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Hardcover. Double-page line map, with Anglican Christian training centres: Bungaria Lolowai Maravovo Pamtia Pawa Siota Torgil Tugawi Vureas `.the fundamental principle on which Melanesian society is based is one of kinship, with the emphasis on mother-right. It is the mother who conceives the child, nurtures it in her body and brings it into the world in the culmination of a pregnancy for which the husband is not held to be responsible. According to the Melanesians,the baby is brought to the mother at night-time by spirits. The father has made no physical contribution whatsoever. Knowing nothing of ordinary physiological functions and hardly anything about sexual anatomy, the islanders believe that sexual passion originates in the eyes, flows thence into the rest of the body and concen- trates in the kidneys before manifesting itself in the male and female organs. Men and women cohabit together,but pregnancy is not regarded as the logical consequence of the sex act. It is this denial of paternity that makes it well-nigh impossible for our missionaries to preach the gospel of the Holy Trinity.' (p. 91) -- `On the islands sex flourishes best under a full moon. The young people love to sit together round a blazing wood fire, chewing betel nut and smoking. Very likely they will squat face to face and begin their love-play by searching each other's head for lice (which they eat!). Then the youth will tell the maiden frankly that he wants to copulate and so they will wander off to seek privacy and concealment beyond the ring of firelight. They do not kiss in our sense of the word, but their preliminary love-making includes a certain measure of caressing, teasing, scratching and--strange to relate--biting of eyelashes.' (p. 93) [8], 209 p.; 22 cm. VG blue boards in price-clipped ill. blue dj. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. No Jacket. Tight binding, clean interior. Cream boards with bright gold decoration; light rubs to corners, light printing creases across both boards, faint staining to outer page edges. Text unmarked, lots of b/w photos. A local history of East Community, Pondera County, Montana. 320 pages. Hastings, Ralph; Hodgson, Kathy; Tollefson, Lori (illustrator). …

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Bien. Essays "Books: Craig Clunas on Gao Minglu's 'Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art,'" by Craig Clunas; "Film: James Quandt on Raúl Ruiz's 'Mysteries of Lisbon,'" by James Quandt; "Slant: David Joselit on Nicolás Guagnini's 'The Panel Discussion, the Tennis Match, and a Bodegón,'" by David Joselit; "Slant: J. Hoberman on Jack Smith's Posthumous Career," by J. Hoberman; "On Site: Gary Indiana on the Steilneset Memorial," by Gary Indiana; "Film: Rachel Haidu on Sven Augustijnen's 'Spectres,'" by Rachel Haidu; "Top Ten," by Chandler Burr; "Fall 2011 Exhibitions: 45 Shows Worldwide"; "Julia Bryan-Wilson on 'Pacific Standard Time,'" by Julia Bryan-Wilson; "Venice 2011," by Claire Bishop, Daniel Birnbaum, Francesco Bonami, Benjamin Paul, Tim Griffin, John Kelsey, and Nicholas Cullinan; "Tabula Rasa: The Art of R.H. Quaytman," by Paul Galvez; "Truth or Dare: The Art of Witnessing," by David Joselit; "Close-Up: Leap Year," Yve-Alain Bois on Martin Barré's "Greenwich" and "60-T-44"; "Forest for the Trees: The Art of Goshka Macuga," by Dieter Roelstraete; "Openings: Adrián Villar Rojas," by Jessica Morgan; "Openings: Olivia Plender," by Brian Dillon. Reviews by Christine Mehring, Jeffrey Weiss, Sam Pulitzer, Dennis Lim, Frances Richard, Robert Pincus-Witten, David Frankel, Suzanne Hudson, Lisa Turvey, Ida Panicelli, Donald Kuspit, Emily Hall, Jeffrey Kastner, Michael Wilson, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Eva Díaz, Daniel Quiles, Martha Buskirk, David M. Lubin, Nuit Banai, Franklin Melendez, Jan Tumlir, Catherine Taft, Michael Ned Holte, John-Paul Stonard, Barry Schwabsky, Zehra Jumabhoy, Maeve Connolly, Jian-Xing Too, Anthony Byrt, John Beeson, Michèle Faguet, Astride Wege, Noemi Smolik, Hans Rudolf Reust, Quinn Latimer, Giorgio Verzotti, Brigitte Huck, Markéta Stará, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Lauren Dyer Amazeen, Jon Bywater, Angie Baecker, and Shinyoung Chung. Cover: R.H. Quaytman. …