Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940.

Conference Name:

Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits (1898)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torres Strait Islanders--Social life and customs.

Torres Strait Islanders.

Physical Description:

6 volumes : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Expedition to Torres Straits.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : [Cambridge University Press], [1901-35 i.e. v. 1, 1935]

Contents:

Contents: I. General ethnography. 1935.

II. Physiology and psychology. pt. 1. Introduction and vision. 1901. pt. 2. Hearing, smell, taste, cutaneous sensations, muscular sense, variations of blood-pressure, reaction-times. 1903.

III. Linguistics, by S.H. Ray. 1907.

IV. Arts and crafts. 1912.

V. Sociology, magic and religion of the western islanders. 1904.

VI. Sociology, magic and religion of the eastern islanders. 1908

Notes:

Contributions by A.C. Haddon, W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligmann, C.S. Myers, William McDougall, S.H. Ray, Anthony Wilkin, and others; edited by A.C. Haddon.

Vols. IV and VI include music.

Spine title: Expedition to Torres Straits.

Bibliography: volume I, pages [415]-421.

OCLC:

694518916