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Based on real events in the life of anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria, tells the story of an American anthropologist, Nell Stone, in the 1930's who has just gained fame for a scandalous book about the sexual customs among indigenous tribes in New Guinea.
We meet Nell as she and her Australian husband, Fen, are escaping from a hostile tribe in the same territory. They are picked up by a boat of colonial residents and brought to a Christmas party at a colonial outpost. There they meet Andrew ...more
We meet Nell as she and her Australian husband, Fen, are escaping from a hostile tribe in the same territory. They are picked up by a boat of colonial residents and brought to a Christmas party at a colonial outpost. There they meet Andrew ...more
Euphoria, by Lily King
This was a fascinating novel set in New Guinea during the 1930's, and centered around the lives of three young, brilliant anthropologists, Nell, Fen, and Bankson. I do so love novels where the setting is powerfully described and becomes a character in the novel. King based the characters of the three anthropologists on. Margaret Mead and her two husbands, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson. However, the story she has told is different from theirs. I loved this book and highly ...more
This was a fascinating novel set in New Guinea during the 1930's, and centered around the lives of three young, brilliant anthropologists, Nell, Fen, and Bankson. I do so love novels where the setting is powerfully described and becomes a character in the novel. King based the characters of the three anthropologists on. Margaret Mead and her two husbands, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson. However, the story she has told is different from theirs. I loved this book and highly ...more
Dec 23, 2014
Toni Moore
marked it as to-read
