The Korowai People of New Guinea
By Zakk Pierce
The Korowai:
- Live in Tree Houses
- Are Animists
- Are a Patrilineal Society
- Are Cannibals
Don't Eat Stuff you didn't Hunt or Gather
Here is where they are!
Naming Customs:
- Shared Experiences
- Virtue of Knowing who the Speaker is.
Cannibalism
- Khakua
- Death bed phenomena
- Avenge Killing
- Only Eat Khakua
- No Enemies
- No Outsiders
Works Cited
Paul, R. (2006, 09). Sleeping with cannibals. Smithsonian, 37, 48-54,57-59. Retrieved from
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Stasch, R. (2001). Giving up homicide: Korowai experience of witches and police (west papua). Oceania, 72(1), 33-52. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.pulaskitech.idm.oclc.org/docview/222378454?accountid=39906
Stasch, R. (2002). Joking Avoidance: A Korowai Pragmatics of Being Two. American Ethnologist, 29(2), 335-365. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.pulaskitech.idm.oclc.org/stable/3095171