Peter Dwyer

Communication, privilege and the ironies of isolation: from Melbourne to Papua New Guinea

Monica Minnegal, Peter D Dwyer

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Australians may imagine they are emerging into a brave new world, where Covid-19 has created new modes of connection to others, wh..

God, health and COVID-19 in remote Papua New Guinea

Monica Minnegal, Peter D Dwyer

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

On Reading Patrol Reports – 1: South of the Blucher Range

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Pacific History

Reports of patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea led by officers of the Australian administration have much to cont..

On Reading Patrol Reports – 3: Burnett River People

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Pacific History

Pre-independence patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea were concerned both with mapping land and with identifying a..

On Reading Patrol Reports – 2: Travels in East Awin

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Pacific History

Reports of patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea led by officers of the Australian administration must be read with..

Landowner identification in PNG: a job for government

Monica Minnegal, Peter D Dwyer

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

From business development to protection money: landowners and the PNG LNG project

M Minnegal, Michael Main, Peter D Dwyer

Journal article  |  2018  |  DevPolicy Blog

Refugees on their own land: Edolo people, land, and earthquakes

Peter D Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  2018  |  EnviroSociety

"We Are Fire Clan': Groups, Names and Identity in Papua New Guinea

Peter D Dwyer, Monica Minnegal

Journal article  |  2018  |  Oceania

Captain Everill's Error: Mapping the Upper Strickland River in Papua and New Guinea, 1885-1979

Peter D Dwyer, Monica Minnegal

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY

Navigating the Future: An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea

M MINNEGAL, PD Dwyer

Book  |  2017

'Navigating the Future' draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Kubo people and their neighbours, in a remote area of Papua..

Counting systems of the Strickland-Bosavi languages, Papua New Guinea

PD Dwyer, M MINNEGAL

Journal article  |  2016  |  Language & Linguistics in Melanesia

Information on the counting systems of 12 East Strickland and Bosavi languages is collated. In seven cases the body‐part tally sys..

Wild dogs and village dogs in New Guinea: were they different?

Peter D Dwyer, Monica Minnegal

Journal article  |  2016  |  Australian Mammalogy

Reshaping the Social: A Comparison of Fasu and Kubo-Febi Approaches to Incorporating Land Groups

Monica Minnegal, Sandrine Lefort, Peter D Dwyer

Journal article  |  2015  |  Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

The forgotten expedition -1885: The Strickland River, Papua New Guinea

M MINNEGAL, PD DWYER

Journal article  |  2015  |  Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society

Where all the rivers flow west: Maps, abstraction and change in the Papua New Guinea lowlands

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  2014  |  Australian Journal of Anthropology (The)

'Abstraction' has been often identified as a key element in social change. Analyses, however, have often conflated the ideas of ab..

Are incentive programs working? Landowner attitudes to ecological restoration of agricultural landscapes.

Sacha Jellinek, Kirsten M Parris, Don A Driscoll, Peter D Dwyer

Journal article  |  2013  |  J Environ Manage

Private property accounts for much of the planet's arable land, and most of this has been cleared for agricultural production. Agr..

Enhancing the agency of fishers: A conceptual model of self-management in Australian abalone fisheries

P GILMOUR, PD Dwyer, RW Day

Journal article  |  2013  |  Marine Policy

Enhancing the agency of fishers: A conceptual model of self-management in Australian abalone fisheries

PW Gilmour, PD Dwyer, RW Day

Journal article  |  2013  |  Marine Policy

Encouraging sustainable behaviour among fishers is an increasingly popular, but poorly understood approach to fisheries management..

Using Private Rights to Manage Natural Resources: Is Stewardship Linked to Ownership?

Patrick W Gilmour, Robert W Day, Peter D Dwyer

Journal article  |  2012  |  Ecology and Society

Who is watching? Context, Blame and Responsibility

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Book Chapter  |  2012

Using private rights to manage natural resources: Is stewardship linked to ownership?

P GILMOUR, RW Day, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2012  |  Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Boundaries and barriers among Kubo and beyond

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2011  |  Journal of the Polynesian Society

Appropriating fish, appropriating fishermen: tradable permits, natural resources and uncertainty

M MINNEGAL, P DWYER

Book Chapter  |  2011

Perceptions of environmental change over more than six decades in two groups of people interacting with the environment of Port Phillip Bay, Australia

CJ Jung, PDD Dwyer, MMM Minnegal, SS Swearer

Journal article  |  2011  |  Ocean and Coastal Management

Beyond individual quotas: The role of trust and cooperation in promoting stewardship of five Australian abalone fisheries

PDD Dwyer, RWD Day

Journal article  |  2011  |  Marine Policy

A catalogue of contents: Issues 1 to 20, December 1978 to December 2010

PDD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2010  |  Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter

Theorizing social change

P DWYER, M MINNEGAL

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

The year that was: Aussie men, beer and anthropology

PDD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2010  |  Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter

What's in a name? Goodbye to whimsy.

