Category: Anthropology

North Atlantic Maritime Cultures, Anthropological Essays on Changing Adaptations (World Anthropology)

By: Andersen, Raoul (ed.) Sol Tax, Series Editor

Price: $55.13

Publisher: The Hague, Mouton Publishers : 1979

Seller ID: Books010174

ISBN-13: 9789027978301

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xviii, 365 pages. Christmas inscription to half title; three instances of highlighting; else unmarked.
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Women of Japan. Prepared Especially for Business and Industrial Girls

By: Barbour, Katherine H.

Price: $82.69

Publisher: New York, The Women's Press : 1936

Seller ID: Books006760

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

85pp. Cover soiled and spotty, small liquid stain to text block at base of spine not affecting text
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Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music

By: Best, Curwen

Price: $27.56

Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica, Univ of West Indies Press : 2004

Seller ID: Books006723

ISBN-13: 9789766401245

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

viii, 259pp.
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Contributions to Anthropology, 1960 Part I

By: Canadian Archaeology - Lowther, Maxwell, Forbis, Wright

Price: $34.45

Publisher: Ottawa, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources : 1962

Seller ID: Books011673

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

vi, 190 pages National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 180
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Patterns From The Pacific : portfolio of designs based on objects from the ethnological collections of McGill University

By: Clark, T. H. curator; text by Alice E. Johannsen

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Montreal, McGill University Museums : 1944

Seller ID: Books010263

Binding: Card covered folio

Condition: Good

Portfolio consisting of title page, introduction, map, descriptive list of plates [4-pages each in French and English, and 40 illustrated leaves. Of particular interest for its stated objective: "With current interest in the Pacific War Zone reaching unprecedented height, it has been felt by the McGill University Museum that an exhibition of native cultures of this far-flung combat area would be of special concern to University students and to the general public. World convalescence from the present struggle will be slow and difficult, and it is only through increased popular acquaintance, mut...
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The Journey to the Other World. [Mistletoe Series book 2]

By: Davidson, H. R. Ellis (ed.)

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Cambridge; and Totowa, NJ, D. S. Brewer; and Rowman and Littlefield; for the Folklore Society : 1975

Seller ID: Books014064

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[v], 149 pages. Papers given at the University of Exeter, April 1971 conference. J.R. Porter: Muhammad's Journey to Heaven. John Andrew Boyle: The Thirteenth Century Mongols' Conception of the Afterlife: the evidence of their funeral practices. Carmen Blacker: Other World Journeys in Japan. H.R. Ellis Davidson: The Ship of the Dead. Theo Brown: West Country Entrances to the Underworld. E. Waring: The Phantom Coach in the West Country. J.G. Bishop: The Hero's Descent to the Underworld. H.W. Stubbs: Underworld Themes in Moden Fiction. Sunning and light wear to jacket. Interior unmarked. 8.75 x 5...
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Mohave Ethnopsychiatry: The Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe.

By: Devereux, George

Price: $34.45

Publisher: Washington, DC, Smithsonian : 1969

Seller ID: Books000054

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

with dj. xvi, 597pp. Clean and unmarked in jacket sunned to spine with chips along top edge.
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Myth and Ritual. Essays on the Myth and Ritual of the Hebrews in relation to the Culture Pattern of the Ancient East

By: edited by S. H. Hooke ( by A.M. Blackman, C.J. Gadd. F.J. Hollis, S.H. Hooke, E.O. James, W.O.E Osterley, T.H. Robinson. [Signature of P. H. Nowell-Smith]

Price: $103.36

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1933

Seller ID: Books013975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xix, 204 pages. P.H. Nowell-Smith, 1946 to right first leaf. Pencil scoring and marginalia throughout - not that of Nowell-Smith. Dust jacket sunned and stained.
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An Analysis of Malay Magic (Oxford Monographs on Social Anthropology)

By: Endicott, Kirk Michael

Price: $41.35

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press : 1970

Seller ID: Books011026

ISBN-13: 9780198231622

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

viii, 188pp.
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The End of Culture: Toward a Generative Anthropology

By: Gans, Eric

Price: $103.36

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press : 1985

Seller ID: Books013702

ISBN-13: 9780520051812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

x, 345 pages. Light wear only to jacket; unmarked. First printing, with full number-line. 9 x 6.25 inches.
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The Origin of Language: A Formal Theory of Representation

By: Gans, Eric

Price: $89.58

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press : 1981

Seller ID: Books013701

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xiii, 314 pages. Light wear only to jacket; unmarked. First edition, with full number-line. 9 x 6.25 inches.
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La Naturaleza de las Indias Nuevas : De Cristbal Colon a Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo

By: Gerbi, Antonello

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Economica : 1978

Seller ID: Books011906

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

562 pages. Number 4442 of 5000 copies printed; text in Spanish. Light wear to jacket; top edge a touch dusty. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.
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The Natural History of the Varieties of Man

By: Latham, Robert Gordon

Price: $137.81

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst : 1850

Seller ID: Books006212

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

574 pages plus advert leaf at rear. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Covers show general modest wear with rubbing to head and foot of spine, paper along rear inner hinge split to webbing but binding and hinges are sound. Tiny former owner marks to front pastedown and endpaper; foxing along hinge of half-title only, else a clean unmarked interior.
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A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term

By: Malinowski, Bronislaw

Price: $41.35

Publisher: Stanford, CA., Stanford University Press : 1989

Seller ID: Books008233

ISBN-13: 9780804717076

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxxiv, 315 pages. Unobtrusive ownership signature to top of half-title. Jacket spine sunned; else clean and unmarked, with no inscriptions and no spine crease.
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Melanson : A Large Micmac Village in Kings County, Nova Scotia

By: Nash, Ronald J.; Frances L. Stewart

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia Museum : 1986

Seller ID: Books013668

ISBN-13: 9780660191157

Binding: Comb-back, card covers

Condition: Very Good

xii, 260 pages. Curatorial Report number 67. Clean and unmarked.
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Mi'kmaq : Economics and Evolution ; Faunal Remains from the Delorey Island Site (BjCj-9) of Nova Scotia

By: Nash, Ronald J.; Frances L. Stewart

Price: $130.92

Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia Museum : 1986

Seller ID: Books013666

ISBN-13: 9780660191157

Binding: Comb-back, card covers

Condition: Very Good

x, [1], 178 pages. Curatorial Report number 57. Former owner's name top right first leaf, else unmarked.
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Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Seinermen of San Diego [Signed]

By: Orbach, Michael K.

Price: $89.58

Publisher: Berkeley, Univ of California Press : 1977

Seller ID: Books006517

ISBN-13: 9780520033481

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

x, 304 pages. Glowing inscription from the author to Newfoundland writer, feminist and peace activist Ella Manuel of Woody Point, Bonne Bay. Dustjacket spine sunned. Clean and unmarked.
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