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New York: Falstaff Press Inc., 1933. From the Institute for Sex Research (The Kinsey Insttitute) Library, with their small book plate bottom corner half title page, library catalog numbers in pencil copyright page, "Duplicate" stamp rear pastedown, and sticker residue near base of spine. Number 629 of a Limited Edition of 3,000 copies. Bound in decorative brown cloth with gilt rules and gilt titles at spine. Page 5 has a small added triangle of paper near top corner, a small binding error. Otherwise, book is clean , tight, and square. According to Sigmund Freud, Bloch's studies were instrumental in the development of the anthropological approach to the theory of sexuality. Before Bloch, homosexuality was analyzed using a pathological approach. SCARCE in collectible condition, and with the added significance of having come from the Kinsey Institute !. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Limited Edition.
Introduction A L'Oeuvre De Marcel Mauss ( Association Copy ) by Claude Levi - Strauss - 1950
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Introduction A L'Oeuvre De Marcel Mauss ( Association Copy )
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Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises in All Races of the World
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Untrodden Fields of Anthropology Observations on the Esoteric Manners and Customs of a Semi-Civilized Peoples; Being A Record of Thirty Years' Experience in Asia, Africa, America and Oceania; Second Edition , in Two Volumes
by A French Army Surgeon
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Paris: Librairie de Medecine, Folklore et Anthropologie, 1898. #374 of 1,000 copies published for England and America. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, marbled end pages. Very Good, both volumes, gilt lettering mostly rubbed away, hinges starting, cloth a bit soiled, contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Graves of Greece
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Paris: Private Bibliophile's Edition, 1979. Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition, copy number 50 of 909 printed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on copyright page. RARE. Near Fine, front board bowed, in a Very Good dust jacket, light edge wear, dampstains bottom edge, mostly visible inside of jacket. About 1.050 sketches of graves and mortuary objects typically found in the cemeteries of Greece. With map showing the over 100 cemeteries where the graves and mortuary objects are located. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, the only library indicators being its stamp of and blindstamp to front end page. . Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Myths and Tales of the Matako Indians ( The Gran Chaco, Argentina )
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Goteborg, Sweden : Dr. Walter Kaudern, Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum, 1939. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front wrapper - "To G. Herzog with the compliments of A. Metraux". A wonderful folklore Association Copy, Alfred Metraux published landmark studies of South American Indians, Haitian Voodoo, and Easter Island. As a human rights leader he participated in the framing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was a permanent member of UNESCO's Department of Social Science. George Herzog was a noted anthropologist, linguist, and ethnomusicologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University and later assembled the Archives of Folk and Primitive Music at Columbia University. Reprinted without changes of paging from "Ethnological Studies, 9, 1939, the book is Very Good, light soiling and edge wear to wrappers. 127 pp. Stamped Herzog Collection at first page. SIGNED works by Metraux are RARE. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Printed…
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Primitives and the Supernatural
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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1935. Near Fine, a bit of toning to end pages, top edge dusty, in a Very Good dust jacket, small chips at spine ends and flap fold tips, light rubbing. Translated from the French by Lilian A. Clare. One of his classic works on the "primitive" mind, Levy-Bruhl influenced the psychological theory of C. G. Jung.. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises in All Races of the World
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New York: Falstaff Press Inc., 1933. From the Institute for Sex Research (The Kinsey Insttitute) Library, with their small book plate bottom corner half title page, library catalog numbers in pencil copyright page, "Duplicate" stamp rear pastedown, and sticker residue near base of spine. Number 629 of a Limited Edition of 3,000 copies. Bound in decorative brown cloth with gilt rules and gilt titles at spine. Page 5 has a small added triangle of paper near top corner, a small binding error. Otherwise, book is clean , tight, and square. According to Sigmund Freud, Bloch's studies were instrumental in the development of the anthropological approach to the theory of sexuality. Before Bloch, homosexuality was analyzed using a pathological approach. SCARCE in collectible condition, and with the added significance of having come from the Kinsey Institute !. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Limited Edition.
