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H. Russell Bernard
Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
xii 585 pp. with bibliography and indexes. Pages clean except for previous owner's name on upper right corner of first page. Binding tight. Russ Bernard's classic text on research methods in cultural anthropology greatly expanded from the first edition. Altamira Pr paperback
Bookseller reference : JA0056 ISBN : 0803952457 9780803952454
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Friedl John; Chrisman Noel J.
City Ways: A Selective Reader in Urban Anthology
x 458 including references. 6" x 9". Pages clean except for previous owner's name on upper right of front page and a few penciled check-marks in the table of contents. In surprisingly good condition given its age. 20 chapters with readings from key early urban anthropologists and sociologists. Ty Crowell Co paperback
Bookseller reference : JA0060 ISBN : 0690001525 9780690001525
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Edwin Eames Judith Granich Goode
Anthropology of the City: An Introduction to Urban Anthropology Prentice-Hall series in anthropology
viii 344 pp including index. 6" x 9" Underlining and highlighting on fewer than 20 pages some penciled notes inside back cover. Cover shows some wear see photo but binding is tight. Prentice Hall paperback
Bookseller reference : JA0059 ISBN : 0130384143 9780130384140
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Foster George M.
Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World
xii 372 pp. including index. 5.25" x 8.25" Pages clean except for previous owner's initials on upper right of first page. Binding tight. Cover somewhat browned with age but no creases or tears. In-depth ethnographic description of the Mexican village of Tzintzuntzan based on Foster's long-term research there which began in 1945. Little, Brown and Company paperback
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Foster George M. and Robert V. Kemper eds.
Anthropologists in Cities
viii 261 pp. Pages clean binding tight. Cover shows some scuffing and wear but no tears. Classic early text in urban anthropology with chapters by Foster and Kemper Nancie Gonzalez Michael Whiteford John Ogbu Susan Byrne Michael Lowy Andrei Simic James Watson Bernard and Rita Schlesinger Gallin. Little, Brown and Company paperback
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Foster George M.
Traditional Cultures: and the Impact of Technological Change
xi 292 including references and index. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Pages unmarked except for previous owner's stamp on first page. An early work on applied anthropology and international development. Harper & Row hardcover
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Kemper Robert V.
Campesinos en la ciudad: Gente de Tzintzuntzan
157 pp. 4.25" x 6.5". Some b/w photographs. Spanish-language translation of "Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzan Peasants in Mexico City" Sage 1977. Pages and cover clean binding tight. From the author's personal collection. Sepsetentas paperback
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Brandes Stanley H
Forty: The Age and the Symbol
x 153 pp. including references and index. Ex-library with the usual stamps and stickers. Other than that a clean copy in good condition. University of Tennessee Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : JA0068 ISBN : 0870494635 9780870494635
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Foster George M. Anderson Barbara Gallatin
Medical Anthropology
x 354 pp. references index. Pages clean cover and binding in almost-new condition. Originally from the collection of author George M. Foster. One of the first texts in the then-new field of medical anthropology. Random House USA Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : JA0069 ISBN : 0394344030 9780394344034
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Foster George M. and Robert V. Kemper eds.
Anthropologists in Cities
viii 261 pp. Pages clean binding tight. Classic early text in urban anthropology with chapters by Foster and Kemper Nancie Gonzalez Michael Whiteford John Ogbu Susan Byrne Michael Lowy Andrei Simic James Watson Bernard and Rita Schlesinger Gallin. Little, Brown and Company paperback
Bookseller reference : JA0071
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H. Russell Bernard
Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology
816 pp. including Index and Author Index. 6.25" x 9.25". Pages clean except for previous owner's initials in upper right corner of first page. Binding tight. Book is in excellent condition. No dust jacket however. AltaMira Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio125 ISBN : 0761991514 9780761991519
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Anya Peterson Royce
Ethnic Identity: Strategies and Diversity A Midland Book
vii 247 pp. including Index and References. 6" x 9". Pages clean binding tight. Cover in good condition slightly bent at corners but not creased. Spine shows very little use. Indiana University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : JA0083 ISBN : 0253202795 9780253202796
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Royce Anya Peterson
The Anthropology of Dance
xiii 238 pp. including index references endnotes. 6.5" x 9.5". Pages clean binding tight dust jacket very good. From the library of George M. Foster has his stamp on first page one of Royce's professors at U.C. Berkeley. Indiana Univ Pr hardcover
Bookseller reference : JA0086 ISBN : 025330752X 9780253307521
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Cowan Ruth Anita
Tourism Development in a Mexican Coastal Community
382 pp. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation hardbound in red cloth 8.5" x 11" hardcover
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Cook Sherburne Friend 1896 1974 and Woodrow Borah from the library of professor Robert V Kemper
The Population of the Mixteca Alta 1520-1960
89 pages with frontispiece figures graphs and tables. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6" bound in original wrappers. From the library of Professor Van Kemper. Ibero-Americana number 50. First edition.<br /><br />In other papers the authors examined the impact of the Spanish Conquest upon the size of the Indian population of central Mexico the Mixteca Alta included during the first century of European dominance. In this paper they present a study of long-term changes in population measured in numbers in this relatively small region of central Mexico. The span of time is from 1520-1960 - from the first European knowledge of the Mixteca Alta and the number of its Indian population before change was brought by the Europeans to the 1960 national census. As most studies of population go the period is long but measured against the length of time of sedentary human population of the region dealing with something less than the last tenth of it. The region is an area of old well-developed Indian culture part of the Meos-American and central Mexican complexes yet with an identify of its own in the Mixteca as a whole if not in the smaller entity of the Mixteca Alta. This the first attempt to examine the movement of population for a relatively restricted region in Mexico. It is a demonstration of the kind of intensive local research which could be carried out for many areas of Mexico through exhaustive study of the great variety of sources available.<br /><br />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 />Kemper's name stamped to front wrapper. Light age toning to spine and extremities else a very good copy. University of California Press paperback
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Acosta Jose de 1539 1600
Obras del Padre Jose de Acosta
