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TEN THOUSAND MILES IN A YACHT Round the West Indies and Up the Amazon

By: Arthur, Richard

Price: $299.94

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1906

Seller ID: 42039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

253 pages; Contents clean and secure in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover and an onlay photograph of a ship's bow at sea. Illustrated with vignette photographs throughout. The American steam yacht Virginia set off on this voyage from the New York Yacht Club with the following travelers on board: Commodore Elias Cornelius Benedict, W. M. Ivins, E. M. Backus, C. Keep, L. Huntington, J. Howard Ford, Russell Colt, Charles Hastings, Dr. J. Gaines, Master M. Truesdale, and the author Richard Arthur. The hosts of the voyage were Benedict, Commodore of the S...
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ACROSS THE GOLDEN HEIGHTS OF ASSAM AND NEFA [North East Frontier Agency]

By: Baveja, J. D.

Price: $19.94

Publisher: Calcutta, Modern Book Depot: 1961

Seller ID: 40349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

147, v pages; Foreword by Verrier Elwin, D.Sc. (Oxon). Illustrated with photographs, large folding map of Assam and Nefa tipped in at rear. Contents clean and tight in original cream coloured boards in edgeworn dustjacket with chipping and staining (now in protective mylar cover); rear board has superfical stain. This work is an account of the author's travels to the tribal areas of Assam, NEFA, and the Naga Hills Tuensang area describing the cultural and social life of the people with a particular interest in the music and song of the region. The last two chapters "Tribal Faith" and "Tribal...
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PARTICULARISMES ETHNIQUES EN MILIEU URBAIN : L'EXEMPLE DE NIAMEY

By: Bernus, Suzanne

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Paris, Universite De Paris: 1969

Seller ID: 41058

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Institut D'Ethnologie - Musee de L'Homme. Urban Ethnic relations in the Nigerian city of Niamey. Memoirs de L'Institut D'Ethnologie - 1 Text in French. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Social Science and the Future of Democracy Report of a Colloquium held at the Harvard Club of New York City on March 23, 1939

By: Burlingame, Roger

Price: $5.94

Publisher: New York, Harvard Alumni Bulletin: 1939

Seller ID: 38769

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very Good-

Contents clean and tight in original printed wrappers, which are edgeworn and dust soiled. Burlingame's report is well written and entertaining. He skillfully summarizes the contributions of each of the participants in the colloquium and knits them together with the intercourse that endued. Participants included Dean Landis, Professor Brinton, Professor Friedrich, Professor Slichter, Dean Williams, etc. The author William Roger Burlingame (1889-1967) graduated from Harvard University in 1913. After serving with the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I, he returned to A...
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MYSELF AND A FEW MOROS

By: Cloman, Sydney A. ; Lt. Col. ; [Mrs. Hennen Jennings' copy]

Price: $39.94

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday, Page and Co: 1923

Seller ID: 42383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Autograph; xii, (2), 180 pages; Clean and secure in original burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. OCLC 459310847 Inscribed and SIGNED on ffep "For Mrs. Hennen Jennings / with best wishes for 1924 / from Flora Cloman" the wife of the author. Lt. Col. Cloman died the year this work was published. Very nice condition, sharp corners, firm hinges, etc. Illustrated with many drawings and black and white photographs, two single page maps. Early in his military career, young Second Lieutenant Sydney A. Cloman was appointed by General Miles for the purpose of making a map of the W...
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Santuarios de Altura en la Region de la Laguna Brava in CHUNGARA Revista De Antropologia Chilena - Volume 35, No. 2 (2003)

By: Cologero M. Santoro Vargas

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 2003

Seller ID: 38942

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Clean and tight in original glossy decorative wrappers. Published in 2003. Articles include: Bienes Fuerarios del Cementario Chinchorro Morro 1: Descripcion, Analisis e Interpretacion by Vivien Standen; Proposicion de Estilos para el Arte Rupestre de Valle de Putaendo by Andres Troncoso; Santuarios de Altura en la Region de la Laguna Brava by Maria Constanza Ceruti; testimonios en Triangulo: Personajes de la Nueva Coronica de Guaman Poma y del Manuscrito Quechua de Huarochiri en el Pleito sobre el Cacicazgo Principal de Mama (1588-1590); etc.
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Dating the Tiwanaku State in CHUNGARA Revista De Antropologia Chilena - Volume 36, No. 1 (2004)

