| Description |
xxvii, 548 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 529-532. |
| Contents |
Preface 1965 -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Geographical and linguistic note -- -- Arrival in Peri, 1953 -- Old Peri: Economic treadmill -- Wider context in 1928 -- Roots of change in old Peri -- Unforeseeable: Coming of the American army -- Paliau: Man who met the hour -- What happened, 1946-1953 -- New Peri -- New way -- "And unto God the things that are God's" -- Rage, rhythm, and autonomy -- New working of old themes -- Sunday that was straight -- Women, sex, and sin -- Reprieve-Twentieth-century terms -- Implications for the world -- Notes to chapters -- Notes to plates. |
| Subject |
Manus (Papua New Guinean people)
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Acculturation.
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