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Lederman, Rena. What Gifts Engender: Social Relations and Politics in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xii + 291 pp. including appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. No price, cloth.
Herdt, Gilbert. The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1987. xi + 227 pp. including glossary, bibliography, and index. No price, paper.