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Originally Posted by NightbatŪ
Friendly indeed, especially when you single out a region known for headhunting and cannabalism even in lasting into modern (last century) times
(and can you give numbers concerning tribal or inter-tribal homocides with that?)
Personally, I wouldn't like to attend a weddingceremony there
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I'm just getting it from Guns, Germs and Steel. The leading causes of death in all tribal societies was homicide, childbirth, accident or wild animal. Very few died from illness or disease.
New Guinea is, in fact, not the greatest example, as many of it's "tribes" are actually primitive
farming communities.
Tribal people tend to be nice in general, but let's not romanticize their lives. To give an example from Guns, Germs and Steel, one tribal woman in New Guinea had had 3 husbands in her lifetime "The first was assigned by her parents, he was killed by her second husband who then raped her and forced her to stay with him, and the third she took by choice when she was old, and the second got himself killed by an animal". (I paraphrase).