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Parsons Elsie Clews
The Scalp Ceremonial of Zuñi Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association Number 31
Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1924 original. 42 pp with illustrations in original wrappers. Some sunning to spine and edges of wrappers title hand-written on spine; contents clean and sound. Description of of Zuñi scalp ceremonials in 1921 and 1891 with a section on changes in the ceremonials over time. Kraus Reprint paperback books
Bookseller reference : 1556
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Fintzelberg Nicholas
Peyote Paraphernalia Ethnic Technology Notes No. 4
San Diego CA: San Diego Museum of Man 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 11 inches stapled. 9 pp with 17 b/w illustrations. Minor cover wear. No markings. Describes a kit containing materials used in a Navajo Indian Peyote ceremony. San Diego Museum of Man paperback books
Bookseller reference : 12664
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Titiev Mischa
Old Oraibi A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa
Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University Vol. XXII No. 1. xi 282 pp with b/w illustrations from photographs bibliography. Light handling wear to wrappers internals clean and sound. Organized into three main parts: Kinship and Social Organization kinship system; courtship marriage divorce; households lineages etc. Hopi Ceremonialism Katcina Cult tribal iniation solstitial and solar ceremonies customs and rituals relating to war women's ceremonies and Miscellany economy adolescent rites sex practices et al. First published in 1944. Kraus Reprint unknown books
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Clavijero Clavigero Francisco Javier 1731 1787 and Francisco Palou
Historia de la Antigua o Baja California with Relacion Historica de la Vida del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra
vi1233 pages. Quarto 10 1/2" x 7" Bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards. Clavijero's History of Baja California which was first published in Italian then in English then a Madrid edition and then the Mexican edition. Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 13 page 293 First Mexican edition. <br /><br />Clavijero a Mexican native was exiled with the other Jesuits in the 1760s and lived in Italy thereafter. His history of Mexico is considered one of the best of the early histories of the subject. His history of Baja California is the first such and contains passages relating to the foundation of the mission at San Francisco as well as material on Kino and Salvatierra. Translated from the Italian manuscripts by Nicoles Garcia de San Vincente. The Palou volume is essential reading for the early history of Northern California. This is the second edition of the Vida of Serra. First published 1787. Francisco Palou 1723-1789 was a Franciscan missionary administrator and historian on the Baja California peninsula and in Alta California. Father Palou made significant contributions to the Alta California and Baja California mission systems. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Damp stains to end papers and heal edge of title page spine ends and corners professionally repaired Over all a very good copy of a scarce item. De Juan R Navarro hardcover books
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Seler Eduard Georg 1849 1922
Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach-und Alterthumskunde
3 volumes; xxviii862 pages with two fold out plates and numerous illustrations; xxxvi1107 pages with numerous illustrations; xxx729 pages with four maps including frontispiece 43 plates which one folds out and numerous black and white illustrations. Royal octavo 9 7/8" x 6 3/4". Bound in half leather with marbled boards. Three of five volumes. First edition. <br /><br />A few general observations on the contents of Gesammelte Abhandlungen are in order. Altogether the set includes 127 separate articles. Most were originally published in such well-known outlets of the 1887-1919 period as ZeitschriJt jilr Ethnologie Globus Science Internationales Archiv filr Ethnographie Ethnologisches Notisblatt Mittheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschajt in Wien Verojentlichungen aus dem Kdniglichen Museum filr Volkerkunde Berlin and the proceedings of the various International Congresses of Americanists held during these years. Occasionally these articles on being reprinted in the various volumes of Gesammelte Abhundlungen were substantially enlarged and revised by their author. A few of the most important papers were written especially for these volumes such as his well-known translations with copious notes of the Sahaguntine chants to the gods Vol. I his classic account of Tarascan culture at Contact Vol. III and his important descriptions of the ruins of La Quemada Vol. III and Teotihuacan Vol. V. Breaking them down into categories to illustrate again the great breadth of Seler's scholarly labors approximately 10 are devoted to studies of the Mexican codices 3 to Mexican calendrics 20 to Maya hieroglyphic writing and calendrics 3 to mythology 2 to general Mesoamerican linguistics 29 to analyses of archaeological objects or groups of objects 13 to descriptions always well illustrated of major ruins 6 to accounts of archaeological travels 14 to what might be called "general ethnohistory" 4 to direct translations of Nahuatl texts 3 to recent ethnography 3 to Conquest history I to geography and 4 on miscellaneous topics. In addition to this coverage of Mesoamerican matters which consumes the vast bulk of the volumes 4 articles deal with North America 3 with Central America and 5 with South America Andean region. The small number of articles specifically concerned with Mexican codices does not accurately reflect Seler's contribution to this field since as stated above his major works here were long monographs each thoroughly analyzing a major surviving specimen. American Anthropologist Volume 65: p1100<br /><br />Seler was born in Crossen an der Oder Prussia on December 5 1849; attended Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium Berlin 1863-1869; attended University of Breslau before serving a year of military duty in 1870-71 during the Franco-Prussian War; returned to his studies at University of Berlin in 1871 and passed his Oberlehrer examination in 1875; taught science and mathematics until he was forced to resign because of poor health in 1879; moved to Trieste and began studying linguistics and his interest in Pre-Columbian ethnography and archeology emerged; received his doctorate University of Leipzig 1887; director American Division Königlichen Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin 1904-22; his published papers and monographs made fundamental contributions to studies of aboriginal American linguistics archaeology native history and ethnography; died in 1922. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Corners bumped and rubbed bookplate on front pastedowns spines lightly rubbed. A very good set. A Asher & Company and Behrend & Company hardcover books
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Mendizabal Miguel Othon de 1890 1945 from the library of Professor Robert
Obras Completas
6 volumes. 420 pages with plates tables and figures. Articles by 17 various authors in the field of anthropology; 571 pages with two foldout maps tables and figures; 345 pages with seven fold out maps tables foldout figure and accordion fold "El Lienzo de Jucutacato"; 399 pages with tables; 33025 maps two folding and 21 foldout table pages with tables four folding and maps two folding;551 pages with tables some folding plates and figures. Royal octavo 9 1/4" 7 1/4" bound in three quarter leather. Prologue by Silva Herzog. From the library of Professor Robert "Van" Kemper First edition.<br /><br /> Miguel Othon de Mendizabal wss an educator and Mexican anthropologist who fought for agrarian reform and the welfare of the indigenous people of Mexico. He studied at the National Preparatory School and later at the National Museum of Archaeology Ethnography and History. In the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM worked as chief investigator in the Mezquital Valley Hidalgo state and then as director of the Institute for Social Research. He worked for the National Polytechnic Institute and head of the Laboratory of Anthropology and later became director of the Institute of Economic Research. During the administration of President Lazaro Cardenas 1934-1940 he served as advisor to the Department of Indian Affairs and director of the Workers' University. His work scattered in journals was published in six volumes under the title Collected Works 1946. He also published An Essay on the American native civilizations The Nahua chronology The evolution of the indigenous cultures of Mexico and the division of labor The evolution of northwestern Mexico Mining and Mexican metallurgy Four problems of indigenous and Agricultural developments Mezquital Valley among others. Included is El Lienzo de Jucutacato with the codex in folder.Robert V. Kemper born in San Diego California on November 21 1945 resided in Dallas Texas where he was Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1971 from the University of California at Berkeley and spent the academic year 1971-1972 there as a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mexican American Studies before joining the SMU faculty. At SMU he served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology President of the Faculty Senate and member of the University Board of Trustees. His research interests included migration and urbanization history of anthropology community development tourism Mexico and the United States. His numerous publications include Anthropologists in Cities 1974 Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzan Peasants in Mexico City 1977 Migration Across Frontiers: Mexico and the United States 1979 Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology 2002 and Urban Life 5th ed. 2010. He has served as President of the Society for Latin American Anthropology and the Society for Urban Anthropology as well as editor of Human Organization editor for Social-Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropologist and associate editor for Urban Anthropology.<br /><br />Condition<br /><br />Bound in three quarter leather with "Kemper" stamped to spine heal. Some staining to leather else a very good set. Kemper Derechos Asegurados hardcover books
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Anthropology
Ethnology. An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology. Vols. 1 5 9-22
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1984. 15 vols. Large 8vo. Full brick library binding. Fine. 15 vols. Large 8vo. University of Pittsburgh Press unknown books
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Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Mexico
Boletin Epoca II Nos. 1-8 Abril-Junio 1972 - Enero-Marzo 1974
Mexico City: INAH 1974. Paperback. Very Good. Eight consecutive individual issues. black & white photos rather grainy 60-64 pages per issue. Softcovers in original wrapper. 28cm. Minor cover scuffing and wear. Former owner's name in some issues. Spanish text. Published quarterly 1960-1976. <br/><br/> INAH paperback books
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Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission
JAPAN RELIGION Glimpses
Kumamoto Japan: Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission 1934. Sewn binding. Illustrated paper with traditional thread binding. Very good. 31 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Decorative translucent booklet regarding the Janice James School built at the foot of Mt. Tatsuda in Kumamoto City on land purchased in 1921. Describing the history of mission work in Japan the account of the girls school the widows home the old-age home - accompanied by black and white photos. Includes a card intended for slipping between the pages to block the light and make it easier to read. Covers lightly soiled with crease marks. Interior light foxing. <br/><br/> Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission unknown books
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Piper June el ed; Roberts Alexandra compiled by; Smith Jenevieve compiled by
