Savageminds.org Website Review

this will be the last post on the domain savageminds.org, but the site will live on. it will live on both at this address (savageminds.org) where there will be a permanent archive of our twelve years of blogging and discussion. it will also gain new life as all your note #1: our social media links will also change. check the new site for the updated facebook and twitter accounts. and if you are subscribed to receive updates about this site via email or rss, you will need to re-subscribe on the new site. note #2: there will be no new posts here after today, but comments will remain open for another 30 days (or 30 days from the publication date of a post, whichever comes first) so that people have a chance to wrap up any ongoing conversations before we shut things down. thank you all for your support over the years, and we look forward to many more years together over at anthro{dendum}. on the 90th anniversary of the first european crossing of new guinea, “explorer” benedict allen claims to have done it for the first. british “explorer” benedict allen made news recently by being rescued from a failed attempt to cross the central mountain range of while most of the world was alternately amused and thrilled to hear of allen’s failed exploits, those of us who have lived in papua new guinea were struck by allen’s invocation of uncontacted tribes and primordial jungles. to be honest, this sort of thing does more to convince me that it is allen, not papua new guineans, who is out of touch with the modern world. others have claimed that allen’s failed as a historian and anthropologist who lived for two years in porgera (about 20 miles from where allen was eventually rescued) i want to weigh in here with another criticism of allen: although he claims to be be the first person to cross papua new guinea’s central ranges, he is not. his accounts of his amazing feats not only downplay the achievements of papua new guineans, they ignore — or perhaps were