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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
Referencia librero : A0491
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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
Referencia librero : A0480
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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
Referencia librero : 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
Referencia librero : A0477
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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
Referencia librero : A0472
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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
Referencia librero : A0238
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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
Referencia librero : 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
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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
Referencia librero : 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
Referencia librero : 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
Referencia librero : A0223
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Pimentel Francisco 1823 1893
Cuadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indigenas de Mexico
2 Volumes. lii3954 pages; vi427 pages. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" volume one rebound in red leather with gilt lettering to spine; volume two original quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. First edition.<br /><br />The first Mexican linguist worthy of this name is Francisco Pimentel in the second half of the nineteenth century. He attempted to systematize what was known until then about the Indian languages of Mexico. His work is the starting-point for the development of a more scientific approach to linguistic studies on Mesoamerican languages. A scholar versed in European typology and comparative linguistic studies of the nineteenth century Pimentel is clearly indebted to his predecessor the Spaniard Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro as well as Wilhelm von Humboldt Friedrich Schlegel Ernest Renan Jacob Grimm and others. His work on linguistic classification in Mexico unlike that of Orozco y Berra was as up to date as that of any of his North American contemporaries. The second edition of Pimentel 1874 had considerable influence on subsequent opinion concerning the classification of native languages in Mexico and Mesoamerica generally and his work was heeded by Powell and other scholars in North America. Pimentel claimed to be "the first to present a scientific classification of Mexican Indian languages based on comparative philology". He proposed several families that were accurate as well as a few that were not so accurate including Uto-Aztecan with nine subgroup members; Costeno with Mutsun; Mixe with Zoque; Mixtec Zapoteco. Pimentel was relatively successful in his attempt to establish family relationships. Interestingly his methods were those standard in European linguistic studies; in particular he emphasized grammatical evidence but also utilized basic vocabulary. Although Pimentel favored grammatical evidence he rejected the generally held notion of the time maintained by most scholars since Duponeau that all American Indian languages share the same morphological type.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Volume one. Tape repair to half title rebound and trimmed. Volume two. spine ends and corners chipped rubbing to edges hinges and corners else a good set. Imprenta de Andre Escalante hardcover
Referencia librero : A0183
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Ortiz de Montellano Bernard R 1899 1949
Aztec Medicine Health and Nuritition
xiv308 pages with maps figures tables bibliography and index. Octavo 9" x 6" issued in wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. 1st edition.<br /><br />Why were a handful of Spaniards able to overthrow the Aztec Empire The dramatic destruction of the Aztecs has prompted historians anthropologists demographers and epidemiologists to look closely at the health and nutrition of the inhabitants of the Valley of Mexico. If the Aztecs were overcrowded living at the edge of starvation and incapable of treating disease effectively then their decimation by the Europeans becomes much easier to understand. If the Aztecs had exhausted their food resources then the provocative highly publicized suggestion that ritual human sacrifices were a major protein source for the Aztec elite gains plausibility. Bernard Ortiz de Montellano argues that such hypotheses do not hold up. Rather at the time of the Conquest the Aztecs were a thriving well-nourished health people. They had a highly sophisticated and productive agricultural system a coherent set of medical beliefs and effective health measures and no need to rely on cannibalism for protein. In short the swift brutal success of the conquistadors cannot be explained by the prior ill-health or medical incompetence of their victims. To support his case Ortiz de Montellano uses an astonishing array of evidence from anthropology folklore pharmacology ethnbotany geography demography linguistics history of medicine religious studies and psychoneuroimmunology. He presents the most comprehensive and detailed explanation of Aztec medical beliefs available in English.<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. His notes and underlining through out. Spine sunned else a very good copy. Rutgers University Press paperback
Referencia librero : A0099 ISBN : 0813515637 9780813515632
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Mart Samuel
Canto danza y m�sica precortesianos
