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'economics' In The New Guinea Highland

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...By Tracy Gregory, February 1998 For over 50,000 years, Papua New Guinea has remained one of the most uncivilized locations on earth. This is not to conclude that this remote area off the northern coast of Australia is by any means simple. There are over 700 languages spoken here that are so widely divergent that it is impossible for one group to communicate with another. The terrain of the New Guinea Highlands is so rugged that tribal groups continued to flourish in great numbers until the 1980s and many still exist today. It was the geographical isolation of the New Guinea Highlands which has left it remarkably untouched by contemporary civilization. Since the 1980s, however, trade routes among tribal groups began to be established, and along with the many Christian missionary groups assembled in New Guinea, modernization began, but has been a slow and tedious process.R Ethnographer and author David M. Hayano chronicled cultural and economic isolation of tribal nations in his 1990 book, The Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropology In Highland Papua New Guinea. What kind of an economic contribution could a tribal society possibly be expected to make? This paper...

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