By: Cologero M. Santoro Vargas

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 2004

Seller ID: 38943

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Former owner's stamp on titlpage, otherwise clean and tight in original glossy decorative wrappers. Published in 2004. Articles include: Homenaje a Don Luis Alvarez Miranda; Dating the Tiwanaku State by Szymon Augustyniak; Arte Rupestre del Rio Grande, Cuenca del Rio Limari, Norte Chico, Chile; La Revista de Codpa (Altos de Arica) de 1772-73; Recursos Hidricos Altoandinos, Estrategias de Desarrollo Economico y Proyectos de Riego: Tarapaca, 1880-1930; El Mundo Andino, Poblacion, Medio Ambiente y Economia de John V. Murra; etc.
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Variaciones Culturales en el Valle de Lima durante la Ocupacion Incaica in CHUNGARA Revista De Antropologia Chilena - Volume 36, No. 2 (2004)

By: Cologero M. Santoro Vargas

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 2004

Seller ID: 38944

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Clean and tight in original glossy decorative wrappers. Articles include: Quebrada Tacahuay: Un Sitio Maritimo del Pleistoceno Tardio en la Costa Sur del Peru; Ocupaciones Humanas del Holoceno Tardio en Los Vilos (IV Region, Chile); Variaciones Culturales en el Valle de Lima durante la Ocupacion Incaica; El Ushnu Inka y la Organizacion del Espacio en los Principales Tampus de los Wamani de la Sierra Central del Chinchaysuyu; El Inka y el Poder como Problemas de la Arqueologia del Norte Grande de Chile; El Tawantinsuyu en Aconcagua (Chile Central); Reconfiguracion de un Esp[acio Sagrado: Los I...
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La Revista de Codpa (Altos de Arica) de 1772-73 in CHUNGARA Revista De Antropologia Chilena - Volume 36, No. 1 (2004)

By: Cologero M. Santoro Vargas

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 2004

Seller ID: 38945

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Published in 2004. Former owner's stamp on titlpage, otherwise clean and tight in original glossy decorative wrappers. Upper rear corner creased of last few leaves. Articles include: Homenaje a Don Luis Alvarez Miranda; Dating the Tiwanaku State by Szymon Augustyniak; Arte Rupestre del Rio Grande, Cuenca del Rio Limari, Norte Chico, Chile; La Revista de Codpa (Altos de Arica) de 1772-73; Recursos Hidricos Altoandinos, Estrategias de Desarrollo Economico y Proyectos de Riego: Tarapaca, 1880-1930; El Mundo Andino, Poblacion, Medio Ambiente y Economia de John V. Murra; etc.
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The Museum of Primitive Art SELECTED WORKS FOUR Art of Ancient Peru, Selected Work from the Collection

By: D'Harnoncourt, Rene

Price: $14.94

Publisher: New York, Museum of Primitive Art: 1958

Seller ID: 41968

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

32 pages; Clean and secure in original decorative wrappers. Illustrated with 31 b&w photographs of pieces from the exhibition, including sculpture, scepters, a funerary mask and textiles. OCLC: 929446498
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San Lorenzo: Testimonio de una Comunidad de Agricultores y Pescadores Postiwanaku en el Valle de Azapa in CHUNGARA ARICA - The Universidad de Tarapaca, Instituto de Antropologia, Diciembre, 1985, No. 15

By: Dauelsberg, Paul ; et al.

Price: $7.94

Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 1985

Seller ID: 38415

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

CHUNGARA ARICA Diciembre, 1985, No. 15; 229 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Articles include: San Lorenzo: Testimonio de una Comunidad de Agricultores y Pescadores Postiwanaku en el Valle de Azapa by Ivan Munoz Ovalle and Guillermo Focacci; La Formacion del Actual Pueblo de Toconce (siglo xix); etc. All text in Spanish. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Quipus and Witches' Knots The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Cultures, with a Translation and Analysis of "Oribasius De Laqueis"

By: Day, Cyrus Lawrence

Price: $54.94

Publisher: Lawrence, University of Kansas Press: 1967

Seller ID: 42698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(x), 158 pages; Contents clean and secure in original green cloth binding, a bit dusty. This book provides a comprehensive view of the way so called primitive cultures around the world once utilized knots. Chapter One discusses mnemonic knots which were used to record dates, numbers and cultural traditions. Chapter Two examines magic knots which were used to cure diseases, bewitch enemies, and control the forces of nature. Chapter Three reviews the practical knots used to tie things and hold things together.
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THE NORTH AMERICANS OF YESTERDAY A Comparative Study of North American Indian Life, Customs and Products , On the Theory of Ethnic Unity of Race

By: Dellenbaugh, Frederick S. ; [Coleman Jennings' copy]

