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$35.00
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The Hidden History of the Human Race


CREMO, MICHAEL A & THOMPSON, RICHARD L

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: Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing 1999

KEYWORDS: science archeology archaeology evolution anthropology prehistory prehistoric human

$35.00
xxbgd223005

Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific


MITCHELL, WILLIAM E (Ed)

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 Pittsburgh Press 1992

KEYWORDS: PNG Papua New Guinea humour humor comedy south pacific anthropology

$19.50
xxhab223041

Bruno Gutmann 1876-1966: A German Approach to Social Anthropology


WINTER, J C

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: Oxford University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: social anthropology history Bruno Gutmann

$15.00
xxhab223045

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe: A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu


RICHARDS, AUDREY I & MALINOWSKI, Professor B (Preface)

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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1948

KEYWORDS: anthropology Bantu tribe food nutrition

$22.50
xxhab223047

Psychology and Folk-Lore


MARETT, R R

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: Methuen & Co 1920

KEYWORDS: social anthropology psychology folklore lore culture religion

$45.00
3g1/21

Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family


HALLETT, JUDITH P

Super octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt lettering to grey section of spine, xix + 423pp, illus/charts, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine & board corners, slightly cocked, light soiling to page edges) in d/w VG- (light to moderate creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light tanning & chafing to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: fathers daughters elite roman family social dynamics ancient rome empire familial relationships anthropology historic psychology

$16.50
xxhnf223253

The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People


FLOOD, JOSEPHINE

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: Allen & Unwin 2006

KEYWORDS: anthropology history Australia Australian Aboriginal people

$60.00
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Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands


IVENS, W G

FACSIMILE EDITION, octavo, yellow buckram boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 529pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to spine & boards/edges, light soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Benjamin Blom 1972

KEYWORDS: Melanesia anthropology south-east Solomon Islands customs culture Melanesians

$16.50
xxcjf223586

A History of the Arab Peoples


HOURANI, ALBERT

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: Faber and Faber 1991

KEYWORDS: history Arabs Arab nations people anthropology empires

$95.00
3i5/16

The Sea Gypsies of Malaya: An Account of the Nomadic Mawken People of the Mergui Archipelago with a Description of Their Ways of Living, Customs, Habits, Boats, Occupations &c, &c, &c


WHITE, WALTER GRAINGE & MARETT, R R (Fore)

Octavo, teal buckram boards, turquoise lettering to spine, maritime illsu to front board, frontispiece, 318pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (moderate scuffing/chipping to spine extrems, minor bruising to board corners, minor tanning to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, minor tanning to eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Seeley, Service & Co 1922

KEYWORDS: maritime history Malay nomads nomadic Mawken people anthropology Mergui archipelago exploration

$47.50
3i3/29

Nguna Texts: A Collection of Traditional and Modern Narratives from the Central New Hebrides


SCHUTZ, ALBERT J

Super octavo, green light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & front cover, xvi + 325pp, VG (light fading to spine, sm adhesive stain to front cover, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1969

KEYWORDS: Vanuatu linguistics Nguna texts New Hebrides languages literature anthropology

$67.50
3i3/31

Savage Civilisation


HARRISSON, TOM

Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 461pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (light tanning & rubbing to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & soiling to front eps, light tanning & foxing to rear eps & terminals, occasional foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1937

KEYWORDS: Pacific New Hebrides islands anthropology

$50.00
3i3/34

John Frum He Come: A Polemical Work About a Black Tragedy


RICE, EDWARD

Octavo, brown buckram boards, yellow & red lettering to black buckram spine, deckled page fore-edges, red speckling to base of page block, maps to eps, xxv + 262pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to spine area, other light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Doubleday 1974

KEYWORDS: anthropology New Hebrides Pacific islands John Frum cults cargo cult Tanna

$15.00
xxcwb223673

Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropologial Myth


FREEMAN, DEREK

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: Australian National University Press 1983

KEYWORDS: anthropology ethnology Samoa Maragret Mead adolescence youth

$22.50
xxcyc223711

Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empire of the South-West Pacific


MORAN, MICHAEL

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: HarperCollins 2003

KEYWORDS: exploration travel south-west pacific writing literature anthropology New Guinea

$35.00
xxatg223759

The Eighth Land: The Polynesian Discovery and Settlement of Easter Island


BARTHEL, THOMAS S & MARTIN, ANNELIESE (Trans)

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: University Press of Hawaii 1978

KEYWORDS: Polynesia Easter Island settlements history anthropology

$29.50
xxaua223807

The Ngatik Massacre: History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll


POYER, LIN

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: Smithsonian Institution Press 1992

KEYWORDS: Micronesia Micronesian anthropology ethnicity identity massacres history Ngatik

$47.50
3i2/37

Extracts from New Zealand Journals Written on Ships Under the Command of d'Entrecasteaux and Duperrey 1793 and 1824


OLLIVER, ISABEL (Transcribed & Translated)

Oblong quarto, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to black background on spine & front board, 219pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & tanning/soiling to spine & board edges/extrems, other sl soiling & discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust 1986

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history journals voyages journals diaries diary extracts New Zealand Maori life anthropology ethnology

$245.00
3j4/2

A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origins, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants (Sixth Thousand)


WILLIAMS, JOHN & BAXTER, G (Wood Engravings)

SIXTH THOUSAND, octavo, half leatherbound brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine with rsaised bands also, aeg, frontispiece, illus title page, xviii + 590pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork, minor fading & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling to gilt page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: J Snow 1837

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history natural history missions missionaries south sea islands pacific anthropology

$32.50
xxpnf224153

The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image


SHLAIN, LEONARD

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: Viking 1998

KEYWORDS: leonard shlain alphabetic literacy religion humanity anthropology

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