Comments on: Kuwimb’s Letter to the New Yorker

By: Melanesian vengeance, Western vengeance, and natural vengeance | Savage Minds

Fri, 08 May 2009 22:43:45 +0000

[…] Melanesian logic. I haven’t talked to Wemp, but I must say that I was struck by the way that Kuwimb’s letter to the New Yorker read much like the letters and memos from landowners that fill my own research—written very […]

By: Jared Diamond, the New Yorker Magazine, and blood feuds in PNG: part 2 « Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

Fri, 08 May 2009 19:41:58 +0000

[…] can read Mako J. Kuwimb’s entire rebuttal of Jared Diamond on the Savage Minds blog, but this one brief excerpt demonstrates that the indigenous person is every bit as civilized as […]

By: adamhenne

adamhenne — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:47:26 +0000

Man, why did Diamond write this article? I mean, I haven’t been following the deepest details of all this – maybe the arguments are inaccurate, maybe the severity is overstated, I don’t know. But what on earth was in it for him? The cost-benefit or risk analysis is so unclear…

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:43:28 +0000

Same here, nothing at Google Docs, but thanks can see it at Scribd.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:44:04 +0000

I’ve also uploaded a copy to Scribd, see update.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:31:17 +0000

Kerim – I got this message:

“Sorry, the page (or document) you have requested is not available.

Please check the address and try again.”