379 pages with plates including frontispiece illustrations figures map bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 7" issued in gray cloth with green lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. Limited to 4000 copies. 1st edition.<br /><br />Archaeological finds attest to the great variety of instruments and forms of musical expression and dance in the Maya world the Aztec territories and the extensive Andean empire of the Inca. Sixteenth-century Spanish chroniclers in Mexico and Peru have left texts that vividly describe the musical instruments singing and dancing of the Aztec and Inca. It is clear from historical evidence that music and dance in the ancient cultures of the Americas were often closely linked to ritual and ceremony. Picture with in the pages are elegant polychromatic vessels that depict musical activity in association with historical and supernatural events as well as numerous sculptures of musicians and musical instruments.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Corners bumped. Jacket spine ends chipped corners rubbed and chipped some edge wear hinges and fold over edges rubbed else a very good copy in about a very good jacket. Fondo de Cultura Economica hardcover
Referencia librero : A0076
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Bunzel Ruth Leah 1898 1990
Chichicastenango : A Guatemalan Village
xxvi438 pages with appendices glossary and bibliography. Royal octavo 9 ¾ " x 8 ½ " issued in gold cloth with brown lettering to spine. Publications of the American Ethnological Society Volume 22. 1st edition.<br /><br />Ruth Leah Bunzel began her career as anthropologist Franz Boas’s secretary and became an accomplished anthropologist herself. She broke new ground in her research on the artist and the creative process among the Zuni her pioneering work on the Mayas in Guatemala and her comparative study of alcoholism in two villages in Guatemala and Mexico. Bunzel began graduate study in anthropology at Columbia University. In 1929 she received her Ph.D. with the publication of a landmark book on the artistic process The Pueblo Potter. Rather than focusing on the objects of art Bunzel was the first anthropologist to analyze artists’ feelings their relationship to their work and the process of creativity. To understand how artists work within the confines of traditional styles Bunzel apprenticed herself to Zuni potters and among them she became a respected skilled potter. Bunzel was one of the first American anthropologists to work in Guatemala and she published a monograph on the Chichicastenango community in highland Guatemala in 1952. Reflecting both her interest in culture and personality studies and the neo-Freudian influence of psychoanalyst Karen Horney she also wrote a comparative study on alcoholism in Chamula in Chiapas Mexico and in Chichicastenango. Her research supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship 1930–1932 looked at psychological factors that led to different patterns of drinking in two communities. She also focused on the role alcohol played in the Indians’ subjugation and how haciendas profited by keeping Indians in debt. Her study on alcoholism was the first anthropological writing on this subject. Bunzel taught sporadically at Columbia University throughout the 1930s but she became an adjunct professor in 1954 until her retirement in 1972. She then spent two years as a visiting professor at Bennington College. Bunzel earned a modest living teaching and felt she had never obtained full-time work because she was a woman. Others have attributed her marginal position in part to hostility between Boas and Ralph Linton who became chair of the anthropology department at Columbia. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Inner hinge cracked corners bumped previous owner’s name on front paste down light edge wear else about very good. J J Augustin hardcover
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Jules B Billard editor
The World of the American Indian
399 pages with maps drawings plates many in color illustrations and index. Quarto 10 1/2" x 9 1/2" bound in original publisher's quarter black leather with gilt lettering to spine and cloth design to boards in original jacket. Large fold out National Geographic map of the Notheast of America after 1000 BC laid in. First edition. Works by anthropologist associated with the National Geographic by specialist in their related areas: John C Ewers N Scott Momaday David Damas William Sturtevant Robert F Heizer D'Arcy McNicle. Page ends soiled. DW edge wear else a very good copy in like jacket. National Geographic Society hardcover
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Booth William James
Households on the Moral Architecture of the Economy
xii305 pages with index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's burgundy cloth with red label to spine in gilt lettering in original jacket. First edition. William Booth traces one tradition of domestic organization to the household or "oikos" of Aristotelian though and explores its structure and its use as a counter to market society. He considers the early modern liberal household as interpreted y Locke Hobbes and Rousseau. Liberal economic and political theory Booth shows rejects the hierarchical pattern of the "oikos" in favor of a contract-based community among autonomous and equal persons. Condition: Back head corner bumped else a near fine copy in like jacket. Cornell University Press hardcover
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Richard Allan Gould
Living Archaeology: the Ngatatjara of Western Australia in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Volume 24 Number 2
101-122 pages with bibliography. Royal Octavo 9 3/4" x 6 3/4" bound in original publisher's wrappers. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology volume 24 number 2 complete. First edition. Articles include: "Friendship and Mobility in the Development of an Urban Elite African Social System" by David Jacobson; "A Structural Comparison of Disposal of the Dead in the Mousterian and the Upper Paleolithic" by Sally Binford; "Anthropological Explanations: Style in Discourse" by E A Hammel; "thoughts on Upward Collapse: an Essay on Explanation in Anthropology" by Charles Erasmus; "Higi Armed Combat" by Keith Otterbein. Condition: Light edge wear spines sunned else a very good copy. University of New Mexico Press paperback
