Origins of the Human Brain (A Fyssen Foundation Symposium)
Oxford University Press, May 1995. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. xiii, 321 pp. Black boards, gilt spine lettering. Remainder marks to tail edge, pristine otherwise. DJ faintly sunned.
Anthropology
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
Zone Books, April 1998. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 349 pp. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Numerous b/w photographs. Tips a bit rubbed, very small splotch to head edge, pristine otherwise in like DJ.
Back to the Long Grass: My Link With Livingstone
George H. Doran Company, 1923. Hardcover. 373pp. Deep emerald cloth, gil-stamped spine lettering, publisher blindstamp to front cover. Rear hinge starting but still holding sound, owner name to FFEP, light wear to covers and edges, otherwise clean and sound.
Tikopia Ritual and Belief
Beacon Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 374pp. 12mo, brick red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner's stamp to front endpaper, very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ tips worn.
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THE WORK OF THE GODS IN TIKOPIA [2 Volume Set] (London School of Politics and Economics Monographs in Social Anthropology)
Percy Lund & Humphries. First Edition. Paperback. Complete in two volumes: Vol. 1[8], 188pp; Vol. 2: [8], 189-377pp, with diagrams and plates to both volumes. From the personal library of noted anthropologist, Dorothy D. Lee, with her signature to both FFEP's; annotated throughout by her in pen and pencil with.....
Nomlaki Ethnography (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology)
University of California, 1951. First Edition. Paperback. v, 303-407pp. Sewn binding in printed wrappers Moderate shelf wear to extremities. Tear to top of wrapper at back cover + head of spine. Water stain to bottom fore edge of pages. Owner's stamp to front cover. Otherwise unmarked copy. An ethnography of.....
FROM SAVAGERY TO CIVILIZATION
Cobbett Press, 1946. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. vi, 112 pp. Cloth boards with maroon embossed titling and borders. Dust jacket bright with age toning to rear and wear at spine edges with light loss. Numerous plates. Vol. 1 in the series 'Past and Present: Studies in the History of Civ.'.....
Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity
Harvard University Press, March 2004. Paperback. xii, 268 pp. A clean, tight copy.
EDUCATION OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLE: A Presentation of the Folklore of the Bura Animists, with a Meaningful Experience Curriculum
Fleming H. Revell, 1934. Hardcover. 316 pp. 12mo, red cloth, black and cream stamped spine and front cover. B/W frontispiece + 9 photo plates. A few small damp splotches to spine, very clean and fresh otherwise with tight binding. First trade edition, based on the author's Columbia University thesis drawing.....
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Houghton Mifflin, January 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. xvii, 251 pp. 8vo, yellow paper over boards backed in purple cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner’s blindstamp to FFEP and RFEP, bookseller’s ticket to RFEP, light foxing, very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ very crisp and bright.
Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Athropology, No. 25)
Athlone Press, January 1963. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 159pp. Sewn binding in orange cloth. Clean, sharp copy with just some trivial rubbing to the extremities; DJ tips rubbed, price clipped.
New History of Anthropology
Wiley-Blackwell, December 2007. Trade Paperback.
TRISTES TROPIQUES
Criterion Books, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First American edition retaining the French title, printed in Great Britain from the Hutchinson sheets of the first English edition; retitled 'World on the Wane' the following year. Verso notes the omission of chapters XIV, XV, SVI and XXXIX from the.....
THE GREEK GENIUS AND ITS MEANING TO US
Oxford, 1915. Second Edition. Hardcover. 250 pp. Olive cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner name and date to FFEP, spine leaning slightly, otherwise an exceedingly clean and sharp copy. DJ price clipped, faintly sunned.
Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age
Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing on pale green paper. 256, xxxii pp. 8vo, Sewn binding in black cloth stamped in green, gilt and blind, map endpapers, b/w photo plates throughout. FINE copy without qualification, exceedingly clean and fresh in like DJ, price of $7.50.....
ERZAHLUNGEN DER KAMAYURA: Alto Xingu - Brasilien. Deutsche Ubersetzung und Kommentar (Studien zur Kulturkunde 30)
Franz Steiner, 1973. Paperback. 378pp. + 12 B/W plates. Front wrapper creased, short tear to rear tail of spine, very clean and sharp text.
THE TRUMAI INDIANS OF CENTRAL BRAZIL (Monographs of the American Ethnological Society)
J. J. Augustin, 1955. Hardcover. 108pp. 8vo, sewn binding in pale green cloth, gilt stamped spine lettering. Edges a bit sunned, very clean and sharp otherwise with tight binding.
The Two Crosses of Todos Santos: Survivals of Mayan Religious Ritual [Bollingen Series XXVII]
Princeton / Bollingen, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. xiii, 274pp. + B/W plates and color foldout. Large 8vo in coarse red cloth, backed in black cloth, gilt stamped spine lettering and bollingen symbol to front cover. Two faded spots to front cover, very clean and fresh otherwise with.....
Studies in the Anthropology of Bougainville, Solomon Islands (Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1-4)
Peabody Museum, 1949. Hardcover. 4 Volumes bound in 1 with distinct pagination and b/w plates. 4to, sewn binding in printed wraps. Wrappers worn at tips and perished at spine head, owner's name to front cover, sound and unmarked otherwise.
KAPAUKU PAPUANS AND THEIR LAW (Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 54)
Yale University Press, 1958. First Edition. Paperback. 296pp., 8 b/w plates. Sewn bindgin in printed wraps. Worn, pencil marks to a few pages, sound otherwise.
Mythic-Symbolic Language and Philosophical Anthropology: A Constructive Interpretation of the Thought of Paul Ricœur
Springer, July 1971. Paperback. viii, 158 pp. Sewn binding in paper wraps. Owner stamp to half title, front head corner bumped, small tear to front wrapper at head of spine, a bit of penciling to introduction, sound otherwise.
Dekuana: Beitrage zur Ethnologie der Makiritare
Renner, 1976. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In German. vii, 181pp + B/W photo plates. 4to, sewn binding in heathered brown and gray cloth; stamped in brown. Very clean, sharp copy; DJ with a few short tears.
Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland (Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; Vol. XXXI)
Peabody Museum, January 1947. First Edition. Paperback. 526pp. +111 b/w photo figures on 82 plates, + large folding map in rear pouch. Wrappers worn and perished at spine ends, coffee ring ot front cover, map pouch severed along outer side, map remains clean and sharp.
THE PSYCHOMENTAL COMPLEX OF THE TUNGUS
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, written directly in English and printed in Beijing, China by the Catholic University Press, Peking. xvi, 469pp. Folio, brown cloth, four raised bands, black stamped lettering to spine and front cover. Printed in dual columns and illustrated throughout.....
GYPSIES
Free Press, 1975. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. x, 330pp. 12mo. Owner's name and label to FFEP, crisp and square o/w in bright, clean DJ.