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Myth and Cult Among Primitive Peoples


Jensen, Adolf E.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press , reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 349 pages. Some wear, rubbing, chipping to mylar-protected dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 854787


Price: $12.00 

 

Mythology of the Wichita, The


Dorsey, George A.

Softcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, First Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Softcover. Light sunfade to spine. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750971


Price: $15.00 

 

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians


Lowie, Robert H.

Softcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover. Illustration to the introduction, Medicine Crow, Lodge Grass, Crow Reservation, Montana, 1908 in bw. Black & white illustrations throughout. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750970


Price: $15.00 

Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally Leacock, Eleanor Burke

Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally


Leacock, Eleanor Burke

Hardcover. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal fading and wear. Inscribed on front end papers, assumed to be by author.

Record # 2230582


Price: $38.00 

 

Myths of Matriarchy Reconsidered (Oceania Monograph 33)


Gewertz, Deborah (Editor)

Softcover. Sydney, Australia, University of Sydney, 1st Edition, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, still glossy. Pages clean and bright. Binding good. Oceania Monographs are treatises or collections of essays on anthropological topics within the ethnographic region of Oceania.

Record # 33452


Price: $31.00 

National Geographic Magazine  - August 1908  Vol. XIX No. 8National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine - August 1908 Vol. XIX No. 8


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Original brown printed beige wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Covers loose. Includes "The Pacific: the Most Explored and Least Known Region of the Globe" by Leopold G. Blackman, Further Notes on Dutch New Guinea by Thomas Barbour, Biskra, The Ziban Queen by Mrs. George Bosson.

Record # 415520


Price: $38.00 

National Geographic Magazine  - June 1908  Vol. XIX  No. 6National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine - June 1908 Vol. XIX No. 6


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Original brown printed beige wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Features "One Season's Game-Bag with the Camera" by the Hon. George Shiras, 3rd.

Record # 415522


Price: $44.00 

National Geographic Magazine  - Vol. XXII No. 8 August 1911National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXII No. 8 August 1911


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, ads. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: Notes on the Sea Dyaks of Borneo, Tunis of Today, A Journey in Morocco, The Two Great Moorish Religions. Light soil to rear cover.

Record # 415561


Price: $25.00 

National Geographic Magazine  - Vol. XXXV No. 2 March 1919National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXV No. 2 March 1919


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: The North Sea Mine Barrage, Sarawak- The Land of the White Rajahs, American Berries of Hill, Dale, and Wayside with color plates.

Record # 415563


Price: $25.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXX July - December 1916 (Six issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1916, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes color fold-out Map of Mexico, color fold-out painting of the Alaskan Brown Bear. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.

Record # 415543


Price: $44.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXIX January - June 1921 (Six issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1921, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes fold-out of a square-rigged sailing ship in tinted color: The Argosy of Geography, a color folding map of The New Asia (28 x 36"), and a Map of Europe with the new boundaries post-WW1. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.

Record # 415546


Price: $50.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol.XXV January - June 1914 (Six issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1914, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes a fold-out map of Alaska and another of Mexico. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.

Record # 415547


Price: $50.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. L July - December 1926 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1926, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Fold-out color map of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Eastern Tennessee. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415579


Price: $38.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. LVIII July - December 1930 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1930, in a green pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Mexico's west coast; 3 articles on the conquest of Antarctica; Unmapped areas of China, Unexplored areas of the Philippines; Chateau country of France; Yugoslavia; Virgil's Aeneid and Roman Geography; Strange tribes in the Shan States of Burma; The Yukon trail of 1898; Viking life in the Faeroes; and much more. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415560


Price: $44.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XL July-December 1921 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1921, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes two folding color maps: South America and the Islands of the Pacific. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415531


Price: $50.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XLII July - December 1922


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - Dec. 1922, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes two supplemental fold-out maps: Africa and the World. Very good, Clean.

Record # 415527


Price: $50.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XLIII January-June 1923 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - July 1923, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Also includes a fold-out panorama of The Great Wall of China. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415529


Price: $44.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXVII January-June 1915 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1915, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Also includes 2 color fold-out panoramas Washington DC and The Washington Mall. Clean, bright volume. Cover spine with light soil, chipping to labels.

Record # 415530


Price: $44.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXVII July-December 1915 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1915, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Also includes color fold-out map (28 x 30") of Europe and the Surrounding Areas Affected by the War. Clean, bright volume. Cover spine with light soil, chipping to labels.

Record # 415539


Price: $44.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXI January - June 1917 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1917, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume.

Record # 415532


Price: $44.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXI July - December 1917 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1917, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Fold-out sepa photo of "Babes in the Woods" torn along one fold. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume.

Record # 415541


Price: $44.00 

Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples [2 volumes]Pritzker, Barry M.

Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples [2 volumes]


Pritzker, Barry M.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, ABC-CLIO, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 868 pages. Hardcovers with dust jacket. Volume 1: Southwest, California, Northwest Coast, Great Basin, Plateau. Volume 2,: Great Plains, Southeast, Northeast Woodlands, Subarctic, Arctic. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copies with only minor wear to dust jackets.

Record # 468706


Price: $75.00 

 

Naturalist in New Guinea, A


Beehler, Bruce M.

