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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…
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- Title Our Primitive Contemporaries
- Author George Peter Murdock
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 636
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rimbault Press
- Date 2007-03-15
- ISBN 9781406742947 / 1406742945
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.41 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 3.58 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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