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href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%96" title="Кораваі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Кораваі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowajov%C3%A9" title="Korowajové – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Korowajové" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Korowai" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Korowai" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korovajoj" title="Korovajoj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Korovajoj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Korowai" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pobo_korowai" title="Pobo korowai – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Pobo korowai" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutanen_Korowai" title="Mutanen Korowai – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Mutanen Korowai" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Korowai" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suku_Korowai" title="Suku Korowai – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Suku Korowai" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Korowai" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%98" title="კოროვაი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კოროვაი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korovajai" title="Korovajai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Korovajai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%89" title="الكورواى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الكورواى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urang_Korowai" title="Urang Korowai – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Urang Korowai" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Korowai" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Korowai" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai_(povo)" title="Korowai (povo) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Korowai (povo)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B8" title="Короваи – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Короваи" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai_fowk" title="Korowai fowk – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Korowai fowk" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Korowai" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai" title="Korowai – Finnish" lang="fi" 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:KorowaiHombre01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/KorowaiHombre01.jpg/250px-KorowaiHombre01.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/KorowaiHombre01.jpg/375px-KorowaiHombre01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/KorowaiHombre01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">A Korowai man</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">4000–4400<sup id="cite_ref-PopulationCount1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopulationCount1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PopulationCount2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopulationCount2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> (<a href="/wiki/South_Papua" title="South Papua">South Papua</a>, <a href="/wiki/Highland_Papua" title="Highland Papua">Highland Papua</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Korowai_language" title="Korowai language">Korowai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language">Indonesian</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Kombai_people" title="Kombai people">Kombai people</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Korowai</b>, also called the <b>Kolufo</b>, live in southeastern <a href="/wiki/Western_New_Guinea" title="Western New Guinea">Papua</a> in the Indonesian provinces of <a href="/wiki/South_Papua" title="South Papua">South Papua</a> and <a href="/wiki/Highland_Papua" title="Highland Papua">Highland Papua</a>. Their tribal area is split by the borders of <a href="/wiki/Boven_Digoel_Regency" title="Boven Digoel Regency">Boven Digoel Regency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mappi_Regency" title="Mappi Regency">Mappi Regency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asmat_Regency" title="Asmat Regency">Asmat Regency</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yahukimo_Regency" title="Yahukimo Regency">Yahukimo Regency</a>. They number about 4000 to 4400 people.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PopulationCount1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopulationCount1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PopulationCount2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopulationCount2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i>, "Until the late 1970s, when anthropologists embarked on a study of the tribe, the Korowai were unaware of the existence of any peoples other than themselves".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="The Daily Telegraph is not a scholarly source, and the article doesn't cite any sources to back up that particular claim. 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In 1987, a village was opened in Manggél, in Yafufla (1988), Mabül at the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Eilanden_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Eilanden River">Eilanden River</a> (1989), and Khaiflambolüp (1998). </p><p>The village <a href="/wiki/Absenteeism" title="Absenteeism">absenteeism</a> rate is still high, because of the relatively long distance between the settlements and the food (<a href="/wiki/Sago" title="Sago">sago</a>) resources. </p><p>The Korowai appear to now smoke tobacco but not to drink alcohol.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korowai_people&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Korowai are <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunter-gatherers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horticulture" title="Horticulture">horticulturalists</a> who practice <a href="/wiki/Shifting_cultivation" title="Shifting cultivation">shifting cultivation</a>. They have excellent hunting and fishing skills. </p><p>Information about Korowai trade patterns is scant. The Korowai have a few gender-specific activities, such as the preparation of <a href="/wiki/Sago" title="Sago">sago</a> and the performance of religious ceremonies in which only the male adults are involved. </p><p>Some Korowai have since the early 1990s generated moderate cash income by working with tour companies selling tours into the Korowai region. Within the tourist industry, opportunities are limited to hosting tour groups in villages for tourist-sponsored sago feasts, carrying luggage, and performing traditional displays. