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Social Sciences : Anthropology


Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development - Knowledge and Sentiments in Conflict

Routledge, London and New York
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Totemism

Merlin Press, London
8vo in dark brown faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 116pp, index
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Essays on The Problem of Tribe - Proceedings of the 1967 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society

Amercian Ethnological Society, Seattle & London
Large 4to. in stiff card covers, 227pp
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The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia - An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea

Routledge & Keegan Paul, London
3rd Edition Reprinted. Heavy, large 8vo. in red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 506pp, many plates, plans etc in text, index
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Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 29)

Athlone Press / University of London, London
Large 8vo in red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 181pp, glossary, bibliography, index
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Crossbloods - Bone Courts, Bingo, and other Reports

University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
Large 8vo Paperback. 323pp, illustrations in text
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Relationships, Residence and the Individual - A Rural Panamanian Community

Routledge & Keegan Paul, London
8vo in navy faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 274pp, plates, bibliography, index etc., publishers ads at rear
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Latin American Culture - An Anthropological Synthesis

Harper & Row, New York
Large 8vo in brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 423pp, bibliography, index. Issued without a wrapper
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Pygmies and Dream Giants

Victor Gollancz, London
8vo in green faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 295pp, map, index
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Works and Lives - The Anthropologist As Author

Polity Press, London
8vo in purple cloth, silver lettering to spine, 157pp, index
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Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America. (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology - Bulletin 33)

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology / Government Printing Office, Washington
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Recent Discoveries Attributed to Early Man in America (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology - Bulletin 66)

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology / Government Printing Office, Washington
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Excavation of a site at Santiago Ahuitzotla, D F Mexico (Hardcover First Edition)

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology / Government Printing Office, Washington
Large 8vo in publishers' blind embossed, olive green glazed cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 56pp, illustrations in text, index, folding colour plan, 19pp plates. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology - Bulletin 74
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The Face of the Fox

Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago
4th Edition. Large 8vo Paperback. 158pp, plus plates at rear
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Livestock and Poultry Dynamic in Tribal Life - Koraput

Om Prakask / Modern Book Depot, Bhubaneswar
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When Men and Women Mattered A History of Gender Relations among the Owan of Nigeria

University of Rochester Press
Crown 8vo, 220pp, bibliography, index
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Navajo Political Process - Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Volume 9

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington
Folio in gilt embossed blue cloth covers. 71pp, plates at rear, folding maps etc
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A Comparison of Formative Cultures in the Americas - Diffusion Or the Psychic Unity of Man (Smithsonian Contributions For Anthropology, Volume II)

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington
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Archeological Investigations on the Rio Napo, Eastern Ecuador - Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology Volume 6

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington
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Early Cultures and Human Ecology in South Coastal Guatemala - Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology Vol. 3 (III) Whole Volume

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington
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Sandpaintings of the Navaho Shootingway and the Walcott Collection - Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 13

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington
Folio. 102pp, plates, index
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Masks - Their Meaning and Function

Ferndale Editions, London
Hardback 1st Edition 4to. 228pp, plates in colour and b/w, index
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The Fourth World of the Hopis

Crown, New York
Hardback Large 8vo. 239pp, notes, glossary. 1st Edition
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A Small and Charming World

Collins, London
221pp
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New Lives for Old - Cultural Transformation - Manus, 1928-1953

Victor Gollancz, London
1st Edition Thus 8vo 548pp, plates, bibliography, index
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Man Eats Man - The Story of Cannibalism

Jupiter, London
Hardback Small 4to in laminated boards. 164pp, illustrations in text, bibliography, 1st Edition
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American Indian Ceremonial Dances - Navajo, Pueblo, Apache, Zuni (Revised edition of 'Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the South-West')

Bounty Books, New York
1st Edition Thus. Large 4to. 192pp, illus
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During My Time - Florence Edenshaw Davidson - A Haida Woman

University of Washington Press, Seattle
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Male and Female - A Study of the Sexes in A Changing World

Victor Gollancz, London
8vo in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 477pp, bibliography, index
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Sex Beliefs and Customs

Peter Neville
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