Author: STRATHERN, ANDREW.
Title: One Father, One Blood: Descent and Group Structure Among The Melpa People.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xiv, 265, (1); text with numerous tables, 9 illustrations, 3 maps, notes, references, index, bound in original navy cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Canberra, ACT; Australian National University Press; 1972. The book deals with social control in uncentralised societies, Melanesian ethnography, and kinship, it provide a provocative analysis of descent and group structure in a New Guinea Highlands people and serves as a pointer to further research in social change in the Highlands
Keywords: Papua new guinea history culture
Title: One Father, One Blood: Descent and Group Structure Among The Melpa People.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xiv, 265, (1); text with numerous tables, 9 illustrations, 3 maps, notes, references, index, bound in original navy cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Canberra, ACT; Australian National University Press; 1972. The book deals with social control in uncentralised societies, Melanesian ethnography, and kinship, it provide a provocative analysis of descent and group structure in a New Guinea Highlands people and serves as a pointer to further research in social change in the Highlands
Keywords: Papua new guinea history culture
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 122728
- Book number: 122728