Books - "anthropology"
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John Frum He Come: A Polemical Work About a Black Tragedy
Octavo, brown buckram boards, yellow & red lettering to black buckram spine, deckled page fore-edges, red speckling to base of page block, maps to eps, xxv + 262pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to spine area, other light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Doubleday 1974
KEYWORDS: anthropology New Hebrides Pacific islands John Frum cults cargo cult Tanna
Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropologial Myth
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: Australian National University Press 1983
KEYWORDS: anthropology ethnology Samoa Maragret Mead adolescence youth
Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empire of the South-West Pacific
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: HarperCollins 2003
KEYWORDS: exploration travel south-west pacific writing literature anthropology New Guinea
The Eighth Land: The Polynesian Discovery and Settlement of Easter Island
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: University Press of Hawaii 1978
KEYWORDS: Polynesia Easter Island settlements history anthropology
The Ngatik Massacre: History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll
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: Smithsonian Institution Press 1992
KEYWORDS: Micronesia Micronesian anthropology ethnicity identity massacres history Ngatik
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise
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: Oxford University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: historical travel writing literature Malay Archipelago anthropology nature Alfred Russel Wallace
Extracts from New Zealand Journals Written on Ships Under the Command of d'Entrecasteaux and Duperrey 1793 and 1824
Oblong quarto, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to black background on spine & front board, 219pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & tanning/soiling to spine & board edges/extrems, other sl soiling & discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust 1986
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history journals voyages journals diaries diary extracts New Zealand Maori life anthropology ethnology
A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origins, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants (Sixth Thousand)
SIXTH THOUSAND, octavo, half leatherbound brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine with rsaised bands also, aeg, frontispiece, illus title page, xviii + 590pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork, minor fading & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling to gilt page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: J Snow 1837
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history natural history missions missionaries south sea islands pacific anthropology
The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image
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: Viking 1998
KEYWORDS: leonard shlain alphabetic literacy religion humanity anthropology
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
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: Cambridge University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: Roy A Rappaport religion studies anthropology
A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Super octavo, illis glossy light card wrappers, white & peach lettering to spine, xi + 620pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's sm labels to rear cover, light foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishing 2002
KEYWORDS: ethnology religion anthropology social cultural
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
Paperback (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: HQ 2018
KEYWORDS: Zora Neale Hurston anthropology 20th century America American history slave slavers
And Keep Your Powder Day: An Anthropologists Look at America
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: Morrow Quill Paperbacks 1965
KEYWORDS: Margaret Mead anthrologist anthropology America American United States history 20th century
The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales
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: The University of Massachusetts Press 1987
KEYWORDS: folklore Africa African fiction talkes anthropology social history
Mexico: Through Foreign Eyes / Visto Por Ojos Extranjeros 1850-1990
DUAL ENGLISH SPANISH TEXT. Quarto, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, photographs throughout, 320pp VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl scuffing and soiling to lower board edges, sl soiling to boards, sl soiling to front/rear end pages, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in protective plastic cover, easily removed if desired, sl wear on edges, prev. owner's sm adhesive label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton and Company 1993
KEYWORDS: DUAL ENGLISH SPANISH TEXT Mexico photography culture history anthropology art essays
Research in Internation Education: Experience, Theory, & Practice
Super octavo softcover (VG), pencil annotations throughout; 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: Peter Lang 2002
KEYWORDS: education cross cultural anthropology research
Fear: A Cultural 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Virago 2006
KEYWORDS: social history anthropology fear politics political
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco (Revised Edition)
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spine, xlv + 400pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to base of spine, sl creasing/curling to cover corners, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page)
PUBLISHER: University Press of Florida 2015
KEYWORDS: archaeology archeology anthropology US America US San Francisco colonial history
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: environment economics climate ecology anthropology environmental studies
A History of Modern Tibet: 1913-1959 (4 Vol Set)
4 VOL SET, OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers [vol 3 with french flaps, vol 4 has green heavy boards- is NOT a softcover], white lettering to spine, mixed pagination, VG+ (minor creasing to spines, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) d/w of vol 4, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1991-2019
KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history Tibet 20th twentieth century anthropology
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