Books - "anthropology"
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A Brief History of the Indian Peoples
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
Living Tribes
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
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
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
Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait
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
The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean
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
Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism
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
World Philology
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
A Century in Asia: The History of the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
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
The Small Voice of History: Collected Essays
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
Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation Among the Sino-Burmese
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
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (4 Vol Boxed Set)
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
Te Reo Maori: A Historical Survey of Maori Language
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
The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man (Vols I and II) (Single Volume)
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
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
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
Empire and Local Worlds: A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology
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
Essays on Chinese Civilization
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
The Gender / Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy
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
We, the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia
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
Black Australians: A Survey of Native Policy in Western Australia, 1829-1897
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
Pangai: Village in Tonga
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