Blood is Their Argument: Warfare Among the Mae Enga Tribesmen of the New Guinea HighlandsThis series of new monographs brings to students the findings of exciting fieldwork being done by established anthropologists as well as rising young talents. The books are not general ethnographies, but instead each focuses in depth on a single culture-wide institution such as religion, the economy, marriage, or on specific cults and rituals within the culture. Special pains have been taken in the editing to make each book lively and readable to an intelligent freshman and sophomore audience. Unfamiliar words and place names are e kept to a minimum; maps are included; and local institutions and customs are compared to and contrasted with more universal ones. All selections are well illustrated with photographs and lucid diagrams, and each will be published in an inexpensive paperback edition. |
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