Papers from the Third Fourth and Sixth Navajo Studies Conferences
Window Rock AZ: Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department 1993. Softcover. Very Good. xvi 389 pp with maps in original wrappers. Very light shelf wear with a few short tears at spine; contents clean. A collection of over 30 papers from three conferences by various authors on a variety of aspects of Navajo culture see scan of partial table of contents. Due to size shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders. Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department paperback books
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Gilberti Maturino 1498? 1585 Compiled by Warren J. Benedict
Diccionario Grande De La Lengua De Michoacan
2 volumes: 704 pages with tables; 848 pages. Octavo 9" x 6 3/4" bound in original wrappers. Compiled by Warren J Benedict. First edition limited to 500 copies.<br /><br /> In the fall of 1965 Warren found in the John Carter Brown Library a very incomplete manuscript dictionary of the Tarascan language. In the catalog of the library it was indicated as a work of Father Gilberti who first publish the grammar 1558 and dictionary 1559 of the language. But the manuscript dictionary was very different than that of the dictionary published by Gilberti. Warren considered copying the document but because of the poor physical condition of the manuscript decided against doing so. In 1977 when Warren began to investigate further the life and writings of Brother Mathurin Gilberti he found in a bibliographic directory a quotation from a manuscript in the Latin American Library at Tulane indicating that it was a "Vocabulary Castilian-Tarasco-Tarasco and Castilian" written by Brother Gilberti. When asked about the content of the manuscript he was assured that the manuscript was published as the Gilberti vocabulary. He found that not only was it different in many ways from the published vocabulary of Gilbert but was a full version of which the dictionary of which the manuscript of the John Carter Brown contained only the last part. Since the manuscript in the Tulane library was completely legible and without major flaws it was possible to begin serious editorial work. So Warren called the manuscript of Tulane Text A. It consists of two parts: the Spanish-Tarasco part which has 130 leaves and the Tarasco-Spanish Part of 150 leaves. There was a note by the famous Mexican bibliophile Nicolás León indicating the provenance of the manuscript. This manuscript was an unpublished document in the hand of Father Gilberti. This vocabulary was produced after the one printed in Mexico in 1559 and therefore more copious and corrected. It was found among the books belonging to Mendoza in Guadalajara 1913 and bought in the Archdiocese. With the stamp on the title page is the "Sociedad Mexicana de GeografÃa y EstadÃstica"; but it is believed that it was part of Mendoza's collection because no files appear in the receipt proving that it had been donated in 1913 noted by Leon. Having satisfied his conscience Leon sold the manuscript to William Gates who in turn sold several photographic prints which are cited in the Newberry Library the Peabody Library and the Library of Congress. In 1924 Tulane bought the collection. The binding of the manuscript has a stamp of "Gates Collection" on the back of the cover. The original manuscript is written throughout in the same hand but has corrections and additions between the lines. Many of them are the original scribe but there are also many additions in another hand especially at the beginning of the Spanish-Tarasco part which may conflict sharply with the original. The manuscript of the John Carter Brown Library here called the Type B consisting of 148 leaves. This work is the compilation of all this material.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> Lightly soiled with gently bumped corners and light edge wear else a very good copy. Fimax Publicistas paperback books
Bookseller reference : A00085 ISBN : 9686407057 9789686407051
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George Catlin 1796 1872
Letters and Notes on the Manners Customs and Condition of the North American Indians
Very good in a near fine binding 1st American Hardbound Large Octavio 2 Volumes 2 volumes. viii 264 pages with folding map and a total of 114 plates including frontispiece plate 23 lacking as called for plates 12 ad 13 bound into volume2 plates 21 and 22 call for but lacking with three additional unnumbered plates and plates number 101 1/2 and errata tipped in; viii 266 pages with 2 maps 312 plates including plate 210 1/2 but lacking 137 142 149 159 and 247 as called for plates 160 27u3 2754 and 275 called for but lacking. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" recased in half morocco wit five raised spine bands with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Wagner-Camp 84:1. Howes C241. Streeter Sale 1805. Wheat Transmississippi 453 454 455. Clark III:141. Reese Best of the West 77 First edition.<br /><br />The first edition of Catlin's famous book one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Besides the description of his travels throughout the West the book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians as well as two significant maps showing the locations of Indian tribes. Catlin first went west in 1830 travelling extensively for the next six years accumulating his "Indian Gallery." LETTERS AND NOTES. was published when he brought the exhibition to London.