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Life in Lesu : the study of a Melanesian society in New Ireland /[with Further reflections on Lesu and Malinowski's Diary] / by Hortense Powdermaker ; foreword by Clark Wissler.
- Title
- Life in Lesu : the study of a Melanesian society in New Ireland /[with Further reflections on Lesu and Malinowski's Diary] / by Hortense Powdermaker ; foreword by Clark Wissler.
- Author
- Powdermaker, Hortense, 1903-1970.
- Publication
- New York : Norton, 1971.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | OC.MEL. P 87 l 1971 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 352 p. : ill., plans; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Life in Lesu is a vivd account of life in a late Stone-Age Melanesian society, byt he first anthropologist and first whiite 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.
- Series Statement
- Norton library
- Subject
- Note
- Reprint of the 1933 ed.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0393005666
- LCCN
- ^^^72024479^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library