F.E. Williams — Orokaiva Magic

Oxford, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper and faint residue of some penciled notations she'd made when an undergraduate in '77, minimal rubbing to extremities, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Moderately worn paper dust jacket, illustrated.An at-the-time brilliant ethnography from a Government Anthropologist, complete with an arresting black-and-white frontispiece (a fine photograph of Tatkiko, a Taro man). Complete with seven black and white photo plates and a map at book's end. Originally published in 1928; special chapters devoted to The Taro Cult; The Garden Culture; Orokaiva Magic. The Orokaiva people. From the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, scholar, activist and teacher, Laura Tamakoshi, who has contributed seminal works and activism on a number of fronts for four decades.xii [2], 4-231 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,