Studies in the anthropology of Oceania and Asia, presented in memory of Roland Burrage Dixon

Author:

Coon, Carleton Stevens, Andrews, James Madison, Ashenden, Constance

Title:

Studies in the anthropology of Oceania and Asia, presented in memory of Roland Burrage Dixon

Periodical:

Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University ; v. 20

Year:

1943

Pages:

xiv, 220 p.

Subject:

Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 Ethnology Oceania Ethnology Asia

Summary:

Physical differentiation in Polynesia, by H.L. Shapiro.- Polynesian stone remains, by K.P. Emory.- Two unique petroglyphs in the Marquesas which point to Easter Island and Malaysia, by E.S.C. Handy.- The gods of Rennell Island, by G. MacGregor.- The racial elements of Melanesia, by W.W. Howells.- The horomorun concepts of southern Bougainville: a study in comparative religion, by D.L. Oliver.- Notes on northeast Australian totemism, by R.L. Sharp.- Culture sequences in Madagascar, by R. Linton.- Linguistic and racial aspects of the Munda problem, by G.T. Bowles.- Evolutionary trends in body build; data from Thailand (Siam) by J.M. Andrews, IV.- Physical types among the Japanese, by F.S. Hulse.- The prone burials of Anyang, by Li Chi.- Observations on the bronze age in the Yenisei Valley, Siberia, by J.H. Gaul.- Southern Arabia a problem for the future, by C.S. Coon.

Collection:

Monographs