Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

8/1/1991 - 1/31/1994

Funding Totals

$69,950.00 (approved)
$69,949.86 (awarded)


Continuity and Change in Exchange Relations on the Aitape Coast of Papua, New Guinea

FAIN: RO-22203-91

Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, IL 60605-2827)
Robert L. Welsch (Project Director: October 1990 to September 1994)

To support a study of the persistence of cultural diversity among local communities on the north coast of Papua, New Guinea, despite converging trade and exchange networks and larger regional economic systems.