VILLAGE PLANNING IN THE PRIMITIVE WORLD.
by Fraser, Douglas
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
New York: George Braziller, 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Imperial octavo, black cloth spine over green paper covered boards with gilt spine titles. 128 pp. including index and list of illustrations. Illustrated throughout with 78 black and white photographs drawings and diagrams of village structures and plans. An examination of the patterns of construction and organization in primitive societies with chapters on the Mbuti, Bushmen, Cheyenne, Haida, Mailu, Tobriand, South Nias, Yoruba tribes. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unblemished volume with bright gilt spine titles in a very tight, crisp, clean, glossy, unclipped dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually As New..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09561
- Title
- VILLAGE PLANNING IN THE PRIMITIVE WORLD.
- Author
- Fraser, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- FRASER, URBAN, PLANNING, ETHNOLGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, PRIMITIVE, VILLAGE, COMMUNITY, TOWN, HABITATION, STRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION, MBUTI, BUSHMEN, CHEYENNE, HAIDA, MAILU, TOBRIAND, SOUTH NIAS, YORUBA, STRUCTURES, PATTERNS
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