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Death on the Move: Landscape and Violence on the Highlands Highway, Papua New Guinea
Author(s) -
Stewart Pamela J.,
Strathern Andrew
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.1999.24.1.20
Subject(s) - new guinea , mount , narrative , counterpoint , ethnography , port (circuit theory) , geography , history , ethnology , sociology , archaeology , anthropology , art , engineering , mechanical engineering , pedagogy , literature , electrical engineering
A journey along the Highlands Highway from Mount Hagen in the center of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to the port town of hoe on the northern coast provides an occasion for three streams of awareness: ethnographic locales associated with anthropological work; stories of past journeys, and their dangers, undertaken by our New Guinea companions; and an experience of present danger in the form of an armed holdup. The narrative holds these three streams together in counterpoint until the destination is reached, and the juxtaposition of themes mirrors the complexities of contemporary situations in Papua New Guinea, mingled with traces of anthropology's past.