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kinship">Kinship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korowai_people&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Kinship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Patriclan" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriclan">patriclan</a> is the central unit with respect to social, economic, and political organization. Kinship terminology follows the <a href="/wiki/Omaha_kinship" title="Omaha kinship">Omaha I</a> pattern (Lounsbury), knowing a central opposition between cross and parallel relationships. </p><p>In Korowai society, the forms of institutional <a href="/wiki/Levirate" class="mw-redirect" title="Levirate">levirate</a> and predominance of <a href="/wiki/Uncle" title="Uncle">avuncular</a> relationships are found, as well as a kind of <a href="/wiki/Affinity_(law)" title="Affinity (law)">affinal</a> avoidance relationships. Marriage is <a href="/wiki/Exogamous" class="mw-redirect" title="Exogamous">exogamous</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polygynous" class="mw-redirect" title="Polygynous">polygynous</a>. Preference is given to a <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">conjugal</a> relationship with the (<a href="/wiki/Categorization" class="mw-redirect" title="Categorization">classificatory</a>) mother's mother's brother's daughter. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social_life">Social life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korowai_people&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Social life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Leadership structures are based on personal qualities of <a href="/wiki/Big_man_(anthropology)" title="Big man (anthropology)">big men</a>, rather than on institution. Interclan warfare occurs mainly because of <a href="/wiki/Witchcraft" title="Witchcraft">witchcraft</a> and <a href="/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic (paranormal)">sorcery</a>-related conflicts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_life">Religious life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korowai_people&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Religious life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Korowai universe is filled with a variety of spirits, some more personal of character than others. Reverence is paid especially to the red headed creator god Gimigi. The Korowai ascribe an important role in their daily lives of honoring their "One God" with one being used as the concept of a prime deity from whom all others either descend or to whom all others pay homage. </p><p>Once in a lifetime, a Korowai clan must organize a <a href="/wiki/Rhynchophorus_ferrugineus" title="Rhynchophorus ferrugineus">sago grub</a> festival in order to stimulate prosperity and fertility in a ritual fashion. In times of trouble they sacrifice <a href="/wiki/Domesticated_pig" class="mw-redirect" title="Domesticated pig">domesticated pigs</a> to the spirits of the ancestors. </p><p>The Korowai have an extraordinary and rich oral tradition: <a href="/wiki/Mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythology">myths</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folktales</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic (paranormal)">magical</a>) sayings and <a href="/wiki/Spell_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spell (paranormal)">charms</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Totem" title="Totem">totem</a> traditions. With respect to death and afterlife the Korowai believe in the existence of a reciprocal type of <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a>: those who died can be sent back at any time to the land of the living, by their kinsmen in the land of the dead, in order to reincarnate in a newly born infant of their own clan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contact_with_Westerners">Contact with Westerners</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korowai_people&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Contact with Westerners"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first documented contact by Western scientists with members of a band of western Korowai (or eastern Citak) took place on 17–18 March 1974. The expedition was co-led by anthropologist <a href="/wiki/Peter_W._Van_Arsdale" title="Peter W. Van Arsdale">Peter Van Arsdale</a> (now at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Denver" title="University of Denver">University of Denver</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> geographer Robert Mitton, and community developer Mark (Dennis) Grundhoefer. Thirty men were encountered on the south bank of the Upper Eilanden River, approximately 12 miles east of its junction with the Kolff River and 10 miles north of the Becking River. A basic word list was generated and observations were recorded regarding such things as fire making techniques.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1970s, a few Christian (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch Protestant">Dutch Protestant</a>) missionaries began to live among the Korowai.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dea Sudarman, an Indonesian anthropologist, made several documentary films on the Korowai for Japanese television in the 1980s. In 1993, a film crew documented an anthropological study in the Dayo village area by the <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a> of Korowai treehouse construction and the practice of <a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">cannibalism</a> as a form of criminal justice. This resulted in the film <i>Lords of the Garden</i>. In 1996 a local Christian community was established, the members of it mainly originating from the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Kombai_people" title="Kombai people">Kombai people</a>. For a long time the Korowai have been considered exceptionally resistant to religious conversion; however, by the end of the 1990s the first converts to Christianity were baptized. In the autumn of 2003, a small team of Bible translators from Wycliffe/<a href="/wiki/SIL_International" title="SIL International">SIL</a> moved to Yaniruma.