Books - "anthropology"
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Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality
Octavo, illus light card covers, white & teal lettering to spine, xiii + 408pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges, occasional pencil markings to margins)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: history sex sexuality sexology customs anthropology social science
Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, xiv + 419pp, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press 2004
KEYWORDS: anthropology sexuality sexual orientation lgbtq
The Early Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski
Very tidy ex-library, super octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xv + 324pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, jacket tidily affixed to boards) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic cover- tidily affixed to boards, top corner of rear flap clipped, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: Bronislaw Malinowski literature literary anthologies anthropology
Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World
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: Oxford University Press 1976
KEYWORDS: human history Arthur Toynbee anthropology
The Technology of a Modern Stone Age People in New Guinea
Super 8vo, pp. 60; light card covers, spine & front cover lettered in black; frontis., xvi plates to rear, illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; prev ownership stamp in black ink to front cover; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; heavy water damage to plates to rear, many stuck together; light cracking to rear gutter).
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1964
KEYWORDS: Beatrice Blackwood anthropology New Guinea population social conditions tools history
The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and People
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: Reed New Holland 2005
KEYWORDS: anthropology Australia Australian ecology history
The Transnational Villagers
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 California Press 2001
KEYWORDS: immigration ethnicity Peggy Levitt anthropology sociology social sciences
A New Maori Migration
Ex-library, 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 Athlone Press 1964
KEYWORDS: New Zealand migration Maori social anthropology
The Brahmans, Theists and Muslims of India: Studies of Goddess-worship in Bengal, Caste, Brahmaism and Social Reform with descriptive Sketches of curious Festivals, Ceremonies, and Faquirs
Demy 8vo, pp. xvi + 342; red buckram boards, spine & front board lettered & decorated in gilt; teg, fore & bottom edges deckled, frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; heavy cracking to front hinge; light to moderate cracking to front, central & rear gutters; library markings to spine, rear board, eps & tp).
PUBLISHER: T. Fisher 1907
KEYWORDS: John Campbell Oman Brahman anthropology social conditions India Indian religion religious spiritual spirituality
People of the High Plateau
Very tidy ex-library, square imperial 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: Howell Press 1988
KEYWORDS: art Carl Berman anthropology tribes high plateau Andes South America paintings
A Brief History of the Indian Peoples
Octavo hardcover (VG) some page edges remain uncut; 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 1895
KEYWORDS: history India Indian people anthropology
Living Tribes
STILL SEALED IN PLASTIC COVER, quarto hardcover (FINE) in d/w (Near FINE); 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: Constable 2003
KEYWORDS: anthropology ancient tribes Colin Prior
Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait
LACKS D/W, super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 322pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to front board & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: philosophy anthropology Hsi Chu history neo-confucianism China Chinese methodology
The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxvi + 379pp, illus, VG+ (minor creasing to spine, light creasing/curling to cover corners, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2006
KEYWORDS: history emigration immigration Tarim Hadramawt Yemen anthropology
Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xi + 371pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning & creasing to spine, sl creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: sociology anthropology China Chinese modern history 20th twentieth century
World Philology
Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 452pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: language languages philology global text anthropology
A Century in Asia: The History of the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, red & black lettering to spine, 236pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Editions Didier Millet 2007
KEYWORDS: history anthropology EFEO Asia philology religions language
The Small Voice of History: Collected Essays
Octavo, illus light card covers, white & beige lettering to spine, x + 666pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Permanent Black 2018
KEYWORDS: essays prose literature anthology history culture anthropology
Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation Among the Sino-Burmese
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, xvii + 200pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2016
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Rangoon Sino-Burmese culture heritage anthropology Burma nationalism ethnicity
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (4 Vol Boxed Set)
4 VOL BOXED SET, octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spines, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spines & cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of first 3 books, sl soiling to ffep of vol 1 part 2) in VG presentation box
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: Southeast Asia ancient history antiquity economic social change anthropology religion commerce