Mountain Ok
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The Mountain Ok are a region, language, and a group of natives from Papua New Guinea
. Not much is known about the obscure and hard-to-reach group at this time, as they are only reachable by a prop-plane on an ill-maintained dirt runway and no other form of transportation. The valley in which they live is too steep for even mules, much less dirt bikes, and money is not a medium of trade here.
The Mountain Ok is notable for being visited and studied for 18 months by Dr. Michael Wesch
, a professor of Cultural Anthropology
at K-State.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
. Not much is known about the obscure and hard-to-reach group at this time, as they are only reachable by a prop-plane on an ill-maintained dirt runway and no other form of transportation. The valley in which they live is too steep for even mules, much less dirt bikes, and money is not a medium of trade here.
The Mountain Ok is notable for being visited and studied for 18 months by Dr. Michael Wesch
Michael Wesch
Michael Lee Wesch is associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Wesch's work also includes media ecology and the emerging field of digital ethnography, where he studies the effect of new media on human interaction.Wesch is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist...
, a professor of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities. Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation,...
at K-State.