xlix631 pages with bibliography and index. Quarto 10 1/4" x 7 1/4" bound in original wrappers. Introduction by Francisco Mateos. Biblioteca de Autores Españoles Volume LXXIII.<br /><br />José de Acosta September/October 1539– February 15 1600 was a Spanish 16th-century Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America. Born at Medina del Campo in Spain he became a novice in the Society of Jesus at the age of thirteen at the place of his birth. Four of his brothers successively joined the same order. Before leaving Spain he was lecturer in theology at Ocana and in April 1569 was sent to Lima Peru where the Jesuits had been established in the proceeding year. At Lima Acosta again occupied the chair of theology; his fame as an orator had preceded him. In 1571 he went to Cuzco as a visitor of the college of the Jesuits then recently founded. Returning to Lima three years later to again fill the chair of theology he was elected provincial in 1576. He founded a number of colleges among them those of Arequipa Potosà Chuquisaca Panama and La Paz but met with considerable opposition from the viceroy Francisco de Toledo Count of Oropesa. His official duties obliged him to investigate personally a very extensive range of territory so that he acquired a practical knowledge of the vast province and of its aboriginal inhabitants. At the provincial council of 1582 at Lima Acosta played a very important part. Called to Spain by the King in 1585 he was detained in Mexico where he dedicated himself to studies of the country and people; returning to Europe he filled the chair of theology at the Roman college in 1594 as well as other important positions. At the time of his death he was rector of the college at Salamanca. Aside from his publication of the proceedings of the provincial councils of 1567 and 1583 and several works of exclusively theological import Acosta is best known as the writer of De Natura Novi Orbis De promulgatione Evangelii apud Barbaros sive De Procuranda Indorum salute and above all the Historia natural y moral de las Indias. The first two appeared at Salamanca in 1588 the last at Seville in 1590 and was soon after its publication translated into various languages. It is chiefly the Historia natural y moral that has established the reputation of Acosta. In a form more concise than that employed by his predecessors Francisco Lopez de Gómara and Oviedo he treated the natural and philosophic history of the New World from a broader point of view. In it more than a century before Europeans learned of the Bering Strait Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's indigenous peoples had migrated from Asia to Latin America. He also divided them into three barbarian categories. The Historia also described Inca and Aztec customs and history as well as other information such as farming practices.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Head and heal wrapper edges and spine ends chipped with closed tears an unread copy with the folds still uncut else a better than very good copy. Biblioteca de Autores Españoles paperback
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Fernandez Rodolfo and Patricia Arias edtiors
Historia y Antropologia del occidente de México: Homenaje a Heriberto Moreno García
307 pages with index. Octavo 8 3/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original wrappers. Estudios del Hombre Series number 10. first edition limited to 500.<br /><br />Contents: Historiografia rural del occidente de Nueva Espana: una revision by Rodolfo Fernandez and Patricia Arias; Las regions y la globalizacion: reflexiones desde la antropologia Mexicana by Guillermo de la Pena; Region e historia. Una aproximacion al pasado de la Barca Jalisco by Rosa V Lopez-Taylor; La transformacion cultural de un paisaje palustre: tiempos largos en la Cienega de Chapala by Brigitte Boelhm and Margarita Sandoval; Nuevos espacios de confrontacion en los Altos de Jalisco: las reformas al articulo 27 y los Tanques Rancheros by maria Guadalupe Rodriguez; Cultura texto e interpretacion: un rito familiar by Daria Deraga; El mayorazgo de los Gomez Parada by Jaime Olveda; Notas sobre los indios y las haciendas trigueras de Guadalajara durante los siglos XVII y XVIII by Alida G Moreno Martinez; Los habitants de Santa Ana Tepetitlan: de indios comuneros a propietarios privados 1713-1847 by Fabiola Zuniga Vargas; La visita de fray Alonso Ponce al sur de Jalisco: un relato y un reflexion by Rodolfo Fernandez; Mercedes originales de tierra y documentos asociados sobre Cocula en el archive de la hacienda de La Sauceda 1566-1618 by Rodolfo Fernandez and Ramon Plascencia; Primeros datos para un examen antropologico de la region norte de Jalisco by Andres Fabregas; Sagrada Mitra de Guadalajara antiguo obispado de Nueva Galicia. Expedientes de la serie de matrimonios: extractos siglos XVII y XVIII by Maria de la Luz Mongtejano; Las instituciones de gobierno y elite local. Aguascalientes del siglo XVII hast la independencia by Beatriz Rojas; Aztatlan by Carl Sauer.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Corners bumped light edge wear else a very good copy. Universidad de Guadalajara paperback
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Giddings Ruth Warner 1919 Collector from the library of Professor George M Foster
Yaqui Myths and Legends
73 pages with references. Quarto 10 1/2" x 8" bound in original wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona number 2. First edition.<br /><br />Until this time no thorough collection or study had been made of the folk traditions of the Yaquis. Only about a score of Yaqui stores were to be found in published form. Alfonso Fabila had printed five stories and three songs. Spicer reviewed a half-dozen stories and note the existence of animal tales among the Yaquis of Arizona. Beals had published a few Yaqui traditions about serpents and thirteen myths and tales identified as Cahita. A brief resume of Yaqui tradition by one of their leaders had been printed in an appendix to a work by Holden etal. In manuscript form Johnson had recorded the Spanish and Yaqui texts of a small well rounded collection of stories and Wilder had contributed a collection and study of Yaqui deer-songs from Pascua village Arizona. It is known that Yaqui society has been influenced strongly by Spanish and Mexican culture judging from indications in historical records and from studies of modern Yaquis. In making this collection of stories it was the objective to illustrate two things: 1 the nature of the folk literature of the Yaquis and 2 the influences of which successive foreign contacts have exerted upon the Yaqui folklore. These collections were made in Potam Sonora from February through April of 1942 and during regular visits to Pascua and Barrio Libre near Tucson from May to September of the same year.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Foster's stamp to front wrapper. Corners bumped spine sunned else a very good copy. University of Arizona Press paperback
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Burgos Guevara Hugo inscribed
Medicina Campesina en Transicion
vii136 pages with fold out map original photographs tipped in tables and bibliography. Quarto 11" x 8 1/2" type script bound in original wrappers. inscribed to Professor George M Foster. Master's thesis manuscript.<br /><br /> Hugo Burgos Guevara Ecuadorian anthropologist trained at the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM where he earned his master's degree after having completed two investigations in Michoacan and in the Highlands of Chiapas: "Peasant Medicine in Tzintzuntzan Michoacán" and "Indianism among Tzetzales and Tzotzil of highland Chiapas Mexico." His first achievement was to have developed the theory of "internal colonialism" both among the Tzeltal and Tzotzil of Chiapas and among the Indians of Ecuador where his "Interethnic Relations in Riobamba" published in Mexico He was invited to universities in Europe to expand on the topic. He did his doctorate at the University of Illinois in Anthropology with a thesis on "The structure of the Inca Ceques in Quito mythological vision and policy of the Inca rulers of Cuzco and Quito Tomebamba ". That work was published in 1995 under the title The Guaman Puma and Amaru structural formation of the Indian government in Ecuador which received the José Mejía Lequerica Award that year.<br /><br />This work is his Master's Thesis 1964. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Inscribed on front end paper. Light edge wear else a very good copy. Escuela Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia paperback
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Comas Juan; Manuel Maldonado Koerdell; Eusebio Davilos Hurtado et al. from the library of Professor Robert
Homenaje al Doctor Alfonso Caso
