The Study of Man

xxvi, 512, with maps, tables, line drawings and photographs. Includes chapters on measurement in anthropology, hair and eye colour, head-form, the nose, the evolution of the cart, the origin of the Irish jaunting cart, toys and games, the bull-roarer, singing games for children, sacrifice, water worship, courting games and funeral games. Published in the Progressive Science Series. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine, stamped decoration to front cover, a little wear, spine faded. Written by the founder of the school of Anthropology at Cambridge University whose early work in the Torres Strait included cine and sound recordings which he played simultaneously to adiences as as early as 1910.