Research Catalog

Title

Savage harvest : a tale of cannibals, colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's tragic quest for primitive art / Carl Hoffman.

Author

Hoffman, Carl, 1960-

Publication

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

x, 322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Retracing Rockefeller's steps, journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.
• Michael Rockefeller disappeared in New Guinea in 1961. Rumors surfaced that he'd been killed and ceremonially eaten by the local Asmat, a native tribe of warriors whose complex culture was built around sacred, reciprocal violence, head hunting, and ritual cannibalism. The Dutch government and the Rockefeller family denied the story. Retracing Rockefeller's steps, Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.

Alternative Title

Michael Rockefeller's tragic quest for primitive art

Subject

• Rockefeller, Michael Clark > Death and burial
• Hoffman, Carl, 1960- > Travel > New Guinea
• Rockefeller, Michael Clark > Travel > New Guinea
• Asmat (Indonesian people)
• Ethnology > New Guinea
• Ethnology > Papua
• Cannibalism > New Guinea
• New Guinea > Cannibalism

Note

• Map on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-312) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. November 19, 1961 -- November 20, 1961 -- February 2012 -- February 20, 1957 -- December 1957 -- February 2012 -- December 1957 -- February 2012 -- February 1958 -- March 1958 -- Part II. March 1961 -- March 2012 -- September 1961 -- February 2012 -- November 1961 -- November 1961 -- November 1961 -- November 1961 -- November 1961 -- December 1961 -- March 2012 -- January, February, and March 1962 -- Part III. November 2012 -- November 2012 -- December 2012.

ISBN

• 9780062116154 (hardcover)
• 0062116150 (hardcover)
• 9780062325310 (international ed.) (canceled/invalid)
• 0062325310 (international ed.) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

850180493

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library