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Taking its title from his 1969 book, Keep the River on Your Right, the film covers material from several of Schneebaum's other books and articles.In the film, Schneebaum, by then an elderly man, revisits two cannibal tribes—one in Papua New Guinea and the other in the jungles of Peru—with whom he had lived several years each as a young man.
Cannibal Tours is a 1988 documentary film by Australian director and ... On the Aftermath of Tourism in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. Tourism Studies 12: 109 ...
Lords of the Garden, 1994 documentary film of Smithsonian expedition to Korowai; Expeditions to West Papua: the Korowai; The Korowai; Korowai Language Research, VU University Amsterdam; Mahüon-Korowai: Gerrit van Enk's specific subjects from the daily life and symbolic environment of the Korowai; On Stasch's dissertation; Stasch's book
Korowai people of New Guinea practised cannibalism until very recent times. As in some other New Guinean societies, the Urapmin people engaged in cannibalism in war. Notably, the Urapmin also had a system of food taboos wherein dogs could not be eaten and they had to be kept from breathing on food, unlike humans who could be eaten and with whom food could be shared.
Not too far away in the South Pacific, the Korowai tribe of Indonesian New Guinea allegedly still has a culture of cannibalism. There are thought to be an estimated 4,000 tribesmen living in the ...
Dead Birds is a 1963 American documentary film by Robert Gardner about the ritual warfare cycle of the Dugum Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley in present-day Highland Papua province (then a part of Papua province known as Irian Jaya) on the western half of the island of New Guinea in Indonesia. [1]
President Joe Biden’s apparent suggestion his uncle may have been eaten by cannibals has sparked uproar in Papua New Guinea, casting a shadow on ties. Biden’s controversial ‘cannibalism ...
Cannibalism is known to be practiced by rare remote tribes in Papua New Guinea and the surrounding region, but stereotypes about it applied to the Pacific nation have been a sore spot for years ...