Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Society And Military Practice In Sepik And Highland New Guinea, Paul B. Roscoe

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This research examines the causes and consequences of military practices in contact-era highland New Guinea. Drawing on data from 180 societies, the project will use a regional comparative methodology to examine how military practices are affected by physical, demographic, social and cultural conditions, and how military practice influences settlement patterns, social structure, local community formation, gender ideology, clan structure, art and ritual production. The investigator, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Maine, will consult archival materials in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, and the U.S. The project represents a major synthesis of our knowledge of the peoples …