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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies by Mead, Margaret
- Bookseller: Left Coast Books
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 036251
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Very Good
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0688060161
- ISBN 13: 9780688060169
- Publisher: William Morrow and Company, Inc.; Quill Books
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1971
- Pages: 335
- Size: 5.5 x 8.25 x 1 inches
- Weight: 0.95 pounds
Description
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.; Quill Books, 1971 xiv, 335 pp., maps, index; 21 cm. First published, 1935. Tight, clean text. Light edgewear to wraps. Price mark/flyealf. Classic anthropological text on 3 "primitive" tiribes in New Guinea. Refutes biological determinism and argues that sexual differences are culturally conditioned. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
wraps : The paper covering on the outside of a paperback.
trade paperback : Often used to indicate any paperback book that is somewhat larger than a mass-market paperback.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
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