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Aug 7, 2024 · Published August 7, 2024. Updated October 3, 2024. Deep in the remote Papuan jungles of Indonesia, the Korowai tribe is known to kill and consume fellow tribesmen who they believe to be "witches" known as khakhua. Daniel Lamborn / Alamy Stock Photo Two members of the Korowai tribe in Papua, Indonesia. 2016. The jungles of Papua, Indonesia, feel ...
- Kaleena Fraga
Sep 6, 2016 · When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged. In 1962, a local leader in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea asks Fore men to stop the sorcery that he believes is killing women and ...
Shaw and Coxe, 2021. Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., Online 34: 47–60 Author Ben Shaw; Simon Coxe Year 2021 Title Cannibalism and developments to socio-political systems from 540 BP in the Massim Islands of south-east Papua New Guinea. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim ...
- Ben Shaw, Simon Coxe
- 2021
Jul 9, 2024 · Papua New Guinea's shift from ancient traditions to a Christian nation reflects determined missionary efforts and unwavering faith. Papua New Guinea, the eastern half of the world's second-largest island, New Guinea, was once home to headhunters and cannibals before its Christianization in the 19th century. This journey from ancient traditions ...
- Inside The Origins of The Kuru Disease
- How Ritual Cannibalism Caused The Laughing Death Epidemic
- When The Kuru Epidemic Finally Ended
Papua New Guinea is renowned for its hundreds of Indigenous groups left untouched by outside civilizations for thousands of years. In their homes nestled among the dense forests that blanket the country’s mountains, these groups developed a distinctive range of cultures and practices. It wasn’t until the 16th century that Portuguese and Spanish exp...
Anthropologist Shirley Lindenbaum and her then-husband Robert Glasse were among the scientists involved in the first dedicated study of kuru in 1961. Traveling from village to village in the Fore community, they examined possible causes of the disease. After ruling out contaminants, they soon realized the disease wasn’t genetic either, because it a...
The number of kuru cases among the Fore gradually dwindled over the years after the researchers’ discoveries. However, the cases didn’t disappear immediately, as the disease sometimes took decades to show its effects. According to Michael Alpers, a medical researcher at Curtin University in Australia who studied the disease, the last kuru victim di...
- Morgan Dunn
Mar 7, 2021 · In December 2019, seven were reportedly killed in tribal fighting in Enga province. A month later fighting between two clans in Enga killed four men and injured women and children, who were ...
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Jul 31, 2024 · For an outsider, the roots of tribal conflicts in Papua New Guinea are difficult to understand. There are myriad factors at play, including the province, district, tribe, clan and customs. But what's visible is the violence. The conflicts are usually reported on when large numbers of people are killed.
