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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, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1884
Luogo di stampa
London. Macmillan and Co.
Autore
Turner, George, Preface By E. B. Tylor
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - Pacific & Australia Anthropology
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

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.