The High Valley

by Kenneth Read

Overview

-- Hobart M. Van Deusen, "Natural History"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231050357
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/22/1980
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kenneth E. Read was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Village
2. Makis
3. Asemo
4. The Age Mates
5. Tarova
6. Zaho and Goluwaizo
Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

New Guinea is a violent and exotic place, both in the dramatic contrasts of its landscape and in the primitive cultures of some of its peoples. Read describes both landscape and people... and also provides an introspective view of himself and his relationships with the Gahuku...

Chicago Tribune - Philip Lewis

Read happens to be an artist as well as a scientist... He has a touch of the poet-visionary-mystic, blended with passion and a gift for prose.

The Wall Street Journal - Edmund Fuller

An experiment in ethnography that gains a special lucidity by being fine literature.

Science - William Davenport

An extraordinarily vivid insight into the life and character of a series of natives living in the highlands of northeastern New Guinea

The New York Times Book review - Harry L. Shapiro

Read happens to be an artist as well as a scientist... He has a touch of the poet-visionary-mystic, blended with passion and a gift for prose.

— Edmund Fuller

The Wall Street Journal

An experiment in ethnography that gains a special lucidity by being fine literature.

— William Davenport

Science

An extraordinarily vivid insight into the life and character of a series of natives living in the highlands of northeastern New Guinea

— Harry L. Shapiro

The New York Times Book review

New Guinea is a violent and exotic place, both in the dramatic contrasts of its landscape and in the primitive cultures of some of its peoples. Read describes both landscape and people... and also provides an introspective view of himself and his relationships with the Gahuku...

— Philip Lewis

Chicago Tribune