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

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.

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.

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.

[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.

Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1951. First published in 1910, this was a standard text of the pioneering school of French anthropology when France colonized the "inferior societies". Soft Cover. 473 pages, 23 cm. Good, paper browning/ wrappers. Stock#30297.

NY, University Books [1966]. Hard Cover. Two volumes: xv, 559, 660 p., index, photos, illus., music; 24.5 cm. The Thonga of Portuguese East Africa. An early classic study of an African tribe. Stock#34090. Vg/ cardboard slipcase splitting.

New York : Simon and Schuster, c1981. Hard Cover. 409 p., [4] leaves of plates : col. ill., col. maps on lining papers ; 25 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 385-389. Stock# 35,177. Good, bottom exposed to wet and slightly wavey, else vg/ dj vg.

NY, Modern Library [1931]. Hard Cover. xv, 879 p., bibliography; 17 cm. An anthology of 39 texts by leading anthropologists. Stock# 32,188. Good+/ no dj.

Mexico, Ediciones Lara [1972, c1968]. Soft Cover. 216 pages, 171 illus. (26 color), maps, plans; 21 cm. Translated from the Spanish, Tesoros del Museo Nacional de Antropología de México, by Carolyn B. Czitrom. Good+, softcover, top of front cover leans forward. Stock#45072x.

N.Y., Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1972. Soft Cover. 309 p., photos, 21 cm. An anthropologist lived among the Ik tribe in the mountains where Ugana, sudan and Kenya meet. He describes the dehumanization of an African tribe in less than three generations. Stock# 34,085. Good/paper