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$30.00
xxglb214286

A Brief History of the Indian Peoples


HUNTER, Sir WILLIAM WILSON

Octavo hardcover (VG) some page edges remain uncut; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1895

KEYWORDS: history India Indian people anthropology

$35.00
xxsaj214654

Living Tribes


PRIOR, COLIN

STILL SEALED IN PLASTIC COVER, quarto hardcover (FINE) in d/w (Near FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Constable 2003

KEYWORDS: anthropology ancient tribes Colin Prior

$30.00
xxsbn214741

The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia


GAMMAGE, BILL

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2012

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian indigeonous people Aborigines history anthropology land

$45.00
1s11a/2

Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait


MUNRO, DONALD J

LACKS D/W, super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 322pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to front board & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: philosophy anthropology Hsi Chu history neo-confucianism China Chinese methodology

$48.50
1t18c/8

The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean


HO, ENGSENG

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxvi + 379pp, illus, VG+ (minor creasing to spine, light creasing/curling to cover corners, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2006

KEYWORDS: history emigration immigration Tarim Hadramawt Yemen anthropology

$45.00
1t18c/10

Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism


DIRLIK, ARIF (Ed) & LI, GUANNAN (Ed) & YEN, HSIAO-PEI (Ed)

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xi + 371pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning & creasing to spine, sl creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: sociology anthropology China Chinese modern history 20th twentieth century

$95.00
1y22c/16

World Philology


POLLOCK, SHELDON (Ed) & ELMAN, BENJAMIN A (Ed) & CHANG, KU-MING KEVIN (Ed)

Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 452pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: language languages philology global text anthropology

$40.00
1y22c/18

A Century in Asia: The History of the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient


CLEMENTIN-OJHA, CATHERINE & MANGUIN, PIERRE-YVES

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, red & black lettering to spine, 236pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Editions Didier Millet 2007

KEYWORDS: history anthropology EFEO Asia philology religions language

$40.00
1y33c/9

The Small Voice of History: Collected Essays


GUHA, RANAJIT & CHATTERJEE, PARTHA (Ed & Intro)

Octavo, illus light card covers, white & beige lettering to spine, x + 666pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Permanent Black 2018

KEYWORDS: essays prose literature anthology history culture anthropology

$40.00
1y33c/10

Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation Among the Sino-Burmese


ROBERTS, JATDE LIN

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, xvii + 200pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2016

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Rangoon Sino-Burmese culture heritage anthropology Burma nationalism ethnicity

$100.00
1y33c/12

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (4 Vol Boxed Set)


TARLING, NICHOLAS (Ed)

4 VOL BOXED SET, octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spines, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spines & cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of first 3 books, sl soiling to ffep of vol 1 part 2) in VG presentation box

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Southeast Asia ancient history antiquity economic social change anthropology religion commerce

$35.00
xxsfc215046

Te Reo Maori: A Historical Survey of Maori Language


NIKORA, TERANGI

Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: National Maori Language Day Publication 1973

KEYWORDS: New Zealand te reo Maori language day history historical anthropology research

$27.50
xxsfo215092

The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man (Vols I and II) (Single Volume)


LOWE, H Y & BODDE, DERK (Intro)

Super octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1983

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history anthropology

$30.00
xxsgd215115

Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense


STOLER, ANN LAURA

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: history anthropology colonial government governance politics political

$37.50
xxsgr215192

Empire and Local Worlds: A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology


WANG, MINGMING

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Left Coast Press 2009

KEYWORDS: China Chinese anthropology empire ethnology Ming Qing dynasty Guangzhou

$30.00
xxsib215254

Essays on Chinese Civilization


BODDE, DERK & LE BLANC, CHARLES (Ed & Intro) & BOREI, DOROTHY (Ed & Intro)

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: literature essays prose Chinese China history anthropology civilisation civilization

$25.00
xxskd215407

The Gender / Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy


LANCASTER, ROGER N (Ed) & DI LEONARDO, MICAELA (Ed)

Imperial octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Routledge 1997

KEYWORDS: feminism feminist anthropology sex gender sexuality

$40.00
ak5/7/6

We, the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia


FIRTH, RAYMOND & MALINOWSKI, BRONISLAW (Preface)

Super octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained maroon- faded, frontispiece, xxvi + (4) + 605pp, illus/photos, vG (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to spine, light tanning & soiling/foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1957

KEYWORDS: Polynesia Polynesian anthropology sociology social science

$100.00
ak5/7/36

Black Australians: A Survey of Native Policy in Western Australia, 1829-1897


HASLUCK, PAUL

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 229pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light to moderate soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1970

KEYWORDS: Australia Australians anthropology ethnicity native indigenous WA western 19th nineteenth century history

$100.00
ak5/9/2

Pangai: Village in Tonga


BEAGLEHOLE, ERNEST and PEARL

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, iv + 145pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to top board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, pgs 1 & 2 potentially missing, light creasing to prelims) in d/w, G+ (heavy loss & tape repairs to top edges, moderate creasing & chipping to lower edges, moderate tanning & staining to spine, light general chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Polynesian Society 1941

KEYWORDS: first editions pacific islands Tonga villages Pangai anthropology culture customs

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