Tsembaga Maring are a group of horticulturists who live in the highlands of New Guinea

New Guinea

New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

. They have been extensively studied by ethnographers, the foremost of which is Roy Rappaport

Roy Rappaport

Roy A. Rappaport was a distinguished anthropologist known for his contributions to the anthropological study of ritual and to ecological anthropology.-Biography:...

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Ethnographies

Rappaport conducted research on the Maring in the 1960s, publishing his work in a book entitled Pigs for the Ancestors.

Lifestyle

The Maring are known for a special pattern of farming, hoarding of pigs, and warfare. Warfare usually proceeds after a ritual pig feast, known as kaiko.

External links

• Ritual and self-regulation of the Tsembaga Maring ecosystem in the New Guinea highlands