455 pages with frontispiece maps illustrations diagrams plates chart appendix and bibliography of Alfonso Caso. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 7 1/4" issued in wrappers. From the library of Professor Robert "Van" Kemper. firs edition.<br /><br />Contents: La obra del doctor Alfonso Caso by Ignacio Marquina; Casamiento del monte by Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran; Nueva luz sobre los Calchaques by Francisco de Aparicio; El manuscrito del calendario Matlatzinca by Roberto Barlow; The History of Acculturation in Mexico by Ralph L Beals; Caso en Monte Alban by Ignacio Bernal; Una cuenta ritual entre los zapotecos del Sur by Pedro Carrasco; Tarahumaras coras y huicholes by Roque J Ceballos Novelo; La ensenanza de la Antropologia y la utilizacion de antropologos en Hispanoamerica by Juan Comas; Un petroglifo mixteca en la Guayana Britanica by Barbro Dahlgren; Una interpretacion de los Danzantes de Monte Alban by Eusebio Davalos Hurtado; Es el Coca un idoma tara-cahita by J Ignacio Davila Garibi; Contribucion al estudio del pegamento de las incrustaciones by Samuel Fastlicht; Some wider implications of Soul-Loss illness among the Sierra Poppoluca by George M Foster; Aculturacion espontanea by Manuel Gamio; La ceramica de fondo "sellado" de Zempola Veracruz by Jose Garcia Payon; El calpulli de San Pablo Chalchihuitan by Calixta Guiteras Holmes; The Bottle Gourd and Old World Contacts by Isabel Kelly; Some key problems of New World Prehistory by Alfred V Kidder; El autor de la segunda parte de la Cronica Mexicayotl by Paul Kirchoff; Altmexicanischer Museclzierat mit einem Relief Aztekischen Stils by Walter Krickenberg; Sobre representaciones zoomorfas del antiguo Mexico by Manuel Maldanado Koerdell; Las reconstrucciones en arqueologia by Carlos R Margain; Tylor en Mexico by Pablo Martinez del Rio; On two Chinese figurines found in Mesoamerica by J Alden Mason; El Tlalocan pagano de Teotihuacan y el Tlalocan cristiano de Tonanzintla by Francisco de la Maza; Veinticinco anos de arqueologia en Mexico by Eduardo Noguera; Lineas de un perfil del doctor Alfonso Caso by Jose de J Nunez y Dominguez; El guiro de moyuba o joba by Fernando Ortiz; Monte Negro centro de interes arqueologico by Javier Romero; Chichen-Tza y Palenque ciudades fortificadas by Alberto Ruz; Maya astronomy and the electronic calculator by Herbert J Spinden; Una definicion de dos culturas distintas vistas en la Antropologia de la America Central by Doris Stone; Die Frage nach der Herkunft des Wassers auf dem Penol de Tetzotzinco by Franz Termer; Comments on radiocarbon dates from Mexico by Helmut de Terra; The Itza of Tayasal Peten by J Eric S Thompson; Recuerdos de excursiones y viajes con Alfonso Caso by Manuel Toussaint; Mesoamerica y Peru by Luis E Valcarcel; Murales prehispanicos. Copia restauracion y conservacion by Agustin Villagra Caleti; Los esclavos indios en Nueva Espana by Silvio Zavala; Notes on the social organization of Ojitlan Oaxaca by Robert J Weitlaner.<br /><br />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 />Kemper's stamp to front wrapper edge wear an unread copy else better than very good copy. Nuevo Mundo paperback
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Efrain Guizman Jimenez
Costumbres y Fiestas del Istmo Oaxaqueño
117 pages with plates. Royal Octavo 9 1/4" x 6 3/4" bound in original wrappers. First edition limited to 5000 copies. Gift inscription to front end paper. Corners bumped lightly soiled else a very good copy. Impresos Arredondo paperback
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Jose Inigo Aguilar Medina
El Hombre y la Urbe la Ciudad de Oaxaca
144 pages with 3 foldout maps tables and bibliography. Octavo 8" x 6" bound in original wrappers. First edition limited to 1000 copies. Light edge wear corners gently bumped else a very good copy. Instituto Nacional de Angtropologia e Historia (INAH) paperback
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Bernal Ignacio 1910 1992
Bibliografia de Arqueologia y Etnografia: Mesoamerica y Norte de Mexico 1514 - 1960
xvi634 with 2 fold out maps and index. Small folio 12 1/2" x 9" bound in original grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Memorias VII commemorating the XXXV Congress of Americanists. Limited to 3000 copies. First edition.<br /><br />A comprehensive bibliography of printed texts dealing with the archaeology and ethnology in Middle America and North Mexico between the years 1514 and 1960 with 13990 entries. Entries in original language.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Edge wear with corners and edges bumped else a very good copy. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) hardcover
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Sahagun Bernardino de 1499a1590
Coloquios y Doctrina Cristiana
214 pages with frontispiece facsimile bibliography and index. Folio 13 3/4" x 9" bound in red cloth with gilt lettering in black boarder to spine and UNAM stamped gilt to front cover. Sub tile Con que los doce frailes de San Francisco enviados port el papa Adriano VI y por el emperador Carolos V convirtieron a los indios de la Nueva Espana. En lengua mexicana y espanola. Los dialogos de 1524 dispuestos por fray Bernardino de Sahagun y sus colaboradores Antonio Valeriano de Azcapotzalco Alonso Vegerano de Cuauhtitlan Martin Jacobita y Andres Leonardo de Tlatelolco y ortros cuatro ancianos my entendidos en todas sus atinguedades. Paleography notes by Miguel Leon-Portilla. First edition limited to 6000 copies.The Colloquios is divided into two books. The first reproduces conversations that occurred between the first twelve Franciscans sent to the New World and a group of Nahua elite. Here the Franciscans focus on conversion i.e. convincing the Nahuas of the universal and absolute truth of Christian doctrine. The second book contains a systematic exposition of sixteenth-century Catholic doctrine and catechism. It provides the theological foundations for the Franciscans’ speeches in the first book. Sahagún cast the Colloquios in the genre of a colloquy consisting of a series of questions and answers. This dialogical format was modeled on a longstanding Christian conception of catechism which in turn was based on both the Church’s conception of the early conversations of the twelve apostles with intended converts and on the dialogues of Socrates. Catechism standardly refers to oral instruction especially where this involves the dialogue of questioning and answering. It is employed for instructing someone in the elements of religion and for preparing her for initiation into Christianity. Its goal is doctrinal and moral. It should lead to knowledge yet this knowledge should lead to action. The dialogue of the Colloquios pivots on the truth of three revealed doctrines: the God of the Scripture is the one and only true God creator of the universe; Scripture is true; Jesus is the Son of God. The Colloquios is an extremely rich document that allows numerous avenues of interrogation analysis and deconstruction. It highlights the unstable "dialogical frontier" between two alternative philosophical orientations: Franciscan and Nahua. Despite being forcibly seized and put into the ideological service of a "heavily controlled text" of hegemonic European catechism the philosophical orientation of the Nahua ‘other’ nevertheless "leaks out". Rather than reproducing a Socratic-style debate consisting of syllogistic arguments defending the truth versus falsity of logically incompatible theological doctrines and knowledge claims as León-Portilla maintains. The philosophical borderland that emerges in the Colloquios is occupied not so much by two parties who make contradictory truth claims as it is by two parties who fundamentally misunderstand and fail to communicate with one another. León-Portilla believes it is a twofold error to read the Nahuas as mounting a last-ditch syllogistic defense of the truth of their religious beliefs since they neither a advance syllogistic arguments nor b conceive of religion as consisting of a corpus of beliefs the truth of which permits syllogistic defense.Condition:Edges bumped else a better than very good copy in a near fine jacket. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) hardcover
Bookseller reference : A0620 ISBN : 9688378232 9789688378236
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Berger Uta
Mexican Painted Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
vi155 pages with maps diagrams illustrations and glossary. Quarto 11 1/2" 8 1/4" bound in original pictorial wrappers. British Museum Occasional Paper number 91. First edition.For several centuries Mexican pictorial manuscripts have been a subject of interest. Learned men of letters incorporated the documents into their libraries. The first example of books in Mexican pictorial script were sent to Europe by Heran Cortex and were regarded mainly as curiosities. In New Spain pictorial writing continued in use for a long period after the Conquest. In early Colonial documents both writing systems the pictorial and the alphabetic were often combined. Later documentation written in Roman letters gained more importance. Over the centuries a limited number of pictorial documents - prepared in different regions and at different times - have survived giving us a vivid and colorful picture of Indian culture. The United Kingdom is fortunate in having a substantial collection Mexican manuscripts which are housed in various institutions. The history of their acquisition is often connected with famous collectors and/or persons of public interest but a characteristic common to many of the documents is that we do not know their authors or first owners. Publication of any of the manuscripts did not take place until the seventeenth century. Pictures of several codices were compiled and published by Alexander von Humboldt in 1810. The main work of publication however was undertaken by Edward King Viscount Kingsborough who published mos the the then known codices in his monumental work Antiquities of Mexico comprising Facsimiles of Ancient Mexican Painting and Hieroglyphs between the years 1831 and 1848. In the second part of the nineteenth century one of the leading scholars at this time was Eduard Seler who with the financial help of the Duc de Loubat published several facsimiles with commentaries. In here is all know codices currently located in the United Kingdom.Condition:A near fine copy. The British Museum paperback
