Feasting on My Enemy: Images of Violence and Change in the New Guinea Highlands

摘要: This article considers changing images and practices of violence seen through the lens of two categories imaginary: assault sorcery cannibalistic witchcraft. The ethnographic historical locus for this discussion is Highlands Papua New Guinea, within which we further concentrate on three cases where have conducted fieldwork: in Hagen, Pangia, among Duna speakers of Lake Kopiago (Figure 1). time period examined from mid-1960s to 1998, coinciding with colonial and postcolonial changes region. With pacification transformations political economy, many alterations have occurred indigenous perceptions regard violent conflict and values attached social space. These have been reflected notions about sorcery witchcraft, two sorts “mystical violence” that have tended flourish in contexts open warfare between groups or interpersonal violence are suppressed restrained.