Anthropology in the South Seas: Essays Presented to H. D. ..., Tauranga in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty for sale

No signatures. Some 1/2"chips to dust wrapper at head of dust wrapper spine at at top corners of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper in archival mylar cover.; 267, [1] pages + portrait frontispiece + maps on endpapers. White cloth boards with blue cloth spine. Page dimensions: 253 x 182mm. Includes a 5 page bibliography of articles, reviews and publications by H. D. Skinner, between 1912 and 1958. Various contributors, including Roger Duff; T. T. Barrow; Raymond Firth; Angus Ross. Contents: Preface; Henry Devenish Skinner: A Memoir; Culture Change in Prehistoric New Zealand; From Moa-Hunter to Classic Maori in Southern New Zealand; Free-standing Maori Images; Neolithic Adzes of Eastern Polynesia; Ritual Adzes in Tikopia; Ascription of Meaning in a Ceremonial Context, in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea; The Joe Gimlet or Siovili Cult: An Episode in the Religious History of Early Samoa; Fijian Social Structure in a Period of Transition; Maori and Polynesian: Race and Politics. The Racial Argument in Support of New Zealand's Interests in Polynesia. A Modern Maori Community; The Maori Population: A Microcosm of a New World; Bibliography of H. D. Skinner.; 4to
Anthropology in the South Seas: Essays Presented to H. D. Skinner (J. D.&W. R. Geddes (Eds. ) Freeman)
Author
J. D.&W. R. Geddes (Eds. ) Freeman
Title
Anthropology in the South Seas: Essays Presented to H. D. Skinner
Publisher name
Thomas Avery&Sons, New Plymouth
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1959
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
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Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
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