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The first major publication on the art of the New Guinea Highlands,
this extraordinary volume is destined to become the definitive
resource on this little-known region. The Jolika Collection of New
Guinea Art of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco consists of
thousands of objects and represents hundreds of clans and villages
throughout New Guinea. The first book in a projected ten-volume
series, this lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the Highlands-a
region of rugged mountains, fertile valleys, and a civilization
that dates back more than forty thousand years. Here, in more than
six hundred pages of rich color, are beautifully crafted masks,
shields, headdresses, and ceremonial and personal objects, the
majority of which have never before been published or exhibited.
Archival and reference photographs, maps of key locations, and
authoritative essays by more than a dozen preeminent scholars
covering a wide range of subjects, from prehistoric agriculture to
body art, make this book a collector's dream.
Life on the frontier suggests excitement, danger, and backbreaking
labour. In this book the frontier is the Highlands region of what
is now Papua New Guinea - a part of the world largely unexplored by
Westerners as late as 1950. In the next five years a dozen
pioneering anthropologists followed closely on the heels of "first
contact" patrols. Their innovative fieldwork is well documented,
and now, in an autobiographical collection that is intimate and
richly detailed, we learn what being on the frontier was like for
the ethnographers themselves. Featured are Catherine H. Berndt,
Ronald M. Berndt, Reo Fortune (by Ann McLean), Robert M. Glasse,
Marie Reay, D'Arcy Ryan, and James B. Watson, and the seven new
essays are put in historical contect by Terence Hays. A concluding
essay by Andrew Stathem points out that this early work among the
peoples of the Central Highlands not only influenced all subsequent
understanding of Highland cultures but also had a profound impact
on the field of anthropology.
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