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Aldana Guillermo etal
National Museum of Anthropology Mexico
479 pages with plates figures diagrams maps tables and bibliography. Folio 11 1/2" x 9 3/4" bound in black cloth with blind stamped lettering to spine and front cover. Presentations by Sair Bermudez. First edition.Contents: Origins and Renovation fo the National Museum of anthropology by Felipe Solis; Introduction to Anthropology by Enrique Serrano Carreto; American Supplement by Martin Rojas; Pre-Classic by Patricia Ochoa Castillo; Teoihuacan by Ruben Cabrera Castro; Tolteca Federica Sodi Miranda; Mexica by Felipe Solis; Oaxaca by Martha Carmona Macias; The Gulf of Mexico by Marcia Castor-Leal Espino; Maya by Amalia Cardos de Mendez; Western Mexico by Dolores Flores Villatoro; North of Mexico by Eduardo Gamboa Carrera; Indian Peoples by Alejandro Gonzalez Villarruel; Gran Nayar by Johannes Neurath; Pureecherio by Catalina Rodriguez Lazcano; Otopames by Diego Prieto; Sierra de Puebla by Eugenia Sanchez Santa Ana; Oaxaca by Efrain Cortes and Roberto Cervantes; Huastecas and Totonacacs by Hugo Garcia Valencia; Mayan Peoples by Catalina Rodriguez Lazcano and Eugenia Sanchez Santa Ana; Northwest by Euardo Gamboa Carrera; Nahuas by Lourdes Baez Cubero.Condition:Corners and spine heal bumped. Jacket edge wear else a very good copy in a very good to fine jacket. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) hardcover
Bookseller reference : A0613 ISBN : 9680300013 9789680300013
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Comas Camps Juan 1900 1979
Historia y Bibliografia de los Congresos Internacionales de Ciencias Antropologicas: 1865-1954
4902 ad pages with 46 plates and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 7 1/4" bound in original wrappers. Publications of the Institute of History first series number 37. Inscribed to Professor George M Foster. First edition limited to 1000 copies.George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.Condition:Foster's stamp to front wrapper Juan comas inscription to half title else a very good copy. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) paperback
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Day Jane Stevenson
Precolumbian Art from the Collection of Paul L & Alice C Baker
89 pages with 112 illustrations in color and bibliography. Quarto 10 3/4" x 8 1/2" issued in stiff wrappers. Foreword by Rober A Yassin. First edition.Condition:Light soiling to wrappers else a very good to fine copy. Tucson Museum of Art paperback
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Campbell J Gabriel; Ramesh Shrestha and Linda Stone
The Use and Misuse of Social Science Research in Nepal
iv154 pages with tables and appendix. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/2 bound in original wrappers. Preface by Dor Bahadur Bista. Signed by all the authors. From the library of George M Foster. First edition. Social Science Research: A Brief Introduction to Information Gathering Methods by J Gabriel Campbell and Linda Stone; An Anthropological Appraisal of Survey Research by J Gabriel Campbell and Linda Stone; A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of Survey Questionnaires by Ramesh Shrestha; Epistemological Issues in Social Science Research Methods by J Gabriel Campbell and Linda Stone. George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in. Condition: Lightly soiled corners and spine head bumped. Foster's stamp to title. Signed by all the dinner party participants with a note to the bottom of the wrapper verso After Linda Stone's memorable dinner party 26 Oct 1979. A very good copy. Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies paperback
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Abrams Jr H Leon
Comentario Sobre la Seccion Colonial del Codice Telleriano-Remensis con un Cuadro de 15 Cronicas Indigenas del Valle de Mexico
139-176 pages with plates tables plates and bibliography. Quarto 10 1/2" x 8" bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extract from Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia INAH. First edition.<br /><br />The Codex Telleriano-Remensis produced in sixteenth century Mexico and printed on European paper is one of the finest surviving examples of Aztec manuscript painting. Its Latinized name comes from Charles-Maurice Le Tellier archbishop of Reims who had possession of the manuscript in the late 17th century. The Codex is held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. The Codex Telleriano-Remensis is divided into three sections. The first section spanning the first seven pages describes the 365-day solar calendar called the xiuhpohualli. The second section spanning pages 8 to 24 is a tonalamatl describing the 260-day tonalpohualli calendar. The third section is a history itself divided into two sections which differ stylistically. Pages 25 to 28 are an account of migrations during the 12th and 13th centuries while the remaining pages of the codex record historical events such as the ascensions and deaths of rulers battles earthquakes and eclipses from the 14th century to the 16th century including events of early Colonial Mexico.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Damp rippled former owner's embossed stamp to facsimile title and page 171 else a good copy. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) hardcover
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Benedict Frances G and Morris Steggedra
The Food of the Present Day Maya Indians of Yucatan
155-188 pages with tables. Quarto 11 1/2" x 9" bound in original wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. CIW Contributions to American Archaeology number 18. Part of CIW publication number 456. First edition.<br /><br />Until the Carnegie Institution of Washington began it archaeological studies in Yucatan little was known about food habits of the Maya what types of food they eat and how they prepare their food. This is a qualitative and quantitative study of the present-day Maya diet 1936 not only to determine whether the high metabolism of these people is explained by thier diet but to obtain some hint from the food habist of these Indians as to the probable food supplies and dietary customs of the Maya of prehistoric times. this latter phase of the study especially represents a contribution to the larger Central American program that was carried on by the CIW. In some parts of Yucatan the Maya Indians still existed on a diet that was almost entirely independent of white man's civilization although those associating with Spaniards in cities like Merida were naturally influenced by white man's food.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />George M Foster's stamp to front wrappers light rubbing to the extremities with some offset age darkening. Else a very good copy. Carnegie Institution of Washington paperback
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Metraux Alfred 1902 1963
Making a Living in the Marbial Valley Haiti
2162 pages with tables diagrams and figures. Quarto 11" x 8 1/2" issued in wrappers with stapled spine. In collaboration with E Berrouet and Dr and Mrs Jean Combaire-Sylvain. From the library of from the library of Professor Anibal Buitrón Occasional papers in education number 10. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Education Clearing House. First edition.<br /><br />In 1951 Haiti was and is today the world's most tragic "Basket Case". Three million people crowded into ten thousand square miles give Haiti the world's highest population density. Greater than China or India. The blacks and light-skinned Haitians have their racial roots in Africa and cultural roots in France. Only in geography is Haiti Caribbean. Governed by a minority of upper class Elites who do no manual labor the 97 per cent majority are Peasants ministered by white French Catholic Priests or Prêtre Savans. Unordained Bush Priests. Haiti is cruelly divided by language religion and a rigid caste system that thwarts all possibility of reform. From 1915 to 1934 Haiti was occupied by United States Marines who built the few rutted roads that survived in 1951. The Americans instituted the first Public Health measures coping with such epidemic diseases as Yellow Fever Malaria Hookworm Small pox Yaws and Leprosy. For nineteen years American efforts at rural education were frustrated by a governing Elite who feared that with education Peasants would desert the land and no longer be subservient. Although French is Haiti's official language spoken by the Elite everyone speaks Creole. The language of daily life and commerce.<br /><br />Anibal Buitrón Born 22 January 1914 in Otavalo Ecuador. Earned master’s degree in anthropology at University of Chicago in 1950. Had a Gugenheim Fellowship in 1949. Co-author with the anthropologist John Coller of the well-known book The Awakening Valley 1949. During his career he worked with the Pan American Union of the Organization of American States and with UNESCO. In these positions he played important roles in the development of indigenista-oriented anthropology in Latin America. Retired to Watsonville California. Died sometime before 2006.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Buitrón's signature on front wrapper edges sunned corners bumped else about very good. UNESCO paperback
