Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea.(Book review)

Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea. By Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer (edited by Robin Hide and Andrew Pawley). Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing Australia. 2007. Pp: xlix + 452 Price: $59.95.

Readers familiar with Ian Saem Majnep's and Ralph Bulmer's Birds of my Kalam country will be delighted at the appearance of Animals the ancestors hunted. Some of them may have on their bookshelves, like me, dog-earred copies of a series of Auckland University Working Papers in Anthropology, Archaeology. Linguisitics and Maori Studies called 'Kalam Hunting Traditions', which marks the genesis of this book, and will be pleased to see the 'full monty'. Two decades have passed since the appearance of the Birds book, Ralph Bulmer's sad death in 1988 delaying the Animals volume, and we owe a large vote of thanks to Majnep's and Bulmer's staunch…