Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal

Looks at the culture change in the village of Peri on Manus, one of the Admiralty Islands in the Australian Trust territory of New Guinea. Cites Peri's movement from the Stone Age to the twentieth century between anthropologist Margaret Mead's two visits to the village in 1928 and 1953. Documents, during Margaret Mead's latest visit in 1967, the personal and historical factors which made this change possible., Looks at the cultural change in the village of Peri on Manus, one of the Admiralty Islands in the Australian Trust territory of New Guinea. Cites Peri's movement from the stone age to the twentieth century between anthropologist Margaret Mead's two visits to the village in 1928 and 1953. Documents, during Margaret Mead's latest visit in 1967, the personal and historical factors which made this change possible.