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BYRNES, ROBERT F., EDITED  Communal Families in the Balkans: The Zadruga. Essays by Philip E. Mosely and Essays in His Honor
Notre Dame and London : University of Notre Dame Press, 1976. 8vo. Cloth. 285 pp. Light shelfwear, inscription to front free endpaper, else very good.
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1548] Book number: 419003
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DENG, FRANCIS MADING  Tradition and Modernization: A Challenge for Law Among the Dinka of the Sudan
Connecticut : Yale Univesity Press, 1987. 8vo. Wraps (softcover). viii, 430 pp. Appears not to have been read. Moderate amount of soil to cover and text block, but interior is clean and bright. Overall, very good, with faults as noted.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 201024
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DEWALT, KATHLEEN MUSANTE  Nutritional Strategies and Agricultural Change in a Mexican Community
Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Research Press, 1983. 8vo. Cloth. 211pp. Owner’s name to front free endpaper. Very good.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2580] Book number: 200073
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GLEASON, JUDITH, WITH AWOTUNDE AWORINDE AND JOHN OLANIYI OGUNDIPE  A Recitation of Ifa, Oracle of the Yoruba
New York : Grossman Publishers, 1973. 8vo. Cloth. 338 pp. Jacket has a small dampstain to bottom of rear panel and is price-clipped. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3010] Book number: 418248
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KUPER, ADAM  The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth
London and New York : Routledge, 2005. 8vo. Wraps. 272 pp. Ligth shelfwear, else very good plus.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 418954
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LANGHAM, IAN  The Building of British Social Anthropology: W.H. R. Rivers and His Cambridge Disciples in the Development of Kinship Studies, 1898-1931
Dordrecht, Boston, and London : D. Reidel, 1981. 8vo. Wraps. 392 pp. B/w illustrations. Light shelfwear, else very good.
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3010] Book number: 419081
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MARTI, SAMUEL. DRAWINGS BY ZITA BASICH  Mudra: Manos Simbolicas En Asia Y America
Mexico : Litexa, S.A., 1971. 729/2000. First Spanish language edition. Large square 8vo. Stiff paper wraps. 163 pp. Text in Spanish. A fascinating study of the symbolism of the hand in Asian and Mesoamerican cultures. Spine rubbed at heel. Bottom edge lightly rubbed. Very good.
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30 | £UK 27.25 | JP¥ 3870] Book number: 419358
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NIMUENDAJU, CURT. TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY ROBERT H. LOWIE  The Eastern Timbira
Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1946. Tall 8vo. Cloth. 357 pp. With b/w illustrations. Light shelfwear. Jacket with edgewear, sunning to edges and spine, and some closed tears to edges. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4300] Book number: 419379
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RIESMAN, PAUL  Societe Et Liberte Chez Les Peul Djelgobe de Haute-Volta: Essai D’Anthropologie Introspective
Paris : Mouton and Co., 1974. Tall 8vo. Wraps. 261 pp. Illustrated with occasional black and white photographs. Signed and inscribed by the author. Coffee stain to front wrapper, fore-edge and bottom edge and first blank, else very good. Text in French.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 419303
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RYE, OWEN S., AND CLIFFORD EVANS  Traditional Pottery Techniques of Pakistan: Field and Laboratory Studies
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976. 4to. Wraps. 283 pp. B/w photos. Wraps lightly soiled and worn at edges. Previous owner’s initials inked to upper right corner of front cover. Very good.
USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16 | £UK 14.5 | JP¥ 2064] Book number: 418784
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TREVINO, SERGIO  Grain Collection: Humans’ Natural Ecological Niche
New York : Vantage Press, 1991. 8vo. Cloth. xv, 293 pp. B/w illustrations and 4 color plates. Light edgewear to boards. Shelfwear only to dust jacket, with scuff marks on the rear flap fold. Upper right front flap of dust jacket is is priceclipped. Very good plus, in a very good dust jacket. Sergio Trevino examines the origin of all living hominoids and concludes that it is a fact that all of them descend from distant grain collectors.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1720] Book number: 201252
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