<br /><br />Condition: Title of volume I with a large pale damp stain volume II title and first contents leaf with a couple of pencil marks both titles and most plates with some pale foxing a few plates and the folding map brittle at edges with tiny chips/tears not affecting images the folding map cleanly split at one fold one plate with gutter tear in margin two plates with chipped corners one of which is laid down on paper. A fine decorative binding internally very good. <br />First American edition of Catlin's landmark study of Native Americans. Catlin visited 48 Indian tribes on his tour of the West and executed some 600 paintings. Letters and Notes includes hundreds of engravings which were reduced from the original paintings under Catlin's supervision. The text and illustrations portray diverse aspects of Indian life including village scenes games dances funerals sudatories religious ceremonies buffalo hunting etc. plus detailed descriptions and depictions of native dress and custom. After taking the entire gallery of his paintings to England Catlin published his "Letters & Notes" using text from a series of articles he had written for the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1832 to 1837 and illustrating it with line-cut reductions of his original paintings. The folding map is of the Indian Localities in 1833 a second map in vol. II shows the effects of forced migration after 1840. Howes C24.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Recased in a very attractive binding with gilt lettering to spine and marbled boards new endpapers; lacking 3 plates frontispiece and title of volume I with a large pale damp stain volume II title & first contents leaf with a couple of pencil marks both titles and most plates with some pale foxing a few plates and the folding map brittle at edges with tiny chips/tears not affecting images the folding map cleanly split at one fold and repaired one plate with gutter tear in margin two plates with chipped corners one of which is laid down on paper; a fine decorative binding copy internally in a very good copy. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
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Tappan David
Lectures on Jewish Antiquities Delivered at Harvard University in Cambridge A.D. 1802 & 1803
Boston: W. Hilliard and e. Lincoln 1807. Disbound. Very Good. Disbound but attached at spine some leather from binding still present otherwise very good. Old library stamp to title page and some offsetting to text throughout. Endpapers tones and worn 364pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Anthropology; Inventory No: 022522. <br/><br/> W. Hilliard and e. Lincoln unknown books
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Fortnightly Club for the Study of Anthropology
Gilbert Hilton Scribner Memorial Addresses at a Special Meeting of The Fortnightly Club for the Study of Anthropology February 7 1910
Yonkers NY: Printed by the F.C.S.A. 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Printed by the F.C.S.A. hardcover books
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Hallowell A. Irving
Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere
American Anthropologist 1926. Softcover. Very good. Offprint from the American Anthropologist Vol. 28m No. 1 January-March 1926. 175 pp in original printed wrappers. Light soiling and some chipping to the wraps internally clean and tight. A. Irving Hallowell 1892-1974 was a cultural anthropologist known for his work with the North American Indians especially the Ojibwa. He was a student of Frank Speck but was also heavily influenced by Franz Boas. Bear Ceremonialism Hallowell's 1924 University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation was his first major publication. It has since become a classic in the field and the best-known comparative study of cultural traditions and ceremonies relating to bears. American Anthropologist unknown books
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Spain Fashion Anthropology Postal History
Two Circa 1955 Elsi Gumier Sewn Fabric Postcards from Spain: Cataluna & Baile Flamenco Costumes
Madrid Spain: Postales Alcala 1955. Two postcards divided backs with the Elsi Gumier signed artwork enhanced by the hand stitched fabric costumes; standard postcard 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" approx. size; not postally used; light wear; in very good condition. Postcard. Not Bound. Very Good. Postales Alcala Paperback books
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Moxo y de Lopez Luis Maria De 1776 1843
Entretenimientos de un prisionero en las provincias del Rio de la Plata
Two volumes: 8viii334 pages with engraved dedication in script engraved supplemental pictorial title page and two plates; 639116 pages with engraved supplemental pictorial title page appendix and one engraved plate. Octavo 8" x 6" bound in brown leather with gilt lettering to spine. Plates by J. Amillo. Sabin 51215 Palau 183810 First edition.<br /><br />An important work on the Indians of Mexico especially the Tarascans of Michoacan written in Mexico by Benito Maria de Moxo and printed here by his nephew Juras Reales. "A valuable set of dissertations upon the natives and history of the New World written by Don Benito Maria de Moxo Archbishop of Charcas whose papers fell into the hands of his nephew Luis Maria de Moxo y de Lopez and were printed by the latter under his own name without sufficient acknowledgement" - Sabin. The work contains fourteen essays by Benito Maria Moxo y Francoli written in 1805 in Michoacan where he served as auxiliary bishop from 1803 to 1805. The varied topics include Indian music; human sacrifice; Tarascan pre-Columbian painting; geometry; arithmetic and hieroglyphic writing; Black slavery in the Spanish colonies; and two essays on natural history. The appendix prints Moxo's 1807 speech in response to the British invasion of Buenos Aires. The fine engraved plates by J. Amillo include a scene of missionaries playing music for the Indians; a detailed representation of "Idolo Huitzilopochtli" lively dancing Huitzilopochtli with mask wearing feather headdress and holding a shield; and a stone idol on a broken base. A later edition appeared under the title Cartas Mejicanas in 1837<br /><br />Moxó y de Francoli 1763-1816 a controversial writer of the Spanish-American Enlightenment was accused of collaborating with both monarchists and revolutionaries. His work is also marked by ambiguity due to his loyalty to Spain and his sympathy for the original inhabitants of Mesoamerica resulting in a complicated example of literary colonialism. This work explores Mesoamerican archaeology astronomy pictorial codices human sacrifice mathematics comparative study of suicide among Native Americans and Europeans pre-Columbian music and other unusual anthropological subjects such as the Tarascan painted manuscript discussed by Glass. Dismissed are the claims by Robertson and De Pauw that Amerindian culture is inferior though the author rebukes Voltaire for minimizing the extent of human sacrifice and cannibalism among the Aztecs. He resolutely defends the Spanish conquest. Perhaps the most important result of the work was its contribution to an upsurge in interest in Mesoamerican archaeology and art. The copperplate engravings are handsome and well executed.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Modern rebinding with new end papers. A very good set. En la Imprenta de Jose Torner hardcover books
