Books - "anthropology"
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Psychology and Folk-Lore
Octavo hardcover (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: Methuen & Co 1920
KEYWORDS: social anthropology psychology folklore lore culture religion
Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family
Super octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt lettering to grey section of spine, xix + 423pp, illus/charts, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine & board corners, slightly cocked, light soiling to page edges) in d/w VG- (light to moderate creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light tanning & chafing to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: fathers daughters elite roman family social dynamics ancient rome empire familial relationships anthropology historic psychology
The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People
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 2006
KEYWORDS: anthropology history Australia Australian Aboriginal people
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
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: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2014
KEYWORDS: American Indians Red Cloud Oglala history anthropology
Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands
FACSIMILE EDITION, octavo, yellow buckram boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 529pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to spine & boards/edges, light soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Benjamin Blom 1972
KEYWORDS: Melanesia anthropology south-east Solomon Islands customs culture Melanesians
A History of the Arab Peoples
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: Faber and Faber 1991
KEYWORDS: history Arabs Arab nations people anthropology empires
The Sea Gypsies of Malaya: An Account of the Nomadic Mawken People of the Mergui Archipelago with a Description of Their Ways of Living, Customs, Habits, Boats, Occupations &c, &c, &c
Octavo, teal buckram boards, turquoise lettering to spine, maritime illsu to front board, frontispiece, 318pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (moderate scuffing/chipping to spine extrems, minor bruising to board corners, minor tanning to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, minor tanning to eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Seeley, Service & Co 1922
KEYWORDS: maritime history Malay nomads nomadic Mawken people anthropology Mergui archipelago exploration
Nguna Texts: A Collection of Traditional and Modern Narratives from the Central New Hebrides
Super octavo, green light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & front cover, xvi + 325pp, VG (light fading to spine, sm adhesive stain to front cover, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1969
KEYWORDS: Vanuatu linguistics Nguna texts New Hebrides languages literature anthropology
Savage Civilisation
Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 461pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (light tanning & rubbing to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & soiling to front eps, light tanning & foxing to rear eps & terminals, occasional foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1937
KEYWORDS: Pacific New Hebrides islands anthropology
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
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