Stone Age Island: Seven Years In New Guinea
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: chipped and worn with some tears. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
In the years following World War II, few corners of the earth remained as remote and untouched as the highlands and coastal villages of New Guinea — a land where stone tools were still in daily use and colonial contact was barely a generation old. Stone Age Island chronicles Maslyn Williams's seven extraordinary years living among the peoples of New Guinea, presenting an intimate and vivid portrait of a society on the threshold of seismic transformation. Williams details the rituals, social structures, and daily lives of communities that had remained largely unchanged for millennia, capturing a world simultaneously ancient and immediate. Williams writes with the eye of a seasoned journalist and the sensitivity of an anthropologist, grounding sweeping cultural observations in precise, human detail. His account stands as an invaluable document of a pivotal moment in Pacific history, when the pressures of modernity were beginning to reshape indigenous cultures with irreversible force. For readers drawn to the literature of discovery and cultural encounter, Stone Age Island raises questions about progress, preservation, and the true cost of civilisation that remain as urgent today as they were in 1964.
Author: Maslyn Williams
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Collins
Genre: Australasion & Pacific history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: chipped and worn with some tears. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
In the years following World War II, few corners of the earth remained as remote and untouched as the highlands and coastal villages of New Guinea — a land where stone tools were still in daily use and colonial contact was barely a generation old. Stone Age Island chronicles Maslyn Williams's seven extraordinary years living among the peoples of New Guinea, presenting an intimate and vivid portrait of a society on the threshold of seismic transformation. Williams details the rituals, social structures, and daily lives of communities that had remained largely unchanged for millennia, capturing a world simultaneously ancient and immediate. Williams writes with the eye of a seasoned journalist and the sensitivity of an anthropologist, grounding sweeping cultural observations in precise, human detail. His account stands as an invaluable document of a pivotal moment in Pacific history, when the pressures of modernity were beginning to reshape indigenous cultures with irreversible force. For readers drawn to the literature of discovery and cultural encounter, Stone Age Island raises questions about progress, preservation, and the true cost of civilisation that remain as urgent today as they were in 1964.