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Under the Mountain Wall
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1987-01-06
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1101663200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 530
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 560
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Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 570
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Religions of Melanesia
Author: Garry Trompf
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2006-09-30
Total Pages: 728
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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