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GRAMATICA RARAMURI by DAVID BRAMBILA, S.J - 2010
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GRAMATICA RARAMURI
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NEW ~ 644pp. Brief preface by Zacarias Marquez Terrazas, Departamento de Investigacion Historica de la Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, 2010. David Brambila, S.J. colaboracion de Jose Vergara Bianchi, S.F. Preface to first ed. Norogachi, 1953. Eighty chapters with an appendix.
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- Keywords INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE IDIOMA LENGUA INDIGENA MEXICO CHIHUAHUA RARAMURI TARAHUMARA LINGUISTICS LINGUISTICA SPANISH ESPANOL
New Methods for Old-Age Research
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Lenguas Indigenas De Colombia: Una Vision Descriptiva
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The Glass Key
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Hammett, Dashiell: The Glass Key. Grosset & Dunlap Movie Tie-In Edition, 1931. Detective Mystery. USED. Good condition hardcover in Good- condition Rare Original Madison Square lime green movie cast Dust Jacket features Brian Donleavy, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd.
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Porgy
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THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.
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Miss Ulysses From Puka-Puka: The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter
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The Fourth Horseman: a short history of epidemics, plagues, famine and other scourges
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The Ainu Ecosystem: Environment and Group Structure
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U. Tokyo Press; 1972. Revised edition. UTP 3045676825149. Hardcover; 170 pg. Dust jacket surface rubbed; edges lightly chipped, 1 small tear in top edge. Brown cloth cover; bottom of spine & corners lightly bumped. Owner's name on front free-endpaper. Some light creasing in pages and light pencil marks in text. Several fold-out genealogical charts & maps, esp. large map, 17 by 17 inches, tipped-in back endpaper. Text is in English.
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Por Tierras Ignotas. Viajes y Observaciones en la Region del Rio de las Balsas
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2 volumes: 260 pages with maps (some folding), illustrations, plates (some in color) and figures; 253 pages with maps, tables, illustrations, figures, plates, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/4") volume one rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and original wrappers bound in; volume 2 bound in original wrappers. Inscribed to Professor George M Foster. Copy 244 of 1000 copies issued. First edition.A mining engineer turned ethnologist, the author has done a much needed service by studying in anthropological terms an isolated region inhabited by mestizos. As the method was extensive rather than intensive, the data are mostly in the realm of material culture and linguistics. This work covers all aspects of the area surveyed, from the geography, climate, indigenous peoples, their economics as well as the history. This includes language, the archaeology of the region and a survey of even some potential sites. A scarce work on this subject.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in…
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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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Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: volumes 1 and 2 : Selections from the British Folklorists
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1968. Two volume set. First editions. Hard covers in dust jackets. Published London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1968, first printings. 8vo., x+402; 403-751pp. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Both volumes fine in price-clipped, near fine dust jackets with edgewear. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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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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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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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
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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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