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Huntington Gertrude Enders
The Hutterites in North America; Fiekdwork Edition
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1980. Owner's name. Wrappers are sl edgeworn. Soft Cover. Good. Holt, Rinehart & Winston Paperback
Bookseller reference : 10389 ISBN : 0030453917 9780030453915
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Richards Marie M. et al.
The Eskimos of Northern Alaska series: Communities at Home and Abroad
Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1978. 5th printing of 1st edn. of 1970. Many colour photos. . Oversize Paperback. Very Good. Allyn and Bacon Paperback
Bookseller reference : 04406
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Barrow T.
The Decorative Arts of the New Zealand Maori
Wellington New Zealand: Reed 1968. 2nd printing; 1st edn. was 1964. Pictorial boards. Jacket sl worn. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Reed Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 02303
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Spicer E H
Potam A Yagui Village in Sonora
American Anthropological Association 1954. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. 450grams ISBN: American Anthropological Association paperback
Bookseller reference : 6998017
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Condry Ian
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Durham and London: Duke University Press 2006. 2006 First Edition FINE Trade Paperback Review Copy with publisher's information sheets laid in. In new unread condition. A clean totally unmarked unworn copy in tight binding. Illustrated with black and white photos in text. 6 x 9-1/4"; x 249 pages. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Duke University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000946 ISBN : 0822338920 9780822338925
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Freilicher Susan
Medicine Women
Pomegranate 1993. Hardcover. Good. Signed by author on title pageBook shows moderate wear/ spine tight pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; moderate edge wear Pomegranate hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011420 ISBN : 156640598X 9781566405980
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Caplan Nathan; Choy Marcella H.; Whitmore John K.
Children of the Boat People: A Study of Educational Success
Univ of Michigan Pr 1991. Soft Cover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight pages clean/ covers creased and slightly scuffed; moderate edge wear/ Friends of the Library stamp on title and or front page/ previous owners name on top and bottom of book Univ of Michigan Pr paperback
Bookseller reference : 011834 ISBN : 0472081624 9780472081622
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Fowler Don Robert Euler & Catherine Fowler
THE COLORADO RIVER REGION AND JOHN WESLEY POWELL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 669 / JOHN WESLEY POWELL AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE CANYON COUNTRY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 670
GPO. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Set of two books. Corners bumped. Sl . aged/yellowed. Smells like basement. Great b&w photos. Two books one . hardcover one softcover. 29-3. 1969. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 30 pages . GPO hardcover
Bookseller reference : 69716
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Jun F
Chinapedia
Enrich Professional 2014. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. 1350grams ISBN: Enrich Professional paperback
Bookseller reference : 6996815
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Turnbull Colin M.
The Human Cycle The Author of The Forest People Searches in the Rich Diversity of Human Society for the Life Patterns We All Share.
New York: Simon & Schuster 1983. 1st ed. Paperback trade very good condition light bump top spine small scuff on spine bottom corners few pages creased small mark bottom edge few light scratches covers top corner flyleaf not bound into spine pages firm minor edgewear. 283 pp. This fascinating book is a study of the very nature of human culture by one of the world's foremost anthropologists. He examines some of our age-old assumptions about the differences between so-called "primitive" societies and the Western world. The book is based on an entire lifetime of research and spans four continents to present a comprehensive examination of such disparate cultures as the Mbuti of Zaire the Hindus of Banaras and middle-class Western society. Simon & Schuster paperback
Bookseller reference : 29462 ISBN : 0671226207 9780671226206
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Swan James G.
Indians of Cape Flattery at the Entrance to the Strait of Fuca Washington Territory
Philadelphia PA 1868. Softcover. Fair. Disbound lacking covers. 9 x 13 inches pp ix 106 pp with index laid in. Old dampstain to fore edge visible on page margins but not affecting text first gathering loose from text block; contents clean. Includes a vocabulary of the Makah languag and describes many aspects of tribal life including social customs and rituals tools food trade canoes baskets ornaments etc. paperback
Bookseller reference : 2273
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Piper June el ed; Roberts Alexandra compiled by; Smith Jenevieve compiled by
Papers from the Third Fourth and Sixth Navajo Studies Conferences
Window Rock AZ: Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department 1993. Softcover. Very Good. xvi 389 pp with maps in original wrappers. Very light shelf wear with a few short tears at spine; contents clean. A collection of over 30 papers from three conferences by various authors on a variety of aspects of Navajo culture see scan of partial table of contents. Due to size shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders. Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department paperback
Bookseller reference : 1582
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Piper June el ed
Dine Baa Hane Bi Naaltsoos Collected Papers from the Seventh through Tenth Navajo Studies Conferences
Window Rock AZ: Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department 1999. Softcover. Near Fine. xi 245 pp with illustrations majority from photographs. Very light handling wear; contents clean. A collection of over 25 papers from four conferences by various authors on a variety of subjects and aspects of Navajo culture. Organized into five sections: Aesthetics Doing Anthropology Health Economics and Contact Between Cultures. Due to size shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders. Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department paperback
Bookseller reference : 1583
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Basso Keith H ed; Opler Morris E ed
Apachean Culture History and Ethnology Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona Number 21
Tucson AZ: University of Arizona Press 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. viii 168 pp with maps references index in original wrappers. Very light shelf wear and soiling to page edges; else fine. A collection of papers written by various authors split into two parts: Apachean Culture History and Apachean Ethnography and Ethnology. University of Arizona Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 1587
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Piper June el compiled by
Dine Bi'e'el'ii Baa Hane' Baa Nahati Selected Papers from the 11th through 13th Navajo Studies Conferences
Window Rock AZ: Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department 2006. Softcover. Fine. vii 120 pp with illustrations from photographs in original wrappers with spiral binding. A fine copy. A collection of 13 papers from three conferences by various authors on a variety of subjects and aspects of Navajo culture see scan of partial table of contents. Due to size shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders. Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department paperback
Bookseller reference : 1584
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Parsons Elsie Clews; Crow Wing
A Pueblo Indian Journal 1920-1921 Introduction and Notes Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association Number 32
Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1925 original. 123 pp b/w illustrations from photographs with illustrations. Some sunning and light shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound. Kraus Reprint paperback
Bookseller reference : 1557
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Schiff Goldfrank Esther
The Social and Ceremonial Organization of the Cochiti Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association Number 33
Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1927 original. 129 pp folding geneaologies in original wrappers. Some sunning to spine and edges of wrappers title hand-written on on spine; contents clean and sound. A study of the Cochiti peopl including aspects of social organization religious concepts ritual and ceremonial patterns. Kraus Reprint paperback
Bookseller reference : 1554
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Parsons Elsie Clews
The Scalp Ceremonial of Zu�i Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association Number 31
Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1924 original. 42 pp with illustrations in original wrappers. Some sunning to spine and edges of wrappers title hand-written on spine; contents clean and sound. Description of of Zu�i scalp ceremonials in 1921 and 1891 with a section on changes in the ceremonials over time. Kraus Reprint paperback
Bookseller reference : 1556
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Parsons Elsie Clews
Notes on Zu�i Part I and II Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association Volume IV No. 3-4
Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1974. Softcover. Near fine. Two volumes in printed wrappers. Part I: pp. 151-225; Part II: pp. 229-338. Both volumes show some very light sunning to spine and edges of wrappers and have titles written by hand on the spine; contents clean and sound. Originally published in 1917. Describes many aspects of Zuni ceremonialism and includes a fascinating register of ceremonial events at Zuni compiled by Margaret A. Lewis a Cherokee who traveled from Oklahoma in 1899 as a schoolteacher in the Indian Service. Kraus Reprint paperback
Bookseller reference : 1558
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Roberts Frank HH. Jr. H. H.
