Books - "anthropology"
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High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
paperback octavo (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: Princeton University Press
KEYWORDS: specials religion sherpa buddhism culture politics history sherry ortner anthropology nepal ethnography
Primitive Paternity: The Myth of Supernatural Birth in Relation to the History of the Family
2 volume set, super octavo, grey/green buckram boards with black lettering to spine & blind rule to boards, viii + 325pp (vol 1), 328pp (vol 2), VG (heavy fading to spines, bruising & rubbing to spine extrems and board corners, foxing to page edges, heavy browning to eps front & rear)
PUBLISHER: David Nutt 1909
KEYWORDS: Edwin Sidney Hartland paternity anthropology myths legends supernatural birth magic
An Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea: Three Volumes
Volume 1 Author Index; volume 2 District Index; Volume 3 Proper Names Index
Three volume set, quarto, beige light card covers with French flaps and red & black lettering to spine & front board, vol 1 ix + 318pp, VG (fading to spine & board edges, owner's name in ink to front board, rubbing to board edges, staining to rear board, gutter cracked at centre of volume); vol 2 110pp, VG+ (fading to spine, foxing to front eps); vol 3 255pp, VG+ (fading to spine and board edges, slight soiling to front board at spine edge)
PUBLISHER: Australian National University Press 1968
KEYWORDS: ethnography bibliograpy New GuineA anthropology sociology reference authors districts names
The American Plains Indians
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: Osprey Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Jason Hook Richard Hook America history American Indians plains culture anthropology
Comparative Religion: Its Genesis and Growth
Super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt rule to spine and blind rule & blind design to boards, black eps, frontispiece, xix + 668pp + iv adverts, illus (2pp charts), VG- (fading to spine, rubbing to spine extrems, slight soiling & rubbing to boards, soiling to eps, front gutter cracked but intact, owner's name & year to title page, crease/fold to upper corner last two pages, foxing esp to page edges)
PUBLISHER: T & T Clark 1905
KEYWORDS: Louis Henry Jordan religion theology comparative religion history psychology mythology anthropology archaeology ethmology sociology
Prehistoric Wetland Cultivation in Far Northern Aotearoa
Unpublished thesis, quarto, turquoise heavy card boards with blue cloth spine and typed title label pasted to front board, xvi + 288pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to rear board, 4 words blacked out on title page)
PUBLISHER: Unpublished thesis University of Auckland 1984
KEYWORDS: Ian G Barber New Zealand archaeology anthropology prehistoric Maori wetlands horticulture Motutangi water reticulation drainage ditches
Polynesian Artifacts: The Oldman Collection
Memoirs of the Polynesian Society Vol 15
Susan Bulmer's copy, super octavo, grey light card covers with black lettering to spine & front cover, 86pp + 136 b&w plates, VG+ (fading & damp stains to spine, fading to covers, foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Polynesian Society 1953
KEYWORDS: Oldman collection polynesia artefacts tahiti Cook Islands Tonga Fiji Easter Island Marquesas archaeology anthropology
Pacific Linguistics Series B Monographs No. 9: The Peopling pf Central Papua: Some Preliminary Observations
S Bulmer's copy, imperial octavo, light card covers with black lettering to front cover & green tape spine with gilt lettering, vii + 182pp + 4 adverts, illus, VG+ (foxing & browning to covers & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Australian National University 1969
KEYWORDS: TE Dutton linguistics Papua New Guinea anthropology Koita Koiari Sogeri Plateau historical linguistics austronesian language
Trade and Exchange in Oceania and Australia
Mankind 11(3)
S Bulmer's copy, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, pp 161-435, illus, VG+ (rubbing & spotting to covers, browning to eps, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Australian Museum, & Anthropological Society of NSW, Sydney University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Jim Specht Peter White anthropology ethnology Australia Oceania Melanesia Trobriand Papua New Guinea Murngin Enga trade exchange artifacts Onabasulu Hau Mauri Utu archaeology
The Etruscans
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pelican Books 1956
KEYWORDS: specials m. pallottino roman history italy civilisation etruscology archaeology art anthropology
