Anthropology For Students
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D£dZ)/YGS in Australian and Xi Pacific Anthropology, edited by lan Hogbin and L. R. Hiatt, contains two papers on Papua-New Guinea, one on Melanesia (particularly the N T J r H i ebnd - eS) ’ a°T ° n ly T Sia and Melanesia and four on the Australian Aborigines. All have been published before, some as early as 1931, and the purpose of this solidly bound 179 pp paperback is to bring together for the benefit of students worthwhile papers not now easily
accessible. The Islands material comprises: The Nature and Function of Secret Societies, by Camilla Wedgwood; African Models in the New Guinea Highlands, by J. A.
Ba ™es; Problems in the Con ,, , “ptual.sat.on of NG Highlands ocia Structures, by L, L. Langness, and Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia, by Marshall Sahlins. Mel bourne University Press publish it at $2.80.