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Title: Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xix,325,(26)pp. 26pp photo illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Colonial Papua & the Tradition of Exploration; The Strickland- Purari Patrol: Starting Out; The Great Papuan Plateau; Across the Tari Furoro; The Back Door to the Purari; From the Waga Furari to the Wen; Across the Nembi Plateau; Through Kewa Country; Return to Kikori; Aftermath & Reflections; The Historical Impact: Southern Highlands Epilogue; Appendices: The Origins of the Story of Walali; Carrier's Story.

Keywords: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia Ethnology, Ethnography, Exploration, Anthropology, Sociology, Colonial History, Papuan Papuans, Gulf Province

Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS008776I