the Highlands

region, New Guinea

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Melanesian culture

  • Culture areas of the Pacific Islands
    In Melanesian culture: Gender relations

    …the southern face of the Highlands (Anga speakers and Papuan plateau peoples) and the high central mountains (Mountain Ok peoples) down into the Sepik. Peoples throughout this zone were preoccupied with ideas about growth and the physical fluids and substances (semen, vaginal fluids, and menstrual blood) that they regarded as…

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physiography

  • Papua New Guinea
    In Papua New Guinea: Relief

    A mountainous zone called the Highlands, extending from the west to the southeast, occupies the central part of the island of New Guinea. In Papua New Guinea those mountains reach elevations in excess of 13,000 feet (4,000 metres), rising to the country’s highest point of 14,793 feet (4,509 metres)…

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