THE MOUNTAIN ARAPESH: III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE IV. DIARY OF EVENTS IN ALITOA de Mead, Margaret - 1947

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947 [163]-419 pages with 4 plates, 1 figure and glossary. Quarto (10 3/4" x 7 3/4") issued in wrappers. Volume 40, part 3 Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. 1st edition. This is the third and fourth of a series of papers on the culture of the Arapesh people of the Sepik-Aitape District of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. These people were intensively studied by Reo Fortune and Margaret Mead from December to August 1931-32. For the comparative discussion Mead has drawn upon the subsequent field experience among two tribes of the Sepik River Basin, the Mundugumor and the Tchambuli, and upoin the collections from the regions anterior to the Arapesh and the Sepik River, which are in the Museum of Natural History. Condition: Spine sunned with title hand written, corners bumped, edge wear else a very good copy.. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. Quarto.

Garden City, NY.: Natural History Press., 1971.. Mass Market Paperback.. Light cover wear, text clean/tight: VG.. 12mo. 8 pages of photographs..

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1949. Wraps. Very good. Part 5 of Mead's classic series on the Arapesh tribe of NG. The volume deals specifically with interviews with a native Unablein. Fascinating oral history with explanations and analysis. Sm 4to. (iv) + 289-390pp + 1 portrait. Orig.blue-green pp wrps a little marked o/w vgc. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 41, Part 3.

American Museum Science Books / Natural History Press 1968. Complete 3-volume set, paperbacks, xii + 219pp (vol.1), xxii + 491pp (vol.2), xxiii + 534pp (vol.3), illus, VG (light fading & soiling to covers, slight tanning to page edgdes, some creasing to spines)

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Undetermined. very good. Volume 40: part 3. 165-419pp. Quarto. Original printed wrappers; spine slightly faded with some small chips to crown and foot. Corners of wrappers and textblock lightly bumped, otherwise panels bright and clean. 4 pages of B/W plates from photographs. very good Two part anthropological study of the Arapesh peoples of Papua New Guinea. Part 3 of a three part monograph, released by the "Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History". 1947