num_pages: 320
description: In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century, the Kurelu. Peter Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961 which set out to study this primitive people as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for two seasons, and produced a classic account, not of the expedition, but of a lost culture in all its violence and simplicity. Drawing on his skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen observes the Kurelus' timeless rhythms of work and play, of warriorship, feasting and funerals in one of the worlds last and now vanishing wildernesses.
language: English
title: Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
titlecomplete: Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
genres: Anthropology, Nature, Adventure, Nonfiction, Travel, Guinea, Sociology
ratings_count: 144
publisher: Penguin Books