West Papua: Korowai Treehouses And The Everyday Representation Of Time, Belonging, And Death

West Papua: Korowai Treehouses And The Everyday Representation Of Time, Belonging, And Death Rupert Stasch, 2011   This article takes current international interest in the treehouse dwellings built by Korowai of West Papua as a prompt for asking how Korowai themselves aesthetically understand their houses. I suggest treehouses can aptly be described as artworks for Korowai, in the sense that numerous surrounding categories and principles of people's lives are poetically superimposed in...

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