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Culbert T Patrick editor
Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence
xviii396 pages with maps figures plates tables and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" issued in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. School of American Research Advanced Series. First edition.<br /><br />Contents: Classic Maya Emblem Glyphs by Peter Mathews; Prehistoric polities of the Pasion region: Hieroglyphic texts and their archaeological settings by Peter Mathews and Gordon R Willey; An epigraphic history of the western Maya region by Linda Schele; Cycles of growth at Tikal by Christopher Jones; Polities in the northeast Peten Guatemala T Patrick Culbert; Dynastic history and cultural evolution at Copan Honduras by William L Fash and David S Stuart; Diversity and continuity in Maya Civilization: Quirigua as a case stuy by Robert J Sharer; Elite interaction during the Terminal Classic period: new evidence from Chichen Itza by Linnea H Wren and Peter Schmidt; Royal visits and other intersite relationships among the Classic Maya by Linda Schele and Peter Mathews; Inside the black box: defining Maya polity by Norman Hammond; Maya elite interaction: through a glass sideways by Norman Yofee; Maya political history and elite interaction: a summary view by T Patrick Culbert.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some light pencil underlining through out else a very good copy in a fine jacket. Cambridge University Press hardcover
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Fortes Meyer 1906a1983
The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi: The Second Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe
xiv358 pages with plates figures and index. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. From the library of professor George M Foster. Second edition.<br /><br />The Tallensi are a tribe of the Frafra people of northern Ghana numbering a few tens of thousands. They speak Talni a dialect of the Frafra language and maintain an agricultural mode of subsistence. The Tallensi homeland is covered by the Tallensi Traditional Area and consists mainly of open savanna.<br /><br />Meyer Fortes was a South African-born anthropologist best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana. Originally trained in psychology Fortes employed the notion of the "person" into his structural-functional analyzes of kinship the family and ancestor worship setting a standard for studies on African social organization. His famous book Oedipus and Job in West African Religion 1959 fused his two interests and set a standard for comparative ethnology. He also wrote extensively on issues of the first born kingship and divination. Fortes received his anthropological training from Charles Gabriel Seligman at the London School of Economics. Fortes also trained with Bronisław Malinowski and Raymond Firth. Along with contemporaries A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Sir Edmund Leach Audrey Richards and Lucy Mair Fortes held strong functionalist views that insisted upon empirical evidence in order to generate analyzes of society. His volume with E. E. Evans-Pritchard African Political Systems 1940 established the principles of segmentation and balanced opposition which were to become the hallmarks of African political anthropology. Despite his work in Francophone West Africa Fortes' work on political systems was influential to other British anthropologists especially Max Gluckman and played a role in shaping what became known as the Manchester school of social anthropology which emphasized the problems of working in colonial Central Africa.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Foster's stamp to title page. Jacket sunned darkened at spine and hinges light edge wear slightly soiled else a very good copy in like jacket. Oxford University Pres for the International African Institute hardcover
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Hermitte Maria Esther Alvarez de 1921 1990
Poder sobrenatural y control social: en un pueblo maya contemporáneo
1772 ad pages with charts plates and bibliography. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" issued in original wrappers. Special edition 57 of the Instituto Indigenista Interamericano. Limited to 1000 of which this is number 275. First edition.<br /><br />María Esther �lvarez de Hermitte best known as Esther Hermitte was a recognized social anthropologist from Argentina. Hermitte studied at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras within the University of Buenos Aires. She got a bachelor's degree of History and later she specialized in Social Anthropology. After that she won a scholarship given by the CONICET National Scientific and Technical Research Council which was by that period directed by the Nobel prize winner Bernardo Houssay. By 1958 Hermitte moved to the University of Chicago where she assisted to the Social Systems courses. A year later she was sent to Mexico together with the linguist R. Radhakrishnan and the Maya interpreter Alberto Méndez Tobilla to do field work about the Mayan community of Pinola Villa Las Rosas in the state of Chiapas. As a result of years of work in site and of her later analysis about Social mobility in a bicultural community in Chiapas and Sobrenatural power and social control Hermitte got her degree of "Master of Arts" in 1965 and "Philosophical Doctor" in 1964.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Light edge wear Foster's stamp to front wrapper and his hand written name "Tzeltal" below the title on wrapper some occasional underlining of text by Foster few of the pages at the back dog-eared at heal corners else a very good copy. Instituto Indigenista Interamericano paperback
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Bennett Wendell Clark 1905a1953 and Robert Mowry Zingg
The Tarahumara: An Indian Tribe in Northern Mexico
412 pages with 14 plates 7 text figures fold out Tabular Analysis of Sonoran Uto-Aztekan Tribes Bibliography and Index. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. From the library George M Foster. First edition.<br /><br />Originally inhabitants of much of the state of Chihuahua the Rarámuri retreated to the Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre Occidental on the arrival of Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century. The area of the Sierra Madre Occidental which they now inhabit is often called the Sierra Tarahumara because of their presence. Current estimates put the population of the Rarámuri in 2006 at between 50000 and 70000 people. Most still practice a traditional lifestyle inhabiting natural shelters such as caves or cliff overhangs as well as small cabins of wood or stone. Staple crops are corn and beans; however many of the Rarámuri still practice transhumance raising cattle sheep and goats. Almost all Rarámuri migrate in some form or another in the course of the year. The Tarahumara language belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family. Although it is in decline under pressure from Spanish it is still widely spoken.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Foster's stamp to title slight rubbing to extremities else a better than very good copy lacking jacket. University of Chicago Press hardcover
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Campos Ruben M 1876 1945
El folklore y la música mexicana. Investigación acerca de la cultura musical en México 1525-1925