Hardcover. US, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1991-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 251 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463568


Price: $38.00 

 

Navajo: Tradition and Change in the Southwest


Lindig, Wolfgang

Hardcover. US, Facts on File, reprint, 1993-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Extensive b&w and color photographs throughout. Illustrated endpapers and flyleaves. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465926


Price: $19.00 

 

Negro Housing In Certain Virginia Cities


Knight , Charles Louis

Softcover. Richmond, University of Virginia , reprint, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Includes appendix of numeric tables. Faint foxing, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857222


Price: $25.00 

New Guinea: The Last UnknownSouther, Gavin

New Guinea: The Last Unknown


Souther, Gavin

Hardcover. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and staining to jacket edges, price clipped inside flap. Name of former owner in pen on front end papers. Some marking in text, highlighter and pencil.

Record # 2230669


Price: $23.00 

 

New Lives for Old - Cultural Transformation-Manus, 1928-1953


Mead, Margaret

NY, Morrow, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Mead's re-examination of the primitive culture she wrote about in Growing Up in New Guinea published 25 years ago. 548 pages, b&w photos. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 600284


Price: $10.00 

New Materials From Acoma: Anthropological Papers, No. 32White, Leslie A.

New Materials From Acoma: Anthropological Papers, No. 32


White, Leslie A.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 53 pages. Softcover pamphlet in good condition. Previous owners name on front in pen. Anthropological Papers, No. 32, from Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnography, Bulletin 136, pp. 30-1-359, pls. 29-32;

Record # 2230588


Price: $23.00 

 

New York State Museum Bulletin #144 - Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants


Parker, Arthur C.

Paperback. Albany, NY, Univ. of the State of New York, 1st wraps, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos, & drawings. 119 pages. Previous owner's signature on corner cover otherwise clean, tight. Paperback.

Record # 69246


Price: $50.00 

 

Nez Perces, The: Tribesmen of the Columbia Plateau (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)


Haines, Francis

Softcover. US, University of Oklahoma Press, reprint, 2012-12-05, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. B&w illustrations, photogrpahs and maps throughout. Damps stain to bottom of spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466038


Price: $13.00 

 

Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village


Erdman, Sarah

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2003-09-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462318


Price: $11.00 

 

No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy


Call, Wendy

Hardcover. Lincoln, Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Minor soil to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460257


Price: $15.00 

 

No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy


Call, Wendy

Hardcover. Lincoln, Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460256


Price: $15.00 

North Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak (British Borneo)Country Survey Series

North Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak (British Borneo)


Country Survey Series

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Human Relations Area Files, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Softcover with normal wear. Slight foxing/staining on text block.

Record # 2230597


Price: $44.00 

 

Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork (History of Anthropology)


Jr., George W. Stocking

Softcover. US, University of Wisconsin Press, 2nd, 1985-11-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 463027


Price: $10.00 

 

Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature


Johnson, Allen

Softcover. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. Light shelf-wear and sunning to wrappers. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 458766


Price: $13.00 

 

Olivia's African Diary: Cape Town to Cairo: 1932


Hatch, Olivia Stokes

Hardcover. Washington DC, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Notes and pictures of an African adventure of two young Americans in 1932. Photographs by Marvin Breckinridge Patterson. Mild fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chip to upper fore edge corner. Mild age toning to top text block. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951724


Price: $19.00 

On Aboriginal ReligionStanner, W.E.H.

On Aboriginal Religion


Stanner, W.E.H.

Softcover. Sydney, University of Sydney, Reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages. Softcover with normal wear and fading on spine. Light foxing on text block and end papers, and some very light underlining.

Record # 2230584


Price: $25.00 

 

Origin of Species Revisited, The : The Theories of Evolution and of Abrupt Appearance [Volume 1]


Bird, W.R.

Hardcover. US, Regency, 1st, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 551 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else clean, tight copy.

Record # 463822


Price: $38.00 

 

Origin of Species Revisited, Volume II, The : Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion, History, Education, and Constitutional Issues


Bird, W. R.

Hardcover. US, Regency, 1st, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 2. 563 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463819


Price: $38.00 

 

Orinoco - Parima: Indian Societies in Venezuela - The Cisneros Collection


Boglar, Luiz

Softcover. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st US, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages, photographs throughout. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456522


Price: $20.00 

 

Other Greeks, The: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization


Hanson, Victor Davis

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd 1st paperback edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 566 pages. Softcover. With a new preface and bibliographic essay. Wrapper has some foxing on spine, otherwise very good. Clean inside. Binding tight. This passionate book leads us outside the city walls to the countryside, where the vast majority of the Greek citizenry lived, to find the true source of the cultural wealth of Greek civilization.

Record # 31941


Price: $35.00 

Our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolutionFukuyama, Francis

Our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution


Fukuyama, Francis

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spiena and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469241


Price: $19.00 

Parliament of a Thousand Tribes: A Study of New GuineaWhite, Osmar

Parliament of a Thousand Tribes: A Study of New Guinea


White, Osmar

Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows minor normal wear and fading to spine edge. Tight copy with underlining in pencil in some places.

Record # 2230943


Price: $15.00 

 

Passage to Congo, A: Photographs by Doctor Emile Muller 1923-1938


Loos, Pierre

Hardcover. Milan, 5 Continents Editions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages, illustrated with 75 b&w plates, map. In publisher's shrinkwrap. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 402510


Price: $60.00 

 

Patpong Sisters


Odzer, Cleo

Hardcover. New York , Blue Moon Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 854642


Price: $12.00 

Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British FolkloristsDorson, Richard M. (ed.)

Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists


Dorson, Richard M. (ed.)

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 751 pages in two volumes. Hardcover with dust jackets, protected by brodart covers. Very minor wear, clean and tight copies.

Record # 2230555


Price: $38.00 

 

Peasant Life in China; A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley


Hsial-Tung Fei, Prof. Bronislaw Malinowski (Preface)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout, including frontispiece. Former library book with appropriate stamps/markings, although no labeling on spine. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Spine has some fraying, but binding is good. Some light tanning to pages from age.

Record # 33464


Price: $63.00 

 

Penny Capitalism: A Guatemalan Indian Economy


Tax, Sol

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st Edition, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Softcover. 2 fold-out maps (see image). Tanning throughout. Wrapper has tanning/foxing, but still in good shape (see image). Binding good. Pages unmarked. Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology #16

Record # 33493


Price: $19.00 

 

Performances


Dening, Greg

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st paperback edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding good. Spine is slightly faded (shelfwear, see image). Pages clean. "With elegance and candor, (the author) offers a panoramic collection of rich and densely textured essays that demonstrate how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past..."

Record # 33497


Price: $35.00 

 

Piercing: Rites Ethniques Pratique Moderne


Zbinden, Veronique

Softcover. Lausanne, Favre, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, illustrated in color, b&w. French text. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 401988


Price: $60.00 

 

Piltdown - A Scientific Forgery


Spencer, Frank

London, Oxford University Press , 1st U.K., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 272 pages. B&W illustrations, photos. Dust jacket price clipped at bottom, spine with fading.

Record # 303113


Price: $15.00 

 

Pima Indian Basketry


Cain, H. Thomas

Softcover. Phoenix, AZ, Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Color illustrated stapled covers, map, 2 color and 15 b&w plates. Light wear to covers; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805843


Price: $15.00 

 

Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village


Kremers, Carolyn

Hardcover. Anchorage, Alaska Northwest, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages, b&w photograph on dust jacket. Color dust jacked with very minimal wear to edges and tear on rear. Book in excellent condition

Record # 603755


Price: $10.00 

Plant Collecting for Anthropologists, Geographers, and Ecologists in New Guinea (Botany Bulletin No. 2)Wmersley B.Sc, J.S.

Plant Collecting for Anthropologists, Geographers, and Ecologists in New Guinea (Botany Bulletin No. 2)


Wmersley B.Sc, J.S.

Softcover. Department of Forests, Administration of Papua and New Guinea, 1st Edition, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Agewear to wrapper-foxing, tanning. Staple bound. Pages clean.

Record # 33558


Price: $38.00 

Political Economy of Mountain Java, The: An Interpretive HistoryHefner, Robert W.

Political Economy of Mountain Java, The: An Interpretive History


Hefner, Robert W.

Softcover. University of California Press, 1st, May 12, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages, b&w photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454582


Price: $12.00 

 

Pre-Columbian Art from The Ernest Erickson Collection at the American Museum of Natural History - June 15-August 15, 1988


Couch, N. C. Christopher

Softcover. New York, American Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612398


Price: $13.00 

 

Pre-Inca Art and Culture


Leicht, Hermann

Hardcover. New York, Orion Press, 1st thus, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipped and frayed dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233338


Price: $19.00 

 

Prehistoric Societies


Clark , Grahame and Stuart Piggot

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 357 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857306


Price: $19.00 

 

Prehistory of Africa, The


Clark, J. Desmond

Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages, b&w maps, illustrations and photographs. Brown top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851405


Price: $15.00 

 

Prehistory of New Zealand, The


Davidson, Janet

Hardcover. Auckland, New Zealand, Longman Paul Limited, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Pink endpapers. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Previous owner's name and a small note on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly faded spine (see image), excellent. Presents an authoritative review of what is known about life in New Zealand before the coming of the European.

Record # 32194


Price: $63.00 

 

Prehistory of the Far West: Homes of Vanished Peoples (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Cressman, L.S.

Hardcover. Salt lake City, UT, University of Utah Press, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, has agewear, tanning, light foxing (see image). Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout, color frontispiece. Binding good. Spine straight. the first book-length synthesis of the prehistory of far-western North America.

Record # 33446


Price: $31.00 

Property, Kin, and Community on TrukGoodenough, Ward H.

Property, Kin, and Community on Truk


Goodenough, Ward H.

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover, normal wear with folding on corners and pen labeling along spine, previous owners name on inside cover. Some fading on covers and foxing on text block. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number Forty-Six

Record # 2230590


Price: $25.00 

Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 16Salzman, Jack (ed.)

Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 16


Salzman, Jack (ed.)

Softcover. New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Softcover with minor wear and scuffing to edges and cover. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230627


Price: $23.00 

Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 17Salzman, Jack (ed.)

Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 17


Salzman, Jack (ed.)

Softcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 530 pages. Softcover with minor wear and scuffing to edges and cover. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230628


Price: $23.00 

Pueblo of Sia New Mexico, TheWhite, Leslie A.

