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Lewis, Gilbert:
A Failure of Treatment
Publisher: Oxford, University Press, 2000. (1st Edition).
xx + 269pp with b/w illus. "A serious illness may bring other events into focus. This book is about the circumstances surrounding an illness which struck a man in middle life, its impact on him and on the people of his West Sepik village. It records both failure and continuing belief the failure of local treatments, Western medicine, and of a great communal effort to bring a spirit to heal him. The issues of distress, isolation in illness, and the hope of relief are universal ones, but in this setting in New Guinea they have to be placed in a framework of tentative explanations because of the harsh material conditions. To follow the course of this man's illness is to see how illness can reshape events and test social ties. Gilbert Lewis unfolds a social drama, as he traces people's anxieties, the pressure upon them to take immediate action to try to remedy the situation, and their growing realization that they have failed.Throughout his book runs the problem of hope and belief in healing. " Fine cond : fine cond d/w. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches
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AUD 11.98 | CAD 12.85 | EUR 9.61 | GBP 8.00 | JPY 1,127.27 | MXN 137.78 | ZAR 124.00 |
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Item number: 4042.
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Monckton, Charles Arthur Whitmore
Some experiences of a New Guinea resident magistrate
Publisher: London, John Lane, 1921.
Second edition. 337 p. front., plates, ports., fold. map, diagr. 23 cm. Hardcover Good condition, corners rounded, some wear to head of spine
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AUD 82.13 | CAD 88.08 | EUR 65.89 | GBP 56.40 | JPY 7,727.27 | MXN 944.44 | ZAR 850.00 |
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Item number: 36273.
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Monckton, Charles Arthur Whitmore
Last days in New Guinea; being futher experiences of a New Guinea resident magistrate
Publisher: London, John Lane, 1922.
. 287 p. front., plates, ports., fold. map, diagr. 23 cm. Hardcover Good condition, corners rounded, some wear to head of spine Inscribed by the author to T. Bentham
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AUD 120.77 | CAD 129.53 | EUR 96.90 | GBP 82.95 | JPY 11,363.64 | MXN 1,388.89 | ZAR 1,250.00 |
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Item number: 36274.
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Rew, Alan.
Social Images and Progress in Urban New Guinea. A Study of Port Moresby.
Publisher: St. Paul, West, 1974.
Port Moresby, in Papua New Guinea, became the capital when the Japanese captured Rabaul in 1941. It grew in consequence. This study show the disorienting effect on primitive cultures of jumping into the modern world. 100,112. xiv, 262 p., plates. Vg/no dj.
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AUD 19.32 | CAD 20.73 | EUR 15.50 | GBP 13.27 | JPY 1,818.18 | MXN 222.22 | ZAR 200.00 |
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The Owl at the Bridge.
Item number: 100112.
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