Our Primitive Contemporaries by George Peter Murdock - 2007-03-15

Rimbault Press, 2007. Softcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. This study of 18 primitive societies in every continent but Europe was first published in 1934 and was a standard text in anthropology courses for decades. Includes one chapter on Tasmania, and one chapter on the Aranda tribe; Tasmania; approx. census before white contact Law, general life, water transport, food, shelters, baskets; Initiation (scarification), funeral rites, mourning, disposal of dead, abortion, infanticide, magic and witchcraft, music, dances, percussion instruments, stick-beating, personal adornment, recreation, effect of early contact; Aranda; physical appearance, general ecology, food, cooking, artefacts - carrying bags and other implements, weapons, social organization, totemic system, religious beliefs, abortion, infanticide, childbirth, childhood, initiation rites. George Peter Murdock, (1897 - 1985) was an American anthropologist who specialized in comparative ethnology, the ethnography of African and Oceanic peoples, and… Read More

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Rimbault Press, 2007. Paperback. New. 614 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.50 inches.

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