Pueblo of Sia New Mexico, The


White, Leslie A.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very light normal wear. Slight foxing on top of text block, name of previous owner in pen on front end papers.

Record # 2230589


Price: $19.00 

 

Python Killer, The : Stories of Nzema Life


Grottanelli, Vinigi L.

Hardcover. US, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988-05-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462326


Price: $10.00 

 

Quest for the Origins of the First Americans


Dixon, E.James

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2nd printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458695


Price: $15.00 

 

Quiroga: A Mexican Municipio (Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology Publication No. 11)


Brand, Donald D., Jos

Softcover. Washington D.C., Smithsonian, 1st Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Softcover. Previous owner's initials on front cover (see image). B/w illustrations throughout including two fold-out maps. Foxing to top edge. Wrapper has some tanning and agewear. Binding good.

Record # 33449


Price: $15.00 

Reflections on Fieldwork in MoroccoRabinow, Paul R., Robert N. Bellah (Foreword)

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco


Rabinow, Paul R., Robert N. Bellah (Foreword)

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press1, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Dj priceclipped, Some light foxing to edges, pages clean. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Binding good, spine straight. Tan cloth cover boards, blue title on spine. Scarce.

Record # 33556


Price: $23.00 

Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads, TheKeith, Arthur Berriedale

Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads, The


Keith, Arthur Berriedale

Hardcover. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, Reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 683 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Fading and text misalignment along spine. "Harvard Oriental Series, edited with the cooperation of various scholars by Charles Rockwell Lanman. Volume Thirty-Two"

Record # 2230620


Price: $19.00 

 

Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia


Ishwaran, K.

Hardcover. Leiden, E.J. Brill , 1st, 1976, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages, edited by Bardwell L. Smith, blue cloth cover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Light wear to dust jacket; overall, book in great condition.

Record # 803271


Price: $19.00 

 

Religion and the Legitimation of Power in South Asia


Ishwaran, K.

Hardcover. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1st, 1978, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages, SIGNED BY EDITOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER, edited by Bardwell L. Smith, blue cloth cover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, color dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket; book in excellent condition.

Record # 803268


Price: $19.00 

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold WarMandler, Peter

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War


Mandler, Peter

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230580


Price: $19.00 

 

Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization, The


Thompson, J. Eric S.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, Univ. of Oklahoma, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 287 pages. Dust jacket w/ edgewear, chipping; spine slightly faded. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Else clean and tight.

Record # 60610


Price: $13.00 

 

Rituals, Mantras and Science: An Integral Perspective (India's Scientific Heritage)


Burde, Jayant

Hardcover. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, agewear (see image). Pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight. Using structural analysis, the author shows that rituals in general, whether religious, political, social or otherwise have common structural patterns.

Record # 33460


Price: $25.00 

 

Roots of the Blues, The


Charters, Samuel

Hardcover. Salem, Marion Boyers, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611695


Price: $15.00 

 

Rope of Moka, The: Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea


Strathern, Andrew

Hardcover. London, England, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 254 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name stamped on front flyleaf. Some underlining and notes within. Red cloth cover board, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has bottom of front flap corner clipped. Agewear to Dust jacket. Binding good. Spine straight. Dr. Strathern presents the first full length account in English of the moka. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 4

Record # 33483


Price: $25.00 

Russian StudiesSchapiro, Leonard Bertram

Russian Studies


Schapiro, Leonard Bertram

Hardcover. New York, NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 400 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Small tear to dust jacket repaired with tape. Some edge wear to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469257


Price: $13.00 

Sacha RunaWhitten, Norman E.

Sacha Runa


Whitten, Norman E.

Hardcover. Quito, Ecuador, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear and tearing and sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458739


Price: $19.00 

 

Sacred Landscapes - The Threshold Between Worlds


Davis, Lynn

Hardcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Corporation, First Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Peat cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dime sized bump to front board corner, small blemish to gutter of front flyleaf. Otherwise very clean & unmarked. Stunning full page photography in black & white, beautifully presented to accompany text. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. A very nice copy.

Record # 751102


Price: $63.00 

 

Sacred Scriptures of the Japanese, The


Wheeler, Post

Hardcover. New York , Henry Schuman, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 562 pages, in a lightly chipped, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 407398


Price: $25.00 

 

Sandpaintings of the Navaho Shootingway and the Walcott Collection


Leland C. Wyman

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. 44 color and b&w plates. No jacket. Two-toned blue cloth. Spine somewhat worn otherwise in good shape.

Record # 605069


Price: $13.00 

 

Savage Mind (La Pensee Sauvage), The


Levi-Strauss, Claude

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st English, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages. 8 black-and-white illustrations, plus black-and-white figures and charts throughout. Minor edge wear and sun-fading along dust jacket spine. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856176


Price: $38.00 

Savages And Civilization: Who Will Survive?Weatherford, Jack

Savages And Civilization: Who Will Survive?


Weatherford, Jack

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468702


Price: $13.00 

 

Scattered Round Stones - A Mayo Village in Sonora, Mexico


Yetman, David

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W photos, 351 pages

Record # 175573


Price: $35.00 

Scots, The: a photohistoryMacKinnon, Murray

Scots, The: a photohistory


MacKinnon, Murray

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469034


Price: $25.00 

 

Search of the Primitive, In


Cotlow, Lewis

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, wrinkling to back cover. Small area of fading to cloth at bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612672


Price: $25.00 

 

Searching the Criminal Body: Art/Science/Prejudice


Erony (Curators), Susan, Nicole Hahn Rafter, PhD

Softcover. Albany, NY, Univeristy Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of NY, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. A bit of age wear to wrapper, but still in very good condition, clean and unmarked inside.

