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$35.00
xxqej194585

Vikings of the Sunrise


BUCK, Sir PETER (TE RANGI HIROA)

LACKS D/W, ex-library, super 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: Whitcombe and Tombs 1958

KEYWORDS: anthropology exploration history Polynesia Sir Peter Buck Te Rangi Hiroa

$70.00
1t20b/32

Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability


WEIZMAN, EYAL

Imperial octavo, dark blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 372pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl discolouration to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Zone Books 2018

KEYWORDS: forensic architecture anthropology human rights politics political justice

$35.00
xxajaa194921

Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil


HILLEL, DANIEL

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 1992

KEYWORDS: soils civilisation civilization water agriculture supply supplies anthropology

$15.00
xxaqo195073

Nothing in This Book is True, But it's Exactly How Things Are


FRISSELL, BOB

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: Frog Books 2009

KEYWORDS: planets geology extraterrestrial anthropology ufos occultism esoteric aliens

$15.00
xxase195213

The Last of the Nomads


PEASLEY, W J

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: Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2002

KEYWORDS: history Australia Australian indigenous communities Mandildjara tribe tribes desert nomads anthropology

$40.00
1u25a/56

Natural Fashion; Tribal Decoration from Africa


SILVESTER, HANS & WILSON, DAVID H. (trans)

MODERATELY DAMP WRINKLED; Quarto green cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, photo illus eps & prelims, 167pp, illus colour photo plates, VG- (moderately heavy warping from moisture to boards, moderate damp wrinkling/staining to pages throughout, a few small-medium closed tears throughout, impacting on two photo plates, light cracking to gutters with some pages starting to come loose, occasional light-moderate creasing to pages) in d/w, VG (light creasing & damp staining, light sun-fading to spine, in protective plastic sleeve)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson Ltd 2008

KEYWORDS: photography art collections documentary photojournalism anthropology east african omo ethiopia kenya sudan surma mursi tribes ethnology tribal decoration costumes customs rituals traditions hans silvester

$95.00
1u26a/2

Hula, Haka, Hoko!; An introduction to Polynesian dancing


LINKELS, AD & LINKELS, LUCIA

SCARCE; Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 188pp, photo illus, VG (light soiling & creasing to covers and pages, light sun-fading to spine, light bending to corners of text block, light discolouration to page edges, bookseller's price sticker to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Mundo Etnico Foundation 1999

KEYWORDS: rare scarce polynesian dancing performing arts performance culture cultural history social customs rituals traditions anthropology ethnology pacific islands indigenous native music song hula haka hoko

$60.00
1u26a/8

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley


HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY & HUXLEY, LEONARD

2 VOL. SET; Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, teg, deckled page edges, frontispieces, xi + 539pp / vii + 541pp, illus, VG/VG- (moderate chipping to spine extrems of Vol. II, boards slightly cocked & soiled, light cracking to gutters on both volumes, a few pages coming loose & one or two small open tears not impacting text, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to Vol. I fep)

PUBLISHER: D. Appleton and Company 1901

KEYWORDS: england english history letters writings autobiography autobiographies memoirs biography biographies thomas henry h huxley biology biologists anthropology anthropologists science scientists theory of evolution natural selection darwin

$100.00
1u27a/10

A Vision of the Past; A History of Early Photography in Singapore and Malaya; The Photographs of G.R. Lambert & Co., 1880-1910


FALCONER, JOHN & LIU, GRETCHEN (ed)

Oblong imperial octavo, tan cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, illus contents page, 192pp, illus photo plates, VG (light bruising & moderate sun-fading to board edges & spine, light soiling to pages & light discolouration to page edges) in d/w, VG (light-moderate soiling & creasing)

PUBLISHER: Times Editions 1987

KEYWORDS: art documentary photography photojournalism media anthropology ethnology south east asian singapore malaya nineteenth 19th twentieth 20th century g.r. lambert & co portraits landscapes pictorial history records

