Author: Peter Matthiessen
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Under the Mountain Wall. A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age [in New Guinea.] [With Plates.].
Author: Peter Matthiessen
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Under the Mountain Wall
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140252703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise. In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid. Matthiessen observes these people in their timeless rhythm of work and play and war, of gardening and wood gathering, feasts and funerals, pig stealing and ambushes. Drawing on his great skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen offers an exceptional account of an ancient culture on the brink of incalculable change.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140252703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise. In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid. Matthiessen observes these people in their timeless rhythm of work and play and war, of gardening and wood gathering, feasts and funerals, pig stealing and ambushes. Drawing on his great skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen offers an exceptional account of an ancient culture on the brink of incalculable change.
Religions of Melanesia
Author: Garry Trompf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Under the mountain wall
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 207
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The Journal of the Polynesian Society
Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
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Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
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Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Books
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases
Catalog of the South Pacific Collection
Author: University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library
Publisher:
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Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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