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Colours of the Congo #congo http://ift.tt/1sHIc8j

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We have been on an expedition to Banda, in the famed Spice Islands. More posts to follow once we get settled from our trip.

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#cannibaltours #dennisorourke #1988

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Excited about tomorrow's master class with Assoc. Prof. Holly Wardlow, readings completed, bed now...

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Kulture Consulting Pty Ltd turned 3 today!

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Today our thoughts are with the strong women and men taking a stand, telling Papua New Guinea that when it comes to violence against women, enough is enough.

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Can anthropology continue without a concept of culture? http://bit.ly/13WpWkP

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Working with displaced communities of the Orang Asli (indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia) in the Cameroon Highlands, Malaysia.

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We are working for change....and it's gonna come....

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power to our people...we have survived....

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Kulture Consulting acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of the land we work on as the first people of this country.

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The Burnum Burnum Declaration England, 26th January, 1988

I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia do hereby take posession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo - 'a fresh start'. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovreignty over this domain. For the more advanced, bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.

We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of your 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganninni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilise your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.

Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.

  Upon conclusion of the declaration Burnam Burnam says: It's too cold here, I want to go home...

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Rasta was accused of sorcery and set upon by a crowd, beaten and strangled, she escaped but lost her hand in the attack (Credit: http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/its-2013-and-theyre-burning-witches/558/).  

Kulture Consulting supports the repeal of the 1971 PNG Sorcery Act and has been involved in devising frameworks and concrete actions to address violence against women accessed of witchcraft and sorcery in Papua New Guinea.