Based on the specific situation in West New Guinea from 1950 till 962 the authors discuss different critical perspectives on the relation between colonialsim and anthropology.

By utilizing ideas from discussions in the Papua New Guinea ethnographic writings this paper seeks to identify ways in which Irian Jaya ethnographies (Serpenti, Oosterwal, Koch) can be reanalyzed and reinterpreted in order to bring these writings into the context of contemporary critical debate on kinship, exchange, social control and marriage.

This unpublished paper presents a survey on the ways in which numbers are indicated in the morphology and syntax of a specific Biak dialect. This survey is preceded by some introductory remarks on the sociolinguistics and geographical setting, phonology of the dialect, and the role of numbers and gender in its grammar. The paper concludes with an exposition of the consequences of the Biak data for the theory of language universals.

The article deals with the precolonial situation in regard to food and nutrition, and analyses the reasons for large-scale food imports with an eye to especially the possible role of western controlled agro-business.

Contributions to the anthropology, linguistics, and demography of Oceania by Dutch social scientists after the Second World War

This article about Moni languages comprises the revisions of two earlier papers on phonemes of Moni and Moni language morphology.

Article about the new agrarian law for Dutch New Guinea in relation to customary law and adat land rights. With referenece to the tensions between both systems and earlier discussions about land rights in Dutch colonial history.

Incidental notes on the culture of the Nimboran-area, a.o. about matters like naming, kinship terminology,and traditional valuables.

The author discusses the problem of acculturation in New Guinea by dealing with three questions: what is the original situation (worldview and fysical environment), which changes occur by cultural contact, and what are the implications for policy?

Plea for the application in New Guinea of a specific linguistic approach to discover possible relations between language areas by comparing vocabularies. In the article the languages of the Sentani (Bird's Head area) and the Demta (in the east) are compared.