Record # 31040


Price: $23.00 

SECRET SOCIETIES AND THE HERMETIC CODE: THE ROSICRUCIAN, MASONIC, AND ESOTERIC TRANSMISSION IN THE ARTSFrers, Ernesto

SECRET SOCIETIES AND THE HERMETIC CODE: THE ROSICRUCIAN, MASONIC, AND ESOTERIC TRANSMISSION IN THE ARTS


Frers, Ernesto

Softcover. Rochester, Vt., Destiny Books, reprint , 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Rochester, Vt., Destiny Books, reprint , 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. . 204 pages. Record # 467452

Record # 467452


Price: $10.00 

 

Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen


Strathern, Andrew

Hardcover. London, Backworth, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 page. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate abrasion and ripping on top edge of jacket with taped repairs. Slight foxing on inner cover.

Record # 2230450


Price: $23.00 

 

Sex Offenders


Gebhard , Paul H.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred C. Kinsey , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 905 pages. Includes extensive graphs and tables of data. Binding cracked between back cover and rear fly leaf. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 857243


Price: $31.00 

Shape of the Past, The: Studies in Honor of Franklin D. MurphyBuccellati, Giorgio

Shape of the Past, The: Studies in Honor of Franklin D. Murphy


Buccellati, Giorgio

Hardcover. California, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 322 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy. Small tears on dust jacket along top and bottom edges and spine.

Record # 468503


Price: $25.00 

 

Shelter: Models of Native Ingenuity


The Katonah Gallery

Softcover. Katonah, New York, The Katonah Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages, plus acknowledgments. Collection of essays published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Katonah Gallery. Brown stapled covers with black illustration and titles, introduction by James Marston Fitch, 7 essays by various authors, profusely illustrated with b&w plates throughout. Very slight rubbing to covers; a clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 806169


Price: $26.00 

Social Change in the Pacific IslandsRobillard, Albert B. (ed.)

Social Change in the Pacific Islands


Robillard, Albert B. (ed.)

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul International, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 507 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal age wear to jacket, fading along spine. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231016


Price: $19.00 

 

Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology


Clastres, Pierre

Softcover. New York, Zone Books, 5th, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Tight copy.

Record # 2233769


Price: $19.00 

 

Soil-Tilling and Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands


Malinowski, Bronislaw

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, Reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 500 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Light pencil marking inside. Coral Gardens and Their Magic, Volume 1. First published 1935.

Record # 2230464


Price: $23.00 

Solomon Island Society, A: Kinship and Leadership Among the Siuai of BougainvilleOliver, Douglas L.

Solomon Island Society, A: Kinship and Leadership Among the Siuai of Bougainville


Oliver, Douglas L.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st Edition, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 533 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket has chipping and fading to spine, with old tape repairs to inside. Slight foxing to top of text block, blemishes to side and bottom.

Record # 33569


Price: $35.00 

Sorcerers of Dobu: A Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western PacificFortune, R.F.

Sorcerers of Dobu: A Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific


Fortune, R.F.

Hardcover. Great Britain, Butler & Tanner Ltd., Revised Edition, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covers, gilt title on spine, some fraying on edges. B/w illustrations throughout. Notes and light pencil underlining throughout. Binding good. Dust jacket has some agewear (see image). This book is both a dramatic record of the Dobuans' daily life and an especially rich source of information on primitive psychology.

Record # 33536


Price: $25.00 

 

Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society: A Study of Esoteric Instruments and Their Role in Male-Female Relations (New Guinea Research Bulletin No. 60)


Gourlay, K.A., R.J. May (Editor)

Softcover. Port Moresby, Australia, Australian National University, 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding good. Wrapper good. Pages clean. In very good condition.

Record # 33444


Price: $25.00 

 

Spanish Harlem: Anatomy of Poverty


Sexton , Patricia Cayo

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Includes 3 appendices. Gilt titles on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857235


Price: $10.00 

Spears of Twilight, The: Life and Death in the Amazon JungleDescola, Philippe

Spears of Twilight, The: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle


Descola, Philippe

Hardcover. New York , The New Press, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, b&w photographs. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Light wear to mylar-protected dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 809712


Price: $18.00 

 

Standing Water: Poems


Chai , Eleanor

Softcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 97 pages. Softcover. 4 b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 613502


Price: $13.00 

 

Stone Age in Rhodesia, The


Jones, Neville

Hardcover. New York, Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages, illustrated in b&w. A facsimile reprint of the 1926 edition. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 405317


Price: $13.00 

 

Stories of Traditional Navajo Life and Culture


N/A

Hardcover. Tsaile Navajo Nation , Navajo Community College Press , 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Illustrated cover. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature on side edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857290


Price: $19.00 

 

Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (A.S.A. Monographs 5)


Leach, Edmund (Editor)

Softcover. London, England, Tavistock Publications, Reprint, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Softcover. Wrapper has some tanning/spotting from age. Back cover has previous bookstore label (see image). Some tanning/foxing to edges, pages clean. Binding good.

