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Not Only For Its Beauty. Beadwork and its Cultural Significance among the Xhosa-speaking Peoples
by Costello, Dawn
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(Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1990) 0869816594. Author's signed University of South Africa presentation slip mounted with clear tape to half-title verso. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; decorative endpapers; pp. xiii + (i) + 88; line drawings and map in text; full-colour captioned photographs of beadwork. Boards ever so slightly rubbed. Very good condition. Uncommon."The publication emanates from a deep interest… Read more about this item Item Price
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Into the Primitive Environment. Survival on the edge of our civilization
by Brain, Robert
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(London: George Philip, 1972) 0540009555. From the library of historian John Wright, author of various works on the Zulus, and signed by him on the front free endpaper. 4to; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 128, incl. index; lavishly illustrated in colour and monochrome, with some maps. Dustwrapper a little foxed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Africans on Stage. Studies in Ethnological Show Business
by Lindfors, Bernth (editor)
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(Bloomington: Indiana University Press / Cape Town: David Philip, 1999) 0864863977. 252 x 176 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. xiii + (iii) + 302, incl. index; monochrome illustrations. Near-fine condition. 'Ethnological show business has a very long history in Europe. It became increasingly common after advances in navigational technology had put Europeans in touch with human communities all over the globe.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wells of Experience. A pastoral land-use history of Omaheke, Namibia
by Lindholm, Karl-Johan
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(Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2006) 9197321273. Printout of a pdf in the series 'Studies in African Archaeology', the author's doctoral thesis at Uppsala University, 2006. 297 x 210 mm; ring-bound printed rectos with outer clear-plastic sheets; pp. xi + 185; photographs; tables; diagrams; maps. "The conventional view of the Kalahari in southern Africa expresses that… Read more about this item Item Price
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Postcolonial African Anthropologies
by Boswell, Rosabelle, and Francis Nyamnjoh (editors)
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(Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2016) 9780796925699. 238 x 167 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. ix + (i) + 222, incl. index; some illustrations in text. Pencilled underlining and annotations erased. Very good condition. "Postcolonial African Anthropologies showcases a selection of recent African ethnographies and critically discusses anthropology's engagement with decolonisation and postcolonialism. The ethnographies in the book show that contemporary… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lives: An Anthropological Approach to Biography
by Langness, L. L, and Gelya Frank
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(Novato, CA: Chandler & Sharp, 1988) 0883165422. 227 x 152 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (x) + 221, incl. index. Wrappers somewhat rubbed; light crease to bottom fore-corner of lower cover; earlier owner's name signed on half-title; occasional fox spot. Good condition. "I have seen no other book like this anywhere. The authors are bold, erudite and creative in establishing the… Read more about this item Item Price
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An African Aristocracy. Rank Among the Swazi
by Kuper, Hilda
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(London: Oxford University Press, 1961). 8vo; original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. xii + 251, incl. index; tables; monochrome photographic plates; folding map at rear. Bottom fore-corners of boards bumped; earlier owner's hand-stamp to front free endpaper; excellent dustwrapper with short tear at head of spine. Very good condition. "This study by Dr… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Natives of South Africa: Their Economic and Social Condition
by Macdonnell, John, and members of the South African Native Races Committee (editors)
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(London: John Murray, 1901). 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in red on upper board, and with gilt-on-red lettering to spine; pp. xiii + (iii) + 360, incl. index; folding maps; tables. Backstrip darkened, and frayed at head and tail; boards a little discoloured and bumped; upper hinge split and lower hinge starting; endpapers browned; some foxing. (SABIB 4, p. 322;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Amagweta Dance [Early postcard]
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Early photographic postcard, sent in 1946, though the image is probably considerably earlier. A little rubbed and foxed. The handwritten text partially reads, "These are Amagweta boys, native boys who are now men. They are painted from head to foot in white clay, live by themselves for some time, and go through a lot of ceremony, this dance being… Read more about this item Item Price
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Zulu Zion and some Swazi Zionists
by Sundkler, Bengt
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(London: Oxford University Press, 1976) 0198227078. 8vo; blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 337, incl. index; plates; map; text figures. Dustwrapper slightly sunned on spine panel, a little rubbed and edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; some fox spots to endpapers and edges; faint trace of pale highlighting to text of one chapter.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Talking Drums of Africa
by Carrington, J. F.
