Search Results: Anthropology from The Owl at the Bridge

New Haven, Yale UP, 1965. . Soft Cover. xviii, 452 p., photos, 23 cm. Studies the effects of the disparity between high occupational status and low civic status during aparteid. Stock #29,143. Good+/ wrappers. Society, culture, government.

Yale U. Southeast Asia Studies [1990] . Soft Cover. x, 112p. 22.5 cm. Study of a village in northwest Thailand. Stock# 31,742. VG/ wrappers

N.Y., Macmillan, 1924. A pioneering anthropological study of early Europeans. Based on lectures delivered in 1906 and revised and expanded. Hard Cover. xxxv, 689 pages, 368 illus., folding frontispiece; 29.5 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#30878.

Washington, GPO, 1921. Hard Cover. 794, xi p., illus., index, 29 cm. Accompanying paper is Franz Boas' Ethnology of the Kwakiutl (p. 45-794); includes long section (p. 305-601) of recipes. Stock# 38,990. Good+/ no dj. Northwest American Indians; sociology; anthropology; cookery; food; culture.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. 191 p., illus., plates, 24 cm. Pathfinding collection of essays connecting one of the oldest fields of study with the new discipline of anthropology. Bookplate of famed historian of Greece C.A. Robinson. Stock# 34,708.Good+, covers soiled/ no dj.

Boston, Little, Brown [1973].. Hard Cover. 448 p., index, illus.; 25.5 cm. Based on Bronowski's successful BBC television series. Stock #29,753x. Vg/ dj vg. Another copy, pencil underlining, front endpaper torn, else good. $8.00. Sociology, anthropology; behavior.

N.Y., William Morrow, 1972. Hard Cover. [xi], 351 p. illus., 21.5 cm. Book Club Edition. Autobiography of the anthropologist, including studies at Columbia with Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas, her early field trips to Samoa, and her personal and professional life to World War II. Stock# 30,876. Vg/ dj vg.

Riverside Press, Cambridge / Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1961. 'First Printing'. First Edition. Hard Cover. viii, [1], 322 p., endpaper map, illus.; 22 cm. "The area covered by this book... sweeps as far north as the Tropic of Cancer... as far east as Easter Island and as far west as the mainland of Asia. ...an impression of the Pacific and the people who live there. ...When one grapples with emptiness, silence, vastness and passion, facts, just facts, can be feeble and a disservice." Dj edges worn; good+. Stock#24868.

Electa [Milano, 1985]. Hard Cover. 337 p., illus. incl. color, diagrams, photos, maps; 25 cm. Issued with the exhibition "Nuraghi a Milano." The Bronze Age Nuraghi culture of Sardinia / Sardegna is being explored through excavations. Stock#34062. Fine/ dj & slipcase fine.

New Haven, HRAF [Human Relations Area File], 1967. Hard Cover. Sixteen articles "selected to illustrate different ways of analyzing social customs for cross-cultural comparisons." 30,884. xi, 365p. 21.5 cm. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Doubleday, 1970. Hard Cover. xxiv, 91 p. 21.5 cm. Argues that because post-WWII youth have been exposed to an electronic intercommunicating network, they have an experience older generations have not known. Stock# 30,877. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1967. Soft Cover. xvi, 284 p., illus., 23 cm. Textbook of cultural anthropology. Stock# 30,887. Vg/ wrappers.

[Heidelberg?] Nadjmabadi, 1975. Soft Cover. iii, 177 p. illus., 21 cm. A Heidelberg dissertation, in German, on the nomadic tribes of Luristan in Iran and of their tribal and kinship structures. Stock# 31,733.

[Lima, Peru] Centro de Investigaciones de Zonas Aridas [Lima, Peru, 1988. Soft Cover. 263 p., charts (one folding), photos, diagrams;30.5 cm. La vida en tierras aridas y semiaridas [Life in Arid & Semi-Arid Lands]. Capitulo A-2: Implementos líticos tallados sin forma definida o amorfos [Stone Tools Carved Without Definite Shape]. Stock# 34042. Vg/ paper. Prehistory; archeology; American history; South America; anthropology.

N.Y., Atheneum, 1962.. Hard Cover. viii, 183 p. 21.5 cm. "An exploration of the changes in man's vision of nature and himself." Stock #29,759. Vg, discrete ex-lib marks/ dj vg.

N.Y., Vintage/Random House, 1959. Soft Cover. 6 p.l., 266 p., 18.5 cm. On the Bushmen, residents of the Kalihari, Botswana. Stock# 34,098. Fair/ paper.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956. Hard Cover. xv, 540 p. 48 illus., 21.5 cm. Translation by James Cleugh. Archaeology and questions about man's origins reflect age-old human curiosity. Stock# 30,054. Good+/ dj poor.

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1923. Hard Cover. 316 p. 47 illustrations, 3 maps (1 fold. 36x36 cm.) 22 cm. A "study of the ethnography of the Bakaonde and their neighbours inhabiting the Kasempa district of northern Rhodesia." Stock# 30,154. Vg/ no dj.

Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1947. Soft Cover. This was the textbook used to teach a couple of generations of French university students, including managers of the French colonial empire inhabited by people of primitive mentalities. 541 pages, 22 cm. Good, paper browning/ wrappers. Another copy, poor, spine "repaired" with tape, $7.50. Stock#30298x.

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1967.. Soft Cover. 363 p.20 cm. Journalistic sketches of West African Societies from Algiers to the Congo. Stock #29,590. Vg/ wrappers.