Record # 33441


Price: $9.00 

 

Structure and Change in Indian Society


Singer, Milton and Bernard S. Cohn

Hardcover. Chicago, Aldine Pub., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with closed tears, edgewear. Previous owner's signature front end paper,

Record # 56126


Price: $30.00 

Studies in the Anthropology of Bougainville, Solomon IslandsOliver, Douglas L.

Studies in the Anthropology of Bougainville, Solomon Islands


Oliver, Douglas L.

Softcover. New York, Kraus Reprint Co., Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 97 pages. Softcover. Normal age wear and fading, title and author's name in pen along spine, name of former owner in pen on title page. Spine cocked but tight.

Record # 33571


Price: $38.00 

Survey of Folklife Along the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River, AHowell, Benita J.

Survey of Folklife Along the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River, A


Howell, Benita J.

Softcover. Knoxville, University of Tennessee, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 431 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, fold-out maps. Report of Investigations No. 30, Department of Anthropology, university of Tennessee. Paper wrappers have fraying ti edges, tape repair. Pages inside claen, very good.

Record # 411536


Price: $44.00 

Suye Mura: A Japanese VillageEmbree, John F.

Suye Mura: A Japanese Village


Embree, John F.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, Reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Fading on the spine and covers, slight foxing on top of text block. Annotation/underlining in Introduction, name of former owner in pen on front end papers.

Record # 2230594


Price: $15.00 

 

Symbols and Sentiments


Lewis, Editor, Ioan

Hardcover. London, Academic Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ has light top edge rubbing. A collection of cross-cultural studies in symbolism. Previous owner's name in pencil on front flyleaf. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951076


Price: $48.00 

 

Taj'n Totonac, The: Part 1. History, Subsistence, Shelter and Technology


Kelly, Isabel, Angel Palerm

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st Edition, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout including 5 fold-out maps/diagrams. Wrapper has some tanning and further agewear, in good condition. Binding good.

Record # 33447


Price: $19.00 

 

Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914, The


Clarke, I. F.

Softcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1995, Dust Jacket: None, 382 pages, over 60 b&w illustrations, collection of 16 short stories about future wars, color illustrated cover, light wear. Overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 802725


Price: $10.00 

 

Tangweera: Life and Adventures Among Gentle Savages


Bell, Charles Napier

Hardcover. US, Univ of Texas Pr, rep, 1989-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Light soil and sun-fade to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462762


Price: $13.00 

 

Tanner Lectures on Human Values, The


Peterson, Grethe B.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1st ed., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 578 pages. Foxing to top edge. First few pages are crinkled along top. Some fading to dust jacket top edge and spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855490


Price: $19.00 

 

Taos Pueblo


Wood, Nancy

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1989-06-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 162 pages. B&w photography throughout. Red gilt cover illustration and titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465924


Price: $23.00 

 

Tapa on Moce Island Fiji: A Traditional Handicraft in a Changing Society


Kooijman, Simon

Softcover. Leiden, Netherlands, E.J. Brill, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Softcover. In exceptional condition for its age, wrapper still bright and glossy. Pages clean and bright. Binding good. Just a touch of foxing to top edge. Mededelingen Van Het Rijksmuseum Voor Volkenkunde, 21

Record # 33488


Price: $23.00 

 

Technique & Personality


Mead, Margaret, Junius B. Bird and Hans Himmelheber

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages, 36 b&w plates, 2 color. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.

Record # 406855


Price: $15.00 

The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch (SIGNED)Stoller, Paul

The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch (SIGNED)


Stoller, Paul

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Softcover with slight fading and foxing. Inscription on front end papers, assumed to be author.

Record # 2230577


Price: $25.00 

 

The Garia: An Ethnography of a Traditional Cosmic System in Papua New Guinea


Lawrence, Peter

Hardcover. Manchester, NH, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to spine of dust jacket.

Record # 2230431


Price: $19.00 

 

The Kogoshui or Gleanings from Ancient Stories


Kato, Prof. Genchi and Prof. Hikoshiro Hoshino

Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, Sanseido, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages, plates of manuscripts translated included, fabric softcover; foxing evident on front pages, wear to edges and corners of cover, ex-library copy with stamp on top page edges.

Record # 802437


Price: $38.00 

 

The Maori Mantle


Roth, H. Ling

Softcover. Carlton, UK, Ruth Bean , Reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages. Softcover. Slight foxing on text block. Clean and tight copy. Sticker on back cover.

Record # 2230459


Price: $31.00 

The Natural History of the Rich: A Field GuideConniff, Richard

The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide


Conniff, Richard

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, unclipped dust jacket, light rubbing to cover, but otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 451151


Price: $12.00 

 

The Observation of Savage Peoples


Deg

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 123pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight and clean copy with slight foxing on top of text block. Very minor wear on edges of jacket. F.C.T. Moore (trans. & ed.). Price clipped. First published in French in 1800.

Record # 2230499


Price: $19.00 

The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in BelauParmentier, Richard J.

The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau


Parmentier, Richard J.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages. Softcover with minor wear and fading on spine, light foxing on text block. Creasing on bottom front corner.

