1. NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF ABORIGINAL AMERICAN CULTURE HISTORY, Anthropological Soc. of Wash, Washington, DC, (1971) 2nd ptg, 135pp, very good, light blue cloth (hardcover) red underlining 11 pages, First published in 1955., (Order No: 16231 ), $6.00
2. ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHEOLOGY IN THE AMERICAS, Anthropological Society, Washington, DC, (1971) 2nd ptg, 151pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) red underlining dozen+ pages, (Order No: 17205 ), $6.00
3. Bennett, John W. (edited by), THE NEW ETHNICITY: PERSPECTIVES FROM ETHNOLOGY, West Publishing Co., New York, (1975), 334pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0829900322 1973 Proceedings of the American Ethnology Society., (Order No: 50058 ), $8.50
4. Bernal, Victoria, CULTIVATING WORKERS: PEASANTS AND CAPITALISM IN A SUDANESE VILLAGE, Columbia University Press, New York, (1991) 1st ptg, 224pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231071728 This case study of the village of Wad al Abbas in the Blue Nile Province of Sudan challenges traditional assumptions about peasants, proletarianization, and agricultural development in the third world. Through an in-depth look at how farming households in the village of Wad al Abbas survive, the book provides insight into transformations that are taking place worldwide., (Order No: 29971 ), $20.00
5. Birket-Smith, Kaj (translated from the Danish by Karin Fennow), THE PATHS OF CULTURE: A GENERAL ETHNOLOGY, University of Wisconsin Pr., Madison, WI, 1965, B&W illustrations, 537pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Here is the panorama of man and culture--from man's primitive beginnings to civilization., (Order No: 31629 ), $6.00
6. Blackburn, Julia (foreword by Edmund Carpenter), THE WHITE MEN: THE FIRST RESPONSE OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLES TO THE WHITE MAN, Orbis Publishing, London, (1979), B&W and color illustrations, 192pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 085613399X A wide selection of native responses to the arrival of the first Europeans in Africa, America and Australia., (Order No: 57231 ), $7.50
7. Boas, Franz, ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTH - THIRTY-FIFTY ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 1913-1914 - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1921, 2 vols, 794pp, good+, olive green cloth (hardcover), The Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge is on pages 9 to 40. This is followed by the paper, ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTH, by the "father of American Anthropolgy" Franz Boas. This two-volume set comes from the collection of a great-grandson of Franz Boas, Ray Boas., (Order No: 48660 ), $250.00
8. Boas, Norman Francis, FRANZ BOAS 1858-1942 - AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY - IN CELEBRATION OF FRANZ BOAS' 150TH BIRTHDAY - A SPECIAL PRICE, Seaport Autographs Press, Mystic, CT, 2004, B&W illustrations, 312pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0967262623 Anthropologist Franz Boas proved with compelling scientific evidence "that all men are created equal" and born with the same universal physical and mental attributes. The premise that "primitive man" was less endowed than the "highly civilized" white man was thus shown to be a myth. It was at Columbia University that Boas first established and defined anthropology as a scientific discipline in America. His observations were the product of prodigious amounts of research on the cultures of Native Americans, and many other ethnic groups, covering a period of over forty years. He was also intimately associated with the American Museum of Natural History as curator of anthropology and the Burean of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution as a contributing research scientist and honorary philologist. Franz Boas, a passionate believer in the truth, devoted the last twenty years of his life to a relentless fight against the forces of racism, not only in Nazi Germany but in the United States and throughout the world. The author, Norman Francis Boas, is a grandson of Franz Boas. He knew his grandfather intimately and is essentially the only person alive now who is able to write a biography of Franz Boas as a humanitarian and a loving family man, based on personal recollections and unpublished author. Ray Boas, Bookseller, (a great-grandson of Franz Boas) is proud to offer this biography written by his uncle., (Order No: 43641 ), $19.95
