A gathering at the ceremonial drinking of kava in the Friendly Islands. Lithograph by A. Noël after L.A. de Sainson.

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Studies in American thought and culture

xvii, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

The trashing of Margaret Mead : anatomy of an anthropological controversy / Paul Shankman.

<p>Lettering on front cover: "South Sea islands & New Zealand"</p>
<p>Ethnographic photographs of people, activities, houses, boats, and environment. Places include: Tonga, Rarotonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Stewart Islands, Samoa</p>

1 photograph album (12 leaves, 48 photographs) : photographs, albumen prints ; mounts 41.7 x 30 cm

South Pacific islands. Album of photographs, ca. 190- (?).

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Die Heiler von Samoa : o le fofo Monographie über die Heiler und die Naturheilmethoden in West-Samoa / Christian Ph. Josef Lehner.

xxv, 379 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm

Margaret Mead and the heretic : the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth / Derek Freeman.

xv, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 20 cm

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Catalogue

The trashing of Margaret Mead : anatomy of an anthropological controversy / Paul Shankman.

South Pacific islands. Album of photographs, ca. 190- (?).

Die Heiler von Samoa : o le fofo Monographie über die Heiler und die Naturheilmethoden in West-Samoa / Christian Ph. Josef Lehner.

Margaret Mead and the heretic : the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth / Derek Freeman.

Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation / by Margaret Mead.

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Samoan Islands

Images

Catalogue

The trashing of Margaret Mead : anatomy of an anthropological controversy / Paul Shankman.

South Pacific islands. Album of photographs, ca. 190- (?).

Die Heiler von Samoa : o le fofo Monographie über die Heiler und die Naturheilmethoden in West-Samoa / Christian Ph. Josef Lehner.

Margaret Mead and the heretic : the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth / Derek Freeman.

Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation / by Margaret Mead.

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