Peoples of the Earth. Volume 01. Australia and Melanesia (including New Guinea)

Supervisory Editor of the series - Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. — The Danbury Press, 1972. — 144 p.The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The series covers peoples representing every level of technological culture, from hunters and collectors, still using stone tools, to the inhabitants of industrial cities, living as most of us today live, with all our comforts and yet also with all our strains and tensions as well.
Those humble peoples whose very survival is threatened are given as much attention as are those great nations which occupy whole continents. Here are demonstrated, in page after page, the fascinating differences between various types of men and the enormous variety of territorial and climatic circumstances in which they live, which in turn have produced a great variety of solutions and adjustments. A good deal of exaggeration, even of rubbish, certainly of prejudice, has been written in the past about peoples outside the West, and especially about what were called 'savage' or 'barbarous' peoples. This set of volumes aims at simply presenting the facts, insofar as they are known and, as the text and the thousands of pictures in color and black and white demonstrate, the facts speak for themselves and are fascinating enough.The proper study of mankind. Introduction to the series (Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard).
The Question of Human Conservation (Francis Huxley).
White Australia (Colin Clark).
Farmers of the Australian outback (Betty Roland).
Small town Australia (Jeffrey Craig).
Northern Aborigines - Australia (David McKnight).
Gibson Desert Aborigines - Australia (Richard A Gould).
Tasmania's extinct Aborigines (A. G. L. Shaw).
Tiwi - Melville and Bathurst Islands (Jane C. Goodale).
The Peoples of New Guinea (Anthony Forge).
Asmat - New Guinea (A. A. Gerbrands).
Abelam - New Guinea (Anthony Forge).
Jale - New Guinea Highlands (Klaus-Friedrich Koch).
Asaro Valley People - New Guinea (Christopher Derrick).
Dani Kurelu - New Guinea (Karl Heider).
Trobriand Islanders (Michael W. Young).
The Peoples of Melanesia (Anthony Forge).
Solomon Islanders - Melanesia (E. Alan Smith).
Tannese - New Hebrides (Kal Muller).
Pentecost Islanders - New Hebrides (Kal Muller).
Mbotgote - Malekula Island (Kal Muller).