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Patricia Albers and Seymour Parker
The Plains Vision Experience: in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Volume 27 Number 3
203-233 with bibliography. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 6 3/4" bound in original publisher's wrappers. Complete volume number 3. First edition. Other articles: "Migration Dynamics in the Interior of Ceara Brazil" by Bernard Siegel; "A Traditional African Psychiatrist" by Robert Edgerton; "A functional Measure of Tooth Size" by Milford Wolpoff; "Trends in Northern Indian Urban Kinship: the 'Matrilateral Asymmetry' Hypothesis" by Sylvia Vatuki. Condition: Edges and spines sunned head corner bumped pervious owner's name on page 203 else a near fine copy. University of New Mexico paperback
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Brooks Drex 1952 and Patricia Nelson Limerick
Sweet Medicine: Sites of Indian Massacres Battlefields and Treaties
163 pages with notes and photographs by Drex Brooks. Oblong royal octavo 90 1/4" x 12 1/4" bound in original publisher's gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine with original jacket. Forward by James Welch. First edition. In 1987 Drex Brooks began photographing sites that had been important in the history of White/Native American Relations places such as treaty sites and battlefields. This body of work is named Sweet Medicine after a Cheyenne cultural hero who taught his people their rituals and ceremonies and who also foresaw the changes and destruction that the white man would bring. the photographs encompass not only places of death but also places of renewal places that retain their sacred importance today even though in many cases little is there to inform other of what occurred. The meaning of what happened in these places from Massachusetts to the state of Washington from Minnesota to Mississippi is difficult to fathom and accept as Patricia Limerick notes in her provocative essay. The Indian wars are a topic most prefer to know only superficially or to ignore altogether but she maintains that an understanding of their complexity as well as their violence is critical to an understanding of this nation's history. Condition: Corners bumped remainder to heal end pages else a very good to fine copy in a fine jacket. University of New Mexico hardcover
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Chapman Ann MacKaye 1922 2010
La Guerra de los Aztecas contra los Tepanecas
122 pages with map figures and plates. Octavo 9" x 6 3/4" bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Acta Antrhoplogica Epoca 2 Volume I Number 4. First edition.In 1426 the Tepanec king Tezozomoc died and the resulting succession crisis precipitated a civil war. The Mexica supported Tezozomoc's preferred heir Tayahauh who was initially enthroned as king. His son Maxtla soon usurped the throne and turned against those factions that opposed him including the Mexica king Chimalpopoca. Chimalpopoca died shortly after this possibly assassinated by Maxtla. The new Mexica king Itzcoatl remained defiant to Maxtla and in response Maxtla had Tenochtitlan blockaded and demanded increased tribute payments. Maxtla similarly turned against the Acolhua and the king of Texcoco Nezahualcoyotl fled into exile. Nezahualcoyotl recruited the military assistance of the king of Huexotzinco and the Mexica gained the support of a dissident Tepanec city Tlacopan. In 1427 Tenochtitlan Texcoco Tlacopan and Huexotzinco went to war with Azcapotzalco and emerged victorious in 1428. Condition: Offset darkening to wrappers edge wear corners bumped damp stain to some heal edges some pencil underlining els about a very good copy. Instituto Nacional de Antropologi�a e Historia (INAH) paperback
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Ralph Leon Beals 1901 1985
Ethnology of the Western Mixe
viii139 pages with 17 plates maps figures appendices and bibliography. Quarto 10 1/4" x 7" bound original publisher's wrappers. University of California Press Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology volume 42 number 1. First edition. This monograph represents the results of three months field work in 1933. In spite of the relatively short period the author has gathered together a great deal of material on a Mexican tribe previously only sketchily known. The Mixe are numerically the largest linguistic group of Veracruz. They live in the mountainous region to the northeast of Oaxaca City. Beals' monograph is based primarily on the community of Ayutla supplemented by visits to most of the other western towns. Condition: Lacks spine edge chipped previous owner's stamp on front wrapper else a good copy. University of California Press paperback
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Bryk Felix 1882 1957
Voodoo-Eros: Ethnological Studies in the Sex-Life of the African Aborigines
251 pages with frontispiece and pictures. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering in pictorial jacket. Translated by Mayne F Sexton. Introduction by Albert Moll. Revised edition limited to 500 copies. Felix Bryk was a Swedish anthropologist entomologist and writer. In entomological circles Bryk is best known as a lepidopterist; in anthropological history for his studies in East Africa. He wrote on Carl Linnaeus and was a close friend of Curt Eisner who worked with him on the Parnassinae. Condition: Corners bumped light edge wear. Jacket corners chipped 1/2" loss to spine heal price clipped else a very good copy in like jacket. United Book Guild hardcover
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Bram Joseph
An Analysis of Inca Militarism
