Enga compensation ceremony (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Enga compensation ceremony

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Enga tribal villagers gather at Irelya, Papua New Guinea, in 2010 for a village court compensation ceremony aimed settling a homicide case to avoid warfare between clans. Pigs are given to the victim’s clan as compensation from the offender’s clan.

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Polly Wiessner, University of Utah.

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