According to the author violence is becoming more and more an expected part of political activity. This is ascribed to commoditization of politics and decreasing legetimacy of the government since the departure of Australian administration.

This article discusses the possible etymoloy of the word Papua and the islands designated by the term.

Based on the specific situation in West New Guinea from 1950 till 962 the authors discuss different critical perspectives on the relation between colonialsim and anthropology.

By utilizing ideas from discussions in the Papua New Guinea ethnographic writings this paper seeks to identify ways in which Irian Jaya ethnographies (Serpenti, Oosterwal, Koch) can be reanalyzed and reinterpreted in order to bring these writings into the context of contemporary critical debate on kinship, exchange, social control and marriage.

This unpublished paper presents a survey on the ways in which numbers are indicated in the morphology and syntax of a specific Biak dialect. This survey is preceded by some introductory remarks on the sociolinguistics and geographical setting, phonology of the dialect, and the role of numbers and gender in its grammar. The paper concludes with an exposition of the consequences of the Biak data for the theory of language universals.

The article deals with the precolonial situation in regard to food and nutrition, and analyses the reasons for large-scale food imports with an eye to especially the possible role of western controlled agro-business.

Contributions to the anthropology, linguistics, and demography of Oceania by Dutch social scientists after the Second World War

This article about Moni languages comprises the revisions of two earlier papers on phonemes of Moni and Moni language morphology.

Article about the new agrarian law for Dutch New Guinea in relation to customary law and adat land rights. With referenece to the tensions between both systems and earlier discussions about land rights in Dutch colonial history.

Incidental notes on the culture of the Nimboran-area, a.o. about matters like naming, kinship terminology,and traditional valuables.