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"The Vailala madness", and other essays / [by] Francis Edgar Williams ; edited, with an introduction by Erik Schwimmer.

Title
"The Vailala madness", and other essays / [by] Francis Edgar Williams ; edited, with an introduction by Erik Schwimmer.
Author
Williams, F. E. (Francis Edgar)
Publication
London : C. Hurst, 1976.

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Description
432 p. : ill., maps, port.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Williams, Francis Edgar
  • Ethnology > Papua New Guinea
  • Rites and ceremonies > Papua New Guinea
Note
  • Appendix (p. 419-421): F. E. Williams' account of his study in Europe.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 422-427.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Trading voyages from the Gulf of Papua.--Bull-roarers in the Papuan Gulf.--Sex affiliation and its implications.--Natives of Lake Kutubu, Papua.--The Vailala madness and the destruction of native ceremonies in the gulf division.--The Vailala madness in retrospect.--Creed of a government anthropologist.
ISBN
090398346X
LCCN
^^^78318133^
OCLC
  • 4490126
  • SCSB-13123989
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library