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First published in 1999. This is Volume V of six of a series on Anthropology and Psychology. Written in 1928, this book is a collection of essays and series of memoirs on ethnological subjects that are scattered in volumes not readily accessible to students.

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Author:   W H R Rivers
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   36
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.810kg
ISBN:  

9780415209540

ISBN 10:   0415209544
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   24 June 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Psychology; Chapter 1 Sociology and Psychology; Chapter 2 Freud’s Concept of the “Censorship”; Chapter 3 The Primitive Conception of Death; Chapter 4 Intellectual Concentration in Primitive Man; Part 2 Psycho–Medical Studies; Chapter 5 Massage in Melanesia; Chapter 6 Circumcision, Incision and Subincision; Chapter 7 Sexual Relations and Marriage in Eddystone Island of the Solomons; Part 3 Diffusion; Part 3a A.–Psychological; Chapter 8 The Concept of “Soul-Substance” in New Guinea and Melanesia; Chapter 9 The Ethnological Analysis of Culture; Part 3b B.–Cultural and Historical; Chapter 10 Convergence in Human Culture; Chapter 11 A Modern Megalithic Culture; Chapter 12 The Problem of Australian Culture; Chapter 13 The Distribution of Megalithic Civilization; Chapter 14 Land Tenure in Melanesia; Chapter 15 The Disappearance of Useful Arts; Chapter 16 The Double Canoe; Chapter 17 Sun-Cult and Megaliths in Oceania; Chapter 18 The Peopling of Polynesia; Chapter 19 Irrigation and the Cultivation of Taro; Part 4 General; Chapter 20 Trade, Warfare, and Slavery; Chapter 21 The Contact of Peoples;

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W H R Rivers, G Elliot Smith

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