Primitive heritage : an anthropological anthology

New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus first edition, first printing, as stated, in a very good dust jacket. Buckram boards with brown and gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Toning to endpapers. Dust jacket a bit brittle at the edges and showing moderate loss and wear (now protected in a clear archival cover). xxx, 592 pages, including bibliography. Octavo. A collection by some of the world's most eminent anthropologists. The restoration of wonder / Margaret MeadThe world as stage / Nicolas CalasThe Egyptians and their cats / HerodotusCambyses and the defeated king / HerodotusTroglodytes / StraboGerman tribes: public and private life / TacitusThe first societies / Jean Jacques Rousseau (1726)The gens, its simplicity / Friedrich Engels (1884)Blood and cruelty as the foundation of all good things / Friedrich Nietzsche (1887)The totemic feast / Sigmund Freud (1913)The jealous father and couvade / Theodor Reik (1919)The undifferentiated character of primitive society / Ernest Crawley (1902)The individuality of the primitive / Robert Randolph Marrett (1911)What the natives think of pictures, names and dreams / Lucien Levy-Bruhl (1910)Animism / Edward B. Tylor (1871)Being and value in primitive society / Dorothy Lee (1949)Blood brotherhood / Henry Clay Trumbull (1885)Interpretation of the sacrificial ceremony / Henri Pierre Eugene Hubert and Marcel Mauss (1899)Eating in privacy / Ernest Crawley (1902)The unconscious patterning of behavior in society / Edward Sapir (1927)Configurations of culture / Ruth Benedict (1932)Last night at Teyma / Charles M. Doughty (1888)The Australian scene / D.H. Lawrence (1923)The beauty of the Congo huts / André Gide (1927)The dead city of Bida / Siegfried Ferdinand Nadel (1942)Description of Australian cave paintings / George Grey (1841)Bush telegraph / Tom Harrison (1937)Sailing on the sea-arm of Pilolu / Bronislaw Malinowski (1922)Childbirth ceremonies of the Sia Pueblo / Matilda Stevenson (1904)Precautions during pregnancy in New Giuana / Walter E. Roth (1915)Childhood trauma in Australia / Geza Roheim (1932)A bathing baby / Herman Melville (1846)Early influences that mould the Arapesh personality / Margaret Mead (1935)The bush Negro family / Melville J. and Frances S. HerskovitsThe children's meals, the children's evening party, secret language of children / Dudley Kidd (1906)Initiatory ordeals / Baldwin Spencer and Frances Jones Gillen (1899)Shasta puberty ceremonies for girls / Roland B. Dixon (1907)Initiation ceremonies of the Kiwai Papuans / Gunnar Landtman (1927)The naven ceremony in New Guinea / Gregory Bateson (1936)The two-sex dormitories of the Muria / Verrier Elwin (1947)The mischievous society of boys / James R. Murie (1914)Graded associations and secret societies / Arthur Bernard Deacon (1934)Arapaho marriage / Arthur L. Kroeber (1904)Cheyenne marriage / George Bird Grinnell (1932)Betrothal by mother-in-law / R.F. Fortune (1932)A marriage in Borneo / Charles Hose (1926)A non-religious individual / Paul Radin (1927)Zuni breadstuff / Frank Hamilton (1920)Psychology of the Pueblo potter / Ruth L. Bunzel (1929)The Hebridean as artist / Tom Harrisson (1937)Launching a canoe / Broislaw Malinowski (1922)Rat-shooting / William Mariner (1817)A Choctaw ball game / George Catlin (1844)Sermons by natives converted to Christianity / Henri Junod (1912)A native account of the meeting with La Perouse / G.T. Emmons (1911)Complimentary robbery among the Maori / Frederick Edward Maning (1876)A typical day / Herman Melville (1846)Iroquois hospitality / Lewis H. Morgan (1851)Business methods of the Piegans / Alexander Henry (1897)A day in Samoa / Margaret Mead (1928)The Yurok salmon fisherman / Erik H. Erikson (1950)The character of the Nuer / Edward Evans Evans-Pritchard (1940)The potlatch / Franz Boas (1897)Ceremonial bundles / Clark Wissler (1912)A ride with the Apaches on a visit to the Zuñis / Herbert C. Dorr (1877)The Kula / Bronislaw Malinowski (1922)Pig-giving at funerals / Arthur Bernard Deacon (1934)The initiation of a diviner / Henry Callaway (1870)How to become a sorcerer / R.F. Fortune (1932)Consultation of the oracle / William Mariner (1817)Mana / Robert Henry Codrington (1891)First symptoms of a shamanistic calling and training of the shaman / Waldemar Bogoras (1904)Running lamas / Alexandra David-Neel (1932)An Indian messiah / James Mooney (1892)The invert as shaman / Waldemar Bogoras (1904)Mohave homosexuality / George DevereuxThe society of contraries / George Bird Grinnell (1923)Displacing the soul, bringing a corpse to life / Alexandra David-Neel (1932)Self-mutilation / Alexander Henry (1897)Abolishing words / Martin Dobrizhoffer (1784)Abnormal types of speech in Nootka / Edward Sapir (1915)Speaking to tigers but not to bears / S.M. Shirokogoroff (1935)Confession to a Mexican god / Bernardino de SahagunAztec human sacrifices / Bernardino de SahagunThe taboo groves / Herman Melville (1846)The dog sacrifice of the Senecas / Samuel Crowell (1877)Dahomeyan sacrifice of the bull / Geoffrey Gorer (1935)The goddess of lust / Maya Deren (1953)Killing and eating one's enemy in sixteenth-century Brazil / Hans Staden (1625)Hiroquois cruelty / Father Paul Lejeune (1633)Hiroquois cruelty / Father Barthelemy Vimont (1642)A Pawnie war party / James R. Murie (1914)Causes of war in Australia / W. Lloyd Warner (1937)The conduct of Oronn warfare / Percy Amaury Talbot (1923)The head trophy of the Jibaro Indians / Rafael Karsten (1923)The Iroquois faith in treaties / Lewis H. Morgan (1851)Andaman peacemaking / Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1922)On the confines of life and death / Martin Dobrizhoffer (1784)Killing the old mother / Father Paul le Jeune (1633)Burying the mother alive in a snow house / Peter Freuchen (1931)Funeral ceremonies in Australia / Lorimer Fison and A.W. Howitt (1880)The death and burial of a Sudanese king / Charles Kingsley Meek (1931)Human beings killed to invigorate the king / John Roscoe (1911)The sacrifice of a child / William Mariner (1817)The funeral of the king's daughter and the death of the king / William MarinerA ghost lodge for the dead child / Alice C. Fletcher (1884)People who have two souls / Laura Watson Benedict (1916)The reincarnated son / George Grey (1841)That the sun may rise again / MotoliniaRe-creation / Margaret Mead (1952)