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The people of New Guinea have long tried to shed the cannibal label. While there have been documented cases of cannibalism among tribes on the island, the use of the stereotype has as much to do with European ideas on race and civilisation.
“Tourism has some aspects of showbiz, some of international trade in commodities; it is part innocent fun, part a devastating modernizing force. Being all these things simultaneously, it tends to induce partial analysis only.” —Victor Turner The fact is tourism is bad enough. It lives off human groups who need…
Why an indigenous people takes their clothes off for cash, and what it reveals about culturally complex hopes and dreams