Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

5/1/1987 - 6/30/1988

Funding Totals

$65,000.00 (approved)
$64,454.25 (awarded)


The Sociocultural Consequences of a Subsistence Crisis in the Sepik

FAIN: RO-21584-87

Amherst College (Amherst, MA 01002-2372)
Deborah B. Gewertz (Project Director: September 1986 to March 1989)

To support the completion of a decade-long study of the Chambri people of Papua, New Guinea, who have weathered and survived an ecological and cultural crisis in their island society.