Price: $74.94

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1906

Seller ID: 42381

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xxvi, (4), 487, (5) pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial tan cloth binding, toned at spine. OCLC 930518465 Original owner's signature on ffep - "Coleman Jennings." Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (18531935) was an American explorer and artist. He was a member of an expedition that discovered the last unknown river in the United States, the Escalante River and the previously undiscovered Henry Mountains. From 1871 to 1873, he was artist and assistant topographer with Major Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River. He joined the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition financed by ...
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THE TRUE MEXICO, MEXICO - TENOCHTITLAN

By: Deverdun, Alfred Louis ; [SIGNED]

Price: $14.94

Publisher: Menasha, George Banta: 1938

Seller ID: 41192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Autograph; 303 pages; SIGNED by the AUTHOR on halftitle, otherwise clean and tight in original blue cloth binding with pictorial onlay at front cover and gilt lettering at spine. Dustjacket soiled and chipped at edges (now in mylar cover). Tenochtitlan was a Nahua city-state located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Founded in 1325, it became the capital of the expanding Mexica Empire in the 15th century, until captured by the Spanish in 1521. At its peak, it was the largest city in the Pre-Columbian Americas. When paired with Mexico the name is a reference to Mexica, th...
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TOTEMISM

By: Frazer, Sir James George

Price: $64.94

Publisher: Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black: 1887

Seller ID: 39074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's name on endpaper, wear at head and tail of spine; otherwise clean and secure in original binding of red cloth with gilt lettering at front cover and entirely flaked from spine. Cloth worn at spine ends. Totem defined, clan totems, religious totems, sex totems, individual totems, phratic and subphratic totems, subtotems, etc. The scarce first published work of Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderi...
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GUIA PRATICO, HISTORICO, E SENTIMENTAL DA CIDADE DO RECIFE

By: Freyre, Gilberto

Price: $14.94

Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Jose Olympio: 1968

Seller ID: 40160

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

183 pages; Contents clean and tight in original wrappers; wrappers worn at spine ends and corners. B&W illustrations and folding map. Text in Portuguese. Recife is the largest city in the Northeast region of Brazil. Recife is located where the Beberibe River meets the Capibaribe River to flow into the Atlantic Ocean. It is a major port on the Atlantic Ocean. Its name is an allusion to the stone reefs that are present by the city's shores. The many rivers, small islands and over 50 bridges found in Recife city center characterize its geography and gives it the moniker of the "Brazilian Venice....
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OLINDA - Guia Pratico, Historico e Sentimental de Cidade Brasileira

By: Freyre, Gilberto

Price: $14.94

Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Jose Olympio: 1968

Seller ID: 40161

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

158 pages; Contents clean and tight in original wrappers; wrappers worn at spine ends. B&W illustrations and folding map. Text in Portuguese. Gilberto Freyre (1900 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman, born in Recife, Northeast Brazil. He is one of the great Brazilian cultural interpreters of the 20th century, best-known for his sociological treatise Casa-Grande & Senzala (published in English as The Masters and the Slaves), a classic of modern cultural anthropology and social history. Olinda is a historic city in the Bra...
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Nordeste Aspectos da Influencia da Cana sobre a Vida e a Paisagem do Nordeste do Brasil

By: Freyre, Gilberto

Price: $74.94

Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Livraria Jose Olympio: 1951

Seller ID: 40165

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

297 pages; 2a edicao, revista e aumentada. Illustracoes de Lula Cardoso Ayres e M. Bandeira. Special limited edition, signed by the author -- copy #24 of 200. Publisher's printed wrappers, fold-over flaps in the French style. Front cover lettered in black and blue-green, spine lettered in black. A clean tight copy, but the spine is toned, and has a short closed tear at the bottom end, and a pull (which has caused a chip missing) at the top. The slipcase is somewhat rubbed and worn at the joints, but is intact and has protected the fragile wrappers nicely. A significant book on his nativ...
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LA CULTURE MATERIELLE DE LA BOUCLE DU NIGER

By: Gallay, Alain ; & et al.

Price: $24.94

Publisher: Geneve, Musee d'Ethnographie: 2003

Seller ID: 40494

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Bulletin du Centre Genevois d'Anthropologie, No. 6; 153 pages; Clean and tight in original glossy pictorial stiff wrappers. Blind stamp of previous owner on titlepage, otherwise clean and tight. OCLC: 66395291; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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The Museum of Primitive Art SELECTED WORKS 2 Selected Work from the Collection

By: Goldwater, Robert

Price: $12.94

Publisher: New York, Museum of Primitive Art: 1957

Seller ID: 41969

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

32 pages; Contents clean and secure in original decorative wrappers. Illustrated with 34 b&w photographs of pieces from the exhibition, including sculpture, canoe prow, bird mask, etc. OCLC: 874314278
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Category: Anthropology