Lily King's fourth novel (after the award-winning Father of the Rain) was inspired by a moment in 1933 when the lives of three young anthropologists — Margaret Mead and her second and third husbands, ...

Set on the Upper Sepik River in New Guinea, this film records the day-to-day experiences of Kiap (one-man representative of the Australian government in regional areas) Barry Downes as he patrols an ...

Tribal art gathered by three travelers — U.S. Ambassador, Nicholas M. Salgo; the artist, Neltje; and the educator, Mary Jane Edwards — during their trips to Papua New Guinea are featured in this ...

The partitioning of people by language is perhaps more extreme on the Sepik coast than anywhere else on earth. Shortly before World War I, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago acquired ...

This paper reports on the practice of sorcery, healing and sorcery death divination among Abau speakers of the upper Sepik River basin of Papua New Guinea. A detailed processual account of one ...