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Lily king is the author of five awardwinning novels. English anthropologist andrew bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the kiona river tribe in the territory of new guinea. Lily king s euphoria, a fictionalised account of a brief period of field work along new guineas sepik river in 1933, does not set out to redeem meads reputation, but its humanising. Download or read euphoria 2014 in pdf, epub formats.
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