Books - "anthropology"
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The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology & Anthropophagy
Octavo softcover (VG-) occasional underlining; 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 1980
KEYWORDS: anthropology cannibalism history
Crab Antics: The Social Anthropology of English-Speaking Negro Societies of the Caribbean
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: Yale University Press 1973
KEYWORDS: social anthropology ethnicity Caribbean
The Sexual Life of Savages, in North-Western Melanesia
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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1968
KEYWORDS: ethnography courtship relationships sexuality marriage native tribes melanesia anthropology
Tristes Tropiques
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: Atheneum 1974
KEYWORDS: anthropology English translations Levi-Strauss
Unbecoming
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spine, xxv + 129pp, VG+ (sl curling & soiling to covers, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: AIDS hiv anthropology Australia Australian diseases
Groote Eylandt: Changing Aboriginal Life Styles (Revised Edition)
Very tidy ex-library, quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 68pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (single library label to base of spine, light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Keith Cole Publications 1983
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian indigenous Aborigines Aboriginal NT Northern Territory Groote Eylandt ethnology anthropology customs culture
The Many Worlds of Man
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: MacMillan 1967
KEYWORDS: racial cultural ethnic anthropology philosophy jack conrad
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Viking 2025
KEYWORDS: human smuggling traficking latin america anthropology jason de leon mexico cartel politics
The Tuareg: People of Ahaggar
Ex-library, super octavo, orange heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 385pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, light bruising & scuffing to spine & board edges/corners, moderate adhesive staining to board edges, 2cm scuff to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light to moderate adhesive staining to eps, binding sl sloppy) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy adhesive staining & creasing/chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin 1977
KEYWORDS: Sahara anthropology cultures Ahaggar Tuareg people
My Life With the Eskimos (New Edition, Revised and Abridged)
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xii + 308pp, illus/photos, VG (minor rubbing & bruising to extrems, minor tanning to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps & prelims , prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, occasional minor cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Co 1924
KEYWORDS: Vilhjalmur Stefansson anthropology eskimos natural history exploration
Hunters of the Great North
Octavo, blue buckram boards, white lettering to spine & front board, white polar bear illus to front board, deckled page edges to base of page block, frontispiece, 288pp, 2x folding maps to rear, illus/photos, VG (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, light tanning & foxing to prelims, occasional minor cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Co 1923
KEYWORDS: exploration north pole arctic hunting hunters anthropology Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Peasant Life in China: A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley
Octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvi + 300pp + 16pp to rear, illus, VG (moderate staining to spine & boards, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & chafing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history anthropology Dr Hsiao-Tung Fei poverty peasants
Science and Civilisation in China (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- xxxviii + 318pp, vol 2- xxii + (2) + 696pp, illus, folding maps to rear of vol 1, VG+ (sl bruising & & tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep of vol 1, prev. owner's sm inscription in ink to ffep of vol 2, occasional light foxing throughout) in d/w, VG (vol 1 in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, corners of front flaps clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- some tidy tape repairs, light tanning to spines, minor chafing & soiling, light foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1954-62
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history geography science philosophy anthropology
The Human Zoo
US FIRST EDITION, 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: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1969
KEYWORDS: Desmond Morris US first editions anthropology humans
The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1986
KEYWORDS: anthropology gender rituals Sambia culture
Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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: Picador / Farrar Straus and Giroux 2021
KEYWORDS: West Africa Ebola viruses virus breakouts disease Sierra Leone Liberia Guinea autobiography Paul Farmer anthropology
The Story of V: Opening Pandora's Box
Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 322pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003
KEYWORDS: female genitalia genitals vaginas art history anthropology
Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language
REVIEW COPY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & pink lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 288pp, VG+ (sl creasing to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, sm ink stamp to base of page block, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois 2004
KEYWORDS: gay lesbian studies anthropology language linguistics identity community lgbtq
One and a Half Pacific Islands / Teuana ao Teiterana n aba n Te Betebeke : Stories the Banaban People Tell of Themselves / I-Banaba aika a Karakin oin Rongorongoia
Ex-library, super octavo, illus stiffened light card wrappers, black & pink lettering to spine, frontispiece, 264pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, minor scuffing & tanning/soiling to spine & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to inside front cover, minor cracking to title page gutter, tape reinforcement to front & rear gutters)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: pacific islands Banaban people anthropology culture Kiribati Fiji
The Origin of the Polynesians
Quarto, clear plastic wrappers, illus front page, 36pp (possibly mis-bound/out of sequence), illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to front plastic wrapper, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, minor dar stain to base of page block, prev. owner's name verso of title page)
PUBLISHER: Not Stated
KEYWORDS: Polynesia Polynesians culture anthropology heritage history