Papua New Guinea

In “The Trobriander’s of Papua New Guinea” by Annette B. Weinter was about the historically against the framework of the seminal anthropological studies of Malinowski who study the Trobriander’s sixty years before Annette B. Weiner. The author realized that Malinowski annoyed or never considered significance in the matrilineal society of women own wealth since he didn’t investigate women productive by only focus on the male wealth. Therefore, the author study both Trobriand women and men from their matrilineal descent emerged, kinship that form the chiefly power and focused on women productive work, how they distributed their wealth which was bundles of banana exchanged with other women after the death of their husband. However, Malinowski noted that the high status of Trobriand…

Geographic Determinism Geographic Determinism is when you have a favorable climate zone, healthy nutritious crops, and large domesticated mammals. Jared Diamond went to Papua New Guinea. He met a guy named Yali. Yali asked Diamond “Why do you white men have so much cargo, and we New Guineans have so little?” Diamond started thinking about this question. He started to analyze their lifestyle and compared it to other countries. He noticed that they were hunter-gatherers, had no large…

Did you know that 95% of the Incan population died after first contact with the Spanish? Or that while America successfully sent men to land on the moon, Papua New Guinea was still forced to use stone tools? The world is unequal and the seeds were planted in geographical resources. These uneven geographical resources doomed some cultures to failure, but some to stardom. For example, Papua New Guinea was too wet to grow efficient crops crops, had no domesticable animals and because of that were…

Forty-eight years ago today, in the year of 1969, the people of Papua New Guinea were still using stone tools. Whereas, families in the U.S. were watching on television as their countryman were landing on the moon. There has to be a reason for the people of Papua New Guinea using stone tools in the modern age, while countries like the U.S. are more advanced in technology and this country hasn’t been around as long as countries in Europe and Africa. Geography is the reason of the inequality…

The people in Papua New Guinea didn’t have good food source unlike the Fertile Crescent they had a good source of food wheat and pigs. The people in New Guinea only had stone tools and the sago trees and the sago trees are not a good food source they wasted to much energy harvesting the sago and it doesn’t store for a long time. Wheat can be stored for a very long time and it is easy to harvest. The Spanish were immune to smallpox but the Inca weren’t immune to smallpox and the spanish had…

Papua New Guinea Since long time ago, before the human right was established. People could be separated into many casts in the community, due to the hierarchy system. only a few people lived in an extremely comfortable environment. However, the majority group of the society had to live with in a bad condition. For example, they did not have enough food to eat or enough product to exchange for the medicine. The reason is because everything had been monopolized by fews people who were at the top…

Kokoda Track WWII The Kokoda track or otherwise known as the Kokoda trail is commonly known for the battle taken place between Japanese and Australian/American/Papua New Guinean forces. This battle went on for a treacherous four months and both sides had to withstand Papa New Guinea’s climate, tropical terrain, lack of food and lack personal hygiene. The Australian side contained over 56,000 troops, which were always contributing by either being on the ground or taking part in air and sea…

These campaigns include implementation of national laws, policies and action plans to end violence in recognition of achieving the third Millennium Development Goal. A large emphasis for the New Zealand National Committee is the focus on the Pacific Islands in particular the Solomon Islands and Samoa. A large portion of campaigning by the UN Women is against violence towards women, with projects such as their Walk for Women fundraiser. UN Women, Walk for Women is a new initiative where you set…

Japans conquer and determination to take of the Pacific; led to the July 1942, Kokoda jungle war in Papa New Guinea. For the first two years of the Pacific war Japan fought against Brittan allied with the United States and also had the upper hand. During 1941 Japanese forces quickly and successfully occupied Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Guam…

Philosophy at the University of Zaragoza. He holds a MA in Theology from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Later on Casanova obtained his MA and Ph.D. in Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York, where he served also as a professor for 20 years until 2007. Now he is a sociology professor at Georgetown University and head of the Berkley Center’s…