The American's wide range of philanthropic acts ranged from pounds 50 million gifts for both the National Gallery and the British Film Institute to helping save the Mappi Mundi at Hereford Cathedral with a pounds 1 million donation and giving money to the families of striking miners.

The famous Mappi Mundi - one of the world's earliest maps on display in the 11th Century Cathedral - attracts thousands of visitors every year.

In most or all of these broad respects and several others, the social geography of contemporary Korowai life is similar to past practices of people elsewhere in the southern interior lowland region of New Guinea, particularly people of the vast plain of the upper Mappi, Digul, and Fly river watersheds far to the south and southeast of the Korowai lands (e.g.

Extraction and mappi ng come from the sorry, "unreal" world of linear one--point perspective and its illusionary "single right way" to enter a given world.

Conversely, the center is the locus of imperial power, where "an inner cabinet plot the mappi mundi" (SL 40) and impersonally send out "the routine decrees" (SL 40) that govern the "Urbs, throughout orbis" (SL 50).