DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

The Chimbu

A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands

Paula Brown author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:26th Feb '04

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

The Chimbu cover

In 1933 an Australian expedition discovered in the New Guinea Highlands a people who had for thousands of years been living isolated from the civilized world, the Chimbu. Never before was the westernization of an isolated people so thoroughly examined. This volume illustrates, contrary to widely held preconceptions about the nature of primitive societies, that the Chimbu have always been an adaptable people, whose concern for the present and for change has surpassed their attachment to tradition and the past.
Originally published in 1973.

ISBN: 9780415330527

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 340g

184 pages