Primitive art of New Guinea, Sepik River Basin

This chapter focuses on three related issues. The first section addresses the regulation of interstate river basins (an issue that is rapidly gaining importance) and interstate wat...

<i>Interdisciplinary Research into Iron Metallurgy along the Drava River in Croatia – The TransFER Project </i>presents the results of the scientific project ‘Productio...

While Alice Oswald’s most famous response to the ancient world is her acclaimed Memorial, in which she revisits Homer’s Iliad, much of her earlier work betrays her deep engagement ...

This chapter describes the origin and development of the concept of ‘missionary bishop’ from the mid-nineteenth century. Charting the origin of the term in the American Episcopal C...

Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Devoid of family contact, perplexed by the unfamiliarity of his environment, deprived of even mea...

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 ...