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Parsons Elsie Clews; Crow Wing
A Pueblo Indian Journal 1920-1921 Introduction and Notes Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association Number 32
Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1925 original. 123 pp b/w illustrations from photographs with illustrations. Some sunning and light shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound. Kraus Reprint unknown books
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Gian Rinaldo Carli 1720 1795
Le lettere americane
8xxiv232 pages; 626911 pages with map; 2133 pages. Duodecimo 7" x 5" three parts bound in contemporary half vellum with brown spine labels in gilt over marbled boards. Howes C149; Sabin 10911Second edition. Gian Rinaldo Carli also known by other names was an Italian economist historian and antiquarian. He distinguished himself as a student and young scholar. In 1744 at the age of 24 he was appointed by the Venetian Senate to the University of Padua's newly established professorship of astronomy and navigation. At the same time he was entrusted with superintendence over the Venetian marine. During these years he was part of a major dispute in Italian academia over the existence of sorcerers with the vast majority of the academics siding with the Girolamo Tartarotti against the Marquis of Maffei and Count Carli's sharp skepticism. He filled his offices ably for seven years before resigning them to study economics and history. He works on economics attracted the attention of Leopold of Tuscany afterwards emperor who placed him at the head of his economics council and board of public instruction in 1765. In 1769 he became Privy Councillor and in 1771 president of a new council of finances. In his old age he was relieved of the duties of these offices while continuing to receive their income. During his leisure he produced works on Italian history and other topics. This work contains his letters theorizing about the origins of the American Indians possibly from Europe via Atlantis to Brazil; with a long dedication to Benjamin Franklin by the publisher Isidor Bianchi. Expanded second edition. Condition: Corners bumped minor wear a bit of marginal worming to the first few leaves else a very good copy. Lorenzo Manini Regio Stampatore hardcover books
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Driberg J. H.; Binder Pearl Illustrator
People of the Small Arrow
New York: Payson and Clark Ltd 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 338 pp with pictorial endpapers and drawings by Binder. Spine very slightly sunned else a fine copy. Dust jacket is lightly dust soiled and edgeworn and has some internal reinforcement with tape. A novel based on the author's experience living among the Didinga people of East Africa. Payson and Clark Ltd hardcover books
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Ariss R. M. curator of Anthropology
Race and culture in the Pacific Islands
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum no date. 16p. including covers stapled wraps 6x9 inches wraps worn and soiled else very good condition. Los Angeles County Museum unknown books
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Horn Georg 1620 1670
De originibus americanis
xx282 pages with title printed in red and black. Duodecimo 6" x 3 3/4" bound in full leather with blind stamped ruled edges. Sabin 33014. TPL 6327. Field 717. JCB II 418. Leclerc 290. Rahir 2056. Graesse III 370. Winsor I 369-70 First edition.<br /><br />One of the principal works in the celebrated literary dispute over the origins of the American aborigines. The controversy began in 1642 when Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius published his <i>De Origine Gentium Americanorum</i> in which he postulated that all of North America except for Yucatan was inhabited by the descendants of pre-Columbian Scandinavian colonists that the Peruvians were from China and that the regions south of Peru were peopled by the Moluccans. His theory aroused an antagonist in Joannes de Laet who counter-posed that the Scythian race furnished the predominant population of America. Horn better known by his Latinized name Hornius entered the debate at the suggestion of De Laet whose view he supported but he also held to later additions from the Phoenicians and Carthaginians on the Atlantic side and from the Chinese on the Pacific. The work contains references to early travels and accounts of America and discussion of the Huron and Iroquois tribes of Canada.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Rebacked signature clipped from front free end paper which is partially detached early book plate to front pastedown inked library stamp to final page corners chipped title with some old ink numbers else a good copy.<br /> Adrian Valcq hardcover books
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Green Judith; Jones Anita
Los Panecitos Benditos Clay Eating in Oaxaca Ethnic Technology Notes No. 3
San Diego CA: San Diego Museum of Man 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 11 inches stapled. 11 pp with bibliography and 12 b/w illustrations photos. Minor cover wear. No markings. Describes the practice of the Zapotec Indians of eating earth as a preventive and curative medicine and includes "information on the background significance and process of manufacture of the panecitos banditos the designation in Spanish for the earth cakes." San Diego Museum of Man paperback books
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Lewis Williams JD. J. D.
