Social Change in Tikopia: Re-Study of a Polynesian Community after a Generation
by FIRTH, RAYMOND
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
George Allen & Unwin 1959. First edition, super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 360pp, VG (slight fading to upper spine, owner's name in red ink to fep, owner's name stamp to front & rear eps several times, light tanning to eps, slight foxing to page fore-edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, fading to spine & edges, browning to flap folds, 2cm closed tear to front upper corner, bruising & nicks to spine extrems, 2cm hole to rear flap fold)
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- Title
- Social Change in Tikopia: Re-Study of a Polynesian Community after a Generation
- Author
- FIRTH, RAYMOND
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin 1959
- Keywords
- first edition Raymond Firth Tikopia Polynesia social anthropology sociology economic political system traditional structure
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- VG
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