Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

I’m always interested to see what sort of images and models people use to understand rural Papua New Guinea — tribes, clans, peasants, etc. So I was thought this recent article about “warring hill tribes in the Southern Highlands”:http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/stories/200810/s2384715.htm was pretty interesting. “Hill tribes”? That’s not one I hear very often. I think of Tari as being a relatively flat place. ‘Hill tribe’ sounds vaguely Southeast Asian to me (as in “of Burma”). Perhaps it is a model imported from the Philippines by the Filipino nun who is being interviewed?