85 pages. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine an cover issued without jacket. American Ethnological Society Monograph 4. Second edition. The militaristic nature of the Incan monarchy caused great emphasis to be placed on the army and the position of the common soldier. Soldiers were given food and clothing and state aid was also provided for a soldier's family to ensure that agricultural production did not suffer due to the absence of a productive worker. For these reasons full-time soldiers were held in high regard and they even occupied their own position in the socio-political pyramid. Condition: Light rubbing to spine extremities else a better than very good coy. University of Washington Press hardcover
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Blong Russell J
The Time of Darkness: Local Legends and Volcanic Reality in Papua New Guinea
xi257 pages with maps tables charts appendices glossary and index.Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. In the highlands of Papua New Guinea there exists widespread legends concerning a "Time of Darkness" in which there was no light and ash fell from the skies.The author investigates these legends and in conjunction with measurement and analysis of the ash which covers a large area of the highlands determines that 300 years ago there was a cataclysmic volcano eruption on Long Island and the legends are essentially accurate accounts of this gigantic upheaval that is unrecorded in any written records. Condition: Jacket with closed tears to head edges with creases else a fine copy in a very good jacket. University of Washington Press hardcover
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Chernela Janet M
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
xx185 pages with map tables figures and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. The Wanano Indians of the northwest Amazon have a social system that differers from those of most tropical forest tribes. Neither stratified by wealth nor strictly egalitarian Wanano society is "ranked" according to rigidly bound descent groups. In this pioneering ethnographic study Janet Chaenela decodes the structurer of Wanano society. Condition: Some light yellow marks-a-lot throughout corners gently bumped. Jacket corners and spine ends lightly chipped else a very good copy in a very good to fine jacket. University of Texas Press hardcover
Referencia librero : BOOKS001332 ISBN : 0292785224 9780292785229
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Foster George McClelland 1913 2006
Godparents and Social Networks in Tzintzuntzan in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Volume 25 Number 3
261-278 pages with tables charts and bibliography. Royal Octavo 9 3/4" x 6 3/4" bound in original publisher's wrappers. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology volume 25 number 3 complete. First edition. Articles include: "On Quibblings over Squabblings of Siblings: New Perspectives on Kin Terms and Role Behavior" by Rober Keesing; "Sibling Terms as Used by Marriage Partners" by Mary Haas; "Men's House Associates among the Eastern Bororo" by Chirstopher Crocker; "Symbolic Elements in Navajo Ritual" by Louise Lamphere. Conditions: bump to front heal corner else a very good copy. University of New Mexico Press paperback
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Nuttall Zelia Maria Magdalena 1857 1933
The Fundamental Principals of Old and New World Civilizations: A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Re
602 pages with figures appendices and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" in original wrappers. Archaeological and Ethnological Papers of the Peabody Museum volume II. First edition.Condition:Wrappers heavily chipped spine ends chipped with some loss lack back wrapper. Some occasional pencil marginalia else a good copy. Peabody Museum paperback
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H Russell Bernard and Jesus Salinas Pedraza editors
Otomi Parables Folktales and Jokes
vi120 pages4 ad with author's letter laid in. IJAL volume number 2. Native American Texts. First edition. This collection of Otomi texts was generated during the summers of 1971 and 1972. Otomi is a tone language with three phonetic tones: high low and "rising." Each story appears in Otomi in lteral translation and in free translation. Many of these tales are humorous and several of them are obscene. The corpus is of some importance because native American humor is rarely published; obscene humor almost never. Condition: Lightly soiled corners bumped else a very good to fine copy. University of Chicago Press paperback
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Basso Ellen B 1942
In Favor of Deceit: A Study of Tricksters in an Amazonian Society
xx376 pages with figures appendix bibliography and indices. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Ellen Basso's study of the stories of creation myths to derisive off-color tales of the Kalapalo Indians of central Brazil considers their relationship to other kinds of Kalapalo activities involving deception and features a unique collection of South American Indian narratives translated directly from performances by master storytellers in their original Carib language. Combining an ethnopoetic performance-focused approach to storytelling with an action-oriented psychology Basso arrives at an ethnographic understanding of Kalapalo trickster myths and Kalapalo ideas about deception. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket. University of Arizona Press hardcover
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Schoolcraft Henry Rowe 1793 1864
History of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Their Present Condition and Prospects and a Sketch of their Status