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2009  |  PASI News & Views

What's in a name? Tippled.

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2009  |  PASI News & Views

What's in a name? The milky way

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2009  |  PASI News & Views

What's in a name? Fruit bats and founding fathers

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2009  |  PASI News & Views

What's in a name? Wattle wars

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2009  |  PASI News & Views

Honourable mention: A catalogue of theses reported in the AAS newsletter

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2009  |  The Australian Journal of Anthropology

Worlds of waiting

P DWYER

Book Chapter  |  2009

Fun for Them Fun for Us and Fun for All: The 'Far Side' of Field Work in the Tropical Lowlands

P DWYER, M MINNEGAL

Journal article  |  2008  |  Anthropological Forum

The AAS logo: An origin story

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2008  |  PASI News & Views

Managing shark fishermen in southern Australia: A critique

P DWYER, J King, M MINNEGAL

Journal article  |  2008  |  Marine Policy

Mixed messages: Buying back Australia's fishing industry

M MINNEGAL, P DWYER

Journal article  |  2008  |  Marine Policy

What's in a name? [A funny name for a horse]

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2008  |  PASI News & Views

Fire, flood, fish and the uncertainty paradox

M MINNEGAL, P DWYER

Journal article  |  2008  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Managing risk, resisting management: Stability and diversity in a southern Australian fishing fleet

M MINNEGAL, P DWYER

Journal article  |  2008  |  HUMAN ORGANIZATION

Deadly dances in the Bornean rainforest: hunting knowledge of the Penan Benalui

Peter D Dwyer

Journal article  |  2007  |  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Yumbulyumbulmantha ki-Awarawu. All kinds of things from country. Yanyuwa ethnobiological classification

Peter D Dwyer

Journal article  |  2007  |  OCEANIA

Review of " Animals the ancestors hunted: An account of the Wild Mammals of the Kalam Area, Papua New Guinea."

P DWYER

Report  |  2007

Foragers, farmers and fishers: responses to environmental perturbation

M MINNEGAL, P DWYER

Journal article  |  2007  |  Journal of Political Ecology

Money, meaning and materialism: a Papua New Guinean case history

M MINNEGAL, P DWYER

Journal article  |  2007  |  SSEE Working Papers in Development

Social change and agency among Kubo of Papua New Guinea

P DWYER, M MINNEGAL

Journal article  |  2007  |  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

The good, the bad and the ugly: risk, uncertainty and decision-making by Victorian fishers

P DWYER, M MINNEGAL

Journal article  |  2006  |  Journal of Political Ecology

Fertility and social reproduction in the Strickland-Bosavi region

M MINNEGAL, P DWYER

Book Chapter  |  2006

People, pigs and parasites in New Guinea: relational contexts and epidemiological possibilities

P DWYER

Journal article  |  2006  |  Parasitology International

Dignity or disgrace? The (latest) mismanagement of Commonwealth fisheries

P DWYER, M MINNEGAL

Journal article  |  2006  |  Ausmarine

Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the game in the highlands

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2005  |  Journal of Anthropological Research

Person, place or pig: animal attachments and human transactions in New Guinea

MMA MINNEGAL, PD DWYER

Book Chapter  |  2005

Ethnoclassification, ethnoecology and the imagination

PD DWYER

Journal article  |  2005  |  Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes

Recent advances and issues in biology. Oryx frontiers of science series.

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2003  |  Journal of Biosocial Science

A sea of small names: fishers and their boats in Victoria, Australia

PD DWYER, FPR JUST, MMA MINNEGAL

Journal article  |  2003  |  Anthropological Forum

Deep identity, shallow time: sustaining a future in Victorian fishing communities

MMA MINNEGAL, TJ KING, R JUST, PD DWYER

Journal article  |  2003  |  The Australian Journal of Anthropology

Intensification, complexity and evolution: Insights from the Strickland-Bosavi region

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2001  |  Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Agricultural systems must be understood as embedded within the total socio-cultural system of which they are a part. Difference in..

Intensification, Complexity and Evolution: Insights from the Strickland‐Bosavi Region

Monica Minnegal, Peter D Dwyer

Journal article  |  2001  |  Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Responses to a drought in the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea: A comparison of Bedamuni and Kubo-Konai

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2000  |  Human Ecology

Mamihlapinatapai: Games people (might) play

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  2000  |  Oceania

Rereading Relationships: Changing Constructions of Identity among Kubo of Papua New Guinea

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1999  |  Ethnology

Through a ten-year period and in contexts of increased sedentism and monetization, Kubo people have altered the emphases of identi..