Shabik'Eschee Village A Late Basket Maker Site in the Chaco Canyon New Mexico
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 92. viii 164 pp b/w illustrations from photographs folding map w/bibliography index. Very light general wear to boards including bumped bottom corners; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on basket makers pueblos ruins material culture human burials and other topics. Government Printing Office hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1569
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Titiev Mischa
Old Oraibi A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa
Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University Vol. XXII No. 1. xi 282 pp with b/w illustrations from photographs bibliography. Light handling wear to wrappers internals clean and sound. Organized into three main parts: Kinship and Social Organization Hopi Ceremonialism and Miscellany economy sex practices et al. First published in 1944. Kraus Reprint paperback
Bookseller reference : 1575
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Hewett Edgar Lee; Henderson Junius Henderson; Robbins Wilfred Williams
The Physiography of the Rio Grande Valley New Mexico in Relation to Pueblo Culture Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 54
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1913. Hardcover. Near fine. 76 pp illustrations foldout with bibliography. Original olive cloth. Minor damage to margin of folding plate; else fine in original printed envelope this somewhat tattered. Organized into three main sections: Rio Grande Valley Geology and Topography and Climate and Evidence. Government Printing Office hardcover
Bookseller reference : 839
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Hunt Eva
The Transformation of the Hummingbird Cultural Roots of a Zinacantecan Mythical Poem
Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 312 pp with illustrations charts tables bibliography index. Very light wear to edges including very lightly bumped corners; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear; one short tear. "This brilliant example of structural-symbolic analysis places a contemporary Mexican Indian mythical poem in its cultural and social contexts. The author uses a historical approach to relate the poem entitled 'The Hummingbird' to its original antecedents in prehispanic Mesoamerican mythology and thereby to reveal meaning of its rich and obscure symbolism" dust jacket. A volume in the Symbol Myth and Ritual series. Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 576 ISBN : 0801410223 9780801410222
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Kroeber AL. A. L.
More Mohave Myths Anthropological Records Volume 27
Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. xii 160 pp illustration with tables appendices references. Old insect damage and sunning to wrappers; contents clean and sound. Provides the English text of each of 10 tales Kroeber collected along with an account of the narrator the circumstances of the narrating amd "statements by him or others as to the nature and fuction of the tale. Where it seemed feasible and advantageous the song scheme of tales in discussed or variant versions or resemblances between distinct tales." University of California Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 277
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Attias Isabel Lagarriga
Medicina tradicional y espiritismo: los espiritualistas trinitarios marianos de Jalapa Veracruz
Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia 1979. Soft Cover. Very good. 160 pp. Covers lightly rubbed. Binding tight text clean. Spanish language. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia paperback
Bookseller reference : 13781
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Lewis Williams JD. J. D.
Vision Power and Dance: The Genesis of a South African Rock Art Panel
Amsterdam: Nederlands Museum 1992. softcover. Very good. 36 pp text and bibliography 16 plates one folding. Light soiling to front cover internals clean binding sound. Nederlands Museum paperback
Bookseller reference : 13829
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Varese Stefano
La Sal de Los Cerros Notas Etnograficas e Historicas sobre los Campa de la Selva del Peru
Lima: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Y Tecnologia 1968. Softcover. Good. Trade paperback 161 pp with two folding maps. Pages tanned moderate cover wear including light soiling. Binding sound text unmarked. Inscribed by Varese and dated in June 1968 on title page. Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Y Tecnologia paperback
Bookseller reference : 13827
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Balandier Georges
Sociologie Actuelle de l'Afrique Noire Dynamique Sociale en Afrique Centrale
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. Deuxieme Second edition. 532 pp w/map tables bibliography. Original printed wrappers. Light cover wear some spine creasing. Binding sound contents unmarked. Text in French. Presses Universitaires de France paperback
Bookseller reference : 13686
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Labate Beatriz C.; Goulart Sandra; Fiore Mauricio; MacRae Edward; Carniero Henrique
Drogas e Cultura: novas perspectivas
Salvador Bahia: Edufba 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. 440 pp illustrated. Trade paperback. Mild shelfwear. Binding tight text unmarked. A collection of conference papers on drugs and culture. All text in Portuguese. Edufba paperback
Bookseller reference : 13432 ISBN : 8523205047 9788523205041
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Driberg J. H.; Binder Pearl Illustrator
People of the Small Arrow
New York: Payson and Clark Ltd 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 338 pp with pictorial endpapers and drawings by Binder. Spine very slightly sunned else a fine copy. Dust jacket is lightly dust soiled and edgeworn and has some internal reinforcement with tape. A novel based on the author's experience living among the Didinga people of East Africa. Payson and Clark Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13242
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Fisher Mrs. AB. nee Ruth Hurditch A. B.
Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda
London: Marshall Brothers. Hardcover. Good. ND c. 1911. ix 198 pp copiously illustrated with b/w plates. Green cloth boards have moderate wear; front board has a black ink spot. Gift inscription on front endpaper. The Church Missionary Society sent the author to Uganda in 1900 when she was 24 and she married a fellow missionary 2 years later. "The gently pygmies were her favorite converts and the 'Black Baganda' tribesmen of Bunyoro.her favorite storytellers. Her purpose in writing was as much to tell these stories of indigenous Ugandan culture as to proselytize" and "her books are remarkably free of missionary propaganda" according to Robinson Wayward Women P. 161. Marshall Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13170
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Young Cullen
Contemporary Ancestors A Beginner's Anthropology for District Officers and Missionaries in Africa
London: Lutterworth Press. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated. 190 pp in original orange cloth; no dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped one scuff mark on front board. Internals fine. Foreword by H.S. Keigwin. Chapters on marriage kinship coming of age taboos religious beliefs and practices etc. Lutterworth Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13168
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Holmes WH.; Fewkes Jesse Walter W. H.
Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1903-04 Puerto Rico; Mexico
Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. xxix 296 pp of text including index followed by 129 plates. The bulk of the volume is taken up by two papers by Fewkes: "The aborigines of Porto Rico and neighboring islands" and "Certain antiquities of eastern Mexico." Bound in original olive green cloth with gilt illustration on the front board. Binding tight contents unmarked. Cloth is rubbed through to the boards at the corners as well as the fore edge of the front board. Due to size shipping charges will be more than standard for priority or international orders. United States Government Printing Office hardcover
Bookseller reference : 12817
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Larsen May and Henry
The Golden Cowrie New Caledonia: Its People and Places
London and Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Translated from the French by James Hogarth. 187 pp extensively illustrated with photographs some color. Previous owner's name on front pastedown else a fine copy in a clean slightly rubbed dust jacket with a few ink marks on the rear panel. Account of an expedition in search of the elusive shell of the golden cowrie--the larges of the world's 250 known cowrie species--with much on the people and culture of the island's native villages. Oliver and Boyd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11971
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Larsen May and Henry
Black Sand. New Hebrides: Its People and Places
London and Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First English edition. Translated from the French by John and Patricia Russell. 178 pp of text plus approximately 50 photographs some color. Previous owner's name on front pastedown else a fine copy in a clean dust jacket with minimal wear. Reflections on two years' residence in the New Hebrides now Vanuatu with much on the people and culture of the island's native villages. Oliver and Boyd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11984
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British Library; Great Britain Public Record Office
The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents
Ewing New Jersey U.S.A.: Univ of California Press. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall 0520224701 Used Color pictorial collection of Historic Documents 4to 155pp. Keywords: GREAT BRITAIN HISTORY SOURCES PUBLIC. Univ of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0755635 ISBN : 0520224701 9780520224704
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Busoni Rafaello
Arabs and the World of Islam series: Lands and Peoples 4
London: Cassell & Co. 1939. Previous owner inscribed the front free endpaper.Edgeworn especially the spine. White areas of the covers are soiled through use. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Busoni Rafaello. Cassell & Co.
