Author(s): Roy Wagner

Pacific Islands | Secondhand

Secondhand.

The first full-length study of a little-known mountain people of New Guinea. Subsisting by primitive agriculture in the overcast rain forests on the rim of the central highlands, the Daribi clasman experiences the world in terms of a universal causality. The shaming of the culture-hero Souw, in a myth analogous in some respects to the Genesis story of the fall of man, is seen as the original cause of the chain of mutual recrimination and revenge which extends to the present day.

A nice and clean copy. Minor shelf-wear to the dust jacket.