Description: An acclaimed ethnography of material culture in Wola Papua New Guinea, unsurpassed in its detail, with numerous illustrations, of broad implications to anthropology and archaeology.. The companion volume to Built in Niugini. Volume 2 in the RAI Series.
Review Quotes:
What a stunning and rewarding book! Te Rangi Hiroa, C.S. Ford, Darryl Forde, Clark Wissler and Edward Gifford - to mention a few of my earlier friends and teachers - would all have enjoyed this work immensely.
Harold C. Conklin
Not many anthropologists could have brought to fruition a work like this. Its singleness of purpose offers what amounts to a unique perspective on Papua New Guinea Highland life ... It will be a work of reference for Melanesianists. But social anthropologists in general should take note. The relentlessness of Sillitoe's investigation has its own effect. It throws up quite unexpected detail: the chert knappers' care that people will not cut their feet on fragments, the different times it takes men to tease their hair into wigs, why barbed arrows are feared ... the number of skirts a woman needs to feel adequately attired ... [A]
magnificent epic to human endeavour. Regardless of whether they hold collections from Melanesia, this should be in the library of every ethnographic museum: and regardless of whether they think they are interested in material culture, this should be available to every anthropology department.
Marilyn Strathern, Man
Made in Niugini is an extraordinarily ambitious and finely executed account, encyclopedicin scope and design, and expertly illustrated.
Thomas G. Harding, American Anthropologist