Elkin a P Editor (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Unmarked text. Library stamp on cover. Includes the Politics of witch-killing by Marie Reay; Interpretation of Social Profiles of Production in Tsembaga-Maring, Simbai Valley, Eastern Highlands, New Guinea by David J. Thomas; Kinship and Exchange: The "Kamain" Relationship in a Yuat River Village by Nancy McDowell, and more. Measures 7.25x9.75 inches. 84p. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked text. Articles on Aboriginal affairs and the academy; folklore and place names in Santa Ana, Solomon Islands; temporary madness as theatre in New Guinea,and more. Measures 7.25x9.5 inches. pp165-248.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on cover. Bumped corners. Articles on Aboriginal Ecological Order in the southwest of Australia, Cargo Cult, and more. Measures 7.25x9.75 inches. pp196-252.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked text. Bumped corners. Articles on Japanese prinsoners of waf by Charlotte Carr-Gregg, Mata in Austronesia by RH Barnes, and more. Measures 7.25x9.75 inches. pp253-332.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Includes Who Are the Berawan? Ethnic Classification and the Distribution of Secondary Treatment of the Dead in Central North Borneo by Peter A. Metcalf; Mass Hysteria in the New Guinea Highlands: A Telefomin Outbreak and Its Relationship to Other New Guinea Hysterical Reactions by Stephen Frankel; Aboriginal Mortuary Practices in Carnarvon by Dennis Grayand more. Measures 7.25x9.75 inches. pp85-168.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked text. Contributors include MJ Meggitt, Ernest Brandewie, Thomas K. Fitzgerald, John B. Haviland, Daniel Shaw, and others. This item is a journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. pp165-252. Measures 7.25x9.5 inches. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked text. Contributors include Woodrow W. Denham, Peter D. Dwyer, Lee Sackett, Michael AHB Walter, and others. This item is a journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. pp165-252. Measures 7.25x9.5 inches.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED and Inscribed by Ann Mackintosh. The Oceania Monographs No. 2. Reprinted from Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania Vol. XIII, Nos. 2 & 3 and Vol. XIV, No. 1. Binding firm, boards lightly spotted, interior clean and unmarked. Page ends foxed. 230 pp. Signed.…

Softcover. Obr. gr. 8°. 77-156 SS. ausgesch. Bib.-Ex. Inhalt: Rethinking the murngin problem / The vula of Kaliai u.a.m. in englischer Sprache (in english).

Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white text-photos & drawings, faint foxing spine, minor edgewear, sticker mark front cover. 230 pp. A collection of papers published as a tribute to the life and research work of the late Professor Neil William George Macintosh (Department of Anatomy, University of Sydney). He was Australia's leading physical anthropologist, particularly for studies of Aboriginal prehistory and crania. Macintosh initially asked Professor A. P. Elkin to accept him as a candidate for the post-graduate Diploma in Anthropology. They became friends which lasted until Macintosh's death, 33 years later. One paper is a detailed biography of Macintosh by A. P. Elkin, and another paper is a biography of his close research collaborator Stanley Larnach. (Initially published over 3 issues of the journal 'Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania', and here reprinted as one volume.).…

1st Ed. The Oceania Monographs No. 22. (2), II, 230, (2) PP with tables and b/w illustrations (graphs, maps and plans, drawings and sketches) , plus 38 plates with b/w illustrations (drawings and photos). Soft covers. Near fine condition. 24.5 x 18. 14 essays: N. W. G. Macintosh and his Works. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania. Image lists all the contents. …

117 pp including index, quarto, illustrated end-papers, line drawings, coloured photographic plates, small loss at top of d/j rear, else very good copy in like, illustrated d/j. First edition.