Orokaiva Society
WILLIAMS, F. E.; MURRAY, Sir Hubert (intro.)
Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969
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xxiii, 355p. 22.5 cm. Blue hardcover binding with gold lettering and design on spine. Includes 25 black & white figures. Ex-library with cataloguing label on spine, stamps on edges, stamps, bookplates, envelopes on end papers. pages clean except for some pencilling in contents pages. Text unmarked. Binding shows wear from use with dented corners and fading at extremes and along edges of spine. Overall a nice reading copy. Reprint of a book first published in 1930. Contents: Introduction; The Orokaiva People; Daily Life; Personal Enhancement; The Food Quest; Arts of Life; Individual, Family, and Clan; The Plant Emblem; Marriage; The Tribes; Warfare; Initiation Ceremonies; Ceremonies of Mourning; Dance and Drama; The Spiritual Substitute; Survival After Death; Medicine and Magic; Morality; Note on Orthography; Glossary; Index. Seller Inventory # 113984
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Title: Orokaiva Society
Publisher: The Clarendon Press, Oxford
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good
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Orokaiva Society
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Oxford Oxford University Press 1930, 1930
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Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Condition: near fine. [xvii] 355pp. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth; spine title in gilt. Minor shelfwear to crown and foot, corners of boards slightly bumped. Printed dust jacket, price clipped; spine slightly browned with some creases to foot and crown. Small stain to rear panel, edges somewhat browned. Pictoral frontis; 35 B/W plates from photographs, figures in text, folding map at rear. An exceptionally clean and neat copy; map superlative. near fine Williams served as the official anthropologist for the British territory of Papua. His anthropological studies focussed mainly on the Orokaiva peoples of the region. Seller Inventory # 132788
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Orokaiva Society
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Oxford University Press
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Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Used - Very Good. 1930. Orig. cloth, no dj., 355 pp., illus., folding map. Some rubbing to cloth, else very good. Seller Inventory # S63705
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