Life and art in Papua New Guinea

The Ramu–Madang survey covered an area of approximately 20,460 km2 or about three quarters of Madang Province, with altitude ranging from sea level to ~3,000 m in five physiographi...

This chapter begins with a historical background on Papua New Guinea. It then identifies the groups that fall within the category of ‘minorities’ and ‘indigenous peoples’. This is ...

Abstract Why do initiations in Papua New Guinea often subject novices to violence and terror? Why do some cargo cults lead to regional unity and others to regional d...

This chapter provides a detailed discussion of recent and current work in linguistic anthropology, particularly in the ways in which different extant language groups talk (and thus...

What is a state? This volume approaches the question from an anthropological perspective, which means that the starting point of the analysis is not the concept of the state, but i...