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Untrodden Fields of Anthropology Observations on the Esoteric Manners and Customs of a Semi-Civilized Peoples; Being A Record of Thirty Years' Experience in Asia, Africa, America and Oceania; Second Edition , in Two Volumes
by A French Army Surgeon
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Paris: Librairie de Medecine, Folklore et Anthropologie, 1898. #374 of 1,000 copies published for England and America. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, marbled end pages. Very Good, both volumes, gilt lettering mostly rubbed away, hinges starting, cloth a bit soiled, contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Graves of Greece
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Paris: Private Bibliophile's Edition, 1979. Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition, copy number 50 of 909 printed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on copyright page. RARE. Near Fine, front board bowed, in a Very Good dust jacket, light edge wear, dampstains bottom edge, mostly visible inside of jacket. About 1.050 sketches of graves and mortuary objects typically found in the cemeteries of Greece. With map showing the over 100 cemeteries where the graves and mortuary objects are located. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, the only library indicators being its stamp of and blindstamp to front end page. . Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Myths and Tales of the Matako Indians ( The Gran Chaco, Argentina )
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Goteborg, Sweden : Dr. Walter Kaudern, Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum, 1939. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front wrapper - "To G. Herzog with the compliments of A. Metraux". A wonderful folklore Association Copy, Alfred Metraux published landmark studies of South American Indians, Haitian Voodoo, and Easter Island. As a human rights leader he participated in the framing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was a permanent member of UNESCO's Department of Social Science. George Herzog was a noted anthropologist, linguist, and ethnomusicologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University and later assembled the Archives of Folk and Primitive Music at Columbia University. Reprinted without changes of paging from "Ethnological Studies, 9, 1939, the book is Very Good, light soiling and edge wear to wrappers. 127 pp. Stamped Herzog Collection at first page. SIGNED works by Metraux are RARE. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Printed…
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Primitives and the Supernatural
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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1935. Near Fine, a bit of toning to end pages, top edge dusty, in a Very Good dust jacket, small chips at spine ends and flap fold tips, light rubbing. Translated from the French by Lilian A. Clare. One of his classic works on the "primitive" mind, Levy-Bruhl influenced the psychological theory of C. G. Jung.. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Racial Analysis of Human Populations in Relation to Their Ethnogenesis and Some Possibilities for Estimating Inter-Population Relationship on the Basis of Continuous Traits in Current Anthropology Volume 3, Number 1
by Andrzej Kazimierz Wierciski (1930-2003) and Tadeuz Bielicki
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51 volumes complete with diagrams, illustrations, plates, maps, figures, indexes. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in wrappers. Some reprints, most first editions.Current Anthropology, whose first issue was launched in 1959, is one of the discipline's oldest and most distinguished journals, and has been sponsored since its founding by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The journal was the first of its kind, championing an interdisciplinary approach alongside a commitment to international dialogue, while fostering a community of international scholars. It became known for its innovative format that combined major research papers with responses solicited from the field. The format, now known as the "CA treatment" was unique in its time and was copied by other journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences. While the journal has changed over the years, its original principles are still clearly present and can be traced back to the unique collaboration between the Foundation, led by Paul Fejos,and the…
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Society and Economy in Mexico
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xxii+163 pages with photographs, charts, tables, graphs and bibliographies. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Forward by Jeffrey Bortz. Statistical Abstract of Latin America Supplement Series, Supplement 10. First edition.Contents: the Six Ideological Phases of Mexico's "Permanent Revolution" since 1910 by James W Wilkie; The Development of Engineering Expertise for Social and Economic Modernization in Mexico since 1929 by David E Lorey; The Class Structure of Mexico, 1895-1980 by Stephanie Granato and Aida Mostkoff; Complexities of Measuring the Food Situation in Mexico: Supply versus Self-Sufficiency of Basic Grains, 1935-82 by James W Wilkie; The Dramatic Growth of Mexico's Economy and the Rise of Statist Government Budgetary Power, 1919-82 by James W Wilkie.Condition:Corners bumped else a better than very good copy.
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Peldanos en la Conciencia: Restros en la Plastica Prehispanica
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101 pages with frontispiece and pictorial title, 88 illustrations and 25 color plates. Square royal octavo (9 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black label to spine with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. Second printing Limited to 3000 copies. The author: "The faces depicted by Mesoamerican man are artistic expression of different peoples. Here I have wanted to look at them not only as objects of art, but also in the light of what they communicate about the human being in himself and in his relationship with him. world that has to be ordered around him ". Condition: Points rubbed. Jacket edge wear with chips, tears and creases else very good in like jacket.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
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London: Thames and Hudson, 1998 216 pages with plates, diagrams, maps, illustrations, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 1/4" x 9") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine decorative vignette to front cover. Preface by Isabel Larco de Alvarez-Calderon. Foreword by Harry S Parker. 1st edition. Contents: The Spirit of Rafael Larco Hoyle: An Introduction by Kathleen Berrin; Rafael Larco Hoyle (1901-1966) by Clifford Evans; Life and Afterlife in Pre-Hispanic Pru: Contextualizing the masterworks of the Museo of Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera by Richard L Burger; The Coastal Islands of Peru: Myths and Natural Resources by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco; Moche Art: Myth, History and Rite by Elizabeth P Benson; Deer Hunting and Combat: Parallel Activities in the Moche World by Christopher B Donnan; Andean Aesthetics by Esther Paztory; Catalogue of Objects by Elizabeth P Benson, Susan E Bergh, Richard L Burger, Heidi King and Joanne Pillsbury. Condition: Jacket price clipped, small chip at…
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The People Called Apache
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447 pages with maps, 16 color plates, over 300 black and white photographs, and over 200 drawings, bibliography and index. Folio (12 3/4" x 9 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark brown cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Drawings by Thomas Mails. First edition. They called themselves The People, but to nearly everyone else in their world they were known as The Enemy. And they earned the name in every respect. Seldom has any people fought harder for the preservation of their territory and their way of life. We know them today as the Apache, an ancient people who, in historic times, made a prolonged and desperate effort to drive the Spanish, the Mexicans and finally the Anglo-Americans out of their ancestral lands. Unsuccessful, they were placed in four reservations, on or near their original ranges in Arizona and New Mexico, some of the most ruggedly beautiful land in this country. There most of them still live, accepting the White ways yet keeping many of the old…
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"Ecstatic renovation!" : Street Art Celebrating Sierra Leone's 1992 Revolution
by Joseph A. Opala; Raymond Desouza George (forward)
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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