The last cannibals
By: translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister.
Publisher: Drake Publishers
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Ethnology -- New Guinea.; Cannibalism -- New Guinea.
Notes: Translation of Blandt menneskeædere på Ny Guinea.
Table of contents: title: A journey across the sea : A stone age in the atom age -- I eat caterpillars and lizards : mass hysteria during an eclipse of the moon -- I become a member of the tribe : the mathematical marriage system -- Bloody ceremonies in the desert : native love life -- The ceremony of the holy snake. The medicine men in a trance -- The miracle in the desert --  New Guinea - the world’s most unapproachable island : by helicopter to the primitive past -- The natives eat the road : my first encounter with the Kukukuku cannibals -- We catch a murderer. Close-up of cannibals -- The children stone the prisoners to death -- Chant of death -- The magic rituals of the kukukukus. Smoking the corpses -- The skeletons on the mountaintop -- The chief with twenty murders to his credit. The initiation to manhood -- What do the kukukukus believe? Myths of human origin of man -- Of sun, moon and stars -- Salt from plants -- A warrior with an arrow in his stomach -- Tribal war halts the journey -- Across the mountains to a dance -- The nose-boring ceremony in the jungle -- Chased away by a spear -- Love ceremonies -- Witchcraft and superstition -- The motley world of the spirits -- A happy man with no shirt -- Twenty-four hours on paradise island -- The south sea girls tickle our chins -- I meet a Danish crocodile hunter -- £25 for t native -- The river is bewitched -- A climatic hell -- The strange jungle night -- Life in a village on piles -- The flying dogs -- A nocturnal crocodile hunt -- The vailala madness : ships from heaven -- Duck hunt -- The bloodsucking leeches -- Two white officials murdered by the natives -- Malaria -- In hospital in Madang.