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Paul Sillitoe is a British anthropologist and professor in Durham University's Anthropology Department. His research examines human-environment relations, local resource management, farming systems, indigenous knowledge, livelihoods, technology, conservation, and ethnoscience, with extensive fieldwork in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. His studies of the Wola include research on subsistence horticulture, land, crops, exchange, and material technology, and his work is used in anthropology, development studies, environmental research, and Pacific studies.
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Where does Paul Sillitoe teach and research?
Paul Sillitoe is associated with the Anthropology Department at Durham University in the United Kingdom. His research has included Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, indigenous knowledge, natural-resource management, and development.
What did Paul Sillitoe study in Papua New Guinea?
His fieldwork examined farming systems, technology, local environmental knowledge, and livelihoods in Papua New Guinea. He has worked particularly on how communities use and classify land, crops, and natural resources.
What is Roots of the Earth by Paul Sillitoe about?
Roots of the Earth: The Cultivation and Classification of Crops in the Papua New Guinea Highlands was published in 1983. It analyzes Highland agricultural knowledge and the ways people organize information about cultivated plants.
What does Paul Sillitoe mean by indigenous knowledge?
His work treats indigenous knowledge as practical, locally developed expertise rather than as folklore detached from daily life. In Papua New Guinea, that includes knowledge of farming, stone tools, land use, conservation, and resource management.
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