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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Full orange paper boards. Some discolouration to front board, light bruise to spine foot. Dust jacket is chipped to spine ends and foot of front cover, light edge wear and a few short tears. An explorer probing the frontiers of Earth since 1924 and the author of 19 books and monographs, including the international best-seller The Story of Man, the late Carleton S. Coon was unquestionably the dean of American anthropologists. His autobiography is a fascinating story of adventure and exploration, of discovery and controversy.
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Adventures and Discoveries: The Autobiography of Carleton S. Coon, Anthropologist and Explorer
by Coon, Carleton S.
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The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (super). Orig. brown cloth. xviii, 235 pp., [63 pp. B&W plates with 98 illustrations]. Spine cocked. A few light white scuffs to extremities. Else fine.
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Among Congo Cannibals: Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures During a Thirty Years' Sojourn Amongs the Boloki and Other Congo Tribes with a Description of their Curious Habits, Customs, Religion & Laws
by Weeks, John H.
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London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to ffep. Orig. orange cloth. T.E.G. 352 pp. [33] plate illustrations. Bookplates of I. & F.W. Hosken and Maurice Katz. Spine sunned, tilted, creased, lightly worn at ends. Split to foot of front joint. Cloth repairs to spine and hinges. Sunning to extremities, light soling to boards. Very light sporadic foxing to interior.
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Anthropology [2 vols]
by Tylor, Sir E.B.
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London: Watts & Co, 1934. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo (small). Thinker's Library No. 14 & 15. Orig. brown stamped cloth. xvi, 180 pp.; 166 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine tilted. Dust jacket has minor chips to spine head, sunned to spine. For the first time this delightful class in the Science of Man becomes available at a popular price. Describing in easy style the origins of language, writing, arts, customs, and religious notions, it forms a fascinating introduction to "the proper study of mankind.
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The Anthropology of Dance
by Royce, Anya Peterson
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Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft Cover. A Midland Book No. 235. First Midland Book Edition. Paperback. 238pp. Illustrated. Covers somewhat worn nd creased at corners, a sticker ghost to rear cover o/w very good. Historical and anthropological perspectives on dance, its symbols, styles and morphology.
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Barbot on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712 [2 vols]
by Hair, Paul E.H. (general editor), Adam Jones, and Robin Law (editors)
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London: The Hakluyt Society, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth, sailboat device to front boards. cxxviii, 327, 26 pp. B&W illustrations; vii, 328-916 pp., 27-57 pp. B&W illustrations. Small bruise to fore edge of rear board to volume I with corresponding perforation to jacket. Dust jackets are rubbed, lightly bumped to extremities.
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By Their Works: Illustrated from the Collections in the Buffalo Museum of Science
by Clawson, H. Phelps
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Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. maroon cloth. xxi, 236 pp. Colour frontis. w/ tissue guard. Copiously illustrated in B&W. Spine cocked, bruising to corners, a few small spots of soiling. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar.
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A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term [With New Introduction]
by Malinowski, Bronislaw;
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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Soft cover. Near Fine. Paperback. xxxiv, 315 p.p. The diary of anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, covering his fieldwork in New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands between 1914-1915 and 1917-1918. Includes an index of Native Terms. Light rubbing and smudging to covers. Interior clean. Near fine.
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The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo
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New York: Touchstone, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 295 pp. Spine sunned. Remainder mark to tail edge. Toning to covers and interior.
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From Lucy to Language
by Johanson, Donald and Blake Edgar
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Full red paper boards. 272 pp. Principal photography by David Brill. Fine. In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy," the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ever found. This discovery prompted a complete reevaluation of previous evidence for human origins. From Lucy to Language is a summing up of his remarkable career and a stunning documentary of human life through time on eart.
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The Gwari Tribe in Abuja Emirate
by Na'Ibi, Mallam Shuaibu and Alhaji Hassan, Makamam Abuja and P.M.J. Scott (Translator)
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Lagos, Nigeria: Federal Government Printing Department. Soft cover. Near Fine. Noah Onwuka. 8vo. A Nigerian Magazine Special Publication. Orig. green wrappers, 35pp. Illustrated. Light fading and rust stains to stapling, o/w near fine. The Gwari Tribe are situated along the Benue, Niger, Zaria and Kabba Provinces. A look at the history, customs, and settlement disputes of the Gwari.
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Head-Hunters: Black, White, and Brown
by Haddon, Alfred C.
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London: Watts & Co, 1932. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo (small). Thinker's Library No. 26. Abridged edition. xii, 244 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 first-hand account of experiences among the primitive peoples of Borneo and New Guinea.
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Heads and Tales
by Hoffman, Malvina
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Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full red cloth. Map endpapers. xx, 416 pp. Numerous duotone illustrations in text. Very light chafing to spine ends. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly edge worn. Newspaper article about Hoffman's death laid in. The extraordinary adventures of a great sculptor in her trip around the world for science.
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Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 233 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Light bumping to upper rear corner. Staining to upper corner of ffep.
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History of Anthropology
by Haddon, Alfred C.
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London: Watts & Co, 1934. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo (small). Thinker's Library No. 42. Orig. brown stamped cloth. xiv, 146 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine tilted. Dust jacket has minor chips to spine head, sunned to spine. An interesting and informative record of the steps by which our knowledge of primitive races and customs has been built up into the science of anthropology.
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The Lugbara of Uganda
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology series. Soft cover. x, 96 pp. [2] pp. B&W photos. Covers rubbed, spine tilted, chip to spine head. Very good.
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Man Before Metals
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, 1892. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. Orig. red publisher's cloth. vii, 365 pp. Spine sunned, damp stained and worn to spine foot, chipped to spine head. Stain to head of front board, chafing to extremities. Bookplate to front pastedown. Front hinge starting. Light foxing to front matter.
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Maori Action Songs
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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.
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The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology
by Campbell, Joseph
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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.
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Myth and Cult Among Primitive Peoples
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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.
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