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2006, tour-guide Paul Raffaele led an Australian <i><a href="/wiki/60_Minutes_(Australian_TV_program)" title="60 Minutes (Australian TV program)">60 Minutes</a></i> crew to report on the people.<sup id="cite_ref-60min_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60min-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2007 BBC documentary <i>First Contact</i>, presented by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Anstice" title="Mark Anstice">Mark Anstice</a>, features footage from his 1999 encounter with members of the Korowai people, and describes how they were disturbed upon seeing a "white ghost", whose presence indicated the end of the world was nigh. </p><p>In January–February 2011, the BBC documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Human_Planet" title="Human Planet">Human Planet</a></i> commissioned the Korowai building of a treehouse 35m high.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2019, the "<a href="/wiki/Best_Ever_Food_Review_Show" title="Best Ever Food Review Show">Best Ever Food Review Show</a>" channel on YouTube made contact with the Korowai people in which they ate various foods of the culture. </p><p>In the documentary <a href="/w/index.php?title=My_Year_with_the_Tribe,&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="My Year with the Tribe, (page does not exist)">My Year with the Tribe</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a film team visits the Korowai area several times over a period of one year. The documentary reveals that an industry has developed around the supposedly traditional lives of many Korowai. Many locals take advantage of the Korowai's reputation for living a particularly original life in order to earn money. It is also reported that houses located at a particular high altitude have been financed by Western film crews. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cannibalism_claims">Cannibalism claims</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korowai_people&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Cannibalism claims"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Korowai have been reported to practice ritual cannibalism up to the present day. Anthropologists suspect that cannibalism is no longer practiced by the Korowai clans that have had frequent contact with outsiders.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research"><span title="statement needs a WP:RELIABLE WP:SECONDARY source for confirmation (April 2024)">non-primary source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Recent reports suggest that certain clans have been coaxed into encouraging tourism by perpetuating the myth that cannibalism is still an active practice.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See 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Van Enk & Lourens de Vries (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-510551-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-510551-6">0-19-510551-6</a>).</li> <li>Korowai: in <i>Encyclopedia of World Cultures – Supplement (Editors: Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard) pp.183–187</i> by Gerrit J.van Enk. Macmillan Reference United States / Gale Group (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-865671-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-865671-7">0-02-865671-7</a>).</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520256866"><i>Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place</i></a> by Rupert Stasch (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520256866" title="Special:BookSources/9780520256866">9780520256866</a>). University of California Press.</li> <li>Korowai Treehouses and the Everyday Representation of Time, Belonging, and Death. by Rupert Stasch. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 12(3): 327–347.</li> <li>Textual Iconicity and the Primitivist Cosmos: Chronotopes of Desire in Travel Writing about Korowai of West Papua. by Rupert Stasch. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21(1):1–21.</li> <li>Word Avoidance as a Relation-Making Act: A Paradigm for Analysis of Name Utterance Taboos. by Rupert Stasch. Anthropological Quarterly 84(1):101–120.</li> <li>The Camera and the House: The Semiotics of New Guinea "Treehouses" in Global Visual Culture. by Rupert Stasch. Comparative Studies in Society and History 53(1):75–112.</li> <li>Knowing Minds is a Matter of Authority: Political Dimensions of Opacity Statements in Korowai Moral Psychology. by Rupert Stasch. Anthropological Quarterly 81(2): 443–453.</li> <li>Referent-Wrecking in Korowai: A New Guinea Abuse Register as <a href="/wiki/Ethnosemiotics" title="Ethnosemiotics">Ethnosemiotic</a> Protest. by Rupert Stasch. Language in Society 37(1):1–25.</li> <li>Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community. by Rupert Stasch. In Bambi Schieffelin and Miki Makihara, eds., Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies, pp. 96–124. Oxford University Press.</li> <li>The Semiotics of World-Making in Korowai Feast Longhouses. by Rupert Stasch. Language & Communication 23(3/4):359–383.</li> <li>Separateness as a Relation: The Iconicity, Univocality, and Creativity of Korowai Mother-in-law Avoidance. by Rupert Stasch. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (n.s.) 9(2):311–329.</li> <li>Joking Avoidance: A Korowai Pragmatics of Being Two. by Rupert Stasch. 