"The ethnography is full of interesting observations and novel information, and repays a close reading with a vivid sense of the distinctiveness of Reite social life, intensely local but reminiscent of a much wider field of peoples in the Southwest Pacific, including the Highlands of New Guinea . . . Creative Land is itself 'creative' and will attain its own 'place' in the historical 'landscape' of studies of kinship in New Guinea and elsewhere." - Contemporary Pacific "The ethnography itself is full of interesting observations and novel information, and repays a close reading with a vivid...
"The ethnography is full of interesting observations and novel information, and repays a close reading with a vivid sense of the distinctiveness of Re...