Description and condition:

Black boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 269 pp., index, b/w illustrations.

As new, an unread copy.

Contents:

"A serious illness may bring other events into focus. This book is about the circumstances surrounding an illness which struck a man in middle life, its impact on him and on the people of his West Sepik village in New Guinea, following the course of the man's illness and showing how illness can reshape events and test social ties"

Part of the Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series.