xxviii756 pages with frontispiece maps some in color plates some in color tables charts figures diagrams and index. Thick quarto 12 1/2" x 9 1/2" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. Volume 6 of the multi volume set published between 1851 and 1857. Reprint of the 1857 first edition.<br /><br />This volume provides a comprehensive view of almost every aspect of the history social mores and struggles of various Indian nations throughout North American and even relates their condition to those of Central and South America. Schoolcraft begins with a condensed view of Post-Columbian or modern Indian history - when the first Europeans gazed upon Native Americans. The first Indian tribes recognized in America were the Caribs. They revealed themselves to the wondering of the Europeans with that peculiar set of the physiognomical features and traits physical and mental which have been found to be generic throughout the continent. It did not take long for animosity to overcome wonderment and soon the Indians were victims of the colonial struggles or the French the English the Portuguese the Dutch and the Spaniards. Later their hunting grounds became the battle grounds for Colonials and royalists. With the birth of a new nation their existence became an obstacle to the European usurpers of the American Continent as the proceeded to "civilize" the wilderness from sea to shining sea. Powhatanics Sicopans Manhattans Mohicans Mohawks Lenno Lenapi Narragansetts Algonquins Senecas Mingoes Seminoles Cherokees - name after name tribe after tribe from East to West - they all succumbed to the onslaught of the white settlers soldiers adventurers and evangelists. The struggle seemed inevitable - a perpetual and unavoidable conflict between the tiller of the soil confined by his society and the aboriginal hunter - free to roam the great forests and plains or to idle at will. The first part concludes with an especially interesting commentary on the prospects of the tribes n 1857. The second part of the volume offers economic and social insights through statistical presentations into the development of the Indian.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Jacket 1/2" to 1" loss to spine heal front heal cover 1" to 1" chips along edges corners chipped back heal edge 1/2" to 1" else a very good to fine copy in a good jacket. Historical American Indian hardcover
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Bernal Ignacio and Lizardi Ramos Cesar editors
Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropologicos Tomo Decimosexto
S269 pages with maps one folding plates diagrams and charts. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 7" bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 16. First edition limited to 650 copies. Contents: "Principales rasgos fisiograficos de la region comprendida entre el paralelo 19 degrees y el Istmo de Tehuantepec" by Rita Loopez de Llergo; "Algunos datos acerca de la vegetacion del Estado de Oaxca" by Helia Bravo H; "Aspectops fisicos del Valle de Oaxaca" by Jose L Lorenzo; "Algunos sitios arqueologicos de Oaxaca y Guerrero" by Roman Pina Chan; "El simbolismo de los rituales funerarios en Monte Alban" by Laurette Sejourne; "Exploracion en Yagul Oaxaca" by John Paddock; "Exploraciones arqueologicas en Cioudad Vieja de Quiotepec Oaxaca" by Eduardo Pareyon Moreno; "Exploraciones en la Chinantla" by Agustin Delgado; "Correlaciones arquologicas del Centro de Veracruz y Oaxaca" by Jose Garcia Payon; "Relaciones de Oaxaca con Puebla y Tlaxcala: Culturas Cholulteca Mixteca y Zapateca" by Eduardo Noguera; "El panorama Etno-Linguistico de Oaxaca y el Istmo" by Maria Teresa Fernandez de Miranda Mauricio Swadesh and Robert Weitlaner; "Sources and possibilities for the reconstruction of the demographic process of Mixteca Alta 1519-1895" by Woodrow Borah; "Reconstruction of extinct population" by Sherburne F Cook; "Grados de edad en Oaxaca" by R J Weitlaner and S Hoogsbagen; "Etnografia de los Maztecos" by Ricardo Pozas; "Algunos aspectos de la Aculturacion Mixe" by Ralph L Beals; "Descendencia y nombres entre Mazatecos" by Rodolfo Stavenbagen; "La cultura Mazateca" by Julio de la Fuente; "Eleccion instalacion y aseguramiento de los funcionarios en Coatlan" by Searle Hoogsbagen; "El mundo fisico-espiritual de los Mazatecos de Ichactlan" by Juan A Hasler. Condition: Light edge wear else a very good unread copy. Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia paperback
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Tristram aTrisa Potter Coffin 1922 2012 and Cohen Henning eds
Folklore fromt the Wroking Folk of America
xxxviii464 pages with music scores and index. Octavo 8 1/2' x 5 3/4" bound in original publisher's quarter bound beige cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. first edition. Evolving from and around American working folk this wealth of lore encompasses folk literature folk-life and folk speech with seventy-seven folk melodies and a complete section of tales about twelve legendary figures including Casey Jones Daniel Boone and Johnny Appleseed. Condition: Split in spine head. Jacket corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed else a better than very good copy in a very good to fine jacket. Anchor Press/Doubleday hardcover
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Clifford James 1945
Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World
xi270 pages with map illustrations bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's grey cloth with silver lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. This evocative analytical study of Maurice Leenhardt 1878-1954 - anthropologist missionary historian of religion and colonial reformer - draws extensively from unpublished letters and journals and from the author's research in New Caledonia and Paris. Condition: Jacket light edge wear spine sunned else very good to fine in a near fine dust jacket. University of California Press hardcover
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John R. Seeley 1913 2007; Robert Alexander Sim ;Elizabeth W. Loosley
Crestwood Heights
505 pages with maps appendices and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Second printing. This is a study of a well known Canadian community. It is located within the borders of one of Canada's big cities its name symbolizes success wealth and social prestige its inhabitants possess as many of the "good things of life" as most people ever aspire to This penetrating study of how they live how they raise and educate their children how they compete socially and economically is of absorbing interest - not as a revelation of basic unhappiness of a wealthy community but as an illuminating of the dilemmas in which modern Western middle-class people find themselves everywhere. Condition: Corners bumped spin extremities rubbed. Jacket corners chipped 1" missing at spine head edges chipped chips in front edge fold-over else a very good copy in like jacket. University of Toronto Press hardcover