$24.50
xxaxf195410

War and Peace in Jalemo: The Management of Conflict in Highland New Guinea


KOCH, KLAUS-FRIEDRICH

FIRST EDITION, 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: Harvard University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: first editions New Guinea conflict war Jalemo anthropology demography ideology

$22.50
xxbad195443

Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific


FORTUNE, R F & MALINOWSKI, B (Intro)

Octavo softcover (VG) reprinted from an underlined/annotated copy; 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: Not Stated (Modern Reprint/Facsimile)

KEYWORDS: anthropology Dobu islands western Pacific

$25.00
xxbad195444

The Anthropology of Cannibalism


GOLDMAN, LAURENCE R (Ed)

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: Bergin & Garvey 1999 (From Facsimile/Reprint)

KEYWORDS: cannibalism ethnology anthropology

$38.50
xxbfaa195588

Structural Anthropology


LEVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE & JACOBSON, CLAIRE & SCHOEPF, BROOKE GRUNDFEST (trans)

FIRST UK EDITION; 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: Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1968

KEYWORDS: first uk editions structural anthropology anthropological social sciences theory history analysis

$19.50
xxbgd195649

Technology in the Ancient World


HODGES, HENRY & NEWCOMER, JUDITH (illus.)

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: Barnes & Noble Books 1992

KEYWORDS: henry hodges ancient history world civilisation civilization civilizations civilisations technology engineering transport anthropology deep tools tool machine machinery machines

$175.00
1w13a/2

No Money on Our Skins: Hagen Migrants in Port Moresby


STRATHERN, MARILYN

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 467pp + errata to rear, illus/photos, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine with minor archival tape reapirs, light curling to cover edges with minor fading also, light to moderate soiling to page edges, lg ex-libris ink stamp to ffep)

PUBLISHER: New Guinea Research Unit, The Australian National University 1975

KEYWORDS: hagen migrants png Papua New Guinea Port Moresby anthropology migration

$45.00
1w18a/30

Letters from Tokelau


PARNELL, WINSOME

Oblong octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to blue spine, illus eps, title page & prelims, photo illus, 96pp, VG+ (light rubbing to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Trinity Publishing (NZ) Ltd 2021

KEYWORDS: tokelau atolls pacific islands new zealand territories letters memoirs travel writing food science nutrition nutritionists dieticians diet culture anthropology

$45.00
1w28a/38

Bali


HISS, PHILIP HANSON

Second printing; Quarto, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt archer motif to front board, illus eps, xiv + 112pp, illus plates, VG (moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, light soiling & tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to fep & prelim) in d/w, VG- (heavy chipping & creasing with tape repairs to spine & extrems, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale Limited 1941

KEYWORDS: photography photographers art documentary pictorial anthropology ethnology travel writing exploration cultural social history bali indonesia indo pacific islands south east asia oceania

$225.00
1w28a/42

The New Zealanders (The Library of Entertaining Knowledge)


CRAIK, GEORGE

Sm. octavo, half-bound in maroon leather with marbled heavy card boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, marbled eps, frontispiece: map of New Zealand, iv + 424pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to boards & spine, moreso to edges, moderate discolouration to prelims/terminals incl. frontispiece, otherwise occasional light soiling to pages/page edges, prev. owner's label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Charles Knight 1830

KEYWORDS: new zealand early settler colonial popular history 19th nineteenth century exploration discovery navigation cultural social anthropology indigenous colonialism

$25.00
xxsae195783

Santa Eulalia's People: Ritual Structure and Process in an Andalucian Multicommunity


AGUILERA, FRANCISCO ENRIQUE

Super 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: West Publishing Co. 1978

KEYWORDS: spain spanish andalucian multicommunity multicommunities culture cultural society history traditions rituals customs anthropology ethnology festivals almonaster la real field research studies

$40.00
1w36a/29

Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai


FOSTER, MICHAEL DYLAN

Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 291pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese folklore animals supernatural spirits anthropology mythology Asian history Asia

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