This is an auction for ECONOMICS OF THE NEW ZEALAND MAORI, by Raymond Firth, Professor of Anthropology at the University of London.

From Wikipedia:

"Sir Raymond Firth (1901-2002) was a New Zealand social anthropologist, best known for his research on the Maori and other peoples of Oceania and Southeast Asia. Firth began his studies at Auckland University College in his native New Zealand and then continued at the London School of Economics, from which he obtained his doctorate. A brief affiliation with the University of Sydney (1929–32) was thereafter the only break in Firth’s association with the London School of Economics; he became a full professor there in 1944 and, in 1968, professor emeritus. He was knighted in 1973. Firth’s first major contribution to anthropology was Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (1929). First published in 1929, Raymond Firth’s original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation. Bridging the gap between anthropology and economics, the work covers the class structure, land system, industry, methods of co-operative labour, exchange and distribution, and the psychological foundations of Maori society..."

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Firth

Hardback 1972.

519 pages + illustrations.

Very good condition.

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