Resultados de búsqueda: Anthropology from Minotavros Books

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1960. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Orig. and illustrated stiff wrappers, 112pp. Some notes in pen and purple marker, light staining to wrappers with wear to spine and extremities, but o/w very good. A collection of words and music, actions and instructions of traditional and tribal Maori songs.

New York: Arkana, 1991. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Volume I of The Masks of God. Soft cover. xv, 504 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Fine.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. 349 pp. Dust jacket lightly edge worn, ring stain to rear cover, else fine.

London: Routledge Classics, 2003. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xxxix, 194 pp. Spine sunned. Light age toning to interior. Natural Symbols is one of the most important works of modern anthropology. First published in 1974, the work presaged many of the most controversial areas of intellectual debate, from the social significance of the body to religious cosmology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times.

Berkely: University of California Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series. Grey cloth, xv, 241pp. Illustrated. Small red stamp on bottom edge, otherwise fine in a fine d/w. "Central to Ngoma are the use of spoken and sung discourse about misfortune and affliction." The author goes beyond the ritual drumming and spirit possession into a broader institutional profile that emphasizes the varieties of knowledge and social forms. A contemporary study.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED first edition. Bound in genuine leather. Full brown morocco with gilt tooling on boards and spine. A.E.G. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. xxii, 375 pp. B&W illustrations. Light fatty bloom starting to corners, large chip to lower corner of last page (no loss of text to index), else fine.

Merida: Estudios Basso, 1983. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Paperback, 278pp. Illustrated with b/w and color pictures and maps. Light sunning to covers, otherwise near fine. The author examines writing, language, architecture, transportation, food, religion and other examples of the Maya and civilizations in the Yucatan.

London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Royal Anthropological Institute Occasional Paper No, 31. Orig. green card wraps, glued binding. 55 pp. Light creasing to covers. Embossed ex libris stamp of Jack Lieber to ffep and ink inscription reading "University of Ibadan, 1971" inside stamp. Else fine.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Creme cloth with primitive figures on lower front board, xiv, 303pp. Illustrated. About fine in a very good but sunned dust jacket.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. green pebbled cloth, gilt titles. viii, 453 pp. Light rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Else fine.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xxii, 266 pp., [16] pp. B&W photos. Spine sunned, small chip to tail edge of front cover, bruise to rear joint. Awarded the 1978 Wellcome Medal for Research in Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Orig. tan cloth. Top edge blue. xii, 248 pp. Light rubbing to edges. Offsetting to endpapers, bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Dust jacket lightly edge worn, cropped to flaps (not price clipped). Introduction by Dr. Franz Boas. "This unique book offers for the first time in one volume all of the evidence gathered by science in the fields of biology, anthropology, archaeology, as well as prehistory and history, on the subject of Race. It offers a readable and authentic basis for judgment on this controversial question which threatens to destroy civilization today.

London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company, 1950. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. xx, 151 p.p. Paperback. No jacket. Translated from French. Foreword on Rudolf Steiner bu S. Rihouet-Coroze. Browning to spine and cover edges. Some browning and staining along front cover. Otherwise clean, a very good copy of book.

London: Watts & Co, 1933. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo (small). Thinker's Library No. 36. Abridged edition. xv, 143 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine tilted. Dust jacket chipped to spine foot, sunned to spine, with reinforcement or repairs to spine head and upper corners with stamp-like stickers. A fascinating account of the origin of the habits of Man and the animals.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 1st American Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. First American paperback edition. [x] 224 p.p. B&W illustrations. Slight creasing to corners. Sporadic highlighting and marginalia. Presenting seven examples from Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Oceania, this study attempts to further the anthropological understanding of dance's social significance and critical relevance by exploring it as a reflection of social forces.

London: International African Institute, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Ethnographic Survey of Africa, edited by Daryll Forde. Western Africa Part VIII. Reprint. Orig. green card wraps, glued binding. 100 pp. B&W fold-out map tipped in to inside rear cover. Light creasing to covers, toning to spine and edges, damp stain to foot of front cover, ink notation to upper front cover. Slight age toning and some underlining to interior.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. brown cloth, gilt titles. xvii, 626 pp., [29] plates. B&W illustrations in text. Light rubbing to extremities, else fine. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Suscription Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (small). Third impression. Original marbled cloth half-bound with marroon leather. A.e.g. Bookplate of A. P. Thornton. xxiv, 371 pp. 48 illustrations, including frontis and one folding plate, throughout. Leather at joints, spine, and corners torn. Pages very lightly browned. Overall, Book is in Very Good condition.

London: Published for the International African Institute by Oxford, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Original jacket and black cloth. xvii, 160 p.p. [5] plates of photographs, incl. frontispiece. A study of the concepts of disease in the social life of the Safwa of Southwest Tanzania, and their beliefs on sorcery and witchcraft. Includes a glossary of Safwa words, and bibliography. Heavy wear to jacket edges. Jacket chipped and frayed at spine-ends. Some scratches to boards. Light bruising at spine ends. Interior clean, bright. A very good copy in a good jacket.