1935 Both Side of Buka Passage: An Ethnological Study of Social, Sexual, and Economic Questions in the North-Western Solomon Islands

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First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, eighty plates, thirty in-text figures, and two folding plates to the rear. Collated complete. A vast social study of social, sexual, and economical factors of life in the North-West Solomon Islands. This work contains reference to marriage, pregnancy and birth, childhood, differences between boys and girls, diet and cooking, the food quest, art, economy, dreams, magic, spirituality, and the death ritual. Written by Beatrice Blackwood, a British anthropologist who ran the Pitt Rivers Museum for over twenty years.