The Dugum Dani: a Papuan culture in the highlands of West New Guinea

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co. [for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research], 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 334; 59 illustrations from photographs, 7 maps, 9 diagrams, and 11 tables; previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology no. 49. "For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. This book provides the data and analysis necessary for the full understanding of this isolated and technologically primitive people, whose life has already been described in Robert Gardner's classic film Dead Birds, in the photographic book, Gardens of War, and in the narrative history, Under the Mountain Wall, by Peter Matthiessen" (jacket blurb).