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The Death and Life Of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs was born on May 4, 1916, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her father was a physician and her mother taught school and worked as a nurse. After high school and a year spent as a reporter on the Scranton Tribune, Jacobs went to New York, where she found a succession of jobs as a stenographer and wrote free-lance articles about the city's many working districts, which fascinated her. In 1952, after a number of writing and editing jobs ranging in subject matter from metallurgy to a geography of the...
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Manners and Customs Of the Ancient Egyptians, Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, and Early History
by J G Wilkinson
Atlas LingÜÍStico EtnogrÁFico De Nicaragua
by Carmen and MaríA Auxiliadora Rosales SolíS ChavarríA ÚBeda
The Princeton University Library Chronicle Vol Xxxix No 3, Spring 1978
by Marsha M Et Al, Editors Dix, William S, 1910-1978 Hardy, Thomas Shankman
Ethnography Books & Ephemera
The Amusements of Old London, Being a Survey of the Sports and Pastimes, Tea Gardens and Parks, Playhouses and Other Diversions of the People of London from the 17th to the Beginning of the 19th Century
by William B. Boulton
London: John C. Nimmo, 1901. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". S. Alken. A fascinating, first edition, historical work regarding the hobbies and pastimes of old London. The first edition. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with pictorial gilt detail. With twelve beautiful illustrations, all coloured by hand, by S. Alken. Collated complete. A fascinating historical account of the hobbies, sports and pastimes which were popular in London from...
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NZ$447.20NZ$402.48
Handbook of South American Indians
by Julian H. Steward
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1948. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. A single volume of this important anthropological study into the indigenous peoples of South America, richly illustrated with folding plates and photographs. This work was originally published in seven volumes between 1946 and 1959. This volume is volume IV only.Published by the Smithsonian Institute, this work documents the indigenous peoples of South America, their languages, customs, history, and cultural...
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NZ$149.06
WE JAPANESE; Being descriptions of many of the customs, manners, ceremonies, festivals, / arts and crafts of the Japanese / Besides numerous other subjects. / 600 pages, 889 Illustrations / with a few exceptions each subject is complete on one page
by Hearn, Lafcadio
Miyanoshita, Hakone, Japan: Fujita Hotel, Ltd. / Yamagata Press, Yokohama, 1964. Later Printing of 1950 Combined edition. decorated cloth. Very Fine/None: Plastic sleeve added. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts. 8vo, decorative Japanese cloth with multi-colored floral pattern, [plastic sleeve added], profusely illustrated with 889 B&W repros of woodcut illustrations, Index, 591 pages. EXCEPTIONALLY Fine Illustrated and useful Compendium about everything Japanese in a lovely colorful binding....
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NZ$161.71
Natsioponimanie. Poisk obektivnykh osnovanij i sotsialnoe konstruirovanie / Нациопонимание. Поиск объективных оснований и социальное конструирование
by Mosunova N.A., Kornev G.P. / Мосунова Н.А., Корнев Г.П
Алетейя, 2012. Hardcover/Hardback. Good. 60x88/16. Монография посвящена поиску объективных оснований нациопонимания, дается систематизированный обзор многочисленных дискуссий от этносе, нации и национализме.
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NZ$29.36
The Observation of Savage Peoples
by Joseph-Marie Degérando; F. C. T. Moore [trans.]; E. E. Evans-Pritchard [preface]
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The first thus edition of Joseph-Marie Degérando's major work of anthropology, written to assist observations on an expedition to Australia. The first thus edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Bookplate of Desmond Morris to the front paste down. Illustrated with four plates. Collated, complete. Joseph-Marie Degérando or de Gérando...
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NZ$138.42
Representation in Ethnography
by Van Maanen, John (Edited by)
Thousand Oaks, Ca: SAGE Publications. 1995. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. No dustjacket as issued? Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 276 pages. Explores the many dimensions of the representational challenges facing contemporary ethnography. Explores such topics as fieldnotes, the role of description, narrative, humour, acknowledgements, the relationship between ethnography and other forms of writing, and...
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NZ$44.50
Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands
by W. G. Ivens
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7". Not Stated. An excellent first edition of W. G. Ivens's illustrated study of the Melenesians of the Solomon Islands. Illustrated with three colour plates and eighteen photographic plates, with further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.An impressively detailed ethnic and cultural study, with chapters dedicated to the Sa'a and Ulawa, social organisation, betrothal and marriage, canoes, dances, burials...
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NZ$511.08NZ$459.97
Konfirmasionstelegrammer Lajla Holm
by Lajla Holm
Norway: N.A, 1930. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 12" by 9". Various. A beautifully bound collection of Norwegian confirmation cards for one 'Lajla Holm' who was confirmed on 07-12-1930. Comprising of numerous cards and telegrams from people in Lajla Holm's life. There are also some official telegrams from the Norwegian telegraph service. Many of the cards are embroidered with floral designs to the cover. The messages are in Norwegian. An important collection of cards from this important Norwegian...
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NZ$479.14NZ$431.22
The High Valley
by Read, Kenneth E
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1965. First Edition. Hardback. A fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 266 pages; An autobiographical account of two years spent in the Central Highlands of New Guinea. Impressively illustrated with photographs and maps.
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NZ$22.37
The Percy Anecdotes
by Reuben and Sholto Percy
London : Frederick Warne and Co., c1868. Cloth. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A collection of essays on many different topics from the Percy brothers. A verbatim reprint of the original edition. With engraved frontispieces to each volume. Including essays on honour, genius, music, women, and many other topics. Complete in two volumes. In green cloth bindings. Externally, sound, though with some rubbing and marks. Slight bumping also. Hinges are slightly strained. Internally, generally firmly bound....
