Author: ROWLEY, C.D.,
Title: The New Guinea Villager. A Retrospect from 1964. [First edition].
Description: Melbourne-Canberra-Sydneh, F.W. Chershire, 1965. 8°. Original publ. cloth. Gilded bold type title on spine. Dustjacket. 225pp. Monochrome fronsispiece illustrating some Papuan Children, detailed references, double-page endpaper maps illustrating the Australian Mandate Territory of Papua New Guinea. biogr. notes to author, with monochrome portraits in inner flaps of dustjacket. Autographed dedication in ms. in ink on ti.-p. English language scholarly examination of the changes which have occurred in the lives of the villagers since the first contacts with the ourside world; the effects of government control , the impact of the control of the cash economy, and the demands by the white man for labour and landthe influence of the Christian missions. He further describest in extenso the reactions of the villagersincluding the Cargo Cults and urbanization. Good to very good copy. (some more or less insignificant traces of sellotaper removal on inner flaps of dustckacket and on endpaper maps, dustjacket a bit scuffed on extremities ow. a clean and tight copy).

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