Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on the illustrations -- Preface -- Timeline -- 1 New Guinea: The bird -- 2 Barenda: Life as a Marind man -- 3 The lives of Marind women: Roles and rituals -- 4 Headhunting: Turning the enemy into a friend -- 5 Captain John Strachan and Sir William MacGregor -- 6 The arrival of the Sacred Heart missionaries -- 7 Paul Wirz: Maverick Swiss anthropologist -- 8 Petrus Vertenten: 'Saviour of the Kaya-kayas' -- 9 Interlude: How news of impending Marind extinction reached US cinemas
10 A stealth pathogen, serpiginous ulcers and the Spanish flu -- 11 The epidemics strike -- 12 Max Thierfelder and the treatment campaign -- 13 After the epidemic: Jan van Baal and Jan Verschueren debate the way forward -- 14 Yul Bole Gebze: A Malind voice -- 15 The threat of extinction returns -- Notes -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Index
