Pigs That Ate the Garden

In The Pigs that Ate the Garden, Peter D. Dwyer examines the subsistence ecology of 109 Etolo people who live on the wet, forested mountain slopes of Papua New Guinea. Dwyer describes the community''s method of deliberately placing pigs in gardens so that the pigs depredate the vegetation there. He shows how this practice is actually the community''s method of sending a message to itself that serv...