Description: Women of All Nations: A record of Their Characteristics, Habits, Manners, Customs and Influence. Four Volumes in One, 1942 by T Athol Joyce and N W Thomas, editors, Fellows if the Royal Anthropological Institute A highly sought after long out of print rare and valuable detailed resource record of women's place in social anthropology throughout the world up until the early 1900s. This copy is in excellent condition for being over 80 years old. Rich with historical traditions and cultural customs unique to each population, this book is a snapshot of women's lives and place in their society in a time long gone. For example, this book describes decorative deformation performed on girls alone: the Tongan custom of mothers intentionally flatening their infant daughters noses to be wider and flatter, a positive female attribute- "unlike the thin starved nose of the white race" (page 40) or the Melanesian practice of cranial deformation in order to influence marriagability (page 87-88) Details on beauty practices like blackening of the teeth in some areas were so universal that having white teeth "like dogs" was considered disgusting. (page 88) Australian native women had the custom to carry their (smoke dried) dead children for months or years after the child's death, and if a husband died, she would be required to cut her head open and also undergo a period of verbal silence for two full years, communicating only in gestures (page 145) Ornamentation and self decoration details such as a fashionable ornament for women in New Britain was human ribs hung around a woman's neck (page 88) or historical date unlikely to be found elsewhere such as " in 1878, steel needles were introduced to Uganda and a girl could be purchased for six needles" (page 239) and that a pygmy woman could be purchased as a wife for three or four arrows (page 312) Each of the 663 pages of this four volumes in one book is loaded with richly detailed historical facts and observations of women's place in the anthropological history of the world. This is an excellent resource volume unlike any other in it's complexity and depth.
Price: 399 USD
Location: Naperville, Illinois
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Binding: Hardcover
Brand: Unbranded
Language: English
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Author: Joyce, T. Athol (ed.)
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Publisher: London ; New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, ltd.
Topic: Womens social anthropolgy history
Subject: social anthrolopology and women in society