347 pages with plates figures music scores and indexes. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 7" bound with original wrappers laid on and black lettering to spine. First edition.<br /><br />This book began as an investigation sponsored by the Ministry of Education to study Mexican folklore the purpose of the national education and outreach in an era in which most nationalist discourse in Mexican culture. Campos studied the historical and ethnic factors of the environment that gave rise to the rich musical production of folk music within Mexico. The work was a combination of written sources and oral tradition with an approach the drew no rigid boundaries between the "popular" and "cult." The volume includes a collection of work sorted and harmonized for him.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Original wrappers slightly soiled new end papers a few corners dogeared else about a very good copy. Talleres Graficos de la Nacion hardcover
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Comas Camps Juan 1900 1979
Bibliografia Selectiva de las Culturas Indigenas de America
292 pages with fold out maps and index. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" in original wrappers. From the library of Anibal Buitrón. Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia Publication number 166. Comision de Historia number 64. Limited to 2000 copies. First edition.<br /><br />Anibal Buitrón Born 22 January 1914 in Otavalo Ecuador. Earned master’s degree in anthropology at University of Chicago in 1950. Had a Gugenheim Fellowship in 1949. Co-author with the anthropologist John Coller of the well-known book The Awakening Valley 1949. During his career he worked with the Pan American Union of the Organization of American States and with UNESCO. In these positions he played important roles in the development of indigenista-oriented anthropology in Latin America. Retired to Watsonville California. Died sometime before 2006.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Signed by Dr Anibal Buitrón on front wrapper corners bumped slight edge wear else a very good copy. Comision de Historia paperback
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de Lavalle Jose Antonio
Coleccion Arte y Tesoros del Peru: Nazca
213 pages with maps 240 color plates figures and bibliography. Quarto 12" x 9 1/2" issued in yellow cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover. Introduction by Arturo Jimenez Borja. Photographs by Javier Ferrand Moscati. Second edition.<br /><br />In general Nazca culture is considered to consist of three stages; Early Middle and Late stages and also the Classic Nazca approximately A.D. 250-750. One of the most famous and distinctive features of the Nazca culture is the polychrome pottery which has attracted attention because of its technological refinement and the exciting symbolism of its motifs. This pottery culture spreads in the area of the valleys of Chincha Pisco Ica Nazca and Acari. In the Early stage these wares did not have much color but Middle and Late Nazca polychromes are buff or red and are painted in three to eight colors. The most popular choices of color were red black white brown yellow gray and violet with an outline in black. Bowls and beakers were common forms but double-spout and head-and-spout jars are also found. Birds fish or fruits were commonly drawn on the pottery and Nazca's religious or mythological features were also used in its design. Needless to say the Nazca lines are the most attractive feature in this culture. These large "geoglyphs" drawings on the earth's surface make no sense on the ground. We can recognize the features only from the air. There are several kinds of figures such as fish birds monkeys a whale spiders and plants. These lines spread on the ground more than 800 miles 1300 km some of which extend 12 miles 20 km long. Since these lines are on a flat surface and its climate is extremely dry nearly all geoglyphs remain completely intact. These geoglyphs are not only featured in the Nazca but also in other coastal areas Zana Santa Sechin Valleys Pampa Canto Grande and Sihuas Valleys and the northern Chile. The purpose of the drawings is uncertain but it is believed to be connected to their beliefs and economical systems. According to anthropologist Johan Reinhard the Nazca people believed that mountain gods protected humans and controlled the weather. These gods also affected water sources and land fertilitysince they are associated with lakes rivers and the sea. Each figure might have a different meaning for the Nazca people depending on their social class. The straight lines as sacred paths from Nazca to Andean highlands are still used to bring water. Today these lines are maintained for the religious merit of the people. The triangles and trapezoids are made for the flow of water and are placed near the river. People often have ceremonies beside the water flow. The figure of spirals depicts seashells and the ocean and the figure of zigzags illustrates lightning and river. The bird figures representing a heron pelican or condor are believed to be signs of faithfulness to the mountain gods. Other sea birds are associated with the ocean. Monkeys and lizards represent the hope for water. Shark or killer whale motifs show the success of fishing. Spiders millipedes and plants are associated with the rain. Even though the Nazca River was located near this cultural area river water was not enough to support their agricultural needs. Some questions are still debated among specialists. Why were so many lines necessary How and why did people draw such large figures on the ground without any aerial vision or aerial equipment We may never understand the true meaning of the Nazca Lines but we can decipher pieces of the traditional Andean people's belief system from these great geoglyphs.<br /><br />Description:<br /><br />Heal corners bumped. Spine ends and corners rubbed some edge wear two small indentations at front hinge else a very good copy in like jacket. Banco de Credito del Peru en la Cultura hardcover
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American Anthropologist
American Anthropologist
120 volumes plus all indexes and supplements. Royal Octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" and Quarto 11" x 8 1/2" issued in wrappers. Early volumes from the library of George M Foster and bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Other volumes from the library of Robert V Kemper. First editions.<br /><br />American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association AAA. It is known for publishing a wide range of work in anthropology including articles on cultural biological and linguistic anthropology and archeology. Its first incarnation known as the "Old Series" started in 1888 and was published by the Anthropological Society of Washington the first anthropology association in the United States. The "New Series" began in 1899 under an editorial board that included Franz Boas Daniel G. Brinton and John Wesley Powell and continues to this day. The four fields of Anthropology include cultural linguistic archeology and biological/physical. Sometimes applied anthropology is added as a fifth division. Among the journals published by the AAA The American Anthropologist is the only one that follows the "four field" approach publishing articles from all the subdisciplines of anthropology. Proponents of four-field anthropology see American Anthropologist's broad scope as important to maintaining disciplinary unity while critics have expressed serious reservations about this aim and criticize pressures since the 1970s against editors and works that do not subscribe to four field holism as an ideal for anthropological scholarship.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Because of the quantity of this item shipping will be $500.00 domestic and will require 30 boxes to be shipped. Shipping arrangements will be made with the buyer. American Anthropologist hardcover
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Schwartz Stuart B
Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and its Judges 1609-1751
