The Mentawai Islands—Culture, Society, & Politics

Mentawai.org has been around, in one form or another, for over 20 years.

The site covers cultural, social, and political issues on the Mentawai Islands based on this anthropologist’s studies beginning in 1991, but going back even further. Yeah, the material’s dated—but most of it’s evergreen, so no biggie.

For a more detailed intro, check out the original introductory page.

These days I’m a digital marketing consultant based in Taiwan. “Taiwan!?”, you exclaim. “Ha, well it’s a long story,” I answer. Put one way, I learned to read and write Mandarin Chinese way before I picked up Indonesian. Here’s my business site for reference.

And that, as they say, is that.