Author: Klaus Neumann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's writings
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Essays written by young Papua New Guineans attending community and high schools in East New Britain about the eruptions of Mt Tavurvur and Mt Vulcan in 1994.
Tavurvur i Puongo!
Author: Klaus Neumann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's writings
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Essays written by young Papua New Guineans attending community and high schools in East New Britain about the eruptions of Mt Tavurvur and Mt Vulcan in 1994.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's writings
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Essays written by young Papua New Guineans attending community and high schools in East New Britain about the eruptions of Mt Tavurvur and Mt Vulcan in 1994.
Return to Volcano Town
Author: R. Wally Johnson
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760466042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Wally Johnson and Neville Threlfall re-examine the explosive volcanic eruptions that in 1937–43 killed more than 500 people in the Rabaul area of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. They reassess this disaster in light of the prodigious amount of new scientific and disaster-management work that has been undertaken there since about 1971, when strong tectonic earthquakes shook the area. Comparisons are made in particular with volcanic eruptions in 1994–2014, when half of Rabaul town was destroyed and then abandoned. A striking feature of historical eruptive periods at Rabaul is the near‑simultaneous activity at Vulcan and Tavurvur volcanoes, on either side of Rabaul Harbour. Such rare ‘twin’ eruptions are interpreted to be the result of a common magma reservoir beneath the harbour. This interpretation has implications for ongoing hazard and risk assessments and for volcano monitoring in the area.
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760466042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Wally Johnson and Neville Threlfall re-examine the explosive volcanic eruptions that in 1937–43 killed more than 500 people in the Rabaul area of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. They reassess this disaster in light of the prodigious amount of new scientific and disaster-management work that has been undertaken there since about 1971, when strong tectonic earthquakes shook the area. Comparisons are made in particular with volcanic eruptions in 1994–2014, when half of Rabaul town was destroyed and then abandoned. A striking feature of historical eruptive periods at Rabaul is the near‑simultaneous activity at Vulcan and Tavurvur volcanoes, on either side of Rabaul Harbour. Such rare ‘twin’ eruptions are interpreted to be the result of a common magma reservoir beneath the harbour. This interpretation has implications for ongoing hazard and risk assessments and for volcano monitoring in the area.
Pacific Places, Pacific Histories
Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824827489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Places matter. We are shaped by them, and in turn we shape them physically and imaginatively. They connect us to time and locality, perhaps even to life and death itself. This is a book about places and how our engagement with them--complex, changing, and varied--forms and transforms our understanding of them, of ourselves, of the human condition itself. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories brings together leading Pacific Islands studies scholars and invites them to talk about the places they have inhabited and to contemplate the meaning of that experience. The result is a veritable collage of reflections, distinct and different from each other but moving in their collective impact. Our engagement with places becomes daily more complicated with the transnational movement of peoples, ideas, technologies, and cultures. Global capitalism relentlessly alters established ethnographic assumptions about the meaning and importance of where we are and have been. The essays presented here are about letting go, learning and un-learning, transgressing physical, emotional, and intellectual boundaries. They are about personal quests, narrated in distinctive voices, raising particular concerns. Together they contribute significantly to our understanding of how small islands in a vast ocean enable us to see ourselves and the world around us.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824827489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Places matter. We are shaped by them, and in turn we shape them physically and imaginatively. They connect us to time and locality, perhaps even to life and death itself. This is a book about places and how our engagement with them--complex, changing, and varied--forms and transforms our understanding of them, of ourselves, of the human condition itself. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories brings together leading Pacific Islands studies scholars and invites them to talk about the places they have inhabited and to contemplate the meaning of that experience. The result is a veritable collage of reflections, distinct and different from each other but moving in their collective impact. Our engagement with places becomes daily more complicated with the transnational movement of peoples, ideas, technologies, and cultures. Global capitalism relentlessly alters established ethnographic assumptions about the meaning and importance of where we are and have been. The essays presented here are about letting go, learning and un-learning, transgressing physical, emotional, and intellectual boundaries. They are about personal quests, narrated in distinctive voices, raising particular concerns. Together they contribute significantly to our understanding of how small islands in a vast ocean enable us to see ourselves and the world around us.
Religions of Melanesia
Author: Garry Trompf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Fire Mountains of the Islands
Author: R. Wally Johnson
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144231
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144231
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.
Pacific Collection Acquisitions List
Author: University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Pacific Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Papua New Guinea National Bibliography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
South Pacific Bibliography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Historical unrest at the large calderas of the world
Author: Christopher G. Newhall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calderas
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calderas
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Not the Way It Really Was
Author: Klaus Neumann
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824813338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"One of the most innovative monographs in recent Pacific Islands studies." --Reviews in Anthropology
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824813338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"One of the most innovative monographs in recent Pacific Islands studies." --Reviews in Anthropology