Life in Lesu : the study of a Melanesian society in New Ireland / by Hortense Powdermaker ; foreword by Clark Wissler.

By:

Powdermaker, Hortense, 1903-1970, author [author]

Contributor(s):

Wissler, Clark [writer of forward.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ncf Series: Norton libraryPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton, 1971Description: 352 pages : illustrations, plans ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0393005666
9780393005660

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Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 993.5 POW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	FEAH25082553

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.

Includes text in Notsi.