THE PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Stanford, California: CSLI Publications, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
Anthropology
EPHRAIM GEORGE SQUIER AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "Although Squier is best known today for the classic book he coauthored with Edwin H. Davis, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, Terry A. Barnhart shows... More
RITUAL AND KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE BAKTAMAN OF NEW GUINEA
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. "This major work by Fredrik Barth analyzes the culture, particularly the ritual life, of a recently contacted aboriginal society - the Baktaman, a nation of 183... More
ONE DISCIPLINE, FOUR WAYS: British, German, French, and American Anthropology
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
KWAKIUTL CULTURE AS REFLECTED IN MYTHOLOGY
New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. "The underlying thought of this attempt was that the tales probably contain all that is interesting to the narrators and that in this way a.... More
SOCIETY AND KNOWLEDGE: The Growth of Human Traditions
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. World Perspectives, Volume Six. Small octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with white and black stamping. Internally crisp and clean. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn... More
ROUTES: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Clifford meditates on our relentlessly moving world in this collection of anthropological essays, travel writing, and miscellanea. Numerous textual figures. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with... More
BEYOND ART: Pleistocene Image and Symbol
San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of papers from the Second Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Foundation Endowment Symposium, which took place at the California Academy of Sciences on... More
TOWARD A MARXIST ANTHROPOLOGY: Problems and Perspectives
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. The result of the first international symposium of anthropologists who situate themselves in the Marxist tradition. The contributors reflect a wide spectrum of persuasions and commitments, including... More
INVISIBLE GENEALOGIES: A History of American Anthropology
Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "...offers an alternative, compelling vision of the development of anthropology in North America, one that emphasizes continuity rather than discontinuity from legendary founder Franz... More
STUDIES IN SHAMANISM: Based on Papers read at the Symposium on Shamanism held at Abo on the 6th-8th of September, 1962
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1967. Trade paperback. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis I. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Partially unopened. A crisp and clean copy. More
JUNIPER FUSE: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book envisions and examines some of the origins and developments of imagination recorded in cave wall imagery (for the most part in southwestern France) during... More
ANTHROPOLOGY AT WAR: World War I and the Science of Race in Germany
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A crisp, unread copy. More
TIME OUT OF TIME: Essays on the Festival
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. "This collection of essays on festivals includes descriptions, analyses, and interpretations of festivals from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, by some... More
ON SYMBOLS IN ANTHROPOLOGY: Essays in Honor of Harry Hoijer 1980
Malibu, California: Published for the UCLA Department of Anthropology by Undena Publications, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original yellow cloth-covered boards over a brown leatherette spine, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A.... More
THE ENIGMA OF THE GIFT
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Hardcover. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A crisp, unread copy with a light bump to the bottom corner... More
ART OF THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS: The Finds from Avdeevo
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1995. First Edition. Trade paperback. "Unique examples of Paleolithic art and an extremely rich collection of stone and bone implements make the site of Avdeevo one of the most interesting and important... More
A PLACE APART: An Anthropological Study of the Icelandic World
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Eleven illustrations, with a map. A volume in the Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine... More
KON-TIKI AND I: A Sketch Book of he Kon-Tiki Expedition
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Rand McNally & Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. A lively retelling of the Thor Heyerdahl's famous expedition across the pacific, together with the sketch book Hesselberg (1914-72) kept on the... More
SACRIFICE: Its Nature and Function
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the French by W.D. Halls. This essay is described by E.E. Evans-Pritchard in his foreword as..... More
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE HUMMINGBIRD: Cultural Roots of a Zinacantecan Mythical Poem
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. More
ANTHROPOLOGY AND GLOBAL COUNTERINSURGENCY
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy. More
ANTHROPOLOGY AND GLOBAL COUNTERINSURGENCY
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. The top corners are lightly bumped; else a crisp, unread copy. More
Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. First edition. Soft cover. 264 p. Textual photographs. First edition, issued simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback. Inscribed by the editor on the front flyleaf. Original paper wrappers... More
OLDUVAI GORGE 1951-61, Volume 1: A Preliminary Report on the Geology and Fauna
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Dr Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence, and dating by the... More