First contact
By: Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson.
Contributors: Anderson, Robin.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Leahy, Michael.; Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea.; Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 313-316.
Table of contents: title: What is beyond?; title: Lifting the veil; title: Skymen and the living dead; title: First casualties; title: The Wahgi; title: Men of all things; title: Moka; title: Bridewealth; title: Ewunga Creek; title: The outside world; title: DOI; title: The white man’s burden; title: Why had they come?; title: Fine marriage potential; title: Church and state; title: End of Eden; title: Independence.