Papers in Economic Prehistory: Studies by Members and Associates of the British Academy Major Research Project in the Early History of Agriculture
Quarto hardback (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: Cambridge University Press 1972
KEYWORDS: specials ES Higgs archaeology economic pre-history agriculture anthropology essays
Archaeology of Northern Australia: Regional Perspectives
Quarto, illus grey light card covers with red lettering to spine & front board, iv + 212pp, illus, VG+ (v. v. slight rubbing to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Anthropology Museum University of Queensland 1996
KEYWORDS: Peter Veth Peter Hiscock Norther Australia archaeology cultural anthropology middens holocene Kimberley Little Desert Great Sandy Desert Mitchell plateau Kakadu Simpson Desert Mt Isa mounds domiculture prehistoric archaeology
Saying So Doesn't Make it So: Papers in Honour of B. Foss Leach
Monograph 17
Imperial octavo, light blue light card covers with black lettering to spine & cover, frontispiece, vi + 303pp, illus, VG (light soiling, fading to spine, creasing to upper rear corner)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Archaeological Association 1989
KEYWORDS: Douglas Sutton B Foss Leach biography archaeology anthropology Roger Fyfe Stuart Park Atholl Anderson archaeozoology lithic studies alaeobotany dating
Recent Prehistory in Southeast Papua
Terra Australis 4 Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies
Quarto, green illus light card boards with white & black lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece map, xvi + 164pp, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to fep, rubbing & creasing to spine, bruising to cover corners, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Australian National University 1979
KEYWORDS: Brian Egloff archaeology prehistory southeast papua New Guinea anthropology sociology
The Lineage System of the Mae-Enga of New Guinea
First edition, octavo, dark green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 297pp + folding map at rear, illus, VG (slight bruising & rubbing to spine extrems & boards, light tanning to eps, foxing to folding map, v slight foxing to page edges) in VG d/w (price clipped, rubbing & chipping to edges & corners, creasing to upper front, 2x3cm and 1x1cm missing portions to upper spine, 3x3cm tear to lower spine but no missing portion)
PUBLISHER: Oliver & Boyd 1965
KEYWORDS: first edition MJ Meggitt Max Gluckman New Guinea social anthropology Central Highlands culture Mae-Enga agnatic hierarchies
Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual, and Warfare in Papua New Guinea
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xvii + 494pp, illus, nr fine (slight rubbing to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Crawford House Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: Polly Wiessner Akii Tumu Papua New Guinea Enga history anthropology rites ceremonies warfare social organization ecology political processes sweet potato
Enga: Foundations for Development Volume 3 of Enga Yaaka Lasemana
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xii + 380pp, illus, VG (rubbing & spotting to covers, nick to front cover lower edge, creasing to rear cover lower corner, 4cm closed tear to upper spine/rear cover edge, rust showing to staples, some pencil underlining)
PUBLISHER: Enga Provincial Government 1982
KEYWORDS: Bruce Carrad David Lea Kundapan Talyaga Enga Papua New Guinea history environment demography anthropology horticulture agriculture economy violence land communication education health infrastructure government
Studies in Enga History
The Oceania Monographs No. 20
Super octavo, light blue light card covers with black lettering, 95pp, VG (fading to covers, esp to spine and cover edges, 2cm stain to rear board edge)
PUBLISHER: University of Sydney 1974
KEYWORDS: MJ Meggitt Papua New Guinea Enga anthropology history te exchange
A View of Enga Culture
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 64pp, illus, VG (rubbing & fading to front, bruising to lower spine, v slight foxing to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Dept of Enga / KPI Publishing 1989
KEYWORDS: Akii Tumu Pesone Munini Alome Kyangali Polly Wiessner Papua New Guinea Enga traditions culture history anthropology
Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand
Super octavo, light card coverss with white lettering, xvi + 520pp, fine
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Paul Havemann Australia New Zealand Canada indigenous people legal law politics colonialism essays history ethnicity sociology anthropology