Amungme: Tradition and Change in the Highlands of Papua

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218 pp., illustrations, map, bibliography, index. The Amungme live in the remote highlands of Papua, just south of the highest part of New Guinea's central cordillera, where the great mountain Nemangkawi Ninggok, the "Peak of the White Arrow," rises from the snows of the Carstensz glaciers. Puncak Jaya, as Nemangkawi is known to the outside world, is the highest point between the Himalaya and the Andes. In this forested, fog-shrouded, and undeniably beautiful land, the Amungme raise pigs and plant their steep hillside with sweet potatoes and taro, as they have for hundreds of years. But in the last few decades great changes have swept through the Amungme lands. Missionaries arrived. Metal tools arrived. The cash economy arrived. Most importantly, the Freeport mining company arrived, and created what is now the multi-billion-dollar Grasberg mine. Today 17,000 people live and work in the modern mining town of Tembagapura just outside the Amungme village of Banti, and the lowland city of Timika, unbroken forest a generation ago, has a population of 70,000. Authors Kal Muller and Yunus Omabak examine both the opportunities and hardships these changes have wrought, from the successful education and health programs created by Freeport development funds, to the continuing problems of cultural misunderstanding, lack of economic opportunity, and even tribal warfare. N° de ref. del artículo B009EC1FR2KM011713

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