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people">Madurese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bawean_people" title="Bawean people">Bawean</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundanese_people" title="Sundanese people">Sundanese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baduy_people" title="Baduy people">Baduy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bantenese_people" title="Bantenese people">Bantenese</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Borneo" title="Borneo">Kalimantan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banjar_people" title="Banjar people">Banjar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayak_people" title="Dayak people">Dayak</a> <ul><li>Apo Duat <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kelabit_people" title="Kelabit people">Kelabit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lun_Bawang" title="Lun Bawang">Lun Bawang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sa%27ban_people" title="Sa'ban people">Sa'ban</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apo_Kayan_people" title="Apo Kayan people">Apo Kayan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahau_people" title="Bahau people">Bahau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayan_people_(Borneo)" title="Kayan people (Borneo)">Kayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenyah_people" title="Kenyah people">Kenyah</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lebbo%27_people" title="Lebbo' people">Lebbo'</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uma_Baka%27_people" title="Uma Baka' people">Uma Baka'</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bidayuh" title="Bidayuh">Bidayuh</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kendayan_people" title="Kendayan people">Kendayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selako_people" title="Selako people">Selako</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iban_people" title="Iban people">Iban</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dayak_Mualang" title="Dayak Mualang">Mualang</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murut_people" title="Murut people">Murut</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tidung_people" title="Tidung people">Tidung</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ot_Danum_people" title="Ot Danum people">Ot Danum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lawangan_people" title="Lawangan people">Lawangan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma%27anyan_people" title="Ma'anyan people">Ma'anyan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ngaju_people" title="Ngaju people">Ngaju</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bakumpai_people" title="Bakumpai people">Bakumpai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meratus_Dayak" title="Meratus Dayak">Meratus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punan_Bah" title="Punan Bah">Punan Bah</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bukitan_people" title="Bukitan people">Bukitan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krio_Dayak_people" title="Krio Dayak people">Krio</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malay_Indonesians" title="Malay Indonesians">Malay</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berau_Malays" title="Berau Malays">Berau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontianak_Malay" title="Pontianak Malay">Pontianak</a></li></ul></li> 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<li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kalumpang_people&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kalumpang people (page does not exist)">Kalumpang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindu_people" title="Lindu people">Lindu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makassar_people" title="Makassar people">Makassar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malay_Indonesians" title="Malay Indonesians">Malay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandarese_people" title="Mandarese people">Mandarese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minahasan_people" title="Minahasan people">Minahasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongondow_people" title="Mongondow people">Mongondow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muna_people" title="Muna people">Muna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamona_people" title="Pamona people">Pamona</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rampi_people&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rampi people (page does not exist)">Rampi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sangirese_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sangirese people">Sangirese</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seko_people&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seko people (page does not exist)">Seko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tau_Taa_Wana" title="Tau Taa Wana">Tau Taa Wana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torajan_people" title="Torajan people">Torajan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mamasa_people" title="Mamasa people">Mamasa</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/New_Guinea" title="New Guinea">Papua</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abun_people" title="Abun people">Abun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amung_people" title="Amung people">Amungme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asmat_people" title="Asmat people">Asmat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bauzi_people" title="Bauzi people">Bauzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damal_people" title="Damal people">Damalme</a></li> <li><a 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title="Lesser Sunda Islands">Lesser <br />Sunda Islands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abui_people" title="Abui people">Abui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atoni" title="Atoni">Atoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bali_Aga" title="Bali Aga">Bali Aga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balinese_people" title="Balinese people">Balinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bimanese_people" title="Bimanese people">Bimanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bunak_people" title="Bunak people">Bunak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helong_people" title="Helong people">Helong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kemak_people" title="Kemak people">Kemak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamaholot_people" title="Lamaholot people">Lamaholot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malay_Indonesians" title="Malay Indonesians">Malay</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Loloan_Malays" title="Loloan Malays">Loloan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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