Ransom enterprise
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2023-03
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The Saturday Paper
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Morry Schwartz
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School of Culture and Communication
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Chandler, J. (2023). Ransom enterprise. Morry Schwartz.
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By one measure, the trouble starts in October 2019. That’s when a gang of 18 Huli tribesmen from the Hela highlands raid a logging camp in the lowland forests of Papua New Guinea’s Western Province. The murders of a Chinese father and son, shot outside their store in the
Makapa logging concession, are “an initial price-setting signal”, says Dr Michael Wood, a Queensland anthropologist who has worked with forest people in the region for 25 years.