Topic: Wantok System

• Bigmen and Wantoks: Social Capital and Group Behaviour in Papua New Guinea, Working Paper Number 27, Paolo de Renzio

  Source: https://core.ac.uk/ The concept of social capital has received a lot of attention in the social sciences in the last few years. It has come to be seen as an…

  March 21, 2023

• The Wantok System

  THE WORLD’S SECOND-LARGEST ISLAND after Greenland is threaded with twisting rivers, rainforests, and swamps. Steep peaks and grassy highlands cross the center. For forty thousand years there were no centralized states.…

  March 21, 2023