{"product_id":"pigs-sorcery-and-cannibalism-a-new-guinea-diary-paperback","title":"Pigs, Sorcery and Cannibalism: a New Guinea Diary - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth K. Mandeville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1976 social anthropologist Elizabeth Mandeville and her husband Neil, a social psychologist, told friends and relations that they proposed to spend two years in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea with their two small children. Most thought they were crazy. Mention was made of cannibalism, warfare and dangerous insects. But while most of the adults they went on to live with in New Guinea had eaten human flesh, they had ceased doing so - and had largely stopped fighting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt 7000ft there were no snakes or biting insects, and nothing much to worry them except the monotonous diet, the difficulty of the language and the mud. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people of New Guinea proved kind and generous, and were repaid by the prestige of being chosen as hosts - and particularly, by the interesting presence of two foreign children. It seemed that none of them had ever been close to a white child.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author's contemporaneous diaries and letters home, collected in this volume, present a fascinating insight into their new companions' thoughts, kinship systems, and understanding of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 7.8 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52451127755059,"sku":"9781512380767","price":23.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/djNWTmQvWEJWNVpiRG5OUzNHR3lDZz09.webp?v=1759082265","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/pigs-sorcery-and-cannibalism-a-new-guinea-diary-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}