The Indigenous Bumbita Arapesh of Papua New Guinea
by An article surveying the cultural history of the Bumbita Arapesh people of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. Based on the field research of anthropologist Stephen Leavitt, this article shows the adverse effects colonization can have on a culture.
References
Brison, Karen
1995 Changing Constructions of Masculinity in a Sepik Society. Ethnology. 34(3): 155-75
Leavitt, Stephen 1995 Political Domination and the Absent Oppressor: Images of Europeans in Bumbita Arapesh Narratives. Ethnology 34(3):177-189
Linnekin, Jocelyn
1984 Tradition, Genuine or Spurious. Journal of American Folklore. 97(385): 67-82
Trask, Haunani-Kay
1991 Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle. The Contemporary Pacific 3(1): 159-67
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On November 17, 2009 at 8:48 pm
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