Search Results: Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology from Lawrence Jones

Canberra: Department of External Territories, 1947. 42pp. Later red cloth. Bound without original wraps/cover. Small bookseller label inside front cover, light foxing to endpapers. Stencilled on one side of each page. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. Folio.

Utgefandi, Iceland. 1984-1991: Olafsfjardarkaupstadur, 1984. VERY HEAVY-will require additional postage to most destinations. 3 volume set-complete in slipcase. 334, 404, 378pp; index, bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Blue leather (faux?) in jackets with slipcase. Volume 3 has some bug marks to edges but otherwise all volumes show only minor edge wear to jacket. TEXT IN ICELANDIC. Extensive local history of the small town of Olafsfjordur in northern Iceland with a population of only 785 in 2019. It is located north of Akureiry right on the Arctic Ocean coastline. Volume 1 (1984) Saga Olafsfjardar 1883-1944 Pettbylismundun, fiskveidar og fiskvinnsla (the commercial side of town-fishing, fishing industry etc). Volume 2 (1988) Saga Olafsfjardar 1883-1944 (social life) and Volume 3 (1991) Saga Olafsfjardar eftir 1945 (town & community after 1945). 1944 was chosen as the year of changes as it was the year Iceland gained independence from Denmark.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. 3 volumes (complete). 884pp (total) + prelims/bibliographies. Black cloth in jackets. Ex-library with usual stamps etc (inc withdrawn stamps). Slight fading to spines, light foxing. A nice set. Vol 1: Early Times to te Late Seventeenth Century; Vol 2:Peter the great to Nicholas I; Vol 3 Alexander II to the february Revolution.Include selections representing about 700 primary sources dealing with political, legal, and administrative history (including central and local government, armed forces, revolutionary movements); economic history; social, cultural and intellectual history (including literature, science, education, religion, the press); history of the Lithuanian Russian state, the Ukraine, Belorussia, Siberia, the Cossacks, history of Russion expansion, history of non-Russian nationalities; diplomatic history and the history of Russian foreign relations. Approx 75% of the items have not previously been published in English. Important reference.. First… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii,219pp, index, glossary, references, bw ills, maps. Or brown cloth, no jacket. Slight fading at top of front cover, some foxing to endpapers/edges/prelims. SIGNED and inscribed (To Marney) by author on front free endpaper. The use of Kava among the Tanna people of Vanuatu.. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii,219pp, index, glossary, references, bw ills, maps. Or brown cloth lacking jacket. Ex-university library with more than the usual number of stamps etc (inc cancelled stamp). The use of Kava among the Tanna people of Vanuatu.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

Canberra: Australian National University, 1986. 208pp, errata, bw ills, map. Or gray card. Covers rubbed, lightly edgeworn and creased; date stamp to contents page. Articles include Charles Rowley; legal classification of race in Australia; social security access; a model Aboriginal state; Eora and English at Port Jackson: A Spanish view; Herman Klaatsch and the Tiwi, 1906; the erathquake and Halley's Comet (2 Jiwarli texts); the civilisation/Chritianisation debate; a quasi-policing expedition in Port Phillip 1838; off the mission stations in Gippsland 1860-90; early Queensland Aboriginal photographs by Amalie Dietrich; postcard as source for Aboriginal bography; and Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy.. Periodical. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: UNSW, 1995. ix, 160pp, index, bibliography, endnotes. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover, very light foxing to page edges. For 50000 years before white settlement the Aboriginal people were an integral part of the Australian environment. They harvested the land and changed the environment to suit themselves. Fire was their tool for doing this. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1974. ix, 309pp + 67 bw plates at rear, index, bibliography, appendices, diagrams/plans/tables, map. Maroon boards in jacket. Minor fading at and nadjacent to spine. A lovely copy of this rarity. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 1988. 167pp. Or blue leather with gilt vignette and title. Foxing to endpapers/prelims. Ltd to 1500 copies. Facsimile of the original published in 1888. Covers origin, religion, intelligence, language, music, initiation, half castes, Corroborees etc, etc.. Limited Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1966. xviii, 382pp, index, ep maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Foxing to endpapers and prelims. Jacket has light rubs to flap folds and is foxed. Facts and opinions drawn from a diverse group of people having an interest in various aspects of the aborigine in the economy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1977. xxiv, 185pp, index, maps, notes, endpaper maps. Or boards in jacket. Offset toning to endpapers, prev owner stamp and name to half-title, occasional minor foxing, light edge wear to jacket. An anthropologist reveals the secret and sacred practices of the Australian aboriginal shamanic tradiiton concentration on the karadji. Looks at the rites of initiation by which young aboriginal men begin the degrees of shamanis initiation, beforee focusing on the men of high degree, believed to possess magical powers including the ability to kill and cure, control weather, anticipate future events and appear or disappear at will.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Phaidon Press, 2007. 447pp, index, further reading,map, chronology, glossary, num col ills. Or card covers with integral (French) flaps. Near new. Surveys the great variety of Aboriginal art, discussing paintings (on bark, rock, human bodies and canvas), sculptures, weapons and utensils, from across Australia, bringing out common themes but also highlighting regional diversity., . Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Adelaide: Government Printer, 1978. 12pp, references, col ills, map. Or pictorial stapled wraps. . First Separate Issue. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press, 1963. 143pp, index, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket rubbed at folds, small chip at top of spine, NOT price clipped. Tape stains to endpapers, light toning/foxing to page edges. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1984. xix, 366pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, bw ills, maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket faded on spine and edges of rear panel, otherwise as new. A balanced account of the Aboriginals of the subtropical coast at the time of their earliest contact with the white man. The region the author describes in centred on Brisbane, extending along the coast from Fraser Island to Evans head in NSW and inland to the Great Dividing Range covering some 20 tribal regions. Draws on early eyewitness accounts, photographs, place-nmaes, languages, legends, archaeology and museum collections in the US and UK, as well as Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

Brisbane: Post Pressed, 2010. 196pp, index,appendices,references, diagrams, col ills. Or card covers. As new. Draws on the knowledge systems of the Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu and Marrithiel turning the metaphors therein to give voice for Indigenous action in ways of knowing and being on the contemporary landscapes created by Western systems of higher education in Australia.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. Small 4to.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. xiv, 236pp, index, bibliography, tables, appendix, bw ills, 1 col ill. Maroon card. Light edge wear to covers, very light even toning to page edges. An accomplished ethnomusicologist with a wide knowledge of Western and Aboriginal music explores the educational possibilities of the medium.. Second Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: AE Press, 1988. xi, 124pp, maps, index, bibliography, bw & col ills, pictorial endpapers. Or pictorial glossy boards. Near new. The Dutch were the first Europeans to explore Australia and continue to play an important role in Australia society.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Melbourne: Australian Rock Art research Association, 2000. 120pp, references, appendix, diagrams, maps, bw ills. Pictorial card. Near new. Part 1- Radiometric dating of rock pictures; Part 2 Comparisons with other dating Methods; Part 3 Rock-picture dating: new results and identification of problems; Part 4 Discussion and comment. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1971. xvii, 336pp, index, bibliography, glossary, bw ills, tables. Or red cloth in jacket. Prev owner name etc on front free endpaper. Split in rear spine fold of jacket, jacket spine faded. The Afipko village-group consists of 22 closely related villages among the Igbo peopel of Nigeria and presents a highly complex system of social groupings ranging from the basic patrilineal clan to the village-group as a whole. The author analyses the organisational forms of their society, defines the chains of authority and examines the question of individual leadership.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo.