Anthropology from Sorensen Books : Your Vancouver Island Bookshop

It was only 4,000 years ago when, for the first time in history, homes of the living replaced tombs of the dead as the most permanent human-made features of the landscape. The key was the shift from stone to bronze, in tools from axes to swords. Over 100 photos and drawings freshly document these years of British prehistory, when vast… Read more

Our oldest ancestors are hunter-gatherers who lived from 2.5 million to only 10,000 years ago. New discoveries in disciplines from climatology to anthropology reveal the dramatic story, illustrated in over 150 photos, maps, and diagrams, of how the earliest peoples of Britain and Europe made their way there from Africa. Expert analyses treat the oldest-known human remains, the first stone… Read more

Reading copies only. 2 volumes. Complete with worn wraps. Interior clean. Bulletin no 119 Volume 1 : Totem Poles according to crests and topics. Bulletin No 119 volume 2 Totem Poles according to location.

Native Power, a concept central to most Native cultures, is based on the understanding that a form of spiritual energy animates all things in the natural world.Human survival depends on a strong alliance with, and reverence towards, the natural beings that manifest and share this power. 250 pages.

'Noble Savages is Napoleon Chagnon's equal-time response to the libels that were piled upon him by reckless journalists and irresponsible colleagues. For those who followed the debate it is a welcome summary and for those who did not it is a brilliant introduction to the innocent nobility of the fierce Yanomamo and the pettry savagery of the mean-minded savants who… Read more

Mayan, Mayan gods, Creation,

Hardcover no dj 490pp incl index

'On Saturday, May 22, 1971, iI went to Sonora, Mexico, to see don Jan Marus, a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, with whom I had been associated since 1961.I thought that my visit on that day was going to be in no way different from the scores of times i had gone to see him in the ten years I had been… Read more