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New York: American Museum of Natural History , 1947. Paperbound. In quite good condition./No dust jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with light copybook-blue covers, pp. 418, indexed . Illustrated with b-w halftone plates . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... In Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. a major cornerstone of the feminist movement was set forth: The claim that females are dominant in the Tchambuli (now spelled Chambri) Lake region of the Sepik basin of Papua New Guinea without causing any special problems. The lack of male dominance may have been the result of the Australian administration's outlawing of warfare. According to contemporary research, males are dominant throughout Melanesia (although some believe that female witches have special powers. Others have argued that there is still much cultural variation throughout Melanesia, and especially in the large island of New Guinea. Mead stated that… Read More

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947 [163]-419 pages with 4 plates, 1 figure and glossary. Quarto (10 3/4" x 7 3/4") issued in wrappers. Volume 40, part 3 Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. 1st edition. This is the third and fourth of a series of papers on the culture of the Arapesh people of the Sepik-Aitape District of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. These people were intensively studied by Reo Fortune and Margaret Mead from December to August 1931-32. For the comparative discussion Mead has drawn upon the subsequent field experience among two tribes of the Sepik River Basin, the Mundugumor and the Tchambuli, and upoin the collections from the regions anterior to the Arapesh and the Sepik River, which are in the Museum of Natural History. Condition: Spine sunned with title hand written, corners bumped, edge wear else a very good copy.. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. Quarto.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Paperback. GOOD. Soft covers, dark blue text on blue-green paper. 10 1/2" x 7 3/4". Corners bumped, irregularly shaped 1" chip to lower spine, some sunning. Stamps on cover from Wyoming Hist-Geol Society Wilkes Barre PA. 420 pp. Reading copies only. Volume 40: Part 3 of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History.

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Undetermined. very good. Volume 40: part 3. 165-419pp. Quarto. Original printed wrappers; spine slightly faded with some small chips to crown and foot. Corners of wrappers and textblock lightly bumped, otherwise panels bright and clean. 4 pages of B/W plates from photographs. very good Two part anthropological study of the Arapesh peoples of Papua New Guinea. Part 3 of a three part monograph, released by the "Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History". 1947

New York: American Museum of Natural History. Five volumes bound as four, complete. Wraps, b&w illus. Published between 1938 and 1949. Previous owner's name blindstamped to wraps, title label added to spine, very good condition. Wraps.