Record # 2230583


Price: $23.00 

 

The Works of Ta'unga: Records of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas 1833-1896


Crocombe, R.G. and Marjorie

Hardcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and fading on jacket. Clean and tight copy. Pacific History Series: No 2

Record # 2230463


Price: $19.00 

Threads of Tradition: Textiles of Indonesia and SarawakFischer, Joseph

Threads of Tradition: Textiles of Indonesia and Sarawak


Fischer, Joseph

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages. Softcover with light wear to edges. Top upper corner creased from a bump.

Record # 2230599


Price: $23.00 

 

Three Men of the Beagle


Marks, Richard Lee

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. maroon cover boards, gilt title on spine, design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, otherwise good. Decorated endpapers (maps). Cover board spine coming away from binding at flyleaf at top, but still connected. Both an engrossing Victorian morality tale and a superb rendering of a key period in the life of Charles Darwin.

Record # 31942


Price: $15.00 

 

Three Regions of Primitive Art


Kubler, George, S. Kooijman and Hallam Movius

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 77 pages, 42 b&w plates. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.

Record # 406854


Price: $15.00 

 

Tlingit - An Introduction to their Culture and History, The


Olson, Wallace M.

Softcover. Auke Bay, Wallace M. Olson, 2nd, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 81 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Fading to covers. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612675


Price: $13.00 

To Sing with Pigs is Human: The Concept of Person in Papua New GuineaGoodale, Jane C.

To Sing with Pigs is Human: The Concept of Person in Papua New Guinea


Goodale, Jane C.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Softcover. Inscription by author on title page. minor bumps to lower back cover edge. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 33573


Price: $25.00 

 

Tobati: Paraguayan Town


Service, Elman R. and Helen S.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 337 pages. B&w illustrations. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 411299


Price: $19.00 

 

Tongan Culture and History: Papers from the 1st Tongan Historical Conference Held in Canberra 14-17 January 1987


Herda, Phyllis (Editor), Jennifer Terrell, Neil Gunson (Editors)

Softcover. Australia, Australian National University, 1st Paperback Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Softcover. Wrapper has some foxing/agewear (see image). Light foxing to top edge. Pages clean. Binding good.

Record # 33487


Price: $38.00 

Tortillas for the GodsVogt, Evan Z.

Tortillas for the Gods


Vogt, Evan Z.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear to jacket, creases, repaired chips to upper spine. Clean and tight copy otherwise.

Record # 2230942


Price: $19.00 

Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and NeuroticsFreud, Sigmund

Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics


Freud, Sigmund

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 172 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some fading, staining, wear, and chipping on jacket. Some foxing on top of text block and front end papers, otherwise tight and clean copy. Name of former owner in pen on front end paper. "Authorized Translation by James Strachey".

Record # 2230593


Price: $38.00 

 

Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art


Biebuyck, Daniel P.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. illustrated with 64 pages of black & white photographs. Ex-museum library copy. Embossed stamp at top right corner of title page. Strip of white library tape at bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610306


Price: $38.00 

 

Tradition und Tradenten in den Schulen Palastinas und Babyloniens


Bacher, Wilhelm

Hardcover. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co./, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 704 pages. German text. Reprinted from the 1914 edition. Cloth covers without a dust jacket. Light fading to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856384


Price: $38.00 

Traditional Marriage and the Impact of Christianity on the Solos of Buka Island (New Guinea Research Bulletin No. 57)Sarei, A.H., R.j. May (Editor)

Traditional Marriage and the Impact of Christianity on the Solos of Buka Island (New Guinea Research Bulletin No. 57)


Sarei, A.H., R.j. May (Editor)

Softcover. Port Moresby and Canberra, Australian National University, 1st Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Softcover. Touch of tanning to edges. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding good.

Record # 33559


Price: $19.00 

 

Treasury of Archaeological Bells


Spear, Jr., Nathaniel

Hard Back . NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 200786


Price: $45.00 

 

Under the Mountain Wall - A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages of main text plus index. Hardcover. 2 sections of black & white photographs. Text pages have a green/yellow tone. Dust jacket with light chipping along edges, degree of fading along left edge of front cover - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613705


Price: $50.00 

 

Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study


Trigger, Bruce G.

Hardcover. US, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2003-05-05, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 757 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Faint smoke smell.

Record # 463772


Price: $38.00 

 

Understanding Maya inscriptions: a hieroglyph handbook


Harris, John F.

softcover . Philadelphia, University Museum Publications, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Softcover. Black and white illustrations. Light foxing, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469356


Price: $25.00 

view to a death in the morning, A: hunting and nature through historyCartmill, Matt

view to a death in the morning, A: hunting and nature through history


Cartmill, Matt

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Fair, B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Severe shelf wear to rear dust jacket cover. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. . 331 pages. Record # 467705

Record # 467705


Price: $10.00 

 

Virgin's Children, The - Life in an Aztec Village Today


Madsen, William

Hardcover. Austin, Texas, University of Texas, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W photos, 148 pages, previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf, dust jacket worn, spine faded.

Record # 175107


Price: $25.00 

Vunamami: Economic Transformation in a Traditional SocietySalisbury, Richard F.

Vunamami: Economic Transformation in a Traditional Society


Salisbury, Richard F.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 389 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some fading, wear, slight chipping to top. Stamp of former owner in front end papers, clean tight copy.

