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MEAD, MARGARET. - Letters From The Field 1925-1975. Planned and Edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen.

Title: Letters From The Field 1925-1975. Planned and Edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen.
Description: 8vo; pp. xxii, (vi), 343; numerous illustrations throughout, appendix, references and selected bibliography, acknowledgements, index; original cloth, damaged dustjacket; page edges flecked; otherwise a very good copy. New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, (1977). The authors letters sent to family and friends when on field work in Samoa in 1925-26, from Pere Village, Manus, in the Admiralty Islands, in 1928-29; from the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli, New Guinea, in 1932-33; from Bali and the latmul, New Guinea, in 1936-39; from Manus again in 1953; and during brief field trips to Manus, several New Guinea sites, and Montserrat in the West Indies in the sixties and seventies.

Keywords: Pacific personal letters Somao Admiralty Islands New Guinea Bali ethnology Occeania field work anthropology

Price: AUD 25.00 = appr. US$ 17.30 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 95517