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Samuel Humphreys, John Kelly, Transl.
Peruvian Tales Related in One Thousand and One Hours By One of the Virgins of Cusco, to the Yinca of Peru, to Dissuade Him from a Resolution he Had Taken to Destroy Himself By Poison, Interspersed with Curious and Historical Remarks
pp.iv, 572; Decorated frontispiece to decorated half title, ex libris giulio venezian; contemporary leather, spine worn, ow. very good
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Mehring Walter
The Lost Library: The Autobiography of a Culture
8vo. An outspoken critic of Hitler, this German poet, essayist and novelist, exiled in America, reviews 20th Century literature from his father's retrieved library.
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KNIGHT, Richard Payne and WRIGHT, Thomas
Sexual Symbolism: A History of Phallic Worship, Containing a Discourse on the Worship of Priapus and Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients, the Worship of Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe
8vo, 414 pp, includes b-&-w illustrations. 1st thus, original light blue cloth in excellent state, with dj teared at top of spine. Ashley Montagu provides the introduction this tome which brings together two classics of suppressed scholarly studies of erotica: Knight's A DISCOURSE ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS (1786) and Wright's THE WORSHIP OF THE GENERATIVE POWERS (1866).
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Boxsel, Matthijs Van
The Encyclopedia of Stupidity
Pages: 240 Dimensions: 245 x 170Format: cloth in dw The author shows how stupidity manifests itself in all areas, in everyone, at all times: stupidity is the foundation of our civilization.
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L'osservatore Romano Documenti - Congregazione Per La Dottrina Della fede
Il Messaggio Di Fatima
8vo grande, br. pp.44. con riproduzione degli autografi originali delle profezie di suor lucia
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Weatherford Jack
Savages And Civilization : Who Will Survive?
8vo, pp.ix-310, anthropology history tribal vs. global. original cloth in pict- dustwrapper,
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An 1000 (mil)/ an 2000, Nostradamus, Etc. Actualité De l'Histoire Mystérieuse M. 14 Sept. 1995
br. pp.160
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RUSSELL Sharman Apt
Fame. Una Storia Innaturale
8vo , leg adit. e sovracoperta pp. 230
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Bloom Harold
Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection
8vo. 255pp. Green cloth. Fine in dust-jacket. A study of angels, dreams and near-death experience in the light of Jewish Kabbalah, Christian Gnosticism and Muslim Shi'ite Sufism
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LEVY-BRUHL LUCIEN
I QUADERNI
In 8o, pp. 277, br. Traduzione di Anna Macchioro de Martino. Prefazione di Ernesto de Martino. Prefazione di Maurice Leenhardt. Contiene XI Quaderni. Vol. num. 18 Collezione di studi religiosi, etnologici e pscicologici. Ottimo
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Andersen, Johannes C.
Myths and Legends of the Polynesians With Sixteen Plates in Colour by Richard Wallwork. Thirty-Two Plates in Half-Tone andOther Illustrations.
8vo 514pp. hardcover n dj and box. Near Mint in Like DW & Cardboard Slipcase. Not just a reprint of the George Harrap edition, but a greatly enhanced edition, with beautiful colour plates, black & white photographs & fold-out map, printed on superior paper. 16 colour plates, 44 b&w photographs, 13 line drawings, fold-out map at rear. Contents: Publisher's Foreword; Preface; List of Illustrations; Note on Proper Names; Polynesia and Its People; 'Koropanga and Rukutia; Kelea and Kalamakua; Uenuku; Fairies and Taniwha; The Tawhaki Cycle; Maui' (Maui-tikitiki-a-Taranga); Hina', Sister of Maui'; Pele the Fire-goddess; The Spirit Worlds; Io, Tangaroa, and Creation; The Areoi Society and the Hula Dance; Religious Observances; Authorities; Other Books of Hawaiian Interest; Glossary and Index.
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Falassi Alessandro
Folklore by the Fireside: Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia
octavo. 372pp +index, illustrated. A fine copy in dj. 376 pp. Index. Bibliography. Notes. This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the "veglia" as a means of handing down traditional values. For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centred around the 'veglia', an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. 'Folklore by the Fireside' is a thorough and perceptive study of this custom - from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children are put to bed to the courtship songs and dances later in ther evening to the anti-veglia male gossip, card games, and protest songs originating in the tavern. toscana antropologia pettegolezzo, giochi di carte, ninne nanne, ecc.
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Rushby Kevin
Paradise: A History of the Idea That Rules the World (ISBN:1845290011)
8gvo, softcover. From the Church in the Middle Ages to the people who prepare sucidide bombers, there is always someone promsing a better tomorrow, if only we do what they say. Although much is made of the clash between Islam and Christianity, here, Kevin Rushby argues that there is no clash we all want the same thing: paradise, Eden, perfection. Rushby sets out on two journeys: a physical one to the Mountain of the ASsassins in Iran, home of htemyth that "bright-eyed maidens of Paradise" await those who die serving Allah; and an intellectual one, back through the history of our ideas about Paradise in the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Rushby reveals in an accessible mix of history, religion, and philosophy, the reasons why we have come to live in such a divided world by showing how rationalist thought stretches from Pythagoras to Jacobean England and how tales of the gods have brought destruction and terror, from the Book of Revelations to the London Underground bombing of 2005. 272 pages. storia dell'idea di paradiso terrestre.
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Cunnington, Cecil Willett; Cunnington, Phyllis
The History of Underclothes
Near Fine copy in publishers cloth and dustjacket ( a small tear and shelf fold in the bottom of the jacket, otherwise book as new) . 185pp. Illustrated throughout. Revised edition of classic study by A. D. and Valerie Mansfield. storia della biancheria intima.
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Lopez, Mellie Leandicho
Philippine Games
pp.509; 24 plates, 64 figures, 4 maps. Mellie Leandicho Lopez taught at the University of the Philippines, the University of California, Berkeley, the Wesleyan University, and the Philippine National Arts Center in Makiling, Laguna.The author writes: "This study aims to meet the need for a definitive list of Philippine folk games. To my knowledge is the first attempt to introduce systematic classification and context analysis of traditional games Filipinos play". anthropology folklore giochi
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Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten
The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day with One Hundred Illustrations b J.larwood
pp.536+, 12p. ads. Illustrated with a hand-colored frontispiece and 19 plates. rebound in cloth, with original decorated boards and spine title.
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James, Peter
Centuries of Darkness: Challenge to the Conventional Chronology of Old World Archaeology
Hard Cover in dj. Fine/fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 434 pages with b/w illustrations. The old world has confronted archaeologists with many riddles, perhaps the most tantalising of which is the Dark Age, an economic and cultural recession so devastating it lasted for 400 years from 1200 to 800BC. Or did it? The dates for the near east and Mediterranean are derived from the highly regarded chronology of ancient Egypt, but could not that itself have been miscalculated? This is the pioneering theory proposed by Peter James in an intricate piece of scholarly detective work.
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Humphrey, Theodore C.; Humphrey, Lin T.
We gather together: Food and festival in American life (American material culture and folklife) (ISBN:0835718905)
8vo, xii, 289pp. Fifteen chapters wth Figures and Notes. Appendix: "Soup Night". Selected Bibliography. Notes on Contributors. Index.
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Lea, Henry C.
Superstition and Force. Essays on The Wager of Law-The Wager of Battle-The Ordeal-Torture.
8vo Fourth Revised Editiion Original Green Cloth gilt title and author, xvi + 628 pp + 32 pp of adverts, good condition, ffp page loose, ow a VG and tight copy. Ordeal Ordalia Giudizio Di Dio Medioevo
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MORGAN, Lewis H[enry]
Ancient Society Or Researches In The Lines Of Human Progress From Savagery, Through Barbarism To Civliization
8vo. pp. xvi, 560. original cloth (spine ends, corners worn, inner front hinge starting). Morgan's work was enthusiastically endorsed by Marx and Engels, as supporting the materialistic iinterpretation of history. .
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Loisy, Alfred
Essai Historique Sur Le Sacrifice
8vo, relié, pp. 552, en français later cloth with leather label and marbled int, cloth ribbon vg, ex-libris gilbert brunet, signature on title page, rare
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Ewald Volhard
Il Cannibalismo
8vo, br. ed. riq- viola pp.600, ottimo esemplare, raro
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Mozzani, Eloïse
Livre Des Superstitions. Mythes, Croyances, Legendes
in-8, broché, 1822 pp. Exemplaire en parfait état. Planches dans et hors-texte. Texte en francais
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Puckle Bertram S.
Funeral Customs: Their Origin and Development. 26 Plates
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition
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Culin, Stewart
Korean Games : With Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan
Unabridged reprint of the Original 1895 Edition. Illustrations in b/w. Wraps. as new. 8vo. xxxvi, 177 pps. Uncommon. ISBN: 0486265935
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Cooley, Arnold J.
THE TOILET IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES With a Review of the Different Theories of Beauty and Copious Allied Information Social, Hygienic, and Medical
green publisher's cloth gilt, as new. 804 pages.
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Wright Lawrence
Clean and Decent. The facinating history of the bathroom and the W.C. and of sundry habits, fashions & accessories of the toilet, principally in Great Britain, France and America.
[First edition] Original cloth gilt, no dj .8vo Pp. xii, 282, well illustrated.
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Mackenzie, Compton
Sublime Tobacco
First edition 352pp illust. Compton Mackenzie smoked his first cigarette at the age of four. With this precocious puff as a starting point he relates his adventures with tobacco from that day to this. His prologue, entitled My Smoking Life, if followed by a history of the fragrant weed. The Stuarts hated smoking, but they were clever enough to realise its potentiality for Revebue. During most of the seventeenth century a miniature civil war went on in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, neither the Stuart Kings nor Cromwell being able to suppress those hardy men of the Cotswolds determined to grow tobacco in England. However, the tale of tobacco is not confined to England. One of the most interesting chapters deals with the success of Glasgow during the 18th century in making itself the tobacco Mart of the World. In Europe and Asia smokers were persecuted for a long time, and the tale of what they had to go through is fully related. The pipe from clay to briar, the defeat of the pipe in fashionable circles by snuff for over a hundred years, the defeat in turn of snuff by the cigar, and finally the rout of pipe, ciagr and snuff by millins of cigarettes. All these stirring events are told. Besides the social aspect of tobacco an adequate account of its cultivation is provided. When it is remembered that the foundations of the United States rest upon tobacco, the history of it is a matter of some importance. The book concludes with an Epilogue dealing with the benefit tobacco has been humanity.
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Abramovici Jean-Christophe
Le Livre Interdit
broch, 290pp. Étude sur l' "enfer" de la Bibliothèque Nationale. etat neuf.
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Lindner, Kurt
La Chasse Préhistorique
8vo - 480 pp 143 figures et 24 planches hors-texte 1ere traduction broché, sous couverture illustrée d'une vignette Contents, Chapitres : paléolithique et mésolithique (généralités - successions des civilisations et développement de la technique des armes - espèces animales chassées - technique de la chasse - sacrifices, art, magie et droits relatifs à la chasse) - néolithique et âge des métaux (généralités - néolithique - âge du bronze - âge du fer) exemplaire non coupé, état neuf .
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Morris, Desmond
Naked Ape Trilogy: "Naked Ape","Human Zoo","Intimate Behaviour"
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Frazer James George
Le Bouc émissaire. Etude comparée d'histoire des Religions. Traduction française par Pierre Sayn
grand in-8, broché, 485 pp. Edition originale.parfait etat.
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Sivers, Levame, Pelegrin, Seringe, Kabakova, Michael, Regnier, Boratav, Battesti, Paques,
La Main. Eurasie N. 4
pp.189, br. etat neuf.
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BACHTIN Michail a Cura Di Clara Strada Janovic
L'autore e L'eroe Teoria Letteraria e Scienze Umane
Brossura editoriale,piccola firma di app., altrimenti ottimo pp.Xv-429 Saggio di stratigrafia storica dal secolo XV al secolo XIX,
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Molteni Francesca
Icone d'impresa. Gli oggetti che hanno fatto grande l'industria Italiana
8vo br., pp. 240, ill. (Le Sfere). Gli oggetti d'impresa hanno fatto la nostra storia, plasmato l'immaginario, segnato un progresso tecnologico o accompagnato una storia d'amore. Utili e belli, ben disegnati. Potenti e misteriosi, sono figli dell'industria, di grandi visioni, di piccoli traguardi, e di tante invenzioni. Raccontano la creatività e l'ingegno italiani, che hanno dato forma al nostro futuro
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BALTRUSAITIS JURGIS
Risvegli e prodigi. La metamorfosi del Gotico
8vo , br. ed. bandelle, Cm 16,5 x 23,5 bross edit ill.ta a colori, pp 491 con 278 ill.ni bn n t. Collezione ''Il Ramo d''oro''. Traduz.di M.Infurna. "Concepito insieme a "Medioevo fantastico", "Risvegli e prodigi" completa in prospettiva temporale la straordinaria ricerca di Baltrusaitis sui temi del mostruoso, del grottesco, del demoniaco, del fantastico e la loro raffigurazione nell'età di mezzo. Lo stupore che coglie il lettore di "Medioevo fantastico" nello scoprire i più inaspettati apporti d'Oriente ai repertori iconografici occidentali si rinnova davanti alle sorprendenti dimostrazioni della ininterrotta sopravvivenza del fantastico e al suo speciale rifiorire in seno al gotico, in piena epoca di "realismo" medioevale. Ne risulta una sorta di carta fisica dell'arte medioevale europea.
