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4 - Trading off Food and Military Security in Contact-Era New Guinea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2017

Michelle Hegmon
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Arizona State University
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The Give and Take of Sustainability
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tradeoffs
, pp. 84 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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