Building and Remembering: Constructing Ancestral Place at Popo, Orokolo Bay, Papua New Guinea

Orokolo Bay, located in the Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea), is a place well known to anthropology for its elaborate social and ceremonial life. Early colonial observers were struck by the large villages and vast longhouse structures that sustained decade-spanning ceremonies and annual long-distance exchanges (called hiri) in which seafaring traders from today’s Port Moresby region would bring ceramic pots and shell valuables for sago palm (Metroxlyon sagu) starch and hulls for their ships. However, the history of large coastal trading communities in the Gulf of Papua is poorly understood. ...

A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Monash University in December 2018 Monash Indigenous Studies Centre (455 p)

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Monash University
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OCTOPUS database, Anthropology not elsewhere classified, Archaeology, Anthropology, Sahul, Archaeology not elsewhere classified, SahulArch, Radiocarbon, FOS: Sociology

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