The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers

by Edward L. Schieffelin

A$20 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

St Lucia. University of Queensland Press. 1977. Reprint. Stock ID #178402 Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 243pp, appendix, bibliography, index, covers creased and worn, pen and pencil notes throughout text, edges browned, reading copy only. Account of the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea and the significance of the ceremony of Gisaro, a complex and lavishly

• Printing: later

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