The Sexual Life Of Savages In North-western Melanesia..
Bound in original red cloth, gilt. Spine sunned, some foxing. one instance of ink underlining in text but otherwise a very good copy. 1937 inscription on first free endpaper.
£30.00
Publisher
George Routledge and Sons Ltd. Broadway House: 68-74 Carter Lane, E.C.,
Place
London
Date
1932
Synopsis
An ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of the trobriand islands, british new guinea. with a preface by havelock ellis. third edition, with special foreword. second impression.
Item Description
Large 8vo. 6.5 x 10 inches. l + 505 pp. + 1.
Illustrations
Illustrated by frontispiece, 91 photographic plates, 4 figures and by plans and genealogical tables in text.
Notes
A detailed account of the social organisation of sexuality and the rites of passage by the Polish anthropologist and ethnographer, Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942). It was the second in a trilogy based on his research among the Trobriand Islanders.
[Stock No. 22316]
Subjects
20th Century • Anthropology • Ethnography • Natural History/Science • Pacific • Topography