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Burland Cottie Arthur 1905 1983
The Gods of Mexico
xiii219 pages with plates bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover in original jacket. First British edition. This study of the Ancient religion of Mexico is an original attempt to explain the meaning behind its beliefs and practices and to relate them to human behavior in primitive society. Condition: Jacket with 3" tear with creases at front head edge 1" chips at edges 2" closed tear at back heal edge else a very good copy in a good jacket. Eyre & Spottiswood hardcover
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Charles Marius Barbeau 1883 1969
Classification of Iroquoian Radicals with Subjective Pronominal Prefixes
30 pages with tables. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 6 1/2" bound in original publisher's wrappers. Geological Survey 46 Number 7 Anthropological Series. First edition. for this paper Cuoq's and Boas' Mohawk and Oneida studies have been utilized comparatively with the Wyandot linguistic data collected by the author in the course of a season's field work among the Wyandots of Oklahoma. Condition: head corners damp stained edge wear corners rubbed else a good to very good copy. Government Printing Office paperback
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Christopher B Donnan and Donna McClelland
Moche Fineline Paintings: Its Evolution and Artists
Los Angeles UCLA Fowler Museum Press 1999 319 pages with figures illustrations plates appendixes and index. Oblong royal octavo 9" x 12" issued in wrappers. Appendix b: The Van den Bergh Collection by Edward de Bock. 1st edition. This study is the result of more than three decades of collaboration in the development of the Moche Archive at the University of California Los Angeles. The Archive contains more than 160000 photographs of Moche objects in museums and private collections throughout the world was created to facilitate the study of Moche civilization through a systematic analysis of what is depicted in Moche art. When this study began it concentrated on ceramic sculptures of plants animals people and objects. It became clear that fineline painted vessels were much more informative because they often portrayed objects in context and depict activities in which two or more figures participate. In drawing an analogy from Christian art an attempt to reconstruct the Nativity by studying individual sculptures of the Christ child Mary or the wise men would be fruitless until one had seen the entire nativity with figures animals stable and star portrayed together. It was the fineline painting of the Moche that provided the key to interpreting their art. Condition: A Near fine copy. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Los Angeles, UCLA Fowler Museum Press paperback
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Cancian Frank 1935
Change and Uncertainty in a Peasant Economy: The Maya Corn Farmers of Zinacantan
xi208 pages with maps tables charts photographs appendices bibliography and index. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. This study of economic change in Zinacantan a community of 9000 Maya Indians in Southern Mexico stresses the influence of uncertainty on the decisions made by farmers in response to the new economic opportunities provide by government programs. Condition: Jacket price clipped; lightly soiled else a very good to fine copy in a very good jacket. University of California Press hardcover
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Berthrong Donald J 1922 2012
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal
xv420pp with illustrations and maps. Octavo 8 3/4" x 6" issued in black with grey and white lettering to spine. Pictorial white and black dust jacket. 1st edition.<br /><br />This work recounts the reservation period of the Cheyenne and the Arapahos in western Oklahoma and the following fifteen years. It is an investigation-and an indictment-of the assimilation and reservations policies thrust upon them in the latter half of the nineteenth century policies that succeeded only in doing enormous damage to a sturdy vital people. Confined to a reservation in the Indian Territory in 1875 the Southern Cheyenne and their neighbors the Arapahos traditionally hunting and mobile societies were forced into the federal government's image of "educated Christian farmer-citizens." Lacking the support of adequate appropriations or protective legislation the Cheyenne’s' lives were dominated by hunger disease and despair. Continuing niggardliness on the part of Congress in providing adequate agricultural equipment and instruction and an environment hostile to cultivation made agricultural self-sufficiency all but impossible. The continued reduction of their land base through allotments under the 1887 Dawes Act and later leasing and sale of land to whites further eroded the Indians' meager sources of income and security. An educational policy that left Cheyenne children without hope of jobs the banning of traditional religious ceremonies the prejudice of white citizens and institutions and the undermining of the roles of head men and medicine men led to further despair. But as the author demonstrates despite these crushing burdens and in the face of slow and inevitable changes in the society the Southern Cheyenne retained their identity a testimony to their courage and character. This well-documented compassionate account of the ordeal of the two tribes serves as a classic example of what happened to America's Indians at the hands of the whites. This is volume 136 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some light foxing to head end pages. Dust jacket lightly foxed at fold over edge price clipped. Over all a very good to fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