Vision Power and Dance: The Genesis of a South African Rock Art Panel
Amsterdam: Nederlands Museum 1992. softcover. Very good. 36 pp text and bibliography 16 plates one folding. Light soiling to front cover internals clean binding sound. Nederlands Museum paperback books
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Young Cullen
Contemporary Ancestors A Beginner's Anthropology for District Officers and Missionaries in Africa
London: Lutterworth Press. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated. 190 pp in original orange cloth; no dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped one scuff mark on front board. Internals fine. Foreword by H.S. Keigwin. Chapters on marriage kinship coming of age taboos religious beliefs and practices etc. Lutterworth Press hardcover books
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Holmes WH.; Fewkes Jesse Walter W. H.
Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1903-04 Puerto Rico; Mexico
Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. xxix 296 pp of text including index followed by 129 plates. The bulk of the volume is taken up by two papers by Fewkes: "The aborigines of Porto Rico and neighboring islands" and "Certain antiquities of eastern Mexico." Bound in original olive green cloth with gilt illustration on the front board. Binding tight contents unmarked. Cloth is rubbed through to the boards at the corners as well as the fore edge of the front board. Due to size shipping charges will be more than standard for priority or international orders. United States Government Printing Office hardcover books
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Balandier Georges
Sociologie Actuelle de l'Afrique Noire Dynamique Sociale en Afrique Centrale
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. Deuxieme Second edition. 532 pp w/map tables bibliography. Original printed wrappers. Light cover wear some spine creasing. Binding sound contents unmarked. Text in French. Presses Universitaires de France paperback books
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Anthropology Participant Observation Zuni Cushing Frank Hamilton; Hillers John K.
Photograph of Frank Hamilton Cushing in Zuni Dress c. 1882-1883 Inscribed by Cushing on the Mount
Zuni Pueblo / Washington 1883. Albumen photograph 7 ¼ x 9 ¼ on 8 x 10 inch mount. Very Good. Frank Hamilton Cushing was an ethnologist and anthropologist who helped pioneer the practice of participant observation by living among Zuni in New Mexico. He joined James Stevenson's anthropological expedition to New Mexico undertaken by the United States Bureau of Ethnography in 1879. Enthralled by Zuni culture he lived with the Zuni from 1879 until a scandal related to his advocacy work forced him to return to Washington in 1884. <br /> <br /> John K. Hillers the German-born photographer of the American West was a photographer for the Bureau of American Ethnography from 1879-1881 during which time he took this picture of Cushing in Zuni dress. Cushing - we think - has inscribed the photograph on the verso as follows: "Tenatsali / Medicine Flower of the Spaces / Younger Priesthood of the Bow / War Chief of Zuni / Adopted American Name /Frank Hamilton Cushing. " <br /> <br /> A very good example of an important image with some light fading. Scarce in commerce with no copies in auction records. A very good example with some fading. From the estate of De Lancey W. Gill and Agnes Gill Webster. Gill was a prolific photographer of American Indians who worked for the Bureau of Ethnography in the early part of the twentieth century. unknown books
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Anthropology. Cannibalism. Darling Charles W.
Anthropophagy . . . Privately Printed.
Utica N. Y.: T. J. Griffiths Book and Job Printer 1886. First edition. Some light soiling and chipping to the wrappers; a few small fingerprint smudges to the wrappers; a very good copy. Original gilt-printed orange wrappers 47 1 pages. Title page vignette of a woodcut skull and crossbones. From the Civil War general and Oneida County amateur historian comes this survey of accounts of cannibalism including among Native American tribes. The wrappers printed in gilt Compliments of G. W. Darling Oneida N.Y. with an ink autograph inscription below that "To Edward Hubert Noyes. T. J. Griffiths, Book and Job Printer, unknown books
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Kroeber AL. A. L.
More Mohave Myths Anthropological Records Volume 27
Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. xii 160 pp illustration with tables appendices references. Old insect damage and sunning to wrappers; contents clean and sound. Provides the English text of each of 10 tales Kroeber collected along with an account of the narrator the circumstances of the narrating amd "statements by him or others as to the nature and fuction of the tale. Where it seemed feasible and advantageous the song scheme of tales in discussed or variant versions or resemblances between distinct tales." University of California Press paperback books
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Kroeber AL.; Harrington JP. A. L. J. P.
