The Journey Between Worlds The transition from the dense jungles of New Guinea to the sprawling highways of Los Angeles […]
Introduction: A Vanishing Way of Life When researchers first arrived in New Guinea in 1964, they encountered a population that […]
A Week in the New Guinea Highlands Imagine sitting around a campfire with 20 highlanders from New Guinea, each speaking […]
The Universal Human Need for Creation Stories Across cultures and continents, humanity shares a profound impulse to explain our beginnings. […]
Introduction: When Lions Feel Safer Than Traffic Anthropologist Melvin Konner once spent two years living with !Kung hunters in Botswana’s […]
A Dead Tree and a Life-Saving Lesson My first encounter with New Guinea’s unforgiving environment came through an unexpected teacher—a […]
A Fijian Perspective on American Elder Care During my anthropological fieldwork in Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu, a conversation […]
A Tale of Two Upbringings The story of Enu, a young man from New Guinea, offers a striking contrast in […]
Defining War Across Societies Warfare has been a persistent feature of human societies, yet its definition remains contested. Is a […]
Discovery of an Isolated World For 46,000 years, the Dani people thrived in complete isolation in New Guinea’s rugged Baliem […]
The Fateful Afternoon in Papua New Guinea As the dry season drew to a close in Papua New Guinea, a […]
Introduction: The Modern Privilege of Movement In our hyper-connected modern world, the ability to travel freely across borders has become […]
