SPEISER, Felix

Ethnology of Vanuatu. An Early Twentieth Century Study

Bathurst, Crawford House Press, 1991 (first edition in English)/ 1923.

Quarto, viii, 643 pages with 2 maps and 109 plates (comprising over 1600 illustrations), plus 32 pages of colour plates (comprising 56 colour illustrations) new to this translation.

Papered boards; extremities slightly rubbed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (slightly creased and rubbed).

Translated by D.Q. Stephenson, 'this rich documentation [is] the result of Swiss anthropologist Felix Speiser spending more than two years in the field [from] May 1910 to July 1912'.

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