Professor Christopher Hallpike

Smoking pipes with Apo Guisa.

Professor Christopher Hallpike

Waaka Statues

Konso wooden memorial statues.

<em>Waaka</em> Statues

The Nama Dawra

The sacred office holders of the Konso.

The Nama Dawra

The Track To Kerau

The rugged mountains of Papua New Guinea's Central Highlands.

The Track To Kerau

A Tauade Pig Killing

The Tauade people, a staggeringly violent people.

A Tauade Pig Killing

Father Guichet

The leader of the French Roman Catholic mission in Goilala Sub District of Papua New Guinea.

Father Guichet

Avui Apava

A Big Man of the Tauade people in Goilala Sub District of Papua New Guinea.

Avui Apava

Professor Christopher Hallpike

Anthropologist & Writer

This is the website of the English and Canadian anthropologist C.R. Hallpike, whose work covers a period of fifty years, and is unusually wide-ranging and diverse. Apart from extensive field work in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, he has made distinctive contributions to some of the most fundamental problems in the subject: cultural relativism, social evolution, primitive thought, the nature of religion, warfare, moral development, and even the origins of modern science.

Professor Hallpike is the recognised authority on the Konso people of southern Ethiopia and the Tauade people of the Goilala sub-district of Papua New Guinea, having lived amongst and studied the two primitive cultures during the 1960s and 1970s. He has written many papers and books about these primitive societies, many of which you can buy or read on this website. The full list of all of Professor Hallpike's publications from 1966 to the present day can be found here.

Christopher Hallpike Sitting With Apo Guisa Smoking Pipes In The Konso In Ethiopia

Author

On The Wilder Shores Of Life By C.R. Hallpike

Books

Climbing A Padanus Tree In Goilala District Of Papua New Guinea

Publications

The Track To Kerau In Papua New Guinea

Photographs

The Konso of Ethiopia

1965 - 1967

The Tauade of Papua New Guinea

1970 - 1972