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Hasui Kawase

In addition to this detailed study on the Northern Ache, please see the forthcoming paper I have written with Kim Hill, Chris von Rueden, and Aniruddh Patel on the rarity of collective music-making among the Tsimane, Ache, Ayoreo, and Tuvans: osf.io/preprints/soca… 🧵coming soon!

How tourism, the use of unreliable interlocutors, and the hunger for mystical explanations crowd out the truth theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

"In many societies, shamans claim to extract embodiments of illness. They might suck or rub a patient’s body and then display an illness-causing object, such as a worm, arrow, or small quartz crystal...such extractions often involve sleight of hand."

Papua New Guinea's Genetic Past Through Ancient DNA Analysis mpg.de/24825928/0603-…

And the beat goes on!!

Pleased to see this out. Palaeoanthropology meets medicine. academic.oup.com/emph/advance-a…

My Papuan ethnography ... just arrived, looking good. Apparently will begin shipping soon. It describes the material culture of peoples living in the Baliem valley, as it existed in the 1980s. Stone tools, fiber, adornments, wealth items, healing kits, agriculture, dress ...

A large je (wealth stone) from the Baliem valley, Papua, part of the Hampton Archive, recently conserved and photographed at Tracing Patterns Foundation. Wealth stones were part of a complex cycle of exchanges amongst the Hubula (Dani) people.

"after reaching a critical mass, research communities become self-perpetuating due to the emotional and financial interests of those involved” theguardian.com/science/2025/j…

Have received similar comments from anonymous reviewers

An amazing place. Tiny corncobs that look as if they were left yesterday, actually dropped 800 yrs ago

Why do some things evolve smoothly, and some in bursts? Now read on …

A book chapter that I wrote in 2021 ... summarizing what is known of the early history of bark cloth and loom weaving in ISEA and the Asia Pacific region researchgate.net/publication/39…