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Troy, NY: Leon S. De Smidt, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 95pp; A few smudges to back cover, front cover clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Vintage account of the customs, manners & beliefs of the San Blas Indians of Panama. Illustrated with photos.

Arcturus Books, 1972. Softcover. Very Good. 378pp; Covers clean, bright & slightly edgeworn, bookplate inside front cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. History and ethnography of the Indian Shaker movement of the Pacific Northwest.

Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 297pp; Covers clean & bright with slight handling wear, slight dampstaining to first few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. "The ten contributors to this book--anthroplogists and psychologists--explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shared), interpreted, and used… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston, MA: The Beacon Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 176pp; DJ price-clipped with minor chipping & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Vintage study of life on the Polynesian island of Samoa presented as a first-person narrative from the point of… Ler mais sobre este item

The American Anthropological Association, 1953. Softcover. Very Good+. 309pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Vintage Anthropology journal. This issue: Haitian Creole: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 147pp; Wear to spine, faint pencil mark to front cover, minor creasing to covers, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Anthropological study of construction workers. Case Studies in Anthropology series. Illustrated.

Sydney, Australia: Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1954. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; 144pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, bookplate to front pastedown, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Vintage volume containing basic anthropological account of Australian Aborigines. Illustrated with photos & drawings.

San Bernardino, CA: San Bernardino County Museum, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8-1/2 x 11 Softcover; 66pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. History of the Mohave Indians, an indigenous tribe of San Bernardino County, California. Illustrated throughout with photos & drawings.

Prescott, AZ: Prescott College Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 67pp; DJ slightly edgeworn & age-toned, boards square & tight, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Study of the Ghost Dance among the Pai Indians. Prescott College Studies in Anthropology No. 1. Illustrated with photos.

Menlo Park, CA: Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1974. Softcover. Very Good. 166pp; Covers clean & bright, small stain to fore-edge, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. The Kiste and Ogan Social Change Series in Anthropology. Illustrated with photos & maps.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 252pp; DJ clean & bright with a few nicks, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/VG condition. Study of the demography, genetics and phenetics of Bougainville Islanders. Illustrated with photos & tables.

Assen, Netherlands: van Gorcum, 1977. Softcover. Very Good-. 155pp; Corner of book slightly bumped, covers slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. First text in the sub-discipline of nutritional anthropology, exploring relationships between anthropology and nutrition.

Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson Limited, 1934. First Edition. Softcover. Good-. 40pp; Insect damage to top of front cover & tops of first few pages (doesn't affect text), foxing to flyleaves, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good- condition. Short account of the Australian aborigines focusing on their physical characteristics. Illustrated with photos, diagrams & maps.

Sydney, NSW, Australia: Australasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1944. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; 209pp; Minor chipping & staining to DJ, DJ protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright with slightly bent corners, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG/Good+ condition. Collection of short stories about life among aborigines in Northern Australia, based on… Ler mais sobre este item

Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Academy of Science, 1917. Softcover. Good+. Wraps; 32pp; Foxing to covers, pages slightly edgeworn, text unmarked, a few pages uncut, binding is tight, Good+ condition. The last address of the late Newton Horace Winchell originally presented before the Iowa Academy of Sciences at Cedar Falls, Iowa, April 24, 1914. Illustrated.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/None. 341pp; No DJ, green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine condition. Richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste, providing the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice,… Ler mais sobre este item

London, UK: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 187pp; Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Specimens of Bantu folklore from Northern Rhodesia, includes texts collected with the help of the phonograph and English translation with musical… Ler mais sobre este item

Adelaide, Australia: W. L. Hawes, Government Printer, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 220pp; Light green textured card covers, cloth spine, price blacked out on front cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Papers about the aboriginal peoples in south and central Australia. Authors selected by the Board for Anthropological Research, University of Adelaide. Illustrated with photos… Ler mais sobre este item

Wellington, NZ: The Polynesian Society, 1962. Softcover. Very Good-. Wraps; 24pp; Covers slightly age-toned with slight handling wear, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Extract from Vol. 71, No. 1, March 1962 of the Journal of the Polynesian Society.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1946. Softcover. Good+. 182pp; Covers slightly age-toned & edgeworn, one corner bumped, spine lightly creased, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Study of primitive education in North America. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 43, No. 1, pp. iv + 1-182.