War and Peace in Tsembaga Maring Society
Anthropologist Roy A. Rappaport describes Tsembaga Maring practices in New Guinea Central Highlands. War arises from perceived transgressions. peace is pursued through clan intercession and ritual acts such as compensation with a wife’s heir, and peacemaking customs including salted pig belly for warding spears and a taboo on drinking on the battlefield.
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New Guinea Central Highlands
University of Michigan
Rappaport
Kallikak Land The Pine Barrens
John McPhee's study of New Jersey's Pine Barrens explores its people and history. It notes Elizabeth Kite's 1913 work at Vineland Training School and H. H. Goddard's Kallikak family study, linking them to the Barrens' lore and the subnormal population.
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New York
Newark
New Jersey
John McFee
Pine Barrens
Garden State
Elizabeth Kite
Vineland Training School
H. H. Goddard
N.H
The English Sense of Humor and Its Victorian Echoes
Harold Nicholson surveys the English sense of humor in a collection that groups essays on Alexander the Great Swinburne Baudelaire and biography. He defines ten core traits including tolerance kindness sympathy and a playful instinct while noting English self restraint and pride affect humorous self mockery.
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Harold Nicholson
Funk and Wagnalls
Alexander the Great
Swinburne
Baudelaire
Tennyson
Nicholson
Four Quartets and Other Works in Harvest Books Reprint
A notice of Harvest Books reprinting T S Eliot Four Quartets Burnt Norton East Coker The Dry Savages and Little Gidding as the final quartet in his career. Also mentions The Clarion People by Audrey Lee McGraw Hill 4 95 Time for Treason Weitzmann Institute Tel Aviv murder and a secret Israeli bureau head action Melinda Gaia Servadio novel translated by L K Conrad 695
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Burnt Norton
East Coker
Eliot
the Clarion People
Audrey Lee
McGraw- Hill
Weitzmann Institute of Science
Tel Aviv
Pappa Barzilai
The Authoress of the Odyssey review
Samuel Butler argues in The Authoress of the Odyssey that the epic was written by a Sicilian woman two centuries after the Iliad. David Grene provides a new introduction as the University of Chicago Phoenix Books edition appears at $2.45. Butler combines wit with serious scholarship on classical authorship.
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Samuel Butler
David Grene
University of Chicago Phoenix Books
Erewhon
Butler
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Yale
Kallikak Land
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
England
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Harcourt, Brace and World
Philadelphia
Lillian Peoples
Olga Hesky
Dodd, Mead
Melinda
Gaia Servadio
L. K. Conrad
Lorelei Lee
Pageant Press, Inc
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N.Y
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Petat
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ALVIE
Paramount Blvd
Lakewood
Orange Co
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Xovelery
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Orange County
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