Telefomin District

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Telefomin District
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Telefomin District
Location within Papua New Guinea
Coordinates: 5°07′44″S141°38′10″E / 5.129°S 141.636°E / -5.129; 141.636
Country Papua New Guinea
Province Sandaun Province
Capital Telefomin
Government
   MP Solan Mirisim
Area
  Total16,333 km2 (6,306 sq mi)
Population
 (2011 census)
  Total48,882
  Density3.0/km2 (7.8/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+10 (AEST)

Telefomin District is a district of Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Telefomin. [1] Its inhabitants include the Mountain Ok people, a cultural group with numerous sub-groups including the Telefol, the Urapmin, and the Wopkaimin. The Oksapmin also live in this district. Notable ethnographic research by Geoffrey B. Saxe at UC Berkeley has documented the encounter between pre-contact uses of number and its cultural evolution under conditions of monetization and exposure to schooling and the formal economy among the Oksapmin. [2]

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References

  1. Districts of Papua New Guinea at statoids.com
  2. Especially The Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

5°07′44″S141°38′10″E / 5.129°S 141.636°E / -5.129; 141.636