xxvii438 pages with plates figures maps tables appendices glossary bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 issued in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. From the library of professor Peter Blakewell. First edition.<br /><br />While the Spanish enterprise in America is relatively well-known to the English-reading public the Portuguese tropical empire in Brazil has remained until recently an unknown world. In Sovereignty and Society Professor Schwartz contributes to our understanding of the Brazilian past by providing for the first time a detailed study of the judicial bureaucracy that formed the framework of the colonial regime. This work describes the process by which royal administrators maintained control and the techniques used by the Whole Brazilian elite to guard its interest. At the Core of the book is the previously unstudied relação or High Court of Bahia the supreme tribunal in colonial Brazil and an institution with broad administrative and political powers. Presided over by the governor-general or viceroy the High Court stood at the apex of the colonial administrative structure and symbolized royal sovereignty. The author examines the origins functions conflicts and history of the relação relying on little-used manuscript sources in over twenty-five archives and libraries in Brazil Portugal Spain and England as well as the whole range of secondary literature. Of particular interest is the departure from traditional administrative history by emphasis on the men rather than the offices of the Portuguese imperial bureaucracy. The bureaucrat-judges of the High Court are at the center of the study and by careful analysis of the personal and professional careers of these magistrates the author demonstrates the utility of a human relations approach to the study of historical polities. He shows how the goals of the crown the aspirations of the magistrates and the interests of the Brazilian sugar planter elite were expressed and reconciled and how royal officials and the planters became linked by kinship and interest in a union of wealth and power. Finally he argues that the penetration of such primary relations in the formal structure of a bureaucratic empire help to explain the resiliency. The approach and findings of this book will interest not only those seeking a deeper understanding of the Brazilian past but also historians sociologists and political scientists concerned with colonial regimes and bureaucratic policies in general.<br /><br />Professor Peter Bakewell is professor of History at SMU. He specializes in colonial Latin America and has written Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico 1973. After publishing this work Bakewell spent nearly two years in Bolivia doing research in archives in Potosi and Sucre on the larger and more famous Spanish silver mines in the region that later became Bolivia. Miners of the Red Mountain and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi tell how this region came to yield about half of the vast amount of silver flowing out across the world from the Spanish American colonies between 1550 and 1650. Bakewell’s current project looks at the administration of Viceroy Don Francisco de Toledo in Peru from 1569 to 1581. Toledo was one of the most active administrators of any part of the Spanish American empire at any time in its three-hundred year span. He was given the task of organizing Peru an area that then embraced much of the western half of South America for the benefit of Spain.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some shelf wear. Peter Bakewell's signature on front end paper and his pencil marginalia through out. Jacket price clipped else a very good copy in a near fine jacket. University of California Press hardcover
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Bush Alfred L and Lee Clark Mitchell
The Photograph and the American Indian
xxvi334 pages with black and white plates and 8 color plates Biographies of photographers and bibliography. Quarto 11 1/4" x 9 1/2" issued in black cloth with silver lettering to spine. First edition.<br /><br />From forbidden snapshots of sacred ceremonies to formal portraits of Native Americans in Victorian dress photography offers a fascinating record of the complex interplay to attitudes toward the indigenous peoples of the United States. In this first major book to present a comprehensive look at photographs of Indians by both Native and Anglo Americans from 1840 to the present we are offered a compelling array of images reproduced with exacting respect for the physical qualities of the photograph as a document. Alfred Bush and Lee Mitchell help us see these photographs not only as historical artifacts but as rich texts that describe their makers as tellingly as their subjects. More than three hundred images relate an important tale of the intrusion of technology into the traditional life of the American Indian and the political uses both Native Americans and Anglo Americans found for the photograph. These photographs reveal many agendas of both photographers and American Indians. From images pandering to popular stereotypes to ones that catch troubling realities these photographs encourage us to consider the photographic enterprise from various perspectives including those of Native Americans. Contradicting the common notion that Native American photographers are a recent phenomenon Indians make their appearance as photographers in this work as early as the 1880s with portrayals as varied and conflicted as any by Anglo Americans. The exciting dynamics among multiple American cultures encountering each other through art and technology is masterfully documented here. The text provides authoritative dating of the photographs biographies of the photographers and a extensive bibliography. This is a treasure-house for readers with interests in Native Americans and their history and the history of photography.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />A fine copy in like jacket. Princeton University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : A0493 ISBN : 0691034893 9780691034898
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Wauchope Robert 1909a1979 editor
Middle Americn Research Records Volume II Numbers 1-8
174 pages with map tables one fold out figures and charts. Quarto 10 1/2" x 8" issued in green wrappers. From the library of professor George M Foster. Middle American Research Institute Publication 18. First edition.<br /><br />Contents: Notes and Comments on "Duck-Pots" from Guatemala by Stephen F de Borhegyi; Implications of Radiocarbon Dates from Middle and South America by Robert Wauchope; A Chronological Ordering of the Mesoamerican Pre-Classic by John L Sorenson; Archaeological Remains from the Cintalapa Region Chiapas Mexico by Adren R King; Hemispheric Security Reconsidered by Philip B Taylor Jr; Pre-Columbian Cultural Connections Between Mesoamerica and Ecuador by Stephen F de Borhegyi; Pre-Columbian Cultural Connections Between Mesoamerica and Ecuador: Addenda by Stephen F de Borhegyi; A Developmental Concept of Pre-Spanish Urbanization in the Valley of Mexico by William J Mayer-Oakes.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Foster's stamp to front wrapper. Corners bumped lightly soiled else a very good copy. Tulane University Press paperback
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Foster George McClelland 1913 2006
A Summary of the Yuki Culture
155-244 pages with 15 figures 2 maps and bibliography. Quarto 11" x 8 1/2" bound in stiff boards. University of California Anthropological Records 5:3. First edition.<br /><br />European Americans learned and adopted the name Yuki from the tribe's neighbors and competitors the Nomlaki who called them "enemy" in Wintu language. Yuki was thus an exonym a name by another group. European Americans learned of the Yuki from the Nomlaki circa 1850.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Light edge wear else a very good copy. University of California Press paperback
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Gossen Gary H editor
Symbol and Meaning Beyond the Closed Community: Essays in Mesoamerican Ideas
x267 pages with diagrams plates figures tables and cited references. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" issued in wrappers. Studies on Culture and Society volume 1. First edition.<br /><br />Contents: Mesoamerican Ideas as a Foundation for Regional Synthesis by Gary H Gossen; A Scattering of Jades: The Words of Aztec Elders by Thelma D Sullivan; Reconstructing the Ethnohistory of Myth: A Structural Study of the Aztec "Legend of the Suns" by Doris Heyden; Metaphors Nahualtocaitl and Other "Disguised" Terms Among the Aztecs by T J Knab; The Lords of "Place of the Ascending Serpent": Dynastic Succession on the Nutall Obverse by Jill Leslie Furst; Human Biology and the Origin of the 260 Day Sacred Almanac: The Contribution of Leonhard Schultz Jena 1872-1955 by Peter T Furst; Creation in the Popol Vuh: A Hermeneutical Approach by Dennis Tedlock; On Whom the Gods Tried Their Swords: A Semiotic Approach to the Combat Myths of the Popol Vuh by Kazuyasu Ochiai; The Hero Myth in Maya Folklore by Martin Pickands; On a Mountain Road in the Dark: Encounters with the Quiche Maya Culture Hero by Barbara Tedlock; Quichean Folk Theology and Southern Maya Supernaturalism by Garrett Cook; The Metaphor of the Day in Quiche: Notes on the Nature of Everyday Life by Duncan M Earle; Constant Inconstancy: The Feminine Principle in Atiteco Mythology by Nathaniel Tarn and Martin Prechtel; Maya Concepts of Astronomical Order by John R Sosa; Convergence of the Gods: Comparing Traditional Maya and Christian Maya Cosmologies by David G Scotchmer; The Chamula Festival of Games: Native Macronanalysis and Social Commentary in a Maya Carnival by Gary H Gossen.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some edge wear to front wrapper with some creases at heal edge else a very good copy. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies paperback
