Between the Tides
A Fascinating Journey Among the Kamoro of New Guinea
Published on 15. April 2003
256 pages
978-1-4629-1486-9 (ISBN)
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Featuring hundreds of original, color photographs, this fascinating study of New Guinea chronicles the rituals and daily life of this remote and culturally rich region.
Between the Tides offers a compelling mix of New Guinean storytelling, history, natural history, politics, and culture. David Pickell brings warmth and intelligence to his subject, and Kal Muller's photographs are surprising and evocative. Together, author and photographer show how an isolated, nomadic past meets a worldly, urban future, history confronts superstition, and a false and imposed sense of shame yields to a new, and still fragile, pride.
Their journey took them from the dusty New Guinea frontier town of Timika to tiny Lakahia island, along two hundred miles of twisting mangrove creeks and the relentlessly uncooperative Arafura sea. What they found was a culture facing the delicate, sometimes humorous, occasionally painful, and always interesting process of change.
Between the Tides offers a compelling mix of New Guinean storytelling, history, natural history, politics, and culture. David Pickell brings warmth and intelligence to his subject, and Kal Muller's photographs are surprising and evocative. Together, author and photographer show how an isolated, nomadic past meets a worldly, urban future, history confronts superstition, and a false and imposed sense of shame yields to a new, and still fragile, pride.
Their journey took them from the dusty New Guinea frontier town of Timika to tiny Lakahia island, along two hundred miles of twisting mangrove creeks and the relentlessly uncooperative Arafura sea. What they found was a culture facing the delicate, sometimes humorous, occasionally painful, and always interesting process of change.
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- Frontcover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- ONE Two Brothers
- TWO Karapao!
- THREE The Wild, Wild East
- FOUR Looking for a Mask
- FIVE Bread from a Tree
- SIX The Edge of Maluku
- SEVEN Along the Brown Sea
- EIGHT The Ku-Kaware
- NINE Black Sweet
- Map of the Kamoro Coast
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backcover
