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I am an anthropologist living in Papua New Guinea for the past 24 years.

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Maru flicks a mickey at the rest of the Pacific

Signs of panic can be found in the Department of Trace Commerce and Industry's defense of the PMIZ of late. First, the bungled Summons against it public critics, which eventuated in Human Rights cases being lodged against the Department. Now... Continue reading

Posted Jul 5, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Bruno Imbui passed away today. He was born to Tangandai Clan, in Yimas Village, East Sepik Province, sometime just prior to the War. The last of his generation to leave us, we want to honor his life with this acknowledgement... Continue reading

Posted Jul 2, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Is PNG a Bad Partner to the Nauru Agreement?

One of the questions we need to ask re the PMIZ in Madang is whether it actually fulfils the objectives of the PNA (Partners to the Nauru Agreement) for Pacific tuna and marine life in general. The PNA has been... Continue reading

Posted Jun 11, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Blame, and the winding path to restorative justice

Our company has recently conducted a review of one Christian charity's 'Restorative Justice' programme across Papua New Guinea. Very successful really, its actually an awareness program for remote communities---telling them their rights, their options, the possible solutions to their social... Continue reading

Posted May 29, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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The Emperor Wears No Clothes in Parliament

This goes out to everyone with nightmares of finding themselves underdressed at school or work or meeting the Queen. The following story comes anonymously into our hands, and we suspect tHan Christian Anderson: The Embarrassing Tale of the King James... Continue reading

Posted May 4, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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This is the battle

Before I get tarred and feathered by zealots on this page, I just want to retreat to the privacy of my own blog and have a scream. Is it idolatry? What is it that has transformed the merely religious to... Continue reading

Posted Apr 21, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Ever fallen in love...

Reading something about Jonathan Demme today. Many know him from Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate and other modern Hollywood classics. You may not know that he also directed Something Wild with Melanie Griffith in 1986, for which... Continue reading

Posted Apr 7, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Leonie's Baluan

“Manus children live in a world of their own, a world from which adults are wilfully excluded, a world based upon different premises from those of adult life.” ---Margaret Mead 1953[1930], Growing Up in New Guinea. New York: Mentor Books,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 13, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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When Yangsa Dui died

I was almost asleep at the time, in the kind of dream state that comes from the sound of a 40 hp motor plowing over calm seas while you're snuggled onto duffle bags and beneath the sailcloth of a banana... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2015 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Kusbau Lower Primary Graduation: another timeless ritual

We were told to be there at 8 AM. Hundreds of us parents and family with the Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 graduates. We'd scoured the secondhand shops and Chinese dry goods for the hard shoes, socks, long trousers,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 27, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Who is really saving the rainforest?

A little known fact for those outside the conservation fields is that Norway is committed to saving the world's rainforests. Yes, that's right. Home of Munch, Ibsen, reindeer and fjords. Norway has been committed to saving the rainforest for the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Anthropology Inside Out: Applied indigenous ethnography for Papua New Guinea

It’s June, and I’ve just received my 2013 Annual Review of Anthropology,[i] proving that some things (like postal service) never change, and that anthropology still moves at its own pace. Because I live in Papua New Guinea, I’m able to... Continue reading

Posted Jun 16, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Heralding the return to (relatively) harmless cults in PNG

Madang hasn’t had a good run for cults recently. Mass murders, Black Jesus, all size and shapes of faux-Yali/pulp fiction behaviours have taken hold in the past few years. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a really good... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Why do we blame the victim?

I am saddened by this story still, because I think we are beginning to blame the victim now. Remember these Port Moresby highways were constructed by the Japanese without sidewalks or overpass bridges, and at a time when there were... Continue reading

Posted May 20, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Free speech for Papua New Guinea now ( DWU's Media Freedom Day 2 May 2014)

Thank you for asking me to speak at this important event for such a timely cause, Media Freedom. I used to teach in the PNG Studies Department here, for those who don’t know me, and I have been a longtime... Continue reading

Posted May 3, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Jungle Cheesecake (for Peter Matthiessen)

Jungle cheesecake: rebounding in the highlands of New Guinea (1991) Nancy Sullivan My first stop is Wamena, where I stop in for noodles at Sam Chandra’s shop. Sam’s a middle-age Moluccan Indonesian with a golf cap and great charm. He... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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For Peter Mathhiessen: Birds not yet dead

Birds not yet dead Nancy Sullivan When Peter’s contract expires he must go finish to Melbourne. But first we head for a trek in Irian Jaya, across the western border of Papua New Guinea. This is where we’ve both always... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Harim: Where are the Grassroots Global Witnesses today?

In June of 2013 Charmian Gooch, one of the founders of Global Witness, the corruption watchdog NGO, presented a short and blistering talk in one of the TED conferences, and that talk has since garnered her a TED Fellow Prize... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Visionary photographer sounds the death knell for tribal cultures

Don’t be alarmed, but start making plans. It looks like everyone in rural Papua New Guinea, outback Australia, the African savannah and all other remote faraway places in this globalized planet are soon to die out…to extinction. Like the dinosaurs.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 12, 2014 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Zionism, Prosperity and Redecorating Parliament House

With all this recent hysteria about redecorating the Parliament House, about something called Christian Zionism, and the need to destroy graven images, I thought I'd re-post an article I wrote back in 2007. That's when prosperity gospel and all the... Continue reading

Posted Dec 12, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Life with Bilbo Baggins: elfin ethnographic mysteries

Last week a story in the international press blew the lid off anthropology. Specifically, elfin anthropology. http://freedomshammer.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/anthropologist-held-hostage-by-elves-for-7-years/ Yes, we learned from one C. Michael Forsyth of Reykjavik, Iceland, that Kalena Sondergaard had been found. — Seven years after she vanished... Continue reading

Posted Nov 26, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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This is what corruption looks like: There are no white ribbons without bandages

Today we honour those women and men who have survived to tell their stories about domestic violence in Papua New Guinea. Nothing says more about their strength than the photo on the cover of today's Post-Courier. These women have lost... Continue reading

Posted Nov 25, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Further tall tales from the Karawari (Part 3)

Part 3 Laying the conservation groundwork Imboin laid out a welcome for us. They were also enthusiastic participants in the training by our guest foresters to get landowners to conduct surveys of their own forests. Sometimes ‘skills transference’ is a... Continue reading

Posted Nov 14, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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More tales from the Karawari

Part 2 of 3 Awim has become the Penale frontier town. From the verandah of our house I feel a bit like brothel owner in Deadwood, pacing the limbum palm and scrutinizing the neighbourhood. Where’s the mute? Is that Richard... Continue reading

Reblogged Nov 8, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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Back to the Karawari Caves

Part 1: Getting there This is the story of the latest chapter in our Karawari Cave Arts Project. Ironically, it involved absolutely no cave recording or exploring. We have grown into such a multi-headed monster that we could bring two... Continue reading

Posted Nov 7, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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