Search Results: Anthropology from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Longmans. No dateCirca 1960. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations by Pamela Johnston. 56pages. Australian Landmarks series . 1st Edition (Presumed). Softcover.

Adelaide: Government Printer. 1966. Octavo size. [24.5x15.5cm]. Very Good condition. With colour and black & white photos and drawings. Light age-toning to edges. Previous owner's name to front cover. Note: Part I was the only part published. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 221 pages. Chapters cover: Physical Characteristics, Mental Capacity, Antiquity of Man in Australia, Population and Tribal Distribution, Ecology Environment & Diseases, Stone Implements, and Cinema Films. The Chairman of the Handbooks Committee notes in the preface that the views and opinions expressed by individual contributors may not necessarily be acceptable, in part or in the whole, to their colleagues or to the board. Contributors include A.A. Abbie, S.D. Porteus, P.S. Hossfeld, E. Couper, J.B. Cleland [The Chairman] & T.D. Campbell. The authors were selected by the Board for Anthropological Research, University of Adelaide. . 1st Edition. Card Covers.

North Sydney: Horwitz. 1972. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. . A record of their fast-vanishing traditional way of life, featuring over 90 full-colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2015. MINT - a NEW copy. 291 pages.. Examines the 1940s Northern Territory based work of noted anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt, the relationship with the, then, large cattle producing concern, Vesteys and the Aboriginal people. Abrogating Responsibility seeks answers to the question: how was it possible, with so much knowledge about the horrendous conditions Aboriginal people laboured and lived in, and so many well-intentioned agencies and individuals, that nothing changed? Ensuing the laying of blame the book's careful and detailed analysis opens up new insights into a system that placed Aborigines at the end of the line in a series of relationships on a local, state, and national level. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Publishing. 1971. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 452 pages. . 2nd Printing. Hardback.

Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). 1907. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Some age-toning to edges [inside of cover] and spine. Illustrated with colour and black and white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 62 pages + 19 plates (357 pages + 29 plates). As well as black and white photographs the Basedow paper also includes two colour plates of rock drawings. The paper recounts Basedow's experience in 1905 during a geological expedition in Northern Territory. As well as this paper the Proceedings also include a number of natural history and geological papers including Douglas Mawson's papers on Phosphate Minerals at Elder Rock; Geological features of part of Eyre Peninsula; The Wadella Springs and associated bBog Iron-ore deposit. Also includes several papers by Nobel Prize winner William Bragg - A Comparison of Some Forms of Electric radiation ; The Nature of Rontgen Rays; The Ionisation Curve of… Read More

Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia. 1904. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Some age-toning to edges and light crease to front free endpaper. Fifteen black & white plates (inc one fold-out) and 10 colour plates. Also includes an additional 22 plates including two fold-out diagrams relating to the geology of the Mount Lofty Ranges. 40 pages plus 29 plates at rear. Also contains other items relating to Natural History and Geology including Howchin's Geology of the Mouth Lofty Ranges part I., The Coastal District. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press. 1999. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Light crease to front cover and previous owner's name to half-title page. Binding quite stiff. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 296 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Beverley Hills, CA: Hillcrest Press. 1989. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Corners lightly rubbed. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 184 pages. . Softcover.

Harmondsworth: Pelican Books. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners. Mild age-toning to page edges. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 196 pages. Includes substantial information on Australian Aborigines. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.

Adelaide: South Australia Museum. 1942. Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition. . Illustrated with Black & White Plates and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 85 pages. In addition contains various articles on Acarina of Australia, Nemotodes, ghost Moths; and a lengthy article "Echinodermata of the Flindersian Region of South Australia" by Cotton and Godfrey. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 1927. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good+ condition. Original olive green boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams. Stamp of previous owner (Royal Society of South Australia) to prelim pages. vii, 168 pages. Consists of four papers about the Fox Indians and their sacred Packs translated into English. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2000. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition - an excellent copy. 299 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 3rd Printing. Softcover.

London and Lagos: Ethnographica and The Nigerian Museum. 1977. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Small nick to top of DJ spine. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 222 pages. Describes the decorative tradition associated with gourds and the social context for their production and consumption. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd. 1924. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Some age toning to covers and mild offset to free endpapers. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Black & white woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton. Also includes several black & white drawings and a small map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. viii, 135 pages. The author was a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory, in which cultural innovations are spread throughout various civilizations from one source. In this book he explores the potential Asian influences on early South and Central American culture. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: Permagon Press. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition. Spine just a little sunned. Previous owners name neatly "whited-out" on half-title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 260 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. 2020. MINT - a NEW copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 282 pages. Peter Sutton has been at various times, and sometimes simultaneously, a museum-based anthropologist with a foundational role in raising the profile of Australian Indigenous art, an anthropologist and linguist who has made significant ethnographic, analytical and theoretical contributions to both fields, and to the intersection between them, an expert on native title, and a public intellectual. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

Adelaide: South Australian Museum. 1939. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition. Excellent condition, original extract rebound in new card covers. Black & white illustrations. 5 pages. Reprinted from the Records of the South Australian Museum Volume 6 No 3 1939 . Reprint. Softcover.

London: Longmans, Green & Co Ltd. 1969. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 232 pages. . reprint. Hardback.

New York: Alfred A Knopf. 1971. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Mild offset to front free endpaper. Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings. The drawings are by Sue Allen. 440 pages. Exploring the folkways, mores, totems, and taboos of primitive peoples past and present, this book is the story of the great social anthropologists from Henry Schoolcraft to Margaret Mead-men and women whose dramatic discoveries about the behaviour of savages have startling parallels in our own society. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 4th Printing. Hardback.