Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Reprint of the 1928 edition. Concerning the indigenous peoples of Papua it covers the Taro primitive religious cult and the "garden culture" and magic of the Orokaiva. Dark-blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 231 pages includes index, glossary & fwd., + frontis. and 6 b&w illus, a diagram and a fold-out map at back. Francis Edgar Williams (9 February 1893 - 12 May 1943) was an Australian anthropologist who worked for the government of the Territory of Papua from 1922 to 1942. One of the few anthropologists of his time able to spend two continuous decades in the same location without having to regularly return to a metropolitan university or institution, he performed during those twenty years heavy field work, and published many books and articles. Several pages with light pencil marks in margins. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
