Item #133282 The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies. D. K. FEIL.

The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Octavo, xii; 313 pages with 2 maps, 5 tables and 8 illustrations from photographs.

Three-colour decorated papered boards slightly rubbed; endpapers lightly tanned; an excellent copy.

'An explicitly comparative, anthropological analysis of the societies of the eastern and western highlands of Papua New Guinea... This book argues that ... societies of the eastern highlands have followed markedly different paths of development in the past to those of the western highlands, and it is upon this divergence that a comparative treatment of the twentieth century should be mounted' (introduction).

Item #133282

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