The transformation of use-rights: A comparison of two Papua New Guinean societies

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1999  |  Journal of Anthropological Research

Intensification and social complexity in the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea: A comparison of Bedamuni and Kubo

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1998  |  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Waiting for company: Ethos and environment among Kubo of Papua New Guinea

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1998  |  The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Women, pigs, god and evolution: Social and economic change among Kubo people of Papua New Guinea

M Minnegal, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1997  |  Oceania

The value of objects to Satin Bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

CP Hunter, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1997  |  Emu

The mating success of male Satin Bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchus violaceus is known to correlate with the numbers of decoration objects..

Sago games: Cooperation and change among sago producers of Papua New Guinea

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1997  |  Evolution and Human Behavior

In 1986-1987 at a small community in lowland Papua New Guinea, residents with greater rights to local land (owners) produced more ..

Boars, barrows, and breeders: The reproductive status of domestic pig populations in mainland New Guinea

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1996  |  Journal of Anthropological Research

With a few possible exceptions, the breeding systems of domestic pigs represented in mainland New Guinea fall into one of three ca..

Ownership, Individual Effort and the Organization of Labour among Kubo Sago Producers of Papua New Guinea

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1995  |  Anthropological Science

At a remote Kubo community, in the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea, access to sago palms was influenced by rights to the lan..

Review

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1994  |  Oceania

Of People and Plants: A Botanical Ethnography of Nokopo Village, Madang and Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea By Christin Kocher ..

Are kubo hunters 'show offs'?

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1993  |  Ethology and Sociobiology

The 'show off' hypothesis proposed by K. Hawkes, and tested using data on Ache foragers, makes important connections between food ..

Ecology and community dynamics of Kubo people in the tropical lowlands of Papua New Guinea

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1992  |  Human Ecology

Kubo producer-units (families and independent bachelors) could have been self-sufficient in the production of bananas but chose no..

Use of scattered resources in rain forest of humid tropical lowlands

J Kikkawa, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1992  |  Biotropica

Well developed, complex rain forests of humid tropical lowlands (RFHTL) do not seem to support large populations of animals compar..

Hunting in lowland, tropical rain forest: Towards a model of non-agricultural subsistence

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1991  |  Human Ecology

It has recently been argued that hunter-gatherers do not, did not, and could not live in tropical rain forest without some access ..

REVIEWS

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1991  |  Oceania

Population Ecology of Human Survival: Bioecological Studies of the Gidra in Papua New Guinea. By R. Ohtsuka and T. Suzuki (eds). T..

Yams and megapode mounds in the lowland rain forest of Papua New Guinea

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1990  |  Human Ecology

Kubo people of Papua New Guinea sometimes grew Dioscorea yams in mounds of forest litter that were made as egg-incubation sites by..

The perception and reconstruction of the apt-organism

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1988  |  Journal of Social and Biological Systems

The organism-environment relational notion of 'adaptation' has, for more than a century, dominated the thinking of English-speakin..

REVIEW

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1986  |  Oceania

South Simbu: Studies in Demography, Nutrition, and Subsistence. Research Report of the Simbu Land Use Project, Volume VI. Edited b..

Bower birds, bones and archaeology

S Solomon, M Minnegal, P Dwyer

Journal article  |  1986  |  Journal of Archaeological Science

Objects collected by the Australian great bower bird, Chlamydera nuchalis, may include artifacts and human food debris. The birds ..

The Contribution Of Non-Domesticated Animals To The Diet Of Etolo, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1985  |  Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Non-domesticated animals eaten by three Etolo communities were recorded and estimates provided of the contribution these animals m..

Andaman Islanders, Pygmies, and an extension of Horn's model

PD Dwyer, M Minnegal

Journal article  |  1985  |  Human Ecology

Horn's model is generalized to state that the "optimal" pattern of distribution for foragers will correlate with the degree of res..

Choice and constraint in a Papua New Guinean food quest

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1985  |  Human Ecology

Historical factors and lineage affiliation are interpreted as constraining choice of sweet potato or sago as a major source of sta..

A hunt in New Guinea: some difficulties for optimal foraging theory.

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1985  |  Man

For one case study the motives for going hunting, the choice of companions and the subsequent distribution of the catch are shown ..

REVIEW

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1985  |  Oceania

Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People. (A New, Enlarged Edition.) By Roy A. Rappaport New Haven:Yal..

Other people's animals: two examples from New Guinea.

P Dwyer

Journal article  |  1984  |  Search

Etolo hunting performance and energetics

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1983  |  Human Ecology

Analyses of nearly 3000 hr of hunting for mammals by Etolo people of Papua New Guinea reveal that older hunters were more successf..

Naming mammals in Papua New Guinea - plea for inconsistency.

