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Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Caroline Mytinger
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 Caroline Mytinger, an artist and amateur anthropologist, set off in the late 1930's with her friend Margaret Warner on an expedition to paint indigenous people in the Solomon Islands. She wanted to record the different types of people before the "civilizing" process and intermarriage made it impossible to distinguish pure island races. While Mytinger's language does occasionally reveal the prejudices of her time, she respected native people and was very cynical about "civilization" and the pompo... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Category: Travel
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