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Turner, George, Preface By E. B. Tylor

Samoa; a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before; together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-three Other Islands in the Pacific

1884

195,52 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1884
Lugar de impresión
London. Macmillan and Co.
Autor
Turner, George, Preface By E. B. Tylor
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Pacific & Australia Anthropology
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [19.5 x 13.5 cm]; xvi, [ii], 395, 32 [publisher's ads dated November 1884] pp, frontis, plates, 3 maps (Samoa, Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, New Hebrides), tables, index. original red cloth, black-ruled border, gilt spine title lettering, spine darkened, front hinge cracking but firm, a clean, solid and very good unopened copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A pioneering work on Polynesia and origin and relationship of Polynesians, with description of religions, customs, cooking, amusements, mortality, rituals, housing, canoes, manufactures, government, laws, warfare, their astronomy, folklore, politics, ethnology. The appendix contains tables of 132 words in 59 Polynesian dialects.
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