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Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies
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Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies Hardcover - 1991

by Schieffelin, Edward; Crittenden, Robert


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This book is at once a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of one of the final modern-day experiences of first-culture contact, a classic example of historical geography, and an extraordinary tale of exploration, imperialist arrogance, blood-shed, suffering, courage, and near disaster. By the 1930's, the interior of the island of New Guinea, protected from outside penetration over the centuries by its rugged mountains and unruly rivers, remained one of the few places outsiders had never seen. In early January of 1935, the Papuan colonial administration dispatched patrol officers including 40 Papuan carriers and police, to explore the vast unknown country between the Strickland and Purari rivers. The expedition moved inland along the river systems by steam launch and canoe until, in mid-February, they abandoned their boats and proceeded on foot through the tropical forest and into the mountains. Along the way, the party encountered hitherto unsuspected populations - peoples of six tribes, numbering in the tens of thousands - who had never before seen white men and who were still using Stone Age tools.

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  • Title Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies
  • Author Schieffelin, Edward; Crittenden, Robert
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
  • Date 1991
  • ISBN 9780804716628
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by Schieffelin, Edward L (1938- ) and Robert Crittenden

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xviii+325 pages with maps, plates, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 14") bound in original publisher's aqua cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Contribution by Bryant Allen and Stephen Frankel, Paul Sillitoe and Lisette Josephides and Marc Schiltz. First editon. This work is at once a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of one of the final modern day experiences of first-culture contact, a classic example of historical geography and an extraordinary tale of exploration, imperialist arrogance, bloodshed, suffering, courage and near disaster. Condition. A near fine copy in like jacket.
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Like People You See in a Dream First Contact in Six Papuan Societies

by Schieffelin, Edward & Robert Crittenden

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