Bookseller reference : 11805
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Kutsche Paul
Field Ethnography: A Manual for Doing Cultural Anthropology
Prentice Hall. Fair. 1998. Third Printing. Paperback. Few pages with highlighting of text. Mild wear from usage. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 209 pages . Prentice Hall paperback
Bookseller reference : 64178 ISBN : 0138894523 9780138894528
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Ferraro Gary
Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology
Wadsworth Publishing. Good. 2008. Paperback. Good used copy with mild wear from handling - unmarked. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 138 pages . Wadsworth Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : 64174 ISBN : 0495507369 9780495507369
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Claude Levi Strauss
Structural Anthropology: v. 2 Volume 2
Viking 1977. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. 850grams ISBN:0713910216 Viking hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6996238 ISBN : 0713910216 9780713910216
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Willoughby Westel Woodbury
An Examination of the Nature of the State: A Study in Political Philosophy
New York: The Macmillan Co. 1907. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Rust cloth lettered in gold foil deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. 3rd ptg.: Feb. 1907 originally issued 1896. Lightly rubbed corners and spine extremities minor toning to cover cloth. xii4484 pp. Former owner's signature inked on front fixed endpaper underlining and marginalia penciled throughout interior thus Good but a solid reading copy. The Macmillan Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 042183
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Keating Edward M.
The Broken Bough: The Solution to the Riddle of Man
New York: Atheneum 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Teal green cloth lettered in gold foil. Essentially as issued. Illus. dust jacket is a bit toned by age but otherwise virtually without wear just a minor corner crease to rear flap. viii472 pp. Atheneum Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 042191 ISBN : 0689106793 9780689106798
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Aching Gerard
Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean
Chicago Illinois U.S.A.: Univ of Minnesota Pr 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. Univ of Minnesota Pr Paperback
Bookseller reference : 11558 ISBN : 0816640181 9780816640188
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Zweig Paul
The Heresy of Self-Love: A Study of Subversive Individualism
New York: Basic Books 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Light gray cloth lettered in silver foil and black. Text block edges slightly toned by age slight foxing to endpapers otherwise essentially as issued. Dust jacket lightly soiled and showing slight surface rubbing 1/2" closed tear along top rear edge. Basic Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 042143
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Malik Dr. Charles
War and Peace: A statement made before the Political Committee of the General Assembly November 23 1949
Stamford CT: The Overbrook Press 1949. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Black cloth lettered in gilt. Very slightly rubbed extremities. 44 pp. Original glassine wrapper present with edge wear and chipping. The Overbrook Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 042094
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Wilson Richard Albert ; Preface By Bernard Shaw
The Miraculous Birth of Language
London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1949. Reprint of original edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. J M Dent & Sons Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11647
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Sarpong Peter
The Sacred Stools of the Akan
Tema Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corp. 1971. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. First Edition. Stiff Paper Wrappers. Very Good. Ghana Publishing Corp. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 04241
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McCourt Malachy
A Monk Swimming
New York: Hyperion. Fine. 1998. First Paperback Edition. Pictorial Soft Cover. 0786884142 . 290 pages. a Memoir the best selling memoirs tell the story of the author who left a childhood of poverty in Limerick Ireland heading for the promise of america. a clean and wonderful book; 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall . Hyperion paperback
Bookseller reference : 4586 ISBN : 0786884142 9780786884148
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Schopf J. William Ed.
Life's Origin: The Beginnings of Biological Evolution
Berkeley: University of California Press. Very Good. 2002. Softcover. Almost like new condition. Very lightly handled. Unmarked. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 208 pages . University of California Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 61652 ISBN : 0520233913 9780520233911
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Hammond Peter B
Cultural and Social Anthropology
New York: The Macmillan Company 1972. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company 1972. 498 pages. Rust coloured covers in good condition with some scraping along spine and edges from shelf wear. Previous owner's name on half title page. Interior clean and binding tight. Nice square book. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Macmillan Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 000232
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