Robin L. Hide, BA (Camb), PhD (Columbia)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology and Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Email: robin.hide[at]anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
Recent work includes a review of New Guinea pig husbandry, editing an ethno-zoological book manuscript on Kalam (PNG) mammals by I.S. Majnep and the late Ralph Bulmer. Current projects include writing a history of agricultural censuses and surveys in Papua New Guinea (1946-62), and a review of New Guinea ethnobotany.
Research Interests
Human ecology of rural society in Melanesia, with special emphasis on
smallholder agriculture; ethnoscience, subsistence, nutrition and ethnography in Papua New Guinea.
Key Publications
- (ed.) South Simbu: Studies in Demography, Nutrition and Subsistence, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, Port Moresby, 1984.
- (with P.F. Heywood) 'Nutritional effects of export crop production in Papua New Guinea: a review of the evidence', Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 15(3),233-249, 1994.
- ..'Some methodological problems with the nutritional assessment of the 1997-98 El Niño Drought in Papua New Guinea', in R.M. Bourke, M.G. Allen and J.G. Salisbury (eds), Food Security for Papua New Guinea: Proceedings of the Papua New Guinea Food and Nutrition 2000 Conference, ACIAR, Canberra, 222-230, 2001.
- (with I. Mueller and I. Betuela) 'Regional patterns of birthweights in Papua New Guinea in relation to diet, environment and socio-economic factors', Annals of Human Biology, 29(1), 74-88, 2002.
- Pig Husbandry in New Guinea: A Literature Review and Bibliography. ACIAR Monograph No. 108. Canberra, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2003.
