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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!

  • Demonic Food Gifts

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

http://search.proquest.com.pulaskitech.idm.oclc.org/docview/236858901?accountid=39906

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

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