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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 Guinea Goodale, Jane C.
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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 Gods Vogt, Evan Z.
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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 Neurotics Freud, Sigmund
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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)
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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 

 

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 Society Salisbury, Richard F.
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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 Community Rosenbaum, Brenda
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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
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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