The film, which earned an Oscar nomination, offers a meditative journey into the forgotten chapters of World War II in Papua ...
Joseph Kayan, a Goroka Show participant from Chimbu Province, wears boar tusks and the tail of a tree kangaroo around his neck. The design of his headdress is specific to his village: it includes bird ...
The infamous Indian Ocean tsunami that struck on December 26, 2004, caused tragically high mortality–from 10 to 90 percent of the population at various locations. Yet in 1930 a tsunami of similar size ...
How should we define cannibalism? In the 1930s, Australian prospectors and anthropologists encountered the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, who practiced ritual consumption of their dead as a sign of ...