Talk:Kwoma people

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This ethny is small, and there is just one ethnography, but it is a well-known ethnography, and the culture is included in the Standard cross-cultural sample. For a small group, a short article should be sufficient, as long as it contains the right information. I think one question the peer review should address: does this article contain the right information. --Anthon.Eff 17:42, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

The current article does need rewriting

There is a good deal more written about the Kwoma than this short article states. The one other ethnography is "Yena: Art and Ceremony in a Sepik Society," by Ross Bowden, Pitt Rivers Museum Press, 1983. Bowden has published a number of articles on the Kwoma, as have I. The current article does need rewriting. It is incorrect to refer to the women as "females," since young children were all gendered female; nor to men as "males," since elderly women were gendered male. Also, the Kwoma never were headhunters; they despised their river neighbors who were. There is other misinformation as well. Margaret Holmes Williamson, 17 April 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.149.109 (talk) 01:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

It's great to hear this from someone who has done ethnographic work among the Kwoma. I wrote the current text based entirely upon John Whiting's ethnography, which depicts the situation in the mid-1930s, but of course Whiting may have left out important facets of Kwoma life, and of course the situation has changed a great deal since then. Please make whatever additions and changes you think are appropriate. --Anthon.Eff (talk) 18:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)