the kapauku papuans live in central highlands of western new guinea. they are mountain people who belong to several tribes. kapauku is the name of the tribe and papuans is the name of the land. they are estimated around 45,000 people. the climate in their region is mild with seasonal change. they are called the kapauku because of their neougbours whom lives in the southwestern coastal territory, that include the Munika, Oeta, and Kokeoau regions.

in the social evolution that is divided into different levels there is a level called the tribe which include the kapauku people, the social orgnization are equal and they have a headman , their technology are simple such as the hoe. their political organisation are lineage spirits and totems. their economic relation is reciprocity.

moreover, the kapauku papuans have an agriculture system called slush and burn. basically it is semi permanent agriculture, where they settle in an area and use up all the resources. then they slush and burn down the forest that fertilise the soil, but then that runs out. then they move to another place then another and so on. then by the time they go back to the original area, which has grown up trees, bushes and grass. burn that down, slash it, get rid of the rock and start all over again. the kapok has two different types of terrain. the steep slopes.of the mountains that surround the valley, char· actcrized by numerous limestone walls and cliffs and a relatively thin foyer of alkaline, coarse, yellowish soil that is rich in minerals and organic material.and the shifting cultivation this method is called intensive complex cultivation ,s charactecitcd by an arduous turning over of the dirt with .a spade like instrument in such a path, to the point that an arrangement of rectangular bunks is carefully structured with seepage trench encompassing each of them. These cots bend artifi. tarry treated with new plant·material, (for example, grass, reed, leaves) or with totted leaves aid greenery.

if someone of their people has a lot of pigs in their farm, he is consider rich. it requires growing a lot of potatoes to feed the pigs. and to that the men should own a lot of lands and marry a lot of women, because women’s labor that creates potatoes, pigs, and family wealth. however, these people have a person who is called the tonowi, he is the headman, he’vegot the authority to make political decisions for example, moving the village to a new piece of land or go to war.those who own him money and people in his family members are his followers. a kapauku house is made of wood, thatch and reeds decided into half. one half is for all the men who are connected through their father's ancestry and they all live respectively. the other half is partitioned into various individual compartments , one for each of a man's wife and her kids, each one having a different chimney. there are two types of social relations that belong to two types of aggregates, social categories and social quasi-groups. firstly, the kapok classy people into three broad categories Aimee bagel, close friends and kinsmen , jaa bagel, acquaintances and stranger and iape bagel, a traditional enemy. secondly, the social quasi-groups, they are aggregates of people whose members have a special relationship to a common ego and who form temporary unions while acting on his behalf . the kind of unified effort and activity is defined by custom, and the occurrence of the joint action is determined by the nature of the common activity. in addition, the kapok have political system,since choices must be made about the utilisation and dispersion of profitable, valuable assets. since these choices are so essential and, in this manner, so enthusiastic, the moving and situating here and there and then here again in settling on the choice and affecting the choice and impacting the leader is moreover paramount.