| Kombai Tree People |
| New Guinea |
| Chiefs (Big men) in the traditional cultures |
Bridging Prehistory, Traditional and Contemporary Rituals and Habits: Chiefs
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| Flutes |
Papua New Guinea (Oceania) at
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( © Royal Commonwealth Society Photograph Project)
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( © Royal Commonwealth Society Photograph Project)
| New Guinea |
Highland Big Man with kina shell
necklace, green beetle and geri geri
shell headband, shell and bone nose
pieces
necklace, green beetle and geri geri
shell headband, shell and bone nose
pieces
Bibliography
Online:
Gender and perceptions of political
power in Papua New Guinea Dianne
Korare, Victoria University
The Effects of Economic Growth on
Gender Roles in Papua New Guinea
and the Tolai People, by Andy Newlin
Band and tribes
Conflict and Exchange in Traditional
Societies in New Guinea, by NARITA
Hironari. Abstract
Here be Canibals
Books:
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution
of Egalitarian Behavior By Christopher
Boehm (1999)
Food and the Status Quest: An
Interdisciplinary Perspective By Polly
Wiessner, Wulf Schiefenhovel (1997)
Articles:
New Guinea Leadership as
Ethnographic Analogy: A Critical
Review , by Roscoe P. Journal of
Archaeological Method and Theory,
Volume 7, Number 2, June 2000 , pp.
79-126(48)
Online:
Gender and perceptions of political
power in Papua New Guinea Dianne
Korare, Victoria University
The Effects of Economic Growth on
Gender Roles in Papua New Guinea
and the Tolai People, by Andy Newlin
Band and tribes
Conflict and Exchange in Traditional
Societies in New Guinea, by NARITA
Hironari. Abstract
Here be Canibals
Books:
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution
of Egalitarian Behavior By Christopher
Boehm (1999)
Food and the Status Quest: An
Interdisciplinary Perspective By Polly
Wiessner, Wulf Schiefenhovel (1997)
Articles:
New Guinea Leadership as
Ethnographic Analogy: A Critical
Review , by Roscoe P. Journal of
Archaeological Method and Theory,
Volume 7, Number 2, June 2000 , pp.
79-126(48)
'Chief Ukumhearik holds life-and-death sway over more
than 10,000 Danis in the region near Hetigima.
Outwardly friendly to missionaries, he fears and fights
the threats of the gospel to the old order which permits
him to keep 22 wives.' (From Here be Canibals)
than 10,000 Danis in the region near Hetigima.
Outwardly friendly to missionaries, he fears and fights
the threats of the gospel to the old order which permits
him to keep 22 wives.' (From Here be Canibals)
"Big man" officiating
at a pig give-away
ceremony in Papua
New Guinea
at a pig give-away
ceremony in Papua
New Guinea