From the Pitt-Rivers library
CARPENTER, Edward. Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1919.
8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. 185, [3]; spine a little sunned, very good; pencil initial 'G' to front pastedown; manuscript note in George Pitt Rivers' hand to rear free endpaper and his occasional marginal markings in text; one loosely inserted leaf of notes in the same hand (see below).
Second edition. Carpenter's groundbreaking book deals with 'intermediates' - individuals who would now be referred to as gender fluid - in ancient civilisations in Greece, China, Japan, Malaysia, the Americas and Africa.
Provenance: with manuscript notes on matters relating to homosexuality in Carpenter's work and a loose foolscap leaf of manuscript notes on Eastern religion by George Pitt-Rivers (1890-1966), anthropologist, eugenicist and follower of Oswald Mosley. His political assocations led him to being interned for two years during the Second World War. His interest in this work was very possibly sparked by the tribulations of his son Michael who, alongside Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and Peter Wildeblood, was convicted of 'buggery' and imprisoned for eighteen months in 1954. Their case led to the Wolfenden report in 1957 and the eventual decriminalisation of homosexuality.
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