Ebu Gogo

Reverse Anthropology is an ethnography that examines the worlds of the Yonggom. Portraying their way of exchange, their initiation rituals and sorcery. As well as focusing on two political struggles that are going on Papua New Guinea. The first problem relates to the Ok Tedi mine on how the mining has affected the environment on where the Yonggom live. Secondly, he discusses the movement of Yonggom from West Papua into Papua New Guinea. Yonggom, also called Muyu, are people that lived in south-central New Guinea along the Ok Tedi river. Originally the Ok Tedi river was their main source of food and water. When the Australians found copper and gold in the Ok Tedi mine, they exploited all of the raw material, ignoring the environmental disasters that it could cause. All the residues than leaked into the Ok Tedi river contaminating the water which killed all the life in the water. Kirsch than describes the legal and political struggles that the Yonggom have experienced on stopping the contamination of their main resource. As well as how the Yonggom used sorcery to to stop the contamination. After so many movements, the Yonggom understood their relationship with the mine in exchange terms. Kirsch uses the term “unrequired reciprocity” which means that the it is an unjust reciprocity. For all the damages that the Ok Tedi mine has caused to the environment of the Yonggom, the exchange that they got was insignificant. So they ultimately decided to take the manager of the mine to…

People could have traveled easily across the islands of Asia because they were linked together by land. In Borneo, Ivia Cave known as “Hell's Trench” a human skull was found that was estimated to 40,000 years old. Ebu Gogo lived until the 15th century because they were known to steal food and kidnap children.They were short, hefty and had long hair. The women had long breasts which they threw over their shoulders to walk. She traveled to Lombok to see if it would have been possible to travel…