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Cargo cults occurred periodically in many parts of the island of New Guinea, including the Taro Cult in northern Papua New Guinea and the Vailala Madness that arose from 1919 to 1922. [12] [13]: 114 The last was documented by Francis Edgar Williams, one of the first anthropologists to conduct fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.
The Vailala Madness was a social movement in the Territory of Papua, which is in the Papuan Gulf, beginning in the later part of 1919 and declining after 1922. It was the first well-documented cargo cult, a class of millenarian religion-political movements.
Silverman, Eric. (2012). From Cannibal Tours to Cargo Cult: On the Aftermath of Tourism in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. Tourism Studies 12: 109–30. Young, Katherine. 1992. "Visuality and the Category of the Other: The Cannibal Tours of Dean MacCannell and Dennis O'Rourke." Visual Anthro-pology Review 8:92–96.
The Asabano people of Papua New Guinea had traditional methods of treating human remains that varied based on the type of relationship the survivors planned to have with the deceased. [7] These methods included corpse exposure with curation or disposal of bones, disposal of corpses in rivers, and even cannibalism. [ 7 ]
Steven Garasai Tari (1971 – 29 August 2013), also known as Black Jesus, was a Papua New Guinean religious figure, leader of a Christian-influenced cargo cult, who claimed to be the Messiah or the Christ, and is notorious for alleged rape and murder. He was convicted of four counts of rape in 2010 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The tribe is located 100 miles away from where Michael Rockefeller, a son of then-New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared in 1961. He is thought to be a victim of an another Papuan tribe.
Korowai people of New Guinea practised cannibalism until very recent times. As in some other New Guinean societies, the Urapmin people engaged in cannibalism in war. Notably, the Urapmin also had a system of food taboos wherein dogs could not be eaten and they had to be kept from breathing on food, unlike humans who could be eaten and with whom food could be shared.
Cannibalism is known to be practiced by rare remote tribes in Papua New Guinea and the surrounding region, but stereotypes about it applied to the Pacific nation have been a sore spot for years ...