New York: The American Museum of Natural History, May 1928. First edition - In 1928 Mead was an associate curator at the Museum, and later she was the curator and curator emeritus. Published the same year (and preceding it) as her first and and most important work, 'Coming of Age in Samoa,' a book which was both a bestseller and one which changed American anthropology. This leaflet includes information on work in Greenstone (jade), woodwork. canoes, weapons, textiles, tattooing and more. Map frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawingst. 32 pp bound in stapled tan illustrated wrappers.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1992). First edition - A provocative and very unusual anthropology work - Edith Turner was the wife of the noted anthropologist Victor Turner and for several years in the 1950s, she was at his side when he conducted fieldwork among the Ndembu. But when she returned in 1985 and sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu, her perspective changed to the view of millions of Africans - that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power. Illustrated with photographs. A title in the Series of Contemporary Ethnography. Several appendices, references, index. xii, 239 pp. ISBN: 0-812213661.