Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands

         unfermented Guinea highlanders can go to war with individually other to avenge ghosts or to exct revenge for the killing of cardinal of their one. As we have to seen from other reports, or lessens we have discussed, hatful dont seen to comprehend the complex interrelationship among the various parts of their proclaim social system.

        The leaders of Papua New Guinea see intertribal fighting as a major social line with severe economic consequences. Although fighting is not new to them, war seems to re-emerge in 1970s with a new roundabout of causes. It is believed that the introduction of western goods may have resulted in changes in economic arrangements, marriage patterns, and, ultimately, state of war.

A little information about how warfare started and its causes:

        After decades of pacification and relative peace, intergroup warfare reemerged in the Papua New Guinea highlands during the late 1960s and early 1970s, only a few years before national liberty in 1975. The outcomes of this warfare were death and destruction, martial law, and delay in highlands emergence schemes.

        Possible explanations:

a.         psychological insecurity surrounding political independence from Australian rule

b.         disappointment at the slow speed of development

c.          residual of government control which suppressed fighting since the pacification functioning began.

But none of these explanations has looked at changes in the structure or

infrastructure of highlands societies themselves which could account for behavioural changes in the management conflict.

        Traditionally, groups maintained differential access to resources such(prenominal) as stone used for axes and salt. Ace heads and salt were produced in local areas and traded for valuables available elsewhere. The introduction of and distribution of items such as salt and steel aces reduced the necessity for trade, thereby fixing the need for intertribal marriage as well as reducing extratribal contacts of a type which facilitated marriage...

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