Phonetic Elements of the Diegueño Language
Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1914. Softcover. Very Good. University of California Publications American Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 11 No. 2. pp. 177-188. Light handling wear to wrappers evidence of old erasure on front cover else very good. University of California Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 2269
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FOLKLORE Helser Albert D.; Boas Franz Foreword
African Stories
New York: Fleming H. Revell 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 223 pp illustrated with line drawings by Oliver Whitwell Wilson. Brown pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Private library stamp on title page and bookplate on front pastedown brief gift inscription on front flyleaf; otherwise a lovely copy with minimal wear. Folklore of the Bura people of northeastern Nigeria. Say Boas in the introduction "Folk tales.are of particular interest because they illustrate with great clarity the mode of thought the homely wisdom and the ethical concepts of the people. In Africa more than among other so-called primitive tribes many a tale illustrates a proverb relating to the proper everyday behavior. The Negro is fond of moralizing by means of moralizing tales." Fleming H. Revell hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 13078
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Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet de
La Pucelle D'Orleans. Poeme Heroi-Comique
Paris ie. Amsterdam 1755. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Respined in 1/4 calf in an antique style over original marbled boards. One of six editions of Voltaire's famously bawdy mock epic surreptitiously published in 1755. The first were reputedly the Louvain actually Frankfurt editions but they are all scarce. It wasn't officially published until 1762. Light foxing otherwise crisp and bright. Added endpapers but original front blank retained with an old signature binder ticket on rear pastedown. iv 216. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Anthropology. Inventory No: 044596. <br/><br/> hardcover books
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SOCIEDAD MEXICANA DE ANTROPOLOGIA
Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropologicos; Antes "Revista Mexicana de Estudios Historicos". Enero-Diciembre 1946
Mexico: Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia 1946. paperback. good. Tomo VIII. Nums. 1 2 y 3. Illus. folding tables. 8vo pr. wrs. wrappers lightly soiled spine and back wrapper lightly dampstained. Mexico: Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia 1946.<br/><br/> Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia unknown books
Bookseller reference : 256394
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Stein Robert Louis
The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Strate University Press 1988. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 185 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. At the beginning of the eighteenth century sugar in France was still a luxury commodity imported in small quantities and consumed only by the very rich. By the time of the revolution sugar was so popular that riots occurred when its price rose unreasonably. In spite of its importance the sugar business has been largely ignored by historians. This comprehensive study covers all aspects of the sugar business from the procurement of African slaves who were forced to work the sugar plantations through the process of growing sugar and refining distribution and consumption. Pristine copy. <br/><br/> Louisiana Strate University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2400
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Ying Chris Editor
You and I Eat the Same
New York: Artisan 2018. Paperback original. Green illustrated paperback wraps. Fine. 214 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Forward by René Redzepi. Nineteen thoughtful and engaging essays and stories make the case that we should think about cuisine as a collective human effort. "An awful lot of attention is paid to the differences and distinctions between us especially when it comes to food. But the truth is that food is the rare thing that connects all people slipping past real and imaginary barriers to unify humanity through deliciousness." Essays include: Everybody Wraps Meat in Flatbread Much Depends on How you Hold your Fork Your Fire and My Fire Burn the Same Cilantro is Everywhere Fried Chicken is Common Ground and many more. Pristine. <br/><br/> Artisan paperback books
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Hoyland John
A Historical Survey of the Customs Habits & Present State of The Gypsies
London: Darton Harvey & Co. 1816. Hardcover. Quarter leather marbled boards. Good. 265 pages. 23 x 14.5 cm. An in-depth look at the friction between state governments and the gypsy population. Hoyland a lapsed Quaker was particularly concerned with the problem of educating gypsy children. Some speculate that Hoyland fell in love with a "black-eyed gipsy girl". Bookplate of the junior Athenaeum Library. Marbled endpapers boards rubbed interior lightly foxed. Spine cracked but professionally repaired. <br/><br/> Darton, Harvey, & Co. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2154
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Thiselton Dyer Thomas Ferminger
Domestic Folk-Lore
London: Casell Petter Galpin & Co. c. 1881. Hardcover. Rust boards title in gilt. Good. vii 184 pp. Author of British Popular Customs and English Folk-lore Thiselton-Dyer notes in the Preface the importance of studying "Folk-Lore" as no easy task "as school boards and railways are fast sweeping away every vestige of the old beliefs and customs which in days gone by held such a prominent place in social and domestic life." The author also notes what he believes to be the emergence of the term "Folk-lore" by Mr. J. Thoms Athenaeum August 22 1846. This charming volume weaves together the superstitions sayings and customs pertaining to the daily routine of Domestic Life. Chapters include: Birth and Infancy Childhood Love and Courtship Marriage Death and Burial The Human Body Articles of Dress Table Superstitions Furniture Omens Household Superstitions Popular Divinations Common Ailments and Miscellaneous Household Lore. Interior clean and crisp boards heavily rubbed at head and tail of spine. <br/><br/> Casell, Petter, Galpin & Co. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2044
