ABSTRACT
Between 500 and 3000 m on the southern slopes of the Hindenburg Mountains in central New Guinea is the homeland of some 700 Wopkaimin people (Fig. 5.1) They are hunterhorticulturalists culturally affiliated with over 33000 other Mountain Ok-speakers (Fig. 5.1) who, by an unfortunate colonial legacy, are politically separated into West Papuans and Papua New Guineans. Subsistence ecology essentially revolves around the joint work of men and women cultivating Colocasia taro in shifting, slash-mulch, aggregate gardens and the exclusive work of men in hunting large terrestrial and arboreal game animals.
