Malay Magic

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic . Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Skeat, one of the leading ethnographers working in Malaya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries specialised in writing lengthy works about what he unearthed at a time when there was very little written in English about the country's folklore and traditional culture. This work arisises from both his own field research and his reading of prvious literature mainly in Malay and Arabic. His field work was concentrated in the state of Selangor. Chapters include I - Nature, II - Man and His Place in the Universe, III - Relations with the Supernatural World, IV - The Malay Pantheon, V - Magic Rites Connected with the Several Departments of Nature, VI - Magic Rites as Affecting the Law of Man. 685 pages. This reprint includes copies of illustrations from the original 1900 edition. Weight 1.40 Kg. Airmail postage to Asia Pacific countries: $17, to Central Asia, Europe & the Middle East: $24 and to Africa and North & South America: $32. Surface mail worldwide $12. Postage within Malaysia is free The book is as new except for spotting on the page edges which have not affected the clear and bright text and illustrations