Extensive description of the Mountain Papuans and their environment, cultures, habits, religions, language, and music.

Extensive description of the Mountain Papuans and their environment, cultures, habits, religions, language, and music.

Travel account on the New Guinea expedition of 1903 aimed at gathering ethnological, zoological and botanic information around the Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani

Oral traditions and myths of Papuans written down by Van der Hoeven who travelled as a physician through the Bird's Head. With photographs, glossary account and list of contents.

The book presents the view of the social-democratic author about West New Guinea. It gives a picture of the situation in N.G, the conflict in 1945 between The Netherlands and Indonesia and the Indonesian transfer of sovereignity where N.G. stayed out of the transfer. Next developments are explored as well as the point of view of the author about N.G., why the interest of the Papuans would be better served by a quick transfer to Indonesia

Textbook on the discovery and history of New Guinea and the West Indies

Public speech on zoological research in New Guinea presented at the acception of the office as a lecturer of systematic zoology at the National University of Leiden

Edition of 'De week van de Nederlandse missionairs' in which the author, a Dutch missionary-anthropologist describes many of his experiences in the Mappi-area in southern New Guinea

Documentary story about the developments of the in South Irian Jaya with contributions of 7 missionaries, period 1950-1995. Special attention is paid to the transfer of New Guinea to Indonesia and the effects of the Vatican Concilium (1965).Part 3: The Supervisors

Documentary story about subsequent developments of a difficult start on the coast of Dutch New Guinea form a roman catholic perspective, period 1905-1925. Part 2: The successors. The opening up of the interior