Don Juan in Melanesia

Peter Lawrence

University of Queensland Press 1967
A book review by Danny Yee © 1994 https://dannyreviews.com/
Don Juan in Melanesia is a satire on modern scientific anthropology written as a continuation of Byron's Don Juan (don't ask how that works!). Illustrated with cartoons, this is an amusing little conceit which anthropologists might find diverting.

June 1994

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