Books - "anthropology"
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Vikings of the Sunrise
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
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
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
Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil
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
Nothing in This Book is True, But it's Exactly How Things Are
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
The Last of the Nomads
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
Natural Fashion; Tribal Decoration from Africa
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
Hula, Haka, Hoko!; An introduction to Polynesian dancing
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
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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
A Vision of the Past; A History of Early Photography in Singapore and Malaya; The Photographs of G.R. Lambert & Co., 1880-1910
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
War and Peace in Jalemo: The Management of Conflict in Highland New Guinea
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
Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific
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
The Anthropology of Cannibalism
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
Structural Anthropology
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
Technology in the Ancient 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 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
No Money on Our Skins: Hagen Migrants in Port Moresby
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
Letters from Tokelau
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
Bali
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
The New Zealanders (The Library of Entertaining Knowledge)
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
Santa Eulalia's People: Ritual Structure and Process in an Andalucian Multicommunity
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
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
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