9. Cotlow, Lewis, THE TWILIGHT OF THE PRIMITIVE, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1971) 1st ptg, B&W and color ill., 257pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, The primitive peoples of Africa, the Artic, New Guinea, and the Upper Amazon are now an "endangered species," their age-old cultures victims of encroaching "civilization." A distinguished explorer revisits the people he has long known and loved., (Order No: 35648 ), $12.50
10. de Bonstetten, Ch-Victor (translated from the French of), THE MAN OF THE NORTH, AND THE MAN OF THE SOUTH; OR THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE, F. W. Christern, New York, 1864, 200pp, good, black cloth (lacking 3/4" top of spine) (hardcover), (Order No: 38554 ), $45.00
11. Fagan, Brian M., THE JOURNEY FROM EDEN: THE PEOPLING OF OUR WORLD, Thames and Hudson, London, (1990), 96 B&W ill., 256pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0500050570 This book tells the exciting story of the human conquest of the earth, when and where did modern humans first evolve, and how?, (Order No: 10591 ), $2.50
12. Gitlow, Abraham L., ECONOMICS OF THE MOUNT HAGEN TRIBES, NEW GUINEA, J. J. Augustin Publisher, New York, (1947), B&W illustrations, 110pp, good, light blue cloth (hardcover) light bump bottom corners, Monographs of the American Ethnological Society XII., (Order No: 5395 ), $10.00
13. Hagege, Claude (translated by Sharon L. Shelly), THE DIALOGIC SPECIES: A LINGUISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, SECOND EDITION, Columbia University Press, New York, (1990) 1st ptg, B&W figures, 288pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231067607 Shows how human beings' place in nature can be characterized by studying language as a uniquely human faculty, and languages as concrete, historically defined manifestations of this faculty., (Order No: 38278 ), $7.00
14. Hammel, E. A.; Ehrich, Robert; Fabijanic-Filipovic, Radmila; Halpern, Joel M.; and Lord, Albert B. (edited by), AMONG THE PEOPLE: NATIVE YUGOSLAV ETHNOGRAPHY, SELECTED WRITING OF MILENKO S. FILIPOVIC, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, (1982), B&W illustrations, 297pp, very good, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0930042476 This volume introduces the reader to the variety of substantive ethnographic data found in Filipovic's work., (Order No: 47699 ), $40.00
15. Hardin, Garrett, STALKING THE WILD TABOO, William Kaufmann, Inc., Los Altos, CA, (1973) 1st ptg, 216pp, notes, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0913232033, (Order No: 39889 ), $7.50
16. Hertzberg, H. T. E.; Churchill, Edmund; Dupertuis, C. Wesley; White, Robert M.; and, Damon, Albert, ANTHROPOMETRIC SURVEY OF TURKEY, GREECE AND ITALY, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1963, B&W illustrations, 302pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), This report describes the planning and organization of the NATO Anthropometric Survey of 1960-61, and presents the tabulated data for 150 body dimensions taken on 3356 military personel; 915 Turks, 1084 Greeks, and 1357 Italians., (Order No: 52231 ), $30.00
17. Hewett, Edgar L., ANCIENT LIFE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, (1930), B&W illustrations, 392pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), With an Introduction on the General History of American Race., (Order No: 33394 ), $14.50
18. Hilton-Simpson, M. W., LAND AND PEOPLES OF THE KASAI, A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1912, B&W and color illustrations, 356pp, very good+, decorated green cloth, teg (hardcover) LACKS MAP, "Being a Narrative of a Two Years' Journey Among the Cannibals of the Equatorial Forest and Other Savage Tribes of the South-Western Congo." A beautiful - like new copy - BUT sadly LACKS MAP., (Order No: 1206 ), $45.00
19. Hughes, Charles C., ESKIMO BOYHOOD: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE - STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY, NO. 8, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, (1974), 429pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813113016, (Order No: 55402 ), $6.00
20. Johnson, Allen W. & Earle, Timothy, THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SOCIETIES: FROM FORAGING GROUP TO AGRARIAN STATE, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1987, 11 tables & 10 B&W figures, 360pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804713391 By combining an original thesis and a representative body of ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological data, this ambitious work seeks to describe and explain the evolution of human societies., (Order No: 13031 ), $40.00
