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$20.00
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The Hunting Peoples


COON, CARLETON S & WATSON, ALDREN A (Maps & Drawings)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: Jonathan Cape 1972

KEYWORDS: anthropology cultures hunting hunters archaeology archeology agriculture food first editions

$20.00
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Rituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes


BOLIN, INGE

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: University of Texas Press 1998

KEYWORDS: anthropology Andes Peru Quechua Indians rites ceremonies customs culture festivals

$40.00
3f5/6

Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa


TYRRELL, BARBARA (author & illus)

Quarto, cream illus boards, black lettering to boards & spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 206pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling to boards & spine, moderate bruising to spine & extrems, front gutter & gutter between p98-99 lightly cracked and board shaky, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, prelims & terminals, light to moderate foxing throughout) in d/w G+ (4cm sections missing from top & bottom of spine & lower front corner of jacket, heavily tanned & foxed, moderate soiling, chafing & creasing to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Books of Africa 1968

KEYWORDS: africa southern barbara tyrrell art anthropology african history culture tribal religion shamanism

$38.50
xxrce221620

Subsistence Patterns in Prehistoric New Zealand, Volume Two: A Consideration of the Implication of Seasonal and Regional Variability of Food Resources for the Study of Prehistoric Economies


LEACH, H M

THIS VOL ONLY, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Anthropology Dept, University of Otago 1969

KEYWORDS: prehistoric anthropology New Zealand subsistence patterns

$26.50
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Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts


TOULMIN, STEPHEN

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 1977

KEYWORDS: anthropology evolution natural science human understanding

$15.00
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The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding


EGAN, KIERAN

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG) spine of jacket torn, otherwise tidy; 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: University of Chicago Press 1997

KEYWORDS: cognition history psycholinguistics education anthropology

$50.00
3f5/19

At the Centre of the World: Polar Symbolism Discovered in Celtic, Norse and Other Ritualized Landscapes


MICHELL, JOHN

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt publisher's mark to front boards, gilt lettering to spine, 184pp, illus, VG+ ( v slight bruising to extrems, upper page edges slightly foxed, previous owner's name in ink to fep), in d/w VG+ ( v slight creasing to edges, v slight tanning & chafing to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1994

KEYWORDS: first edition john michell polar symbolism celtic norse folk ritual ritualised sociology cultural anthropology mythology

$40.00
3f5/25

Human Nature and the Limits of Science


DUPRE, JOHN

Octavo, navy heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 201pp, VG+ (v slight soiling & bruising to boards, v slight soiling to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep & inside rear board) in d/w VG+ (v slight rubbing to edges, v slight soiling to jacket, previous bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press Oxford 2001

KEYWORDS: human nature philosophy anthropology science social cultural context

$70.00
3f4/5

Suspicion is my name


TYRRELL, BARBARA

Quarto heavy cream illus boards, black text to spine & boards, unpaginated prelims + 191pp, illus, VG- (slight soiling & bruising to boards & spine, slightly cocked, light to moderate foxing & soiling to prelims, index & terminals, slight foxing throughout, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Books of Africa 1971

KEYWORDS: barbara tyrrell african cultures culture cultural anthropology sociology africa

$25.00
xxrej222170

Vanishing Primitive Man


SEVERIN, TIMOTHY & TURNBULL, COLIN M (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy: 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1973

KEYWORDS: first editions anthropology history geography

$16.50
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Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society


GLUCKMAN, MAX

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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: Basil Blackwell 1965

KEYWORDS: anthropology tribes tribal society politics law rituals

$37.50
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Melanesia: A Short Ethnography


CRANSTONE, B A L

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: Trustees of the British Museum 1961

KEYWORDS: ethnography Melanesia culture rituals customs anthropology

$20.00
xx88pol222292

A Pacific Bibliography: Printed Matter Relating to the Native Peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia (Second Edition)


TAYLOR, C R H

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (G) jacket torn/tatty; 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 1965

KEYWORDS: pacific anthropology Polynesia Melanesia Micronesia bibliography bibliographies catalogues

$45.00
3f1/5

A Vanished World


THESIGER, WILFRED

Quarto, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate tanning & light soiling)

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2001

KEYWORDS: tribal photography art Wilfred Thesiger anthropology portraits

$37.50
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Kakamora


FOX, CHARLES E

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1962

KEYWORDS: anthropology Melanesia Charles E Fox culture

$55.00
3g3/1

The Maori As He Was: A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days


BEST, ELSDON

TASTEFULLY REBACKED, octavo, brown buckram boards, small sections of text pasted to front board, frontispiece, xv + 280pp, illus, VG (slight bruising & warping to boards, light soiling to boards, spine & page edges, light tanning to page edges, light rust soiling from binding staples, previous owners name in ink to reverse side of frontispiece)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Board of Science & Art Manual No. 4, 1934 Second Issue

KEYWORDS: elsdon best pre colonial te ao maori history pre european life anthropology new zealand aotearoa

$35.00
xxrnc222650

The Hidden History of the Human Race


CREMO, MICHAEL A & THOMPSON, RICHARD L

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: Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing 1999

KEYWORDS: science archeology archaeology evolution anthropology prehistory prehistoric human

$35.00
xxbgd223005

Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific


MITCHELL, WILLIAM E (Ed)

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: University of Pittsburgh Press 1992

KEYWORDS: PNG Papua New Guinea humour humor comedy south pacific anthropology

$25.00
xxhab223039

Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration


KROEBER, THEODORA

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) boards soiled; 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: University of California Press 1970

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Alfred Kroeber biographies anthropology anthropologists

$19.50
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Bruno Gutmann 1876-1966: A German Approach to Social Anthropology


WINTER, J C

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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: Oxford University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: social anthropology history Bruno Gutmann

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