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Lestringant Frank
Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne
8vo, cloth in dj, 354pp.first american edition. Frank Lestringant, one of the foremost scholars of European encounters with the Americas, looks at the concept of the cannibal and the powerful images and meanings it conjured for Europeans from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Combining historical and ethnographic data with allegorical and literary concerns, he describes how European voyagers, writers, and missionaries encountered cannibal cultures and represented them in their writings. Lestringant argues that sixteenth-century travelers and writers gave the figure of the "man-eating savage of the Americas" a positive currency, as a hero who devoured his defeated enemy in accordance with custom, not to satisfy a cruel instinct. Two centuries later, Enlightenment philosophers used the figure of the cannibal in their fight against colonialists and Catholics. But the image of the cannibal suffered a reversal at the end of the eighteenth century, becoming a hateful figure that aroused the primitivist imaginings of writers like Sade and Flaubert. Lively, accessible, and provocative, this unique study will not only be welcomed by readers in early modern history, European literature, anthropology, and religious studies, but will fascinate anyone interested in the myths and realities of cannibalism. From the Inside Flap: " Cannibals is a magisterial, wide-ranging, and wonderfully readable exploration of one of the great Western obsessions. With a blend of horror, astonishment, and half-suppressed admiration, European travelers, philosophers, theologians, missionaries, and artists have argued for centuries about the significance of cannibalism. Lestringant's extraordinary erudition enables him to map an immensely complex territory. His book is a feast!"--Stephen Greenblatt
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Schmitt Jean-Claude
La raison des gestes dans l'occident Médiéval
8vo, br. ed. jacquette .440 pages,30 planches hors-texte et 40 illustrations. " Ce livre explore l'histoire des gestes en occident,depuis l'Antiquité tardive jusqu'au Moyen-Âge central . Charlemagne se tord la barbe et pleure; devant Guillaume le Conquérant,Harold prête serment les mains posées sur des reliques ; les bras tendus,le prêtre élève l'hostie que les fidèles,à genoux et les mains jointes,fixent du regard ; tous font des signes de croix . Qu'ils nous surprennent ou nous paraissent aujourd'hui encore familiers,tous ces gestes sont liés à une culture et à son histoire . Car il n'existe pas de gestes"naturels",mais des usages sociaux du corps,propres à chaque civilisation et qui changent au cours du temps.
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Bettetini Maria
Breve Storia Della Bugia: Da Ulisse a Pinocchio
brossura editoriale.155 pp. Coll. Minima, 60. 150
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O'Connor Kaori
The Never-Ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting
8vo, br. ed. Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts - dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated - and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.
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Mohen Jean-Pierre
Les Rites De l'au-delà
8vo, br. illustr. pp.330
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VOLHARD EWALD
Il Cannibalismo
8vo, br. ed. pp.600, 40 tavv.bn.ft. prima ed. italiana
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FRANCESCHI GIULIO.
SUPERSTIZIONE. Nei Tempi Antichi e Preistorici. Nel Medioevo. Nei Tempi Moderni. a Concludere
in-16,br, ed. pp. XI, 264
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Rush Norman
Accoppiamenti
8vo grande, leg edit. sovracoperta, pp. 526 avventure sentimentali di un'antropologa in africa.
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TOSCHI PAOLO
LE ORIGINI DEL TEATRO ITALIANO
8vo, cm 21,5x16, pag XIV-767, ril edit, sovrac, acetato. 1a ediz
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Freud Sigmund, Pref. Karl Kerenyi
Totem e tabù
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FABIETTI UGO (A CURA DI) E. B. TYLOR, H. S. MAINE, J. F. MCLENNAN, JOHN LUBBOCK, L. H. MORGAN
Alle Origini Dell'antropologia
Mm 130x180 Collana " Universale scientifica Boringhieri ". Volume di 296 pp.
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Philippson Paula, Pref. Ernesto De Martino
Origini e Forme Del Mito Greco
8vo, br, ed. pp.288.ill. f.t. dorso sbiadito dal sole altrimenti ottimo.
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Lévi Strauss Claude
Parole Date. Le Lezioni al Collège De France e all'Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Études 1951-1982
16mo br. ed. tutte le conferenze e le lezioni.
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Von Franz Marie Louise
Il Mito Di Jung
In-8,brossura editoriale,pp.295
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