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Social and Cultural Anthropology

2011

Dani peoples; New Guinea; cultural comparisons;

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Grand Valley Dani, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Grand Valley Dani, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

The Dani must by now be the most familiar of all New Guinea Highlands peoples to anthropologists and students alike. Through Robert Gardner_s evocative film, Dead Birds, Peter Matthiessen_s novelistic, Under the Mountain Wall, and Karl Heider_s numerous scholarly papers, books, and films, they have been portrayed in various ways, always fascinating and ever eluding our complete understanding.