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Maps, 9 figures, ix + 265pp, index, references, appendix, notes, some insect damage dustjacket, some rubbing extremities of dustjacket, good hardback copy. "The Mount Hagen people of the New Guinea Highlands have no indigenous centralised authority. They have, nonetheless, clear patterns of social order and leadership. The problem of how order is achieved in such societies has exercised anthropologists since the 1940s. It is also one of considerable relevance to New Guinea as it is emerging today." - Dustjacket blurb.