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A DEATH IN THE SANCHEZ FAMILY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - The award winning author of the anthropological classic, 'The Children of Sanchez,' revisits the family after the death of of Aunt Guadalupe, and this book is a short and poignant account of how the poor die - of the death itself, and of the funeral, and of the mourning of the other members of the family. 119 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to bottom edge of dj)
Book ID: 90575More details Price: $15.00 -
MAYA RESURGENCE IN GUATEMALA.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1995). A story of the Mayan peoples struggle across Guatemala to recover from decades of religious conversions, civil war, displacement, and military repression and of the Catholic lay activists who seek to renovate a new pan-Q'eqchi' ethnic identity. Includes chapters on fertilizing the land, and on curing illness. Maps and black and white photographs. Notes, glossary, references cited, index. xxii, 373 pp. ISBN: 0-8061-31950.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90186More details Price: $16.50 -
DARKNESS IN EL DORADO: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some scattered marginal notations, a few corners dog-eared)
Book ID: 89448More details Price: $16.50 -
THE GODDESS AND THE MOON MAN. The Sacred Art of the Tiwi Aborigines.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88960More details Price: $50.00 -
INTER-RACIAL PROBLEMS: Papers from the First Universal Races Congress held in London in 1911.
Edition: First thus.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a new 16 pp. introduction by Herbert Aptheker. Attended by 1000 people from 50 countries, the purpose of this Congress was "to discuss, in the light of science and the modern conscience, the general relations subsisting between the peoples of the West and those of the East, between the so-called white and so-called coloured peoples." Also discussed was the position of women in society, the nature of imperialism, and the prospects for world peace. Reprint of the 1911 edition, including papers by Felix Adler, Israel Zangwill, Alfred Caldecott, W. E. B. DuBois ('The Negro Race in the United States of America'), Edwin D. Mead, and many others. Appendix, bibliography, index. [16 pp], xlvi, 485 pp. ISBN: 0-806502177.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket with some rubbing, light edgewear and creasing to back cover.
Book ID: 88290More details Price: $40.00 -
NINE DAYAK NIGHTS: The Story of a Dayak Folk Hero.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York & London: Oxford University Press, (1969). Although the Dayaks of Borneo have a gruesome reputation, known only for their skulls and their headhouses, and quoted as examples of the most primitive savagery, the author spent two years among them after the end of the World War II and found them attractive, affectionate and practical. This introduction to their way of life, includes the legend of Kichapi as recounted by the village shaman during nine evenings. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xxxi, 144 pp.
Condition: Good only (some wear to the covers).
Book ID: 87215More details Price: $15.00 -
TRAVELS IN A STONE CANOE: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Two journalists who came back from an assignment in Indian Country with a powerful message for humankind share the intensely personal story surrounding their time with the Wisdomkeepers, and continue to extoll the Native American approach to humanity and life." Photographs. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-684800942.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86102More details Price: $16.50 -
THE PRIMITIVE READER: An Anthology of Myths, Tales, Songs, Riddles and Proverbs of Aboriginal Peoples Around the World.
Edition: First printing.
Hatboro PA: Folklore Associates, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes over 250 examples of aboriginal verbal lore - stories, tales, songs, riddles and more - each with an informative introduction by the editor. Sources, 211 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in orange cloth in a near fine dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj, original price of $5.50 still present.) Uncommon, especially in this condition.
Book ID: 85833More details Price: $45.00 -
NOSES.
Edition: First edition.
Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co., (1950). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A comprehensive look at the nose in psychology, literature, art, plastic surgery, folklore and anthropology, written in an entertaining and non-technical fashion by a medical doctor and plastic surgeon. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography, index. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 252 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth with gold lettering (lettering rubbed and illegible on spine), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85752More details Price: $24.50 -
AFRICA DISCOVERS HER PAST.
Edition: Trade paperback.
London, Ibadan, Nairobi: Oxford University Press, (1971). A collection of 12 essays - based on a series of broadcasts given in the B.B.C. African Service in 1967 - which "looks at current methods of research and shows how archaeology, anthropology and linguistics can be combined with written and oral records to reconstruct African history." Among the contributors are Ivor Wilks, Alan Ryder, Anthony Atmore, Shula Marks and others. Index. viii, 96 p. ISBN: 0-19412276X.
Condition: Very good in glossy black illustrated wrappers (bump to top of spine, prev owner's name)
Book ID: 85082More details Price: $15.00 -
QUARRY: Closing in on the Missing Link.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Free Press, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthropologist's account of how "knowledge about early humans has leaped dramatically during the last generation. [In] 1950, biological anthropology was born at a conference at Cold Spring Harbor. This new science replaced the old method of studying fossil human specimens.. . with new disciplines that situated early humans in their social and ecological context. . . [He recounts ] his own adventures on long, weary, dusty digs in Zaire and Libya are recounted with verve as he addresses key questions - Why did bipedalism develop? What role did climate play in our origins?" SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, index. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-029045010.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84686More details Price: $40.00 -
TRIBAL STUDIES IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: Volume I.
Edition: First edition.
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume One only - but each tribal section is complete in itself. As noted in the preface, they are the result of five years of collecting reports on fifty non-Muslim tribes in northern Nigeria. Includes significant information on traveling in the area, on the different languages, and the customs of the various tribes. This volume includes studies of The Bachama and Mbula, Bura and Pabir Tribes, the Bata speaking peoples, the Kilba and Margi of Adamawa, the Chamba, the Verre, the Mambila and others. Vocabulary at the end of each chapter. Illustrated with 60 photographic plates, folding map tipped in at rear. x, 582 pp.
Condition: Very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a a rather poor example of the uncommon dust jacket (dj is missing almost half of the spine)
Book ID: 83798More details Price: $120.00 -
FAMILIA: Migration and Adaptation In Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs. "Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family. Spanish, American, and English exploits paved the way for exchange between Baja and Alta California. Alvarez shows how cultural stability actually increased as migrants settled in new locations, bringing their common values and memories with them." Includes an appendix with the original Spanish field notes, notes, bibliography, index. xv. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-520053470.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76853More details Price: $25.00 -
THE HEARTLAND CHRONICLES.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1995). Hardcover first edition - From the foreword: This is a tale of Indians and whites living together in a small Iowa community. It is also about an anthropologist returning to his home town, and how he got inside Iowa's tiny but old Mesquaki Indian culture just at the moment that the tribe's civil rights struggle and its new casino changed all the old relationships, as these tribal people - with their noble traditions - came into modernity. A title in the Series in Contemporary Ethnography. References, index. ix, 228 pp. ISBN: 0-812233263.
Condition: Fine in gray cloth (a new copy.) No dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 76765More details Price: $25.00 -
ARROW RELEASE DISTRIBUTIONS: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 23. Number 4.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1927. First edition - A monograph by this noted and early anthropologist, of interest because of the information it includes on the pull used by the Yahi of Northern California, information learned from Ishi, the last of his tribe, who spent the last 5 years of his life living at the Museum of Anthropology at UC San Francisco. Pages 283-296
Condition: Fine in gray stapled wrappers. Uncommon.
Book ID: 76372More details Price: $35.00 -
BULLS, BULLFIGHTING, AND SPANISH IDENTITIES.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1999). A study of symbolism around bulls and bullfighting which is used to examine the broader anthropological issues of identity and nationhood. Discusses in some detail three regional feistas focused on the bull in different areas of the country - Bilbao, Sevilla and Pamplona. Illustrated. Notes, literature cited, index. xii 245 pp. ISBN: 0-816516529.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (faint remainder line)
Book ID: 75430More details Price: $17.50 -
FIVE HUNDRED SCORPIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1987. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel by this award-winning Southern author - "With remarkable skill, Hearon takes a contemporary story of a man who leaves his wife to 'find himself,' invests it with specificity and distinctiveness, and slowly segues into the heightened realm of metaphor and myth. Discontented with his wife Peg, whom he considers volatile and foolishly enthusiastic, Charlottesville lawyer Paul Sinclair suddenly decamps to join an anthropological expedition to the small Mexican town of Tepoztlan, near Cuernavaca. Enflamed by idealism and infatuated with one of the women on the project, Paul only gradually becomes aware that he has been duped as to the purpose of the study," (PW) 306 pp. ISBN: 0-689115849.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73527More details Price: $16.50 -
CLASS, KINSHIP, AND POWER IN AN ECUADORIAN TOWN: The Negroes of San Lorenzo.
Edition: First edition
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - This study of the changing social structure of the northwest Ecuadorian port town San Lorenzo is the first full scale study of Negro social organization, on the west coast of South Amearica. Illustrated with maps, graphs and charts and photographs.Glossary, references, index. vii, 328 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59825More details Price: $25.00 -
ELOQUENCE IN TROUBLE: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Edition: First edition.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - "The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology." A title in the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. Photographs, list of key characters, notes, references, index and glossary. xix, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-195106873.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in light tan boards with silver lettering, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 72781More details Price: $25.00 -
THE EVOLUTION OF MAN: A Series of Lectures Delivered before the Yale Chapter of the Sigme Xi during the Academic Year 1921-1922.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Hardcover - Includes lectures by Richard Swann Lull, Harry Burr Ferris, George Howard Parker, James Rowland Angell, Albert Galloway Keller, & Edwin Grant Conklin on the antiquity of man, the evolution of intelligence, societal evolution and more. Glossy frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Bibliography, index. x, 202 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (prev owner's name, tanning to pages), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 71163More details Price: $15.00 -
UNBOUND: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional bookmark laid in.
Book ID: 68886More details Price: $40.00 -
SHADOWS IN THE SUN: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Lone Pine Publishing (1992). First edition - The author, a Harvard ethnobotanist, writes with empathy and understanding and personal experience about indigenous tribes from the tropics to the Arctic circle. Included are chapters on shamanic healing, the plants of the gods - and on the end of the wild. Photographs. 156 pp. ISBN: 1551050269.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 56933More details Price: $45.00 -
MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT AND RELIGION: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural.
Edition: Fourth Edition, a trade paperback.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, (1996.). A comprehensive anthology containing essays by many anthropologists include Claude Levi-Strauss, Peter Furst, Francis Huxley, Bronislaw Malinowski, Carl Sagan, Lawrence Wright and others. This edition includes nine new articles. Among the sections are those on shamans, on the religious use of drugs, and on ethnomedicine. Map, an extensive bibliography, glossary and index. Slightly oversized square format. 474 pp. ISBN: 1559346884.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56296More details Price: $18.00 -
SHARING THE SAME BOWL: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Bloomington: University of Michigan Press, (1990). "A groundbreaking theoretical exploration of the relationship between class formation and gender based on intensive study of the recent historical experience of Ghanaian market women." Photographs, charts and graphs. Prologue, blbiography, index. xv, 299 pp. ISBN: 0-472064444.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55779More details Price: $16.50 -
THE NAVAHO: Revised Edition.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1974). Revised edition of this classic work - a collaboration between an anthropologist and a medico-psychiatrist originally published in 1946. Revisions by Lucy H. Wales and Richard Kluckhohn; foreword by Lucy Wales Kluckhohn. Photographs, maps and diagrams. Index, bibliography. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-674606035.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (light reading crease.)
Book ID: 55524More details Price: $10.00 -
BLINDNESS IN THE KAWAMBWA DISTRICT, NORTHERN RHODESIA / AFRICAN MEDICINE IN THE MANKOYA DISTRICT, NORTHERN RHODESIA.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Lusaka: The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1959. First edition - Rhodes- Livingstone Communication No. 15. Introduction by R. J. Apthorpe. In addition to the two articles cited in the title, this also includes a list of the botanical and vernacular names for the plants used in Nkoya medicine. Typescript pages. Map. vii, 77 pp.
Condition: Very good in original blue printed wrappers with blue cloth spine. Uncommon.
Book ID: 54673More details Price: $35.00 -
THE PYTHON KILLER: Stories of Nzema Life.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, (1988). Hardcover first edition - Twenty stories of life, beliefs and customs of the Nzema tribe of southern Ghana in Western Africa. The Nzema inhabit the forests and lagoons along the Atlantic coast, and Grottanelli was the only anthropologist to live among them - as he did intermittently over a period of more than 30 years. Map, phototgraphs, an appendix on "Witchcraft as an Allegory," notes, glossary, index. xi, 223 pp. ISBN: 0-226310051.
Condition: Very near fine in brown cloth, lacking the dust jacket (synopsis from front flap is pasted inside the front cover.)
Book ID: 54589More details Price: $17.50 -
ETHNOMEDICAL SYSTEMS IN AFRICA: Patterns of Traditional Medicine in Rural and Urban Kenya.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Guilford Press, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the survival, adaptation and utilization of traditional medical systems in a rapidly modernizing country and suggests that a collaboration between traditional and Western biomedicine would advance the goals of community health. Photographs, references, index. xxi, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-89862-7796.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53820More details Price: $50.00 -
ETHNOMEDIZIN UND SOZIALMEDIZIN IN TROPISCH-AFRIKA. / ETHNOMEDICINE AND SOCIAL MEDICINE IN TROPICAL AFRICA : BeitrŠge zur Ethnomedizin, Ethnobotanik und Ethnozoologie III / Contributions to Ethnomedicine, Ethnobotany and Ethnozoology III.
Edition: First printing.
Hamburg: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, 1973. First edition - Text is in German, English and French. The introductory essay by Ludwig Brandl - "A Short History of Ethnomedicine in Tropical Africa" - is in both English and German. Also includes essays on Les Plantes Magiques Senegalaise (in French) by Joseph Kerharo, The Fundamental Basis of African Traditional Medicine (in English) by Yaw Osei and much more. Bibliographies, photographs. 288 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed pale green wrappers.
Book ID: 53813More details Price: $45.00 -
KRANKHEITEN UND KRANKENBEHANDLUNG BEI DEN CHIMBU IM ZENTRALEN HOCHLAND VON NEU-GUINEA: BeitrŠge zur Ethnomedizin, Ethnobotanik und Ethnozoologie II / Contributions to Ethnomedicine, Ethnobotany and Ethnozoology II.
Edition: First printing.
Hamburg: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, 1973. First edition - Diseases and treatment of the sick among the Chimbu in the central highlands of New Guinea. While most of the text is in German (with occasional quotes in English), there is a 3 page English summary. References, photographs, index. 289 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed pale green wrappers.
Book ID: 53812More details Price: $30.00