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TOBACCO LABEL The Strawberry
Loose_leaf. Color lithographed label. Fine. 17 x 13 cm. c. 1900 Color lithograph cigar label. Depicting a pair of mice pulling a carriage with two cigar smoking goblins. F.W. printed on carraige - Fred Wambach 19th Century cigar maker. Text at tail end of label: Entered According To Act of Congress in The Year 1874 by Fred Wambach The Office of The Librarian of Congrees at Washinton. <br/><br/> unknown books
Bookseller reference : 1649
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International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation. International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology = Bibl
International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology V 1 & 2
Paris: UNESCO 1959. Paperback. Good. Vols. I & II ONLY. index 259 391p. Wrapper. 24cm. Name on first page. Browned. Vol. I covers works published in 1955; Vol. II covers works published in 1956. <br/><br/> UNESCO paperback books
Bookseller reference : 60471
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Principles of Anthropology and Biology
Hughes Thomas
New York: Chicago Benziger Brothers 1890. 2nd edition. Hardcover. VG corners bumped. Brown cloth covers; gilt lettering. 178 pages. Contents: Prehistoric races.--Actual races in history.--Species; or Darwinism.--Cells; or Evolution. Chicago Benziger Brothers hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 183287
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Anthropology Mead Margaret Ruth Benedict
Writings of Ruth Benedict An Anthropologist At Work
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1959. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Very thick clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 583 pp. Biography of Benedict by her star pupil Margaret Mead. Inked name to front pastedown else a beautiful near fine copy in dustwrapper. First edition stated of this important work. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
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Anthropology Boas Franz Ph. D.
Anthropology and Modern Life
New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1928. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo. Presumed early reprint edition of Boas' classic study on anthropology and race. A strikingly attractive copy in black cloth binding with paper labels to front panel and spine. 246 pp. Lacks the rare dustwrapper. W. W. Norton & Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 27195
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LEACH Edmund.
Essential Edmund Leach: Volume 1: Anthropology and Society.
New Haven: Yale University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0300081243 . Edited by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw. First printing. As new in like dust jacket. . Yale University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 22017 ISBN : 0300081243 9780300081244
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Kroeber AL. A. L.
The Yokuts Language of Southern Central California
Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1907. Softcover. good. University of California Publications American Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 2 No. 5. pp. 165-393 with index laid in. Wrappers edgeworn and with one-inch chip missing from upper spine minor foxing dampstain to one corner of last few leaves not affecting text. Organized into three major sections covering the Yaudanchi dialect the Yauelmani dialect and other dialects and comparisons. Discusses phonetics grammatical structure vocabulary etc. University of California Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 2268
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Switzer Ronald R.
The Origin and Significance of Snake-Lightning Cults in the Pueblo Southwest
El Paso TX: El Paso Archaeological Society 1972. Softcover. Good. Special Report Number 11. iii 48 pp with illustrations some from photographs bibliography in original illustrated wrappers with stapled binding. Light handling wear a few notes written on back cover 4 pages of text with minor annotation in ink. El Paso Archaeological Society unknown books
Bookseller reference : 1580
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Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia
Introduccion a la Colombia Amerindia
Bogota: Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia 1987. Paperback. 283p. wraps illustrations maps 8.5 x 11 inches very good condition. Text in Spanish. Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia paperback books
Bookseller reference : 234690 ISBN : 9586120511 9789586120517
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Anthropology. Page J. W.
FROM HUNTER To HUSBANDMAN
London: George Harrap 1939. 1st edition. Lt blue cloth. VG upper corners bumped. No dj. 256 pp maps & illustrations 8vo. <br/><br/>Traces the history of the development of civilization. George Harrap hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 8091
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Hunting/Anthropology. Caras Roger
DEATH As A WAY Of LIFE
Boston: Little Brown 1970. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. NF/VG chip fm hd of spine panel. 173 pp 8vo. <br/><br/>The author looks at the question of 'What drives men to hunt and kill' Little Brown hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 7176
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Roscoe John
The Banyankole. The Second Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa AND The Bagesu and other Tribes of the Uganda Protectorate The Third Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa
Gregg Press 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes in one reprints of the 1923 and 1924 Cambridge editions. 176; 205 pp with folding maps and illustrations; both volumes indexed. Light dust soil to fore edge else a fine copy in the original green cloth. No dust jacket. Gregg Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 13443
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