Place and People: An Ecology of a New Guinean CommunityThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971. |
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Place and People: An Ecology of a New Guinean Community William C. Clarke,William Carey Clarke Limited preview - 1971 |
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