The Gebusi : lives transformed in a rainforest world /

The Gebusi : lives transformed in a rainforest world /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Knauft, Bruce M.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2010.
Description:	xiv, 193 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Gebusi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social conditions. Gebusi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Cultural assimilation. Gebusi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs. Social change -- Papua New Guinea. Acculturation -- Papua New Guinea. Acculturation. Gebusi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs. Social change. Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8445832

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ISBN:	9780073405377 (pbk.) 007340537X (pbk.)
Notes:	Map on p. [2] of cover. Includes index.

Table of Contents:

List of Map, Figures, and Photographs
Preface
Entry
Introduction: In Search of Surprise
Part 1. 1980-82
Chapter 1. Friends in the Forest
Chapter 2. Rhythms of Survival
Chapter 3. Lives of Death
Chapter 4. Getting Along with Kin and Killers
Chapter 5. Spirits, Sex, and Celebration
Chapter 6. Ultimate Splendor
Part 2. 1998
Chapter 7. Reentry
Chapter 8. Yuway's Sacred Decision
Chapter 9. Pennies and Peanuts, Rugby and Radios
Chapter 10. Mysterious Romance, Marital Choice
Chapter 11. Sayu's Dance and After
Part 3. 2008
Chapter 12. Gebusi 2008
Conclusion: Twenty-Eight Years amid Worlds of Change
Farewell
List of Persons
Study Questions
Index