Robert Wood Williamson

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Robert Wood Williamson ( 1856 - January 12, 1932 ) was a British anthropologist .

Williamson researched the religion and beliefs as well as the social and political systems of the indigenous peoples of Central Polynesia and wrote a work on the Mafulu , a hill tribe of British New Guinea .

Works

  • The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea , London: Macmillan, 1912. With an introduction by AC Haddon. ( online )
  • The Ways of the South Sea Savage: a record of travel & observation amongst the savages of the Solomon Islands & primitive coast & mountain peoples of New Guinea , London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1914.
  • The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1924 ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 )
  • Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933 (online: Volume I , Volume II )
  • Religion and Social Organization in central Polynesia , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937. Ed. by Ralph Piddington, with an introduction by Raymond Firth . ( online )
  • Essays in Polynesian Ethnology , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. Ed. by Ralph Piddington. (online [1] or [2] )

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personal data
SURNAME Williamson, Robert Wood
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1856
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1932