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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.