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Randolph has been working with graphics indiffering capacities for a long time. Aftergraduating from Harvard, she travelled to Papua,New Guinea on a Radcliffe fellowship to documentindigenous two-dimensional design...
Despite its prevalence, bisexuality traditionally has not been granted independent status as a category of sexuality. Instead, the behavior has been explained away as a phase. For instance, teenagers sometimes experiment with both male and female partners on the way to establishing their sexual identity. Among Sambia Highlanders in Papua New Guinea, boys practice oral sex with one another as a formal rite of passage toward manhood and adult heterosexuality. Dual sexuality has also been seen as a pragmatic response, a way to fill a sexual need when passion is thwarted by culture and circumstance, such as imprisonment. Mixing between...
SOME HABITS ARE HARD TO BREAK. SENATORS CLAIBORNE PELL and DAVID BOREN, the chairmen of the Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees, have been traveling through Southeast Asia during the Easter-Passover recess on a military C-20B (cost: $2,614 an hour), stopping in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea). Even though commercial flights were available, sources say, one of the reasons for going military was that wives travel free. Boren argues that the spouses were invited by some of the governments to participate in events...
...Papua New Guinea is a raucous teenager of a country, boiling with the vitality and conflict that come with its kaleidoscope of cultures. The stresses between traditional ways and the demands of modern commerce bedevil the island north of Australia with near anarchy in the cities, persistent tribal wars in the highlands and intermittent insurrection in the province of Bougainville. While many of New Guinea's people have become alienated from traditional ways during these growing pains, Saem Majnep, a simple man from the highlands, has responded by making it his cause to preserve tribal learning and restore respect...
Bulmer's respect for the knowledge of the Kalam people had a profound effect on Majnep. After assisting Bulmer, Majnep went on to work as a technician at the University of Papua New Guinea. Bulmer is now dead, and Majnep has returned to his village, where he continues to record his people's observations of animals and plants. "If you stay in your village, it is easy to pick up this learning because it is still all around you," he says. "But when people go to Madang ((the nearest city)), they lose it very quickly." Throughout the country, though, Majnep...