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1983  |  Science in New Guinea

A comparison of the naming systems used for mammals by 2 Papua New Guinean societies - Rofaifo (Eastern Highlands Province) and Et..

“Frog” and “Lizard”: Additional Life‐Forms from Papua New Guinea

PD DWYER, DC HYNDMAN

Journal article  |  1983  |  American Anthropologist

An annotated list of mammals from Mt. Erimbari, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1983  |  Science in New Guinea

Some 44 species of mammal were identified: 16 marsupials, 20 rodents, 4 bats, pig, dog, domestic cat and cattle.

Wildlife conservation and tradition in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1982  |  Traditional conservation in Papua New Guinea: implications for today. Proc. conference 1980

Prey switching: a case study from New Guinea.

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1982  |  The Journal of Animal Ecology

A quantitative seasonal switch occurs in the species of mammalian prey taken by Etolo people of Papua New Guinea. The switch in sp..

Two species of megapode laying in the same mound

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1981  |  Emu - Austral Ornithology

A study of Rattus exulans (Peale) (Rodentia: Muridae) in the New Guinea Highlands

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1978  |  Wildlife Research

A 10-month study of R. exulans in the Eastern Highlands District combined a mark-recapture study on a 1.42-ha grid in grassland wi..

Rats, pigs and men: disturbance and diversity in the New Guinea highlands

PD DWYER

Journal article  |  1978  |  Austral Ecology

A trapping study of four species of Rattus and three of Melomys in rainforest and grassland habitats revealed differences in altit..

an analysis of Rofaifo mammal taxonomy

PD DWYER

Journal article  |  1976  |  American Ethnologist

Analysis of a New Guinea folk classification of mammals reveals considerable correspondence for entities perceived and labeled by ..

Beetles, Butterflies and Bats: Species Transformation in a New Guinea Folk Classification

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1976  |  Oceania

Observations on the breeding biology of some New Guinea Murid Rodents

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1975  |  Wildlife Research

Breeding records are given for 10 murine rodents from the Eastern Highlands District of Papua New Guinea. Reduced breeding activit..

Notes on Dobsonia Moluccensis (Chiroptera) in the New Guinea Highlands

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1975  |  Mammalia

The Price of Protein: Five Hundred Hours of Hunting in the New Guinea Highlands

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1974  |  Oceania

Feature, patch and refuge area: Some influences on diversity of bird species

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1972  |  Emu - Austral Ornithology

Censuscs of birds (individuals and species) were made in northern Queensland in woodland habitats that were near special features ..

Temperature regulation and cave-dwelling in bats: An evolutionary perspective

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1971  |  Mammalia

1. Bats are placed in three groupings on the basis of their thermoregulatory mode. Group 1 includes species that enter torpor read..

Social organization in the bat Myotis adversus.

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1970  |  Science

Studies in which the Australian bat Myotis adversus was marked and recaptured showed that mature males tend to be solitary, are st..

Foraging behaviour of the australian large-footed myotis (chiroptera)

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1970  |  Mammalia

Population ranges of miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera) in South-Eastern Australia

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1969  |  Australian Journal of Zoology

In south-eastern Australia banding of M. schreibersii has been concentrated in four areas: north-eastern New South Wales, south-ea..

The biology, origin and adaptation of the miniopterus australis (Chiroptera) in new south wales

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1968  |  Australian Journal of Zoology

The biology of Miniopterus australis was investigated in north-eastern New South Wales (latitude c. 30°S) between 1960 and 1966. I..

The population pattern of miniopterus schrebersii (Chiroptera) in north-eastern new south wales

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1966  |  Australian Journal of Zoology

In north-eastern New South Wales Miniopterus schreibersii is found at a wide range of cave and mine roosts as colonies that may in..

Seasonal changes in activity and weight of Miniopterus schreibersi blepotis (Chiroptera) in north-eastern New South Wales

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1963  |  Australian Journal of Zoology

In north-eastern New South Wales M. s. blepotis occupies caves and mines in three distinct climatic regions: the subtropical coast..

Seasonal changes in pelage of Miniopterus schreibersi blepotis (Chiroptera) in north-eastern New South Wales

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1963  |  Australian Journal of Zoology

In M. s. blepotis, of north-eastern New South Wales, the annual moult occurs during the summer and early autumn and lasts about 14..

The breeding biology of Miniopterus schreibersi blepotis (Temminck) (chiroptera) in north-eastern New South Wales

PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1962  |  Australian Journal of Zoology

The essential features of reproduction in the bent-winged bat (M. s. blepotis) in eastern Australia between latitudes 28 and 32°S...

Who feeds the fledged pallid cuckoo?

J Kikkawa, PD Dwyer

Journal article  |  1962  |  Emu - Austral Ornithology