Inglis Gordon B (2 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 9, No 2, pp. 149-159, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, few light pencil marks else VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 149-159 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume IX, Number 2. First edition. The existence in northwestern North America of a cluster of societies possessing matrilineal institutions has long been a puzzle to anthropologists. It has been suggested that these social; structures originated on the coast and diffused inland; that they are historically related "through many intermediate stages" to the matrilineal systems of the Eastern Woodlands; and that they were carried to North America by the ancestors of the Na-Dene peoples, retained in the Athabaskans to the east attaches importance to similarities between northwest American and Melanesian social structures, although he stops short of suggesting actual historical links. Condition: Institutional stamp on front wrappers, edge wear, corners bumped else very good.…