1926 Psychology and Ethnology

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. A collection of essays forming a diverse series of memoirs on ethnological subjects. With chapters on Freud's concept of "censorship", the concept of "soul substance" in New Guinea, ethnological analysis of culture, the contact of peoples, and more. Written by William Halse Rivers Rivers, an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for his treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock. Rivers' most famous patient was the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Edited with a preface and introduction by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, an Australian-British anatomist, anthropologist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyper-diffusionist view of prehistory.