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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 ...
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 Allen Serial Title Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online Volume 34 Start Page 47 End Page 60 DOI
- Ben Shaw, Simon Coxe
- 2021
T1 - Cannibalism and Developments to Socio-Political Systems from 540 BP in the Massim Islands of south-east Papua New Guinea. AU - Shaw, Ben. AU - Coxe, Simon. PY - 2021. Y1 - 2021. N2 - The consumption of human flesh, popularly defined as cannibalism, has arguably occurred throughout much of human history.
- 47-60
- 34
May 12, 2021 · Keywords: Papua New Guinea; Rossel Island; Massim; cannibalism; feasting; subsistence Corresponding author : Ben Shaw Ben.Shaw@anu.edu.au Received : 19 November 2020 Accepted : 30 November 2020 ...
University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia 3 Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia Abstract. The consumption of human flesh, popularly defined as cannibalism, has arguably occurred throughout much of human history. In New Guinea, it has been associated ethnographically with warfare,
Apr 10, 2018 · Cannibalism is against Papua New Guinea (PNG) law, but those people caught are only charged with desecration of a corpse—which had a fine of 25 Kina (US$25). In my dissertation from field work in PNG ( Citation Eley 1988 ), I had a chapter on cannibalism, but my committee unanimously “suggested” that I remove it.
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Jul 10, 2018 · The Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea has a long history of ritualistic cannibalism, resulting in a crippling outbreak of a degenerative brain disease called Kuru in the 1950’s. The epidemic devestated the tribe, but some survivors of the Kuru epidemic are now found to show signs of evolved Kuru resistance and possibly other degenerative neurological diseases.