21. Krech, Shepard and Hail, Barbara A. (edited by), COLLECTING NATIVE AMERICA 1870-1960, Smithsonian Institution Pr., Washington, DC, (1999) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 298pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1560988150 The contributors to this volume examine the motivations, intentions, and action of eleven collectors who devoted substantial parts of their lives and fortunes acquiring American Indian objects and founding museums., (Order No: 55647 ), $12.50
22. Latham, R. G., THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS, John van Voorst, London, 1852, 260pp, ads, good+, dark brown cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB faint, minimal marks, An anthropologic look at the British Isles. Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 50549 ), $125.00
23. Levine, Marsha; Rassamakin, Yuri; Kislenko, Aleksandr; and Tatarintseva, Nataliya (introduction by Colin Renfrew), LATE PREHISTORIC EXPLOITATION OF THE EURASIAN STEPPE, McDonald Institute, Cambridge, (1999), B&W illustrations, 216pp, very good+, pictorial yellow boards (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 1902937031 This volume seeks to re-open and widen the debate on one of the key themes in the prehistory of Europe and of Asia, namely the occupation and use of the Eurasian steppe lands by different groups of people, and their impact upon each other and on the lands to the east, to the west and to the south., (Order No: 52812 ), $85.00
24. Macdonald, Sharon, REIMAGINING CULTURE - HISTORIES, IDENTITIES AND THE GAELIC RENAISSANCE, Berg, Oxford, UK, (1997), 297pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1859739857 This book is an ethnographic study of the cultural identity and language in a community the author calls Carnan. Situated on the Isle of Skye, an Inner Hebridean island lying off the north-west coast of Scotland, Carnan was widely regarded as a symbollically important 'test-case' of the Gaelic renaissance. The author looks at ways in which local people express their senses of belonging, and in particular their responses to Gaelic language policies., (Order No: 51075 ), $50.00
25. Mead, Margaret, AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK: WRITINGS OF RUTH BENEDICT, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1959 1st ptg, 583pp, good w/lightly worn dustjacket (hardcover), "Both the history of a new approach to anthropology and the biography of a brilliant, sensitive, and elusive woman.", (Order No: 5965 ), $3.00
26. Mead, Margaret, CULTURE AND COMMITMENT: A STUDY OF THE GENERATION GAP, Natural History Press, Garden City, NY, 1970, 91pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Mead explains how the younger generation differs from those in the past and why an unprecedented generation gap must be acknowledged by old and young alike before communication can begin., (Order No: 11054 ), $2.00
27. Mellersh, H. E. L., THE STORY OF EARLY MAN: HUMAN EVOLUTION TO THE END OF THE STONE AGE, The Viking Press, New York, 1960, ill. by Sally Mellersh, 257pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 29952 ), $4.00
28. Montagu, Ashley (edited, with an introduction and notes by), FRONTIERS OF ANTHROPOLOGY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1974), B&W figures, 617pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399111999 "A treasury of studies in anthropology, bringing together some of the most important writings by Darwin, Huxley, Boas, Malinowski, Benedict and many others.", (Order No: 15119 ), $5.00
29. Nettle, Daniel and Romaine, Suzanne, VANISHING VOICES: THE EXTINCTION OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000 1st ptg, 241pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195136241 "The world's languages are dying. Ninety percent of them are expected to disappear in the next one hundred years. Why are they dying, and what should we do about it?", (Order No: 56568 ), $14.50
30. Peacock, James L. and Sabella, James C. (editors), SEA AND LAND: CULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1988) 1st ptg, 167pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 082030977X, (Order No: 51786 ), $3.00