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William Brandon editor
The Magic World: American Indian Songs and Poems
xiv145 pages. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First paper back edition. Traditionally the legends myth-cycles tales rituals songs and poems of American North and South Indians have been treated as ethnological data or as curious objects. William brandon believes that the songs and poems in this book will in time be accepted as representative of one of the world's great literatures. Condition: Underling through out extremity wear spine sunned else about very good. William Morrow & Co paperback
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Brett William Henry 1818 1886
The Indian Tribes of Guiana
3524 ad pages with frontispiece 6 plates and map. Small Octavo 6 3/4" x 4 3/4" bound in original publisher decorative blind stamped cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. First American edition. First published in London 1851.<br /><br />William Henry Brett was born in Dover and following the death of his father he was raised by his grandfather. At the age of thirteen or fourteen Brett became a Sunday school teacher. He was recommended to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel by Reverend Thomas Medland the curate of his church. In 1840 he left England for British Guiana. Brett was ordained a deacon in 1843 by Bishop William Austin. After suffering from malaria he was forced to return to England in 1849 but returned late the following year. In total Brett spent almost forty years as a missionary to the native peoples of South America retiring in 1879. He translated the New Testament and the Book of Common Prayer into several of their languages. William Henry Brett married Caroline Nowers in 1845. Brett died Oct. 2 1886 Paignton at the age of 67. In 1880 Brett published Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guianaand in 1881 Mission work among the Indian tribes in the forests of Guiana. In 1851 he had publishedIndian missions in Guiana.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Spine sunned corners bumped spine ends and corners moderately rubbed gilt dulled. Over all a very good copy. Robert Carter & Bros. hardcover
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Alfonso Caso 1896 1970
Reyes y Reinos de la Mixteca
2 volumes; 246pp; 460pp with tables some folding maps plates illustrations and bibliography. Quarto 12 3/4" x 8 3/4" bound in brown with black and red lettering to cover and spine. Limited to 1000 copies. 2d edition.<br /><br />The Mixtec or Mixteca are an indigenous Mesoamerican people inhabiting the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The Mixtecan languages form an important branch of the Otomanguean linguistic family. The term Mixtec Mixteco in Spanish comes from the Aztec word of Mixtecapan or place of the cloud-people. The area in which Mixtec is spoken is known as the Mixteca. The Mixtecs call themselves ñuu savi ñuu djau ñuu davi naa savi etc. depending on the local variant of their language the Sa'an Davi Da'an Davi or Tu'un Savi. In pre-Columbian times the Mixtec were one of the major civilizations of Mesoamerica. Important ancient centres of the Mixtec include the ancient capital of Tilantongo as well as the sites of Achiutla Cuilapan Huamelupan Mitla Tlaxiaco Tututepec Juxtlahuaca and Yucuñudahui. The Mixtec also made major constructions at the ancient city of Monte Albán which had originated as a Zapotec city before the Mixtec gained control of it. The work of Mixtec artisans who produced work in stone wood and metal were well regarded throughout ancient Mesoamerica. The Mixtec were conquered by the Aztec Emperor Ahuitzotl about 30 years before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. They put up a fierce and bloody resistance to Spanish rule until they were subdued by the Spanish and their central Mexican allies led by Pedro de Alvarado. The Mixtec are well-known in the anthropological world for their Codices or phonetic pictures in which they wrote their history and genealogies in deerskin in the "fold-book" form. The best known story of the Mixtec Codices is that of Lord Eight Deer named after the day in which he was born whose personal name is Jaguar Claw and whose epic history is related in several codices including the Codex Bodley and Codex Zouche-Nuttall. He successfully conquered and united most of the Mixteca region.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Jacket closed edge tears. Better than very good copies in like jackets. Fondo de Cultura Economica hardcover
Referencia librero : BOOKS006091 ISBN : 968161786X 9789681617868
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Beattie John
Bunyoro: An African Kingdom
iix 86 pages with frontispiece map and plates. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in the original publisher's pictorial wrappers. This is a study of a feudal East African kingdom with parallels to the England of William the Conqueror. It tells of the conflict between feudal and bureaucratic administration and of that between European and traditional Nyoro standards of behavior. Condition: Hhinges edges and corners rubbed corners creased and bumped underlined throughout else a fair copy. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
Referencia librero : BOOKS003977
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Birket Smith Kaj 1893 1977
The Paths of Culture: A Genral Ethnology
