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| This selection contains 16 title(s) on 1 page. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 16 |
| CASSON, STANLEY. The Discovery of Man. The Story of the Inquiry into Human Origins. London: Readers Union/Hamish Hamilton,1940. Pp.339,8 b/w plates,owners name to half-title, spotting to index. Red cloth, rubbed. G. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 6438 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| CLEBERT, JEAN-PAUL. The Gypsies. (Translated by Charles Duff.) Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967. 1st Penguin ed. "Since their unexplained appearance in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Gypsies have doggedly refused to conform to the settled life." Pp.281/4 (ads),61 illustrations, 8 drawings + 2 maps, toning to pages. Pbk. G+. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 30290 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| GIRARD, RENE. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World.(Translated by Stephen Bann & Michael Metteer). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 0804722153. "Girard presents the most elaborate explication of his stunning thesis on violence and religion. In conversational style he responds to questions by two psychiatrists who explore with him an amazing learning across the fields of anthropology, religion, literature, psychoanalysis, and modern theories of society and culture..(Religious Studies Review). Pp.469, small number notation tohalf-title page. Pbk. VG. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 US$ 29.99 | JP¥ 2668] Book number: 34247 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| HERLE, ANITA, & PHILLIPSON, DAVID. (EDITORS.) Living Traditions: Continuity and Change, Past and Present. Cambridge: Department of Social Anthropology, 1994. 1st ed. Special Issue Volume 17, No. 2. Pp. 134, 52 b/w illustrations + 1 map, co-author's copy with his bookplate to verso front cover. P/b. VG. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 29854 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| HUXLEY, FRANCIS. The Invisibles. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1966. 1st ed. "The Invisibles are the gods of voodoo, the greater and lesser 'loa', some of them spirits, some of them dead ancestors elevated to divinity." Pp.247, colour frontis, 19 b/w illustrations, owner's name to fep. Marled green cloth, d/w. G+/G+. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 30419 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| JOLLY, CLIFFORD J. Early Hominids of Africa. London: Duckworth,1978. 0715609289. 1st ed. "This book brings together the findings of a group of eminent palaeoanthropologists concerning the natural history, the geological setting, the locomotor and feeding behaviour, and the taxonomic diversity of the hominids who lived and died in Africa between five and one hundred million years ago." Pp.10/598, several figure illustrations, owner's bookplate to verso front cover, a heavy book which will require extra for postage. Black cloth, d/w has some sunning to spine. VG/G+. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.25 US$ 58.31 | JP¥ 5187] Book number: 29621 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| KAIPER, DAND & NAN. Tlingit: Their Art, Culture and Legends. The Alaska Indian. North Vancouver: Hancock House Ltd, 1981. 2nd Printing. A study of the art, history, culture and legends of these people. Pp. 95, b/w illustrations throughout, map to front endpapers, ads to inside back cover. P/b. VG. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 29868 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| KEITH, SIR ARTHUR. The Place of Prejudice in Modern Civilization. (Prejudice and Politics). Being the substance of a Rectorial Address to the Students of Aberdeen University. London:Williams & Norgate,1931. 1st ed. Pp.54. Blue cloth,gilt title to spine. VG. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 7368 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| KUHN, HERBERT. On the Track of Prehistoric Man. London: Arrow Books, 1958. "A pilgrimage to all the important prehistoric sites ..caves at Altamira, Les Trois Freres, Lascaux, as well as others less renowed." Pp, 191, many b/w illustrations, page edges slightly toned. P/b, illustrated cover. G. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 10488 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| LEWIS, JOHN. Anthropology Made Simple. London:Heinemann,1982. Rep. "The book outlines the transition from man's precursors to man himself, the manners and customs of primitive society, and the origins and nature of religion and the moral order." Pp.12/282. P/b, crease to lower front corner. G+. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 4397 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| MAIR, LUCY. Primitive Government. Middlesex: Pelican Books, 1962. 1st ed. "In this survey of the way in which government is conducted without modern technical equipment, Dr Mair throws much new light on its historical evolution." Pp.288, pages toned. P/b, page edges toned & creasing to covers. G+. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 5 | JP¥ 445] Book number: 12321 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| MEAD, MARGARET. Growing up in New Guinea. Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1942. 1st ed. A Study of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies. Pp. 215/3 (ads). Toning to pages. P/b. G. GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 | JP¥ 519] Book number: 9681 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| METRAUX, ALFRED. Easter Island. A Stone-Age Civilization of the Pacific. Translated from the French by Michael Bullock. London:The Scientific Book Club,1957. "Utilizing all the available evidence as well as his own observations during a scientific expedition to the island, Dr Metraux attempts to reconstruct its former civilization and to shed light on the problematic elements of its past and present." Pp.249,6 illustrations in the text, spotting to endpapers.Red cloth, illustrated d/w edges chipped. G+/G+. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 7353 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| SMITH, KAJ BIRKET. Primitive Man and his Ways. Patterns of Life in Some Native Societies. (Translated from the Danish by Roy Duffell.) London: Odhams Press Ltd, 1960. 1st English ed. "This lucid and penetrating book is by an internationally renowned anthropologist who has spent many years in field work - from Greenland and Alaska to the Philippines and Solomon Islands." Pp. 239, 57 illustrations, 3 diagrams, uneven toning to fep. Light green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w has creasing and small edge chips. G+/G+. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.66 | JP¥ 1037] Book number: 27789 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| STEWART, T.D. The People of America. (Peoples of the World Series). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. "This book is the first volume in a new international series describing the living peoples of each continent in the context of their biological origins and development. It attempts to summarize the history of man in America from the standpoint of the different varieties of man - Indians, Whites, Negroes, Asiatics, their physical and physiological characteristics, their diseases etc..over a time period of 25-30,000 years, endng with the US census of 1970." Pp.14/261+16 b/w illustrations; owner's name to fep. P/b with illustrated cover. G+. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 20781 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| TERRAY, EMMANUAL. Marxism and Primitive Societies. Two studies. U.S.A: Monthly Review Press, 1972. 0853452148. Rep. "Terray has resurrected what orthodox anthropologists of current schools consider to be ghosts of anthropology - evolutionism and materialism - and interpreted them in an overall Marxist framework." Pp.186, some toning to page edges. P/b, some creasing to spine. G+. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 10695 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. |
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