Ethnology

David & Charles, 1977. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. V.g./v.g., wrapper sl. soiled; owner's signature on e.p. Offers insights into the peoples and cultures of Iran. 168 pp., 8 pp. of monochrome photographs. more information

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Dost, 1977. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Originally published by Dost Yayinlari in 1977, this English translation is aimed principally at students of drama as well as the wider public. The author was Professor of Dramatic Art at the University of Ankara and an expert on Byzantine drama. Turkish shadow puppetry is an ancient art performed by travelling players using projected images, music and speech, with a cast of traditional characters. The two main protagonists are Hacivat (pronounced 'Hadjivat') and Karagšz. Animals as well as humans are represented (avoiding one of the trickiest issues for live theatre) and each character has satirical characteristics which the audience can instantly recognise: for example, Bebe Ruhi (who looks a bit like Mr Punch) has a speech impediment. Some ethnologists believe that the tradition was carried via India from Java; others believe it is autochthonous. The book is in v.g. condition with some abrasion of the covers at edges and slight transfer of ink from the folded-over covers to the end papers. It contains 85 colour illustrations and 49 in monochrome. more information

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Book Club Associates, 1975. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. V.g./v.g. Profiles the people of Persia from ancient times to the modern era, with an emphasis on social and cultural history. 204 pp. 14 monochrome photographs, 3 maps. more information

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Iskusstvo Publishers, Moscow, 1973. 1st edition. Hard covers, plastic translucent dust jacket. V.g/V.g. V.g. A scholarly account of the development of textile printing in western Europe from its earliest manifestations in renaissance Italy to the late flowering of the method in 18th century France. N1863. more information

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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. Slight edge wear to jacket, pages sl. tanned at edges. 334 pp. more information

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Collins New Naturalist series no. 18, 1951. New Naturalist. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/Fair. Dust jacket torn at top of spine, enclosed in plastic sleeve. Bookplate of South Wilts Grammar School for Girls, Salisbury inscribed with a prize dedication to Brenda Higgs, Feb. 20,1952. An interesting study of cultural diversity in the British Isles, it aims to show how a sense of place can help preserve biodiversity in its broadest sense. 38 colour photographs, 38 monochrome photographs, 76 line drawings (by Alison Birch). more information

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Prestel, Munich, 2007. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new /As new. Catalogue of a fine collection of early Siberian and western N. American artefacts collected by Russian explorers, and brought to Germany by Baron Georg Thomas von Asch, physician in St. Petersburg in the early years of the city. 304 pp. more information

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British Museum Press, 1991. 1st English edition. Colour-printed paper covers. As new/No Jacket. Nearly new; spine sl. sunned; pp. 133-137 have tiny corner folds; includes author's inscription 'to John [Edmondson] with all good wishes, Mike'. This account is based on research carried out mainly in the field in Sumbawa while studying for a Ph.D. at the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, including one of a shirt made from a 1960s flour sack courtesy of Hull University, this is a scholarly yet accessible treatment. more information

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Hutchinson, London, 1961. 1st English edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. Good /No Jacket. Good condition. Bookplate of "Chairman's Library, the London Press Exchange Ltd", t.p. slightly soiled but inside a tidy copy. The book was originally published in French under the evocative title "Tristes tropiques" by Librairie Plon in 1956, and is sometimes listed among the 20th century's greatest books. Translated by John Russell, with ch. 14-17 and 39 of the original edition omitted. A minor classic of ethnology, this edition is let down a bit by its rather feeble index. more information

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Hutchinson, London, 1961. 1st English edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. Good /No Jacket. Good condition. Bookplate of "Chairman's Library, the London Press Exchange Ltd", t.p. slightly soiled but inside a tidy copy. The book was originally published in French under the evocative title "Tristes tropiques" by Librairie Plon in 1956, and is sometimes listed among the 20th century's greatest books. Translated by John Russell, with ch. 14-17 and 39 of the original edition omitted. A minor classic of ethnology, this edition is let down a bit by its rather feeble index. more information

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Mead & Beckett, 1987. Australian edition published simultaneously with the Hamish Hamilton first edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Price clipped. A classic account of the early impacts of Europeans on the idyllic native communities of the South Pacific. Well illustrated and very well written. 252 pp. more information

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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1966. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. xiv, 230 pp. more information

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Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1994. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. A well illustrated account o traditional Bulgarian dress, carpets and other folk artefacts. Edited by Vjara Kovatcheva-Kostadinova. 92 pp. more information

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The travel book club, n.d. (1950s?). Book Club edition. Boards, remnants of dust jacket. Good/ Poor . Good, in ragged remnants of d.w. Top edge dust speckled. An interesting account of life with an Iranian nomadic tribe, well illustrated with monochrome photographs. 128 pp. more information

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