Custom is king
Subtitle: essays presented to R.R. Marett on his seventieth birthday, June 13, 1936.
Series: Hutchinson's scientific an d technical publications
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1936
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Marett, R. R. -- 1866-1943.; Anthropology.
Table of contents: value: R.R. Marett, by L.H. Dudley Buxton.-  I. An interesting Naga-Melanesian culture-link, by Henry Balfour.-  II. Totemism and blood groups in West Africa, by R.S. Rattray.-  III. Greeks and northmen, by R.M. Dawkins.-  IV. The Wiro Sky-god, by H.J. Rose.-  V. The prehistory of the Canadian Indians, by Diamond Jenness.-  VI. The modern growth of the totem pole on the north-west coast, by Marius Barbeau.-  VII. The relation of physical anthropology to cultural anthropology, by Earnest A. Hooton.- VIII. A note on Rhytons, by C.G. Seligman.-  IX. Die religiöse Bedeutung der Paradiesmythen, von Konrad Theodor Preuss.-  X. The Chameleon and the Sun-god Lisa on the West African slave-coast, by D. Westermann.-  XI. Snobbery, by A.M. Hocart.-  XII. Field work in Bougainville; an interlude, by Beatrice Blackwood.-  XIII. Western seaways, by O.G.S. Crawford.-  XIV. The sea raiders, by L.H. Dudley Buxton.-   XV.X   Recht im Werden, von Leonhard Adam.-  XVI. Kinship, incest and exogamy of the northern territories of the gold coast, by M. Fortes.-  XVII. Bond-friendship in Tikopia, by Raymond Firth.-  XVIII. Zur Religion einiger hinterindischer Bergvölker, von Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.-  XIX. Daily life of the Nuer in dry season camps, by E.E. Evans-Pritchard. A bibliography of the scientific writing of R.R. Marett, edited by T.K. Penniman.