anthropology.

A place against time: land and environment in the Papua New Guinea highlands. (1996)
Book
Sillitoe, P. (1996). A place against time: land and environment in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic (Gordon & Breach)

The Wola Files. This link connects to various data on the Wola people of Papua New Guinea: https://paulsillitoe.webspace.durham.ac.uk/ (1979)
Data
Sillitoe, P. The Wola Files. This link connects to various data on the Wola people of Papua New Guinea: https://paulsillitoe.webspace.durham.ac.uk/. [Dataset]

Implementation of e-science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyon, S., Sillitoe, P., & Wilson, R. (2005, December). Implementation of e-science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction. Presented at First International Conference on e-Social Science., Manchester

An e-science approach allows the integration of different data types to develop coherent analyses of past and expected impacts of natural and human caused environmental change and the corresponding impact on human population structures. Demographic a... Read More about Implementation of e-science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction.