Life in Lesu: The Study of Melanesian Society in New Ireland by Hortense Powdermaker

Life in Lesu: The Study of Melanesian Society in New Ireland

Hortense Powdermaker

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nonfiction history sociology medium-paced
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Life in Lesu is a vivid account of life in the late Stone-Age Melanesian society, by the first anthropologist and first white person to live there. Hortense Powdermaker, author of the widely praised Stranger and Friend, provides here both a mine o...

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