Lohmann's View on The History of Warfare in Papua New Guinea

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Lohmann, R. I. (2014). A Cultural Mechanism to Sustain Peace: How the Asabano Made and Ended War. Anthropologica, 285-300.
The article discusses the warfare being the Aabano and other Om-Fu peoples located in the country known as Papua New Guinea has been replaced by peaceful coexistence. The primary objective of the article is to show that indefinite can be obtained through the use of appropriate beliefs and scripts, which are made for specific cultural contexts (Lohmann, 2014). The paper explains how the Australian patrol helped control warfare among these people in the 1960s after only making the first contact.
The author explores the situation in this regions a decade later and analyses the warfare situation among the population after Christianity was introduced. He examines the effect of Christian missionaries and how they were successful in the communication of a ban on fighting and used prayers as a means of dispersing vengeful feelings (Lohmann, 2014). The paper further discusses the effectiveness of an institution who...