The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology & Ethnography)

by PaulaBrown (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $284.94

  In 1933 an Australian expedition discovered in the New Guinea Highlands a people who had for thousands of years been living isolated from the civilized world, the Chimbu. Never before was the westernization of an isolated people so thoroughly examined.

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $309.23

  The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony.