Anthropology

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 2nd Ed., 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt, a little rubbed and bumped at edges. 456 pages with color frontispiece map, 139 illustrations of which 27 are full-page and 14 maps of which some are folding. School ex-library copy with spine label, minimal stamping to front endpapers and title page. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Interior clean with no marking, all fold-out maps in great condition. NOTE: The Marchesa a schooner yacht sailed from England in 1881 to the seas of China and Japan the East Indies and New Guinea before returning to England in 1884. First published in 1886 as a two volume set.

Hardcover. Adelaide AUS, Rigby Limited, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 79 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collaboration between artist Ainslie Roberts & anthropologist Charles Mountford, who combined Ainslie Roberts outback paintings with his knowledge. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 371 pages, b&w illustrations. A bright, clean copy with sunning to spine.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild chipping. 278 pages, 150 b&w illustrations throughout, some fold-out plates. 16 maps and 8 tables. Clean copy.

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 440 pages, b&w illustrations. George Stocking has been widely recognized as the premier historian of anthropology ever since the publication of his first volume of essays, Race, Culture, and Evolution, in 1968. As editor of several publications, including the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series, he has led the movement to establish the history of anthropology as a recognized research specialization. In addition to the study Victorian Anthropology, his work includes numerous essays covering a wide range of anthropological topics. The eight essays collected in The Ethnographer's Magic consider the emergence of anthropology since the late nineteenth century as an academic discipline grounded in systematic fieldwork. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 314 pages, index, b&w illustrations. This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data have since been exploited. The author combines this fresh archaeological data with comparative ethnographic and linguistic materials to present an innovative and perceptive account of the processes of culture change in the islands over three millennia. Using comparative ethnography, lexical reconstruction and direct archaeological evidence, the author reconstructs the broad outlines of Ancestral Polynesian Society, from which the diverse societies of the Polynesian region descended. Major processes of cultural change are analysed in detail, including colonization, adaptation to changing environments, development of intensive production and social conflict and competition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: 100.00, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Gilt still bright. The book shows little if any use. Two maps in excellent condition in pocket on rear paste down. 784 page, b&w frontispiece, fully illustrated with 138 photographs, 34 plates, 9 maps and 2 maps in a rear pocket, 4 fold out maps. Copyright page states: "Published in November 1921", title page states 1922. Preface by Stefansson, commander of expedition, who explains that he is an anthropologist by profession & he started his work. To learn whatever he could about the Eskimos. During 5-6 years of continuous residence he learned that the Eskimos resemble an uninstructed peasantry with a large measure of native intelligence lying fallow, lacking opportunities of instruction and development, "the Eskimos are honest and intelligent but have a higher percentage of unfounded beliefs than any white people with whom I have associated." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY/London, Routledge, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 283 pages, b&w illustrations. " Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behavior and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, THE FUTURE OF RITUAL asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. It is richly illustrated with over 50 photos of pereformances and public events." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press., 4th pr., 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers, black lettering on spine, 342 pages. Endpapers map, foreword by the author; includes: caste and class, religion, sex relations & home life, politics and economcs, and modern Haiti, notes & bibliography, index. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, 258 pages. Examines the unique religious brotherhoods of Morocco, tracing their origins to two saints from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Sidi Ali ben Hamdush and Sidi Ahmed Dghughi. Known for their dramatic and sometimes controversial rituals, such as trance dances and acts of self-mutilation, the Hamadsha are healers who address spiritual and psychogenic ailments through symbolic and therapeutic practices. Their activities, deeply rooted in the Moroccan cult of saints, reflect a complex interplay of Islamic mysticism, local traditions, and social dynamics. Through these rituals, the Hamadsha incorporate patients into their brotherhoods, providing them with new roles and a symbolic framework to articulate and resolve personal and societal tensions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, historical analysis, and psychoanalytic perspectives, this study explores the Hamadsha's history, their organizational structure, and their relationship with Moroccan culture and religion. It examines the saints' tombs as focal points of veneration, the social dynamics of the brotherhoods, and their therapeutic methods, including pilgrimages and trance dances. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray boards with a blue cloth spine, 268 pages. The author's passionate concern for Africa and for the human spirit is evident in this portrait of the "First People" of southern Africa, the Bushmen. Van der Post describes his desert travels, the splendid landscape and wildlife, and his encounters with the Bushman, an elusive culture. Drawings by Maurice Wilson. SIGNED BY VAN DER POST on the front fly leaf. No dust jacket, Clean copy.

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a dust jacket with light fade to edges, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a number of myths of the Foi people, elegantly bringing together significant ethnographic materials in a way that has important implications for the development of social theory in anthropology and in Melanesian studies. Scholars of semiotic-symbolic anthropology and of comparative religion will also share the author's interest in the meaning and role of mythology in Foi culture. Instead of relying on orthodox methods of Freudian or structuralist interpretation, James Weiner assumes there is a dialectical relationship between the images of Foi myth and the images of the Foi's social world. He demonstrates how each set of these images is dependent upon the other for its creation. This innovative study locates Foi social meaning in the re-creation and attempted solution of the moral dilemmas that are crystallized in mythology and other poetic usages.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Anthropological Publications, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, reprint of a book first published in 1914. Vol. I: 400 pages plus 22 pages of b&w plates. Vol. II: 610 pages including index and fold-out map. Red cloth covers with black and gilt title on spine. Cllean, no marking.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow-orange cloth with stamped gilt lettering. One of the earliest and most comprehensive ethnographical studies of the Khoisan peoples. The interior contents (xi + 450 pp.) are clean, complete, and securely bound. These contents include two rear fold-out maps and 16 b&w plates. Owner's name inside front cover otherwise clean.

Softcover. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 113 pages, + 4 plates + folding map + folding genealogical chart. Page dimensions: 335 x 209 mm. "At the end of every festival, there is a period lasting usually until after the fourth night following it, when no one not already in the village is allowed to enter it." Covers worn, chipped, crease to top third of pages where it was once folded. Previous owner's name on cover.

Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 368 pages. On a volcanic island in the Savu Sea so remote that other Indonesians call it "The Land Left Behind" live the Lamalerans: a tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who are the world's last subsistence whalers. They have survived for half a millennium by hunting whales with bamboo harpoons and handmade wooden boats powered by sails of woven palm fronds. But now, under assault from the rapacious forces of the modern era and a global economy, their way of life teeters on the brink of collapse. Award-winning journalist Doug Bock Clark, one of a handful of Westerners who speak the Lamaleran language, lived with the tribe across three years, and he brings their world and their people to vivid life in this gripping story of a vanishing culture. Jon, an orphaned apprentice whaler, toils to earn his harpoon and provide for his ailing grandparents, while Ika, his indomitable younger sister, is eager to forge a life unconstrained by tradition, and to realize a star-crossed love. Frans, an aging shaman, tries to unite the tribe in order to undo a deadly curse. And Ignatius, a legendary harpooner entering retirement, labors to hand down the Ways of the Ancestors to his son, Ben, who would secretly rather become a DJ in the distant tourist mecca of Bali.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. In a lightly worn dust jacket with tape repairs. B&w illustrations, folding map in rear. R. H. Codrington (1830-1922), was an Anglican priest who made the first systematic study of Melanesian society and culture. Described in his obituary in the journal Nature as 'the apostle of Melanesia', his work is still regarded as an ethnographic classic. First published in 1891. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, AMS Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light brown cloth with black lettering on spine. A quality reprint of the edition published by Cambridge University in 1910. Pictorial frontis; 79 plates from photographs, figures in text. Fold-out map in rear, fold-out chart. Extensive study of the indigenous Melanesians of Papua New Guinea. Distinctly different from the Papuans of the archipelago, the Melanesians posed an extremely interesting problem to early 20th century ethnographers. There is some light pencil marking to about 20 pages. Also an inked biographical note about a Captain Barton (one of the contributors) on the copyright page. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, UMI Research Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and red, 355 pages. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Some light pencil markings to about 20 pages.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in dust jacket with some fading to edges, spine. 421 pages, b&w illustrations. ."This story of an outstandingly strange and interesting man is a triumph of modern biography. Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) was one of the most extraordinary of all the nineteenth-century savant-adventurers. a brilliant student of Ernst Haeckel, he embraced the natural sciences at a time when the genius of Darwin was revolutionizing Western cosmology. In his short lifetime he made the whole world his laboratory: sponges in the Red Sea, and the ancestry of sharks, head measurements in New Guinea; Negrito races in Malay jungles; marine life in Sydney Harbor -- all these and a hundred other topics and places engaged his curiosity. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 438 pages, mild waviness to pages. A collection of his most important essays, selected by Kroeber himself.

Softcover. Wellington NZ, Polynesian Society, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 170 pages. Originally published in 1978 as a series of articles in The Journal of the Polynesian Society. Wrappers rubbed, internally very good, clean.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian/GPO, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth, gilt lettering on spine faded. 490 pages, 3 fold-out plates include 2 maps. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Includes appendixes, glossary of Ojibwa terms, key to abbreviated sources, notes & bibliography. Ojibwa cultural use and drum construction. Clean copy.