Essays presented to C.G. Seligman / edited by E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Raymond Firth, Bronislaw Malinowski and Isaac Schapera
1934, First Edition. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #433578
Physical description; ix, 385 pages : illustrations, plates, portrait, map ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Appreciation/ by A.C. Haddon -- The Tandu industry in Northern Nigeria and its affinities elsewhere / by Henry Balfour -- Psychanalyse et ethnologie / by Marie Bonaparte-- Hehe cross-cousin marriage / by G. Gordon Brown -- Modern survivals of the Sumerian chatelaine / by Louis C.G. Clarke -- Zande therapeutics / by E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- The meaning of dreams in Tikopia / by Raymond Firth -- Freudian mechanisms in primitive Negro psychology / by M.J. Herskovits -- Decadence in India / by A.M. Hocart -- The Anthropological value of the skull / by Al s Hrdlic ka -- The origins of sacrifice as illustrated by a primitive people / by Gunnar Landtman -- The journey of the dead / by John Layard -- The sequence of Stone Age cultures in East Africa / by L.S.B. Leaky -- Spears with two or more heads / by K.C. Lindblom -- Religious ideas and practices of the Eurasiatic and North American areas / by R.H. Lowie -- Stone implements in Eastern New Guinea / by Bronislaw Malinowski -- Food rites / by R.R. Marett -- Ibo law / by C.K. Meek -- The Roman plebs and the creation of its tribunes / by J.L. Myres -- Anthropological approach to ethnogenics / by George Pitt-Rivers -- Hausa poetry / by R.S. Rattray -- Mother-right among the central Bantu / by A.I. Richards -- The study of character development and the ontogenetic theory of culture / by Géza Róheim -- Oral sorcery among the natives of Bechuanaland / by I. Schapera -- The part of the unconscious in social heritage / by B.Z. Seligman -- Indigenous education in Africa / by E.W. Smith -- Some Chinese characteristics in the light of the Chinese family / by L.K. Tao -- Adventures of a tribe in New Guinea (The Tjímundo) / by Richard Thurnwald -- The blood-feud among some Berbers of Morocco / by Edward Westermarck -- The Vailala madness in retrospect / by F.E. Williams -- Bibliography of Charles Gabriel Seligman from 1896 to 1934. Subjects; Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel) 1873-1940. Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel) 1873-1940 ; Bibliography. Seligman, C.G. Anthropology. Anthropology Collected works. Ethnology. Primitive societies.
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