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Galicia Chimalpopoca Faustino 1805 1877
Origen y Modo de Contar de los Indios
33 pages. Octavo 8" x 6 1/4" issued in wrappers. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 55.<br /><br />Faustino Galicia Chimalpopoca or Faustino Chimalpopocatl Galicia was born In 1805 in the present town of San Pedro Tluac. His mother's name is unknown but Don Alejo Andr Chimalpopoca Galicia was his father who was one of the ruling families of the area and an official of the village and could trace his lineage to the precolonial rulers. As a member of one of these ruling families he enjoyed privileges that were not available to the farmers of the village. He attended school in the local village. His godfather was the local priest and he was able to get him into a Jesuit College in Mexico City the Colegio de San Gregorio. There he was admitted to prepare as a lawyer. After several years of study at this school received a law degree. After finishing his studies he was devoted to the teaching Nahuatl language classes and the transcription and translation of ancient documents unpublished from early colonial provenance. In the same St. Gregory College Faustino was given the chair of Nahuatl and became part of the Teachers Academy to study Mexican antiquities. In 1849 Chimalpopoca met Don Jose Fernando Ramirez and under his direction he worked as a copyist and translator until 1860. The outcome was a work is in two volumes. In 1856 he entered the Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics as an honorary member and later as a full number. He became in charge of research on indigenous languages in particular was devoted to Nahuatl his mother tongue but he also knew Matlatzincatl and h Otomi. In the society's newsletter he regularly published this material. After his death much of his collection was sold off and is now scattered throughout university libraries and private collections.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Foster's stamp on front wrapper. Pages age toned else a very good copy. Biblioteca Aportaci�n Hist�rica paperback
Bookseller reference : A0242
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Hart Donn Vorhis 1918 1983 inscribed to Professor George M Foster
Compadrinazgo: Ritual Kinship in the Philippines
xvi256 pages with tables illustrations maps graphs photographs appendix bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Inscribed by the author to George M Foster. First edition.<br /><br />This work is the first comprehensive investigation of Philippine ritual kinship. It is based on extensive field research in the central Philippines Bisayas as utilizes al available published and manuscript sources. Hart begins with a brief history of the develompment of compadrinazgo and its rapid diffusion throughout Latin America and the Philippines. In describing the nature and scope of ritual kinship relationships he organizes a vast body of material on the rites of compadrinazgo the qualifications that must be met by ritual kinsmen and the concomitant responsibilities and privileges. Giving full play to the broad social dimensions of compadrinazgo Hart relates biological kinship class structure and social control. The author utilizes a comparative approach throughout his work but the last two chapters are especially rich in comparative material. The Spaniards brought the god parenthood complex to both Latin America and the Philippines whereupon it was modified by the indigenous cultures of Asia and the New World. Numerous differences exist between Latin American and Filipino compadrinazgo although they have more in common with each other than either does with the Spanish system from which they derive. In his presentation of descriptive data from Hispanic America and Europe Hart challenges some of the overly facile generalizations that have characterized the study of compadrinazgo for quite some time.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Inscribed on title light rubbing to extremities. A very good to near fine copy in a fine jacket. University of Northern Illinois Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : A0216
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Miguel Leon Portilla and Alfredo Lopez Austin editors from the library of Professor George M Foster
Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl
2932 obituary pages. Octavo 9" x 6 1/2" issued in wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. Volume 9. Instituto de Investagaciones Historicas. Limited to 1500 copies. 1st edition.<br /><br />Contents: Carlos Navarrete and Ana Maria Crespo: Un Atlante Mexica y Aglunas Consideraciones Sobre los Relieves del Cerro de la Malinche Hidalgo; Jaime Litvak King: Las Relaciones entre Mexico y Tlatelolco antes de la Conquesta de Axayacatl. Problematica de la Expansion Mexica; Cesar Lizardi Ramos: Rito Previo a la Decaptiacion en el Juego de Peolota; Carmen Aguilera: Una Posible Deidad Negroide en el Panteon Azteca; Miguel Leon-Portilla: Codice de Coyoacan - Nomina de Tributos Siglo XVI; Victor M Castillo F: El Bisiesto Nahuatl; Jacqueline de Durand-Forest: Cambios Economicos y Moneda entre los Aztecas; Alfred Lopez Austin: De las Plantas Medicinales y de Otras Cosas Medicinales; Charles E Dibble and Norma B Mikkelsen: La Olografia de Fray Bernardion de Sahagun; Howard F Clone: Missing and Variant Prologues and Dedications in Sahagun's Historia General: Texts and English Translations; Roberto Moreno: La Coleccion Boturini y la Fuentes de la Obra de Antonio de Leon y Gama; Lawrence H Feldman: Mexicanaa Kugelblitz; Josefina Garcia Quintana: Bibliografia Nahuatl: 1966-1969.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Light edge wear Foster's stamp to title some of Foster's underlining in various parts of text else in very good condition. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) paperback
Bookseller reference : A0215
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Leventhal Richard M and Alan L Kolata editors
Civilization in the Ancient Americas: Essays in Honor of Gordon R Willey
xiv487 pages with tables maps illustrations figures charts plates bibliography of Gordon R Willey and index. Quarto 10" x 7 1/4" issued in blue with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition.<br /><br />Contents: Lords of the Jungle: A prosopography of Maya Archaeology by Norman Hammond; The Paleocology of the Selin Farm Site H-CN-5: Department of Colon Honduras by Paul F Healy; Maya Ritual Faunas: Vertebrate Remains from Burials Caches Caves and Cenotes in the Maya Lowlands by Mary Pohl; Functional Analysis and Social Process in Ceramics: The Pottery from Cerros Belize by Robin Robertson; Altars 9 and 10 Kaminalijuyu and the Evolution of the Serpent-Winged Deity by Lee A Parsons; The Maya Calendar Correlation Problem by David H Kelley; Cultural Reconstruction in the Late Moche Period: A Case Study in Multidimensional Stylistic Analysis by Garth Bawden; Coast-Highland Relations in Northern Peru: Some Interaction by John R Topic and Theresa Lange Topic; Deducing Social Organization from Classic Maya Settlement Patterns: A Case Study from the Copan Valley by William L Fash Jr; From Maritime Chiefdom to Agricultural State in Formative Coastal Peru by Robert A Feldman; Rulership and the Ciudadela: Political Inferences from Teotihuacan Architecture by George L Cowgill; Chan Chan and Cuzco: On the Nature of the Ancient Andean City by Alan Kolata; Ideological Adaptation and the Rise of the Aztec and Inca Empires by Arthur Demarest and Geoffrey Conrad.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />A near fine copy issued without jacket. University of New Mexico Press and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology hardcover
Bookseller reference : A0225
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Finkler Kaja
Spiritualist Healers in Mexico: Successes and Failures of Alternative Therapeutics
xii256 pages with tables charts appendices bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6" bound in gold cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover with a pictorial vignette to cover. Foreword by Arthur Kleinman. From the library of professor George M Foster. First edition.<br /><br />Kaja Finkler offers one of te more detailed medical anthropological accounts of a traditional healing system; one of the few that seeks to systematically assess outcome. The book's core contribution: an intensive investigation of the successes and failures of Spiritualist healing in a Mexican rural setting.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Foster's stamp on front end paper some of his underlining through out else a very good copy. Prager Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : A0223
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