Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology from Lawrence Jones

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1997. xii, 372pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, num bw & col ills. Pictorial card covers. Minor edge wear, crease to bottom front corner, prev owner name in red felt pen to half-title page. Overview of Australian rock art. Extinct creatures are portrayed together with scenes of hunting, fighting, ceremonial activities, love making and dancing. In addition… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Free Press, 2003. xiii, 464pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Cloth backed boards in jacket. Light even toning to page edges otherwise as new.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Sydney: UNSW Press, 2010. x, 406pp, index, references, notes, col plates. Pictorial card. Foxing to page edges.From the sparse pastoral frontiers to the crowded city streets of colonial Australia, manners mattered.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 192pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Pictorial card. Near new. Italians comprised the first truly large wave of immigrants to arrive in Australia from southern Europe after WWII-today people of Italian descent in Australia number around one million. In this new edition Cresciani brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community into the… Ler mais sobre este item

Melbourne: em Press , 2019. 72pp, bw & col ills. Pictorial card. As new. Tall narrow book. With over 120 rock art sites catalogue the Grampians/Gariwerd have a richer record of Aboriginal occupation that any other place in southeastern Australia. This book examines in detail seven art sites that are open to the general public.. Third Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine.… Ler mais sobre este item

Port Vila: Vanuatu Cultural Centre, 2005. 303pp, bibliography, glossary, bw ills, appendices. Still pictorial card in jacket. Near new. Oral traditions of Vanuatu presented by province. English language edition.. First English Language Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Hong Kong.: Periplus Editions, 1996. xv, 376pp, index, glossary, bw ills. Spine faded otherwise nice. Essays presented in 4 parts: Religion in Bali; Ritual and Magic; Anniversaries and temples; and the Performing Arts. The essays cover topics rangung from Hindu Mythology to tooth filing to modern gamelan music. Explores both tangibles and intangibles in the realm of Balinese religion,… Ler mais sobre este item

Berkeley: Periplus, 1995. xv, 383pp, index, bw ills. Or card. Spine faaded otherwise excellent. Explores tangibles and intangibles in the realms of Balinese geography, social organization, language, folklore and material culture.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. xxxvi, 452pp, bw plates, text-figures, appendix by Dr L H Dudley Buxton, folding sketch map at rear. Blue cloth, no jacket. Prev owner bookplate inside front cover, light foxing to page edges, bottom corners slightly rounded. The book gives an all-round account of a primitive people in the far west of Papua. The fifteenth in a… Ler mais sobre este item

Australia: Teacup Books, 2019. 205pp, endnotes, num bw & col ills. Pictorial card with integral flaps. Near new. Greek cafes used to be an essential part of Brisbane life-before burger chains and uber eats they kept us going at lunch and dinner, 7 days a week all over the city.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Square 8vo.

Brisbane: Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, 2003. HEAVY. xi, 307pp, num bw ills. Or card covers. Light rubbing to covers. History of the Wacol Migrant Centre which processed migrants and refugees for almost 40 years.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Folio.

Canberra: Bureau of Rural Resources, 1992. x, 122pp, index, appendices, references, bw ills, maps. Pictorial white card. Slightest of edge wear to cover. Looks at the usues that can be made by Aboriginal communities of wild anuimal resources on country. Includes feral species.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. lvii, 409pp, index, bibliography, maps. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise as new. Contents include: Ritualized Homosexual Behavior in the Male Cults of Melanesia 1862-1983; Homosexuality, Male Power, and Political Organization in North Vanuatu; The Dialectics of Sex in Marind-anim Culture; The Numa Cult Recalled; Sexual Transactions in Sambia Culture; Male Couples in… Ler mais sobre este item

St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1975. x, 455pp, index, bibliography, appendices, maps, bw ills. Green cloth in jacket. Minor foxing to page edges, slight fading to spine.The Native Police Force of trained aborigines was a new concept which combined European weapons and discipline with the highly developed Aboriginal bush skill and cunning. Previously attacking tribes had been able… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Viking, 1987. xi, 316pp, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Or boards in jacket. Slight fading to spine, minor wear to top of boards. First contact between Europeans and the Highlanders of Papua New Guinea in the 1930s with more than 100 photographs from the archive of Michael Leahy.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.… Ler mais sobre este item

Cape Town: C. Struik, 1966. HEAVY. Volume I, Part I only. 841pp. Red cloth. Rear hinge cracked, foxing/minor soiling to page edges, foxing to endpapers. Includes reports on the idigenous inhabitants of Southern Africa, the Canadas, Newfoundland, New South Wales, Van Diemens Land as well as ome information from New Zealand and the South Sea Islands.. Facsimile Reprint. Hard… Ler mais sobre este item

Cape Town: C. Struik, 1966. HEAVY. Volume I, Part II only. 212pp. Red cloth. Slight fading to spine. Official report on the observations of the 1836 Report on indigenous inhabitants of Southern Africa, the Canadas, Newfoundland, New South Wales, Van Diemens Land as well as ome information from New Zealand and the South Sea Islands. It suggests the measures… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Nan A Talese/Doubleday, 1998. 291pp, index, chronology, pictorial endpapers. Cloth backed papered boards in jacket. Near new. The story of the lasting effects of the Jewish people on civilisation beginning in Sumer .. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. 255pp, bw ills, maps. Blue cloth in jacket. Jacket slightly rubbed. Moderate foxing throughout. The author travelled to India, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Celebes, the Moluccas and New Zealand learning about the arts, ceremonies and taboos of 'primitive poeples' along the way. . First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. xxvii, 484pp + publisger catalogue at rear, index, few diagrams. Green cloth in jacket. Some foxing to jacket, edges, endpapers and prelims. By taking the small group to be a microcosm of society the author gives a theory of social behaviour.. Third Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.