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Seattle:: University of Washington Press,, (1989.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. "An anthropological study of boyhood in a group of related Igbo villages in southeatern Nigeria." Illustrated with maps, figures and photographs. Bibliography, index. xxiv, 344 pp. Photographic endpapers.

Tucson:: University of Arizona Press,, (1999). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (faint remainder line). 1st trade paperback printing. A study of symbolism around bulls and bullfighting which is used to examine the broader anthropological issues of identity and nationhood. Discusses in some detail three regional feistas focused on the bull in different areas of the country - Bilbao, Sevilla and Pamplona. Illustrated. Notes, literature cited, index. xii 245 pp. 

Seattle:: University of Washington Press,, 1968.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in green cloth (gift inscription on front endpaper, no dj.). First printing. Illustrated with photographs, maps, charts. Glossary, bibliography, index. 284 pp.

New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine (a new copy) in light tan boards with silver lettering, no dust jacket as issued.. First edition. "The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology." A title in the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. Photographs, list of key characters, notes, references, index and glossary. xix, 300 pp.

New Haven:: Yale University Press,, 1923.. Hardcover -. Very good in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (prev owner's name, tanning to pages), no dust jacket.. 3rd printing. Includes lectures by Richard Swann Lull, Harry Burr Ferris, George Howard Parker, James Rowland Angell, Albert Galloway Keller, & Edwin Grant Conklin on the antiquity of man, the evolution of intelligence, societal evolution and more. Glossy frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Bibliography, index. x, 202 pp.

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, 1975.. Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 2nd printing. Includes 64 pages of photographs. Index. 465 pages.

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in gray cloth (a new copy.) No dust jacket as issued.. First edition. From the foreword: This is a tale of Indians and whites living together in a small Iowa community. It is also about an anthropologist returning to his home town, and how he got inside Iowa's tiny but old Mesquaki Indian culture just at the moment that the tribe's civil rights struggle and its new casino changed all the old relationships, as these tribal people - with their noble traditions - came into modernity. A title in the Series in Contemporary Ethnography. References, index. ix, 228 pp.

Homewood, IL: Dorsey,, 1975.. VG . Trade paperback.

Mountain View, CA:: Mayfield Publishing Company,, (1996.). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Fourth Edition, a trade paperback. A comprehensive anthology containing essays by many anthropologists include Claude Levi-Strauss, Peter Furst, Francis Huxley, Bronislaw Malinowski, Carl Sagan, Lawrence Wright and others. This edition includes nine new articles. Among the sections are those on shamans, on the religious use of drugs, and on ethnomedicine. Map, an extensive bibliography, glossary and index. Slightly oversized square format. 474 pp.

New Brunswick, NJ:: Rutgers University Press, , 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Examines aspects of both the daily and ceremonial life of these people in Papua New Guinea. Charts, two maps, glossary, bibliography, index. xviii, 309 pp.

New York & London:: Oxford University Press,, (1969). Good only (some wear to the covers).. Trade paperback. Although the Dayaks of Borneo have a gruesome reputation, known only for their skulls and their headhouses, and quoted as examples of the most primitive savagery, the author spent two years among them after the end of the World War II and found them attractive, affectionate and practical. This introduction to their way of life, includes the legend of Kichapi as recounted by the village shaman during nine evenings. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xxxi, 144 pp.

Cleveland, Ohio:: World Publishing Co.,, (1950). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in dark green cloth with gold lettering (lettering rubbed and illegible on spine), no dust jacket. . First edition. A comprehensive look at the nose in psychology, literature, art, plastic surgery, folklore and anthropology, written in an entertaining and non-technical fashion by a medical doctor and plastic surgeon. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography, index. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 252 pp.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1996.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy, but with a remainder line).. First printing. A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. Sources. 243 pp

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1996.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Sources. 243 pp

New York:: Free Press,, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An anthropologist's account of how "knowledge about early humans has leaped dramatically during the last generation. [In] 1950, biological anthropology was born at a conference at Cold Spring Harbor. This new science replaced the old method of studying fossil human specimens.. . with new disciplines that situated early humans in their social and ecological context. . . [He recounts ] his own adventures on long, weary, dusty digs in Zaire and Libya are recounted with verve as he addresses key questions - Why did bipedalism develop? What role did climate play in our origins?" SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, index. 276 pp. 

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada:: Lone Pine Publishing , (1992). First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps. . First printing, a trade paperback original. The author, a Harvard ethnobotanist, writes with empathy and understanding and personal experience about indigenous tribes from the tropics to the Arctic circle. Included are chapters on shamanic healing, the plants of the gods - and on the end of the wild. Photographs. 156 pp.

New York:: Pantheon,, 1992.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. A look at the dual origins (old English and African) of the corn-shucking ceremony on antebellum plantations. Illustrated, extensive notes, appendix with original accounts of the ceremony, index. 342 pages.

New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, 1995.. Fine (a new copy). First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A completely revised and updated version of the 1983 book, 'The Biology of Religion.' Reveals how religions in all parts of the world meets the needs of ordinary people - includes discussion of such topics as sex in and out of marriage, circumsion, sickness, faith, divorce and widowhood, birth and childhood, and the challenges of modernity. Map, illustrations, notes, index. 322 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. "Two journalists who came back from an assignment in Indian Country with a powerful message for humankind share the intensely personal story surrounding their time with the Wisdomkeepers, and continue to extoll the Native American approach to humanity and life." Photographs. 304 pp.

Lincoln:: University of Nebraska Press,, (1998.). Good overall - underlining on a few pages, stains to bottom edge of textblock.. Trade paperback. "This innovative study reveals the creative world of a Native community. Once seminomadic hunters and gatherers who traveled by horse wagon, canoe, and dog sled, the Dene Tha of northern Canada today live in government-built homes in the settlement of Chateh. Their lives are a distinct blend of old and new, in which traditional forms of social control, healing, and praying entwine with services supplied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a nursing station, and a Roman Catholic church. Many older cultural beliefs and practices remain: ghosts linger, reincarnating and sometimes causing deaths; past and future are interpreted through the Prophet Dance; "animal helpers" become lifelong companions and sources of power; and personal visions and experiences are considered the roots of true knowledge. " Map. Notes, references, index. xliv, 334 pp