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18 mai 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pacific.1028
- isbn: 9782956398196
- eisbn: 9782491338022
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Anton Ploeg, « Chapter 7. Eipo », pacific-credo Publications, ID : 10.4000/books.pacific.1028
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The Eipo are a small group of people living north of the main divide, in the valley of the Eipo River, the Eipomek (Helmcke 1983: 30). They are speakers of a Mek language and have become known to the outside world primarily thanks to a massive research project undertaken from 1974 by a sizeable group of German researchers. For some of them, it became a project that lasted for decades. It was set up and started by two anthropologists, Gerd Koch and Klaus Helfrich, but in the course of the year...