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(London: The Carey Kingsgate Press, 1949). First edition. 8vo; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. 96, incl. index; plates; text figures. Dustwrapper very slightly creased and partially sunned; cloth a little mottled; a little foxing. Very good condition. Uncommon. "It is the object of this account of the drum languages of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Basuto
by Ashton, Hugh
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(London, Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1955). 8vo; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. xi + (i) + 355, incl. index; monochrome photographic plates; folding map. Dustwrapper slightly mottled, with trace of wear at head of spine panel; earlier owner's book label to front free endpaper, and an… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kavango
by Mertens, Alice
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(Cape Town: Purnell, 1974) 360002331. First edition. 4to; original white boards, lettered in brown on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (xvi) + 120; plates in colour and monochrome; map. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; trace of foxing to half-title. Very good condition. "KAVANGO is a unique photo study of the Kavango, tribes living in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Primitieve Kunst uit West- en Midden-Afrika, Indonesië, Melanesië, Polynesië en Noordwest-Amerika
by Muensterberger, W.
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(Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 1955). Large 4to; original black cloth, with pictorial white blocking to upper cover and spine lettered in white; pictorial lacquered dustwrapper; pp. 51 + (i) + [116]; 138 large photographic reproductions of primitive art; maps. Dustwrapper a little sunned and edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; some foxing; trace of damp ingress to outer… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Different Kind of AIDS. Folk and Lay Theories in South African Townships
by Dickinson, David
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(Johannesburg: Fanele / Jacana Media, 2014) 9781920196981. 235 x 155 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xxvii + (i) + 377, incl. index. Fine condition. "Why do alternative, non-scientific explanations of HIV/AIDS continue to circulate in South Africa's townships after almost 30 years of AIDS education? In A Different Kind of Aids, David Dickinson explores the folk and lay theories that… Read more about this item Item Price
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Surviving the Lens. Photographic Studies of South and East African People, 1870-1920
by Stevenson, Michael, and Michael Graham-Stewart
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(Cape Town: Fernwood Press, 2001) 1874950598. 4to; original grey boards, with pale grey lettering to spine and device to upper board; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 144; lavishly illustrated, generally with historical portrait photographs to the recto and the facing verso providing descriptive text. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, and partially sunned. Very good condition. "In those instances when the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Swazi. A South African Kingdom
by Kuper, Hilda
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(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986). Second edition. A volume in the 'Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology' series. 233 x 162 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. xiii + (i) + 187, incl. index; maps; photographs in text. Trace of foxing to top edge. Very good condition. "This new edition of The Swazi is in two parts. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Welcome to Southern Rhodesia - meet our African People
by Chief Information Officer
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(Salisbury: Native Affairs Department, 1960). Catalogue title from cover. Fact Paper 1. 160 x 101 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 16 (including wrappers); some photographs. Slightly worn; one or two fox spots. Good condition. While slightly patronising for modern tastes, this booklet seems to have been produced with the worthy objective of improving race relations in Southern Rhodesia, and includes… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Window on Africa: Ethiopian Portraits
by Silvester, Hans
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(New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011) 9780500515624. Slim 4to; original red boards with lettering to spine and publisher's device to upper board; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 143 + (i); full-page colour portraits. Fine condition. "The village of Kibish lies in the lower Omo Valley on the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. Far from any city and with an unforgiving… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bushmen of Southern Africa
by Lategan, E. H. W.
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(Cape Town/Johannesburg: Perskor, 1980) 0628016905. 8vo; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 54, incl. index; colour and monochrome photographs; line drawings; maps. Boards partially sunned; some fox spots. Very good condition. Basic introduction to the history and way of life of the region's oldest indigenous inhabitants. . Item Price
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