xi535 pages with plates charts bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cloth in original jacket. First edition. This work is the first English edition of a brilliant work previously published in ten other languages. Kaj Birket-Smith draws upon his vast knowledge of primitive and civilized peoples of history and archaeology to present a comprehensive account of the directions human culture has followed in its development. No aspect of human culture is neglected from arts and handicrafts through social economic and religious institutions. In addition the author clearly sets forth the aims and methods of ethnology and provides a valuable history of cultural research. Condition: Slight rubbing at heal of spine and corners. Jacket soiled and spine sunned priced clipped corners and edges chipped else about very good in like jacket. University of Wisconsin Press hardcover
Referencia librero : BOOKS000086
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George Catlin 1796 1872
Letters and Notes on the Manners Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians: Written During Eight Years' Travel
2 Volumes. xvi 264 pages with frontispiece drawings and plates; xvi266 with frontispiece map drawings plates and appendices. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/8" bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Unabridged republication of the fourth 1844 edition. George Catilin's work is still one of the most readable books about the Indians of the Plains capturing the tribes when they were still in touch with their most important traditions. It has also become an invaluable historic and ethnographic document for study of the American West. The Mandan tribe which Catlin so carefully set down disappeared in a small-pox epidemic only five years after his visit. Other tribes changed radically their traditional mode of life seen only in Catlin's notes and illustrations. Condition: Marks-a-lot through page 33 of volume 1 corners bumped and rubbed edge wear else a very good set. Dover Publications paperback
Referencia librero : BOOKS006470 ISBN : 0486221180 9780486221182
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Sarah K Campbell
Postcolumbian Culture History in the Northern Columbia Plateau AD 1500-1900
xi228 pages with tables charts and appendices. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's red cloth with yellow lettering to spine. First edition. One of Henry F. Dobyns most radical suggestions is that demographic and consequent cultural changes were initiated throughout extensive areas of the nNew World early in the 16th century by a panhemispheric small pox epidemic with mortality rates around 75%. Documentary evidence supports the spread of this epidemic through Mesoamerica the Incan empire and the Southwestern United States in the years 1520 to 1524. Dobyns suggests it spread across the present United States however elsewhere he qualifies the distribution as "all of the most densely populated portions of the Americas." The issue of whether this epidemic swept throughout the western North America inhabited by hunters and gatherers with relatively low density populations is deliberately left open. Regardless of whether or not this particular epidemic reached the Columbia Plateau Dobyns' general argument - that disease was the earliest of the Old World introductions and also one of the most important agents of cultural change - should hold for the region. Condition: A very good to fine copy. Garland Publishing hardcover
Referencia librero : BOOKS006095 ISBN : 0824022246 9780824022242
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Oscar Lewis born Lefkowitz 1914 1970
Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
lvii507 pages with frontispiece drawings by Alberto Beltran and appendix. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black cloth in original pictorial jacket. Second printing. Pedro Martinez is a Mexican peasant over seventy. This is the story of his life and of the lives of his wife and children told in his own words and from time to time in theirs. Condition: Spine rubbed at head and heal slight rubbing at corner. Jacket badly chipped at spine corners and torn on back cover soiled else about very good in a good jacket. Random House hardcover
Referencia librero : BOOKS000066
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Blanchard Kendall 1942
The Mississippi Choctaws at Play: The Serious Side of Leisure
xv196 pages with 12 figures and 35 photographs. Octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1'4" bound in original publisher's shades of reddish brown with inverse lettering and pictorial cover. First edition.<br /><br />In this work Kendall Blanchard describes what an 18th century stickball game might have looked like: <br /><br />"The nature of the playing field was never strictly defined. The only boundaries were the two goalposts at either end of the playing area and these could be anywhere from 100 feet to five miles apart as was the case in one game in the 19th century. "There were no boundaries on the sides of the playing field and the game's action simply followed the ball. Many times spectators were rousted from comfortable vantage points as the fleet-footed fast-swinging.athletes scrambled after a far-flung pass. "The rules like the layout of the playing field were ambiguous and limited to only three or four stipulations. Of primary importance was the restriction that no player was to touch the ball with his hands using instead only his sticks to carry and throw the small ball. At no time were spectators allowed to interfere with the process. If they did a penalty was assessed against their team. "While players could tackle block or use any reasonable method to interfere with the other team's movement of the ball there were implicit limits to acceptable violence." Mississippi Choctaws continue to play stickball. When the first Choctaw Fair was held in 1949 stickball was an important event but it involved only a handful of teams. Today anywhere from 8 to 10 teams meet during the fair in a single-elimination tournament. The championship game closes out the fair with the fans filling the Choctaw Central High School football stadium to cheer their teams on. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />A very good to fine copy issued without dust jacket. University of Illinois Press hardcover
Referencia librero : BOOKS005537 ISBN : 0252008669 9780252008665
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