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New lives for old : cultural transformation--Manus, 1928-1953.

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Anthropological study of the Manus tribe of New Guinea, which was catapulted by the Second World War from a Stone Age culture into the path of modern civilization.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Morrow, 1956.
Subjects:
Manus (Papua New Guinean people)
Acculturation.
Ethnology.
Anthropology, Cultural
Acculturation
New Guinea
Manus (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
Ethnologie.
Ethnologie
Manus > Volk
Acculturatie.
Manus.
Acculturation > Papua New Guinea > Admiralty Islands.
Social change > Papua New Guinea > Admiralty Islands.
Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs.
Manus (Volk)
Barnard Alum Collection.
Table of Contents:
  • Arrival in Peri, 1953
  • Old Peri : an economic treadmill
  • The wider context in 1928
  • Yesterday's children seen today
  • Roots of change in old Peri
  • The unforeseeable : the coming of the American army
  • Paliau : the man who met the hour
  • What happened, 1946-1953
  • New Peri
  • The new way
  • "And unto God the things that are God's"
  • Rage, rhythm, and autonomy
  • New working of old themes
  • The Sunday that was straight
  • Women, sex, and sin
  • Reprieve it
  • in twentieth-century terms
  • Implications for the world.