31. Peake, Harold and Fleure, Herbert John, THE WAY OF THE SEA - CORRIDORS OF TIME VOLUME VI, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1929 1st ed, 72 B&W figures, 168pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The sixth in a series of eight volumes published under the general title of The Corridors of Time. "The disturbances that hindered the development of civilization about the middle of the third millennium B.C. make one of the clearest dividing-lines in the story of ancient times. When the situation again began to clear, it is evident that there was a great increase in the mobility of peoples, that the folk in the Mediterranean basin had awakened to a much more intense life, and that intercourse by sea and land, marked by numerous exchanges of culture, had become a dominant feature.", (Order No: 16582 ), $4.00
32. Perera, Victor & Bruce, Robert D., THE LAST LORDS OF PALENQUE: THE LACANDON MAYAS OF THE MEXICAN RAIN FOREST, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, (1985), B&W illustrations, 333pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0520053095 An extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Naha in southern Mexico. A communitry of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition., (Order No: 893 ), $4.00
33. Pfeiffer, John E., THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIETY: A PREHISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1977), 170 B&W ill., photos, maps, 512pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0070497591 A sequel to the book, The Emergence of Man, this book moves through the last hundred centuries before recorded history began, and across every continent, to report some of the greatest detective work of modern times-the search for clues to human beginnings, the mysteries of the founding of society., (Order No: 10936 ), $4.00
34. Price, Richard, FIRST-TIME: THE HISTORICAL VISION OF AN AFRO-AMERICAN PEOPLE, John Hopkins University Pr., Baltmore, MD, (1983) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 187pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0801829852 Collection of oral testimonies about the lives of eighteenth-century Saramakas, Afro-American "maroons" who escaped from slavery and settled in the tropical rain forest of Suriname., (Order No: 56975 ), $5.00
35. Radin, Paul, INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1942 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 324pp, very good, decorated tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), "Bearing this in mind we can then proceed to state the purpose of the present book. It is intended as a general, nontechnical survey of the main aboriginal cultures of the great South American continent, in order to show: first, what are their distinctive and specific traits; second, what relationships, if any, these cultures bear to one another; and, third, what are their connections with the cultures of Central America and North America.", (Order No: 21478 ), $10.00
36. Trask, Willard R. (edited and with an introduction by), THE UNWRITTEN SONG: VOLUME I - THE FAR NORTH / AFRICA / INDONISIA / MELANESIA / AUSTRALIA, Jonathan Cape, London, (1969), 287pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "Poetry of the Primitive and Traditional Peoples of the World.", (Order No: 55295 ), $8.00
37. Vulliamy, C. E., OUR PREHISTORIC FORERUNNERS, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1925, B&W illustrations, 214pp, very good, clay colored cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, "The aim of this book is to give as complete an account of Prehistoric Man as is possible.", (Order No: 52665 ), $12.50
38. Waechter, John, MAN BEFORE HISTORY, Elsevier Phaidon, New York, (1976), B&W and color ill., 150pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0729000184 Part of The Making of the Past series. This story of early man is an account of the origins and development of man in Africa and elsewhere., (Order No: 17522 ), $8.50
39. Weiner, J. S., THE PILTDOWN FORGERY, Oxford University Press, London, 1955, B&W ill., 214pp, good, maroon cloth (small nick rear board) (hardcover), (Order No: 35907 ), $10.00
40. Yamada, Takako, THE WORLD VIEW OF THE AINU: NATURE AND COSMOS READING FROM LANGUAGE, Kegan Paul, London, (2001), 233pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0710307322 This book attempts to clarify the deep structure of the Ainu world view by regarding the world view as a comprehensive cognitive system of the phenomenal world including the universe, sould, kamui, plants and animals. A cognitive anthropological approach using words as clues., (Order No: 36839 ), $90.00