Decorated Man: The Human Body as Art
Abrams, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket. General shelf and handling wear. Clean interior. 192 pp. More
Anthropology & Sociology
Great Masks
New York: H. N. Abrams, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book is in very good condition with a very good dust jacket. Light brown slip-case. First edition. General shelf and handling wear; spine is just beginning to become loose. Interior is clean. More
Australia's Kakadu Man
Darwin, N.T., Australia: Resource Managers, 1986. Color Phortographs. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very good used hardcover in jacket. More
William Morris: Man Adorned
Seattle: Univ of Washington Pr, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book is in very good condition with a very good condition dust jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear. Interior is clean with a tight spine. More
Placing the Dead: Tombs, Ancestral Villages, and Kinship Organization in Madagascar
London, England: Seminar Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight copy except for the previous owner's last name penned to front endpaper. Chipping, wear and tear to original dustjacket. More
Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture, and Indo-European Allure
U.S.A. University of Chicago Press, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tight, clean copy with light foxing to edges and front free endpaper. More
Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys (EBM)
Publication Studio, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Near Fine condition. Interior is clean with a tight spine. 169 pp. More
Yanomamo: The Fierce People
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. Illustrated by B/w photos. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Good copy; a few ink notes to the text and general wear. More
Yanomamo: The Fierce People
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. Illustrated by B/w photos. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Good reading copy; a few ink notes to the text and general wear. More
Bali, Behind the Mask
Random House, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition in Good dust jacket. Clean interior. More
Selected Papers from the American Anthropologist 1888-1920
American Anthropological Association, 1976. Second Printing. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition. Library stamp to top, bottom, and side of text block, as well as inside front cover. Ink inscriptions inside front cover, otherwise interior is clean with a tight spine. More
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Broadway Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good, clean used copy. Significant shelf and handling wear (creased spine, scuffing, edgewear, light water damage). 422 pp. More
Death in Murelaga;: Funerary ritual in a Spanish Basque village, (American Ethnological Society Monographs)
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Rubbing to edges of DJ, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, Ottenberg Books sticker to front fixed endpaper, text is otherwise clean. More
The Body Decorated (Tribal Art)
Thames & Hudson, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition. Clean used copy. More
Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints
Springer, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" More
Ghosts: Life and Death in North India (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History)
U.S.A. Univ of Washington Pr, 1993. B & W Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very good copy, with clean crisp pages; minor shelfwear and light foxing to the edges. More
Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World
Univ of California Pr, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition in Good dust jacket. General shelf and handling wear. Some scuffing to exterior and shallow chipping/tearing along edges of jacket. Clean interior. Previous owner's nameplate attached to front free end paper. Foxing to... More
Tradition and Transition in East Africa: Studies of the Tribal Element in the Modern Era
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light fading and wear to spine. More
Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies
E. P. Dutton & CO., INC., 1971. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good condition. Some creasing and rubbing to exterior. Interior is clean. More
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat
New York: William Morrow, 2018. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A near fine copy in a fine condition dust jacket (clean and tight, looks unread). More
Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1987. B&W Plates. First Paperback. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Light pencil markings to text throughout. More
Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. First Paperback. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A NF copy. More
The Poetics of the Antarctic: A Study in Nineteenth-Century American Cultural Perceptions (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
U.S.A. Routledge, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A tight, clean copy with minimal wear. More
A World on the Wane
New York: Criterion Books, 1961. 63 b/w photos / 53 b/w Illustrations. First American Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" VG/VG in DJ (small chip/browning to DJ). 8vo with DJ 404+plates Study of various tribes in the Amazon Basin of Brazil; originally published in France in 1955. More
Aboriginal Skin Dressing: A Study Based on Material in the U.S. National Museum
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1891. 32 b/w plates / Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good to very good (wraps worn; slight browning to text). 8vo [48]+plates Offprint from the Report of the National Museum, 1888-89. At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. More