One June day late in the eighth century, Norse seafarers arrived at the English island of Lindisfarne. They waged a savage attack on its unsuspecting abbey, and with this, the Age of the Vikings was born. These roving pillagers spent the next few hundred years raiding and trading a path across Northern ...
Wogeo Island is well known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape.
'The culmination of an exceptional series. As well as a sceptic's scrupulous examination of his morality and a sharp satire of the medical profession, it is a celebration of life' Book of the Year, Sunday Telegraph
