The life of a South African tribe.
by JUNOD, Henri Alexandre
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Neuchatel, Attinger Frères, 1912 - 1913.2 volumes. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, with dust-jackets, uncut. With map and many photographic illustrations. 500; 574 pp.First enlarged edition in English, first published in French Les Ba-Ronga, 1898. - Henri-Alexandre Junod (1863 - 1934) was a Swiss-born South African missionary, ethnographer, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist, stationed for much of his career at Shiluvane Mission Station outside Tzaneen in Limpopo Province. Classic work on the Tsonga-people, a Bantu ethnic group primarily native to Southern Mozambique and South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga). . 'It is one of the finest ethnographical publications on this part of the sub-continent ever issued' (Mendelssohn I, p.796). Volume I: The social life; volume II: The psychic life. - A very fine copy.SAB II, p.714.
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- Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NL)
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- The life of a South African tribe.
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- JUNOD, Henri Alexandre
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- Hardcover
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