Books by Paul Sillitoe

Originally published in 2004, this book provides a timely overview of new directions and new approaches to investigating the role of rural communities in generating knowledge founded on their sophisticated understandings of their environments.

Illustrated ethnographic tour de force documenting the architecture and construction techniques of the Wola of Papua New Guinea, exploring the role of tacit understandings and know-how in both skilled work and everyday dwelling. Companion volume to Made in Niugini: technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (expanded, revised 2nd edition).

An acclaimed ethnography of the material culture of the Wola Papua New Guinea, of broad implications to anthropology, museology & archaeology, with numerous illustrations, showing the making of the everyday artefacts by those who will use them in an economy with egalitarian access to resources. The companion volume to Built in Niugini.

A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world''s first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date.

Analysing the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders, this title looks at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs. It asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment.

This is an ethnographically-focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural tradition continues.