This fascinating program introduces young viewers to the diverse lifestyles of people who inhabit the tropical rainforests of Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia and Papua, New Guinea. Children will learn about the customs, skills and medicines of native people, how they survive in the rainforest, their spiritual beliefs and their unique arts and music. This program features information on the Orang Ulu tribe of Malaysia, along with the Kukukuku, the Maisin, the Korafe and the Terabona people of Papua, New Guinea. Also, the Waiapi...
This book offers another frame through which to view the event of the outrigger landing of 43 West Papuans in Australia in 2006. West Papuans have crossed boundaries to seek asylum since 1962, usually eastward into Papua New Guinea (PNG), and occasionally southward to Australia. Between 1984–86, around 11,000 people crossed into PNG seeking asylum. After the Government of PNG acceded to the United Nations Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, West Papuans were relocated from informal camps on the international border to a single inland location called East Awin. This volume provides an ethnography of that settlement based on the author’s fieldwork carried out in 1998–99.
