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    By Margaret Mead
    New York   Columbia University Press
    10" by 6.5" 89pp.
    A first edition copy of Margaret Mead's exploration of Polynesian culture, particularly in regard to tattooing and canoe and house building.
    By Margaret Mead

    1928 An Inquiry into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia

    New York   Columbia University Press
    10" by 6.5" 89pp.
    A first edition copy of Margaret Mead's exploration of Polynesian culture, particularly in regard to tattooing and canoe and house building.
    £90.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 874M15
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    First Edition

    The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was best known for Coming of Age in Samoa and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. In this work, she explores canoe building, house building and tattooing in Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa and among the Maori.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart, with minor shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the fore edge.

    Very Good Indeed

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