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London.
Allen & Unwin.
1927.
3 volumes. Volume I: 781pp. Volume II: xx + 789pp, lower hinge split. Volume III: xv + 841 + adverts. Some neat pencilled marginal notes one chapter. All volumes are foxed along edges, endpapers browned and a neat signature and date on the front free endpaper of each volume. Cloth trifle marked. A good copy of this classic anthropological work which discusses the role of women in society throughout the ages. Includes chapters on matrilocal marriage (with discussion of the peoples of Indonesia, the Philippines, Micronesia and New Guinea), The Matriarchal Phase in Civilised Societies (8 pages on China and Japan); Primitive Division of Labour Between the Sexes; The Institution of Marriage; Group-Marriage and Sexual Communism (includes 17 pages on collective marriage in southern India and 39 pages on Collective Marriage in Australia); Promiscuity and Individual Marriage; Primitive Jealously and Love; The Selection of a Husband and the Acquisition of a Wife; The Social Evolution of Mongamic Marriage (includes sections on The Oriental Harem and Marriage and position of women in China); Tabu; The Totem; The Witch and the Priestess; The Lord of the Women; The Resurrection and the Life; Primitive Cosmic Religion (Traces of lunar cults in Indonesia; Cosmic Religion in Melanesia and New Guinea; Survivals of primitive cosmic religion in Polynesia and Cosmic Religious Conceptions in Africa; The Cosmic Religion of Ancient Egypt). (When referring to this item please quote stockid 60795)
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