جزییات کتاب
This book by Doctor Willem Vriend is based on 30 years of work in highland Papua, Indonesia. Described as "an Integral Medical Study about the Cultural Pressures on, Chronic Airflow Limitations of, and a Graceful Approach towards the Highlanders of Papua," Smoky Fires is more than simply a study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders amongst highlanders- it is foremost an exceedingly valuable ethnography that describes the changes Melanesian highlanders were forced to undergo from the time of Papua's absorption into Indonesia in 1962 until the mid-1990s: changes that Vriend personally witnessed.