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Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 317p : ill ; map, ports ; 24cm. Notes; Subtitle on cover: New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world. Bibliography: p. [313]-316. Contents; 1. What is beyond? -- 2. Lifting the veil -- 3. Skymen and the living dead -- 4. First casualties -- 5. The Wahgi -- 6. Men of all things -- 7. Moka -- 8. Bridewealth -- 9. Ewunga Creek -- 10. The outside world -- 11. Doi -- 12. The white man's burden -- 13. Why had they come? -- 14. Fine marriage potential -- 15. Church and state -- 16. End of Eden -- 17. Independence. Subjects; Leahy, Michael P. T. 1934-2007. Leahy, Michael. Ethnology Papua New Guinea. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners Papua New Guinea. First contact (Anthropology) Papua New Guinea. First contact (Anthropology). First contact with Occidental civilization. Primitive societies. 1 Kg.…