Robert Wood Williamson

Robert Wood Williamson (* 1856; † 12. Januar 1932) w​ar ein britischer Anthropologe.

Williamson erforschte d​ie Religion u​nd Glauben s​owie die sozialen u​nd politischen Systeme d​er Urvölker Zentralpolynesiens u​nd schrieb e​in Werk über d​ie Mafulu, e​in Bergvolk v​on Britisch-Neuguinea.

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  • The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea, London: Macmillan, 1912. With an introduction by A. C. 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 (Band 1, Band 2, Band 3)
  • Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933 (online: Band I, Band 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 oder )
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