Record # 33568


Price: $15.00 

 

Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories


Yimikirli, Peggy Rockman Napaljarri (Ed./Trans), Lee Cataldi (Ed./Trans)

Hardcover. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Yellow cover boards, yellow quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, light fading to spine (see image),excellent. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Light foxing to top edge. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. In great shape. A fascinating journey in the living mythology of the Warlpiri people of Central Australia.

Record # 32193


Price: $19.00 

 

Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle


Civrieux, Marc de

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Edited and translated by David Guss. 195 pgs, b&w photos. Minor wear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else clean and tight.

Record # 100821


Price: $13.00 

 

We, the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kindship in Primitive Polynesia


Firth, Raymond, Bronislaw Malinowski (Preface)

Hardcover. London, England, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 2nd Edition, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 605 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Top edge dyed. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has agewear (see image). Dark red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages/edges have some tanning from age. When this book appeared in 1936 it was at once recognized as a major work. With the years it has advanced to the status of a classic.

Record # 33475


Price: $25.00 

 

Winged Serpent, The - American Indian Prose and Poetry


Astrov, Margot

Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Softcover. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750977


Price: $15.00 

 

Wisdom From the Earth - The Living Legacy of the Aboriginal Dreamtime


Voigt, Anna & Nevill Drury

Paperback. Boston, Shasmbhala, Wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations, photos. 192 pages. Paperback.

Record # 68427


Price: $12.00 

 

Wisdom from the Earth: The Living Legacy of the Aboriginal Dreamtime


Voigt, Anna

Softcover. US, Shambhala, 1st thus, 1998-07-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Small remainder mark to top edge and slight de-lamination to front cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462943


Price: $15.00 

With Our Heads Bowed: The Dynamics of Gender in a Maya CommunityRosenbaum, Brenda

With Our Heads Bowed: The Dynamics of Gender in a Maya Community


Rosenbaum, Brenda

softcover. Albany, N.Y., Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York ; Austin, Tex. : Distributed by Universit, 1st, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Softcover with light staining on page block. Crease to front wrapper. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR in spanish. Black and white pictures.

Record # 468841


Price: $15.00 

Woman: A Celebration (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)Fetterman (Editor), Peter

Woman: A Celebration (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Fetterman (Editor), Peter

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 3rd, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Sepia and b/w illustrations throughout. Boards covered by maroon fabric, Tipped in plate on front board. Still in original wrapper as if never read. Clean inside and out. Book of pictures of women through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

Record # 30506


Price: $25.00 

 

Work of the Gods in Tikopia, The


Firth, Raymond

Hardcover. London, England, The Athlone Press, 1st Edition, 1967, 492 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Pages clean, Spine straight. Binding good. 1st published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. Monographs on Social Anthropology

Record # 33479


Price: $19.00 

 

World on the Wane, A


Levi-Strauss, Claude

Hardcover. NY, Criterion, rep, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. by John Russell. Black & white photos. dj with light soil.

Record # 52059


Price: $9.00 

World We Have LostLaslett, Peter

World We Have Lost


Laslett, Peter

Softcover. London, Methuen young books, reprint, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Softcover. Creasing to back cover. Some underlining. Sticker residue to back cover. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469405


Price: $15.00 

Wrath of Nations, The: Civilization and the Furies of NationalismPfaff, William

Wrath of Nations, The: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism


Pfaff, William

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature on front and rear fly leaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468269


Price: $10.00 

 

Writing on Ice - The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur/Gisli Palsson (Editor)

Hardcover. Hanover, University Press of New England, First Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Grey cloth boards with white titles to black cloth spine. 15 pages of full page, full color illustrations & additional photos in black & white throughout. Bright dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750919


Price: $31.00 

 

Yanomame - The Fierce People


Chagnon, Napoleon A.

Paperback. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st wraps, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A monograph on the Indians of southern Venezuela. Black & white photos

Record # 56012


Price: $15.00 

 

Yazz: Navajo Painter


Wagner, Sallie R., J.J. Brody, and Beatien Yazz

Softcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Beatien Yazz's life and work are examined by Sallie Wagern, long-time friend; J.J. Brody, director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico; and Beatien Yazz himself. 76 pages; both color and black & white plates; cover in color. In very good condition.

Record # 806866


Price: $70.00 

 

Zakros - The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete


Platon, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket spine faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611739


Price: $15.00 

 

Zanzabuka (Dangerous Safari): The Adventurous Account of Three Dangerous Safaris to Africa, Filming Wild Animals and Primitive Tribes


Cotlow, Lewis

Hardcover. New York , Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 370 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO HARRY M. SLAUSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER, LETTER TO SLAUSON FROM COTLOW ADHERED TO INSIDE FRONT COVER. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Green cloth cover, some wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, rear cover with stain on bottom edge - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Record # 853031


Price: $40.00 

Zarathustra and ZoroastrianismStausberg, Michael

Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism


Stausberg, Michael

softcover. Oakville, Ca, Equinox Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470279


Price: $23.00 

 

Zincantan: A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas


Vogt, Evon Z.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 733 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Yellow cloth cover board, light foxing to top edge. Dust jacket has agewear, unclipped. Some light tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding good. Spine straight. Based on more than a decade of work, Evon Z. Vogt's book is the first full-length ethnographic study of Zinacantan culture.

Record # 33453


Price: $23.00 


  

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