Life in Lesu : the study of a Melanesian society in New Ireland /
by Hortense Powdermaker ; foreword by Clark Wissler.
- 352 pages : illustrations, plans ; 20 cm
- Norton library .
- Norton library. .
Includes Further reflections on Lesu and Malinowski's Diary reprinted from Oceania. Reprint of the 1933 edition.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Life in Lesu is a vivid account of life in a late Stone-Age Melanesian society, by the first anthropologist and first white person to live there. Hortense Powdermaker ... provides here both a mine of ethnological information and an absorbing personal view of daily life in a primitive community"--Cover.