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NZ$127.75
Guro: Masks, Performances, and Master Carvers in Ivory Coast
by Eberhard Fischer
Munich: Prestel/Museum Rietberg. Folio. 518(2)pp., 560 color & b&w illus. Bib., Index. Cloth, d.j. As New in mylar d.j. protector. Due to weight and cost, this book requires additional postage and insurance. Please inquire.
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NZ$468.10
Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow & Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast
by Ross, Laurie Margot
xvi, 374pp., prof. illus. (some color). Illustrated Boards. Leiden: Brill, 2016. no d.j. (as issued). New. Signed by the author.Please Note: Insurance is required for this item.
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NZ$238.31
The Bella Coola Indians, 2 vols.
by T. McIlwraith
Ottawa, Canada: University of Toronto Press. With a New Introduction by John Barker. Stout 8vo. xlviii,763pp.,672pp., 22 plates. Appendixes, Index. Wraps. Neat blue ink notations in the Introduction and Preface, otherwise in Fine condition.This 2-volume set requires additional freight and insurance. Please inquire.
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NZ$280.86
The Romance of the Indian Frontier
by George macmunn
London : Jonathan Cape, 1931. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 5.5" . Not Stated. A well presented account of the Indian frontiers with illuminating photographic illustrations throughout. An interesting western perspective on the Indian frontiers from 1931, written by a Colonel-Commandant in the Royal Artillery. With illuminating and interesting photographs throughout. This edition includes four maps that detail the invaders way to Indian, the long roads to Kabul, the Peshawar valley and the...
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NZ$85.18
Raccolta di Costumi Antichi
by Disegnati da Bartolomeo Pinelli
Bologna: Giovanni Zecchi, 1830. First edition. Hardback. Very Good. 5.5" by 4". Not Stated. A wonderful collection of Pinelli's engravings of ancient costumes, with notes on each plate by Nicolo de Scarani. First edition. With a beautifully engraved frontispiece. Containing one hundred plates by Bartolomeo Pinelli. Bartolomeo Pinelli (November 20, 1771 April 1, 1835) was an Italian illustrator and engraver. Pinelli was born and died in Rome, the son of a religious statues modeller. Pinelli...
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NZ$4,152.53NZ$3,737.27
The Monuments of Nineveh, from Drawings made on the Spot
by Austen Henry Layard
London: John Murray, 1849. First edition. Leather. Good. 23" by 17". Austen Henry Layard. The first edition of this important account of excavations at Nineveh by Sir Austen Henry Layard. A collection of plates from this noted work. These plates were drawn during Layard's expedition to explore the ruins of Assyria. He had met Sir Stafford Canning in Constantinople in 1842 who then encouraged and assisted this 1845 expedition. The trip was in part sponsored by trustees of the British Museum. During...
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NZ$5,856.13NZ$5,270.51
Medicine and Magic of the Mashona
by Michael Gelfand
Captetown: Juta and Company Limited, 1956. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The scarce first edition of this ethnographical work on the medicine and magic of the Mashona in Africa, in the vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. An illuminating ethnographical work on the medicine and magic practices of the people of Mashonaland, located in northern Zimbabwe. Including chapters on the tribal practices of the Mhondoro, the witch Muroi, the ancestral spirit Mudzimu, the Nganga...
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NZ$208.69
The Natural History of Man
by James Cowles Prichard
London: H. Bailliere, 1843 . First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. The first edition of James Cowles Prichard's important treatise on monogenism, in an exceptionally attractive half morocco binding, and illustrated with hand coloured plates. The uncommon first edition of this work from important nineteenth century ethnologist and physician James Cowles Prichard.In this work, Prichard expressed his views about the 'specific unity of man' - or monogenism - and his belief that the...
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NZ$4,035.40NZ$3,631.86
Malekula A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides
by A. Bernard Deacon
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1934. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". None Stated. An illustrated first edition of this work on Malekula by A. Bernard Deacon. A scarce first edition of the work.In the publisher's original cloth.With a frontispiece, maps and 36 monochrome illustrations over 22 plates and vignettes throughout.Edited by Camilla H. Wedgwood with a preface by A. C. Haddon. This work was written by anthropologist A. Bernard Deacon. Deacon carried out fieldwork in the...
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NZ$383.31NZ$344.98
Komi kolkhoznaya derevnya v poslevoennye gody 1946-1958 L / Коми колхозная деревня в послевоенные годы 1946-1958 (L)
by D. V Milokhin / Д. В Милохин
Наука, 2005. Hardcover/Hardback. New. Рассмотрены вопросы развития коми колхозной деревни после Великой Отечественной войны: аграрная политика советского государства, ее влияние на состояние производительных сил колхозов и приусадебных хозяйств колхозников, развитие...
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NZ$20.77
British Museum. Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections. With 15 plates, 275 illustrations and 3 maps.
London, : British Museum, 1910,. 220x140mm,. 304 pages, editor's binding.
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NZ$63.54
The High Valley
by Kenneth E. Read
George Allen and Unwin, 1966. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . 266 pages. pages toned; a solid binding; good shape. The dust jacket has some chips, tears and discoloring; price clipped. "an autobiographical account of two years spent in the Central Highlands of New Guinea. There stands the village of Susuroka, wide open to the sun when the anthropologist Kenneth Read went to live there and his first sensation was that of stepping into the heart of a crystal." Illustrator:...
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NZ$10.21
The Autobiography of a Tramp
by J. H. Crawford [John Hunter Crawford]
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1900. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Fred Walker. A first edition of this illustrated account of the author's time with the travelling peoples in Scotland. The first edition of this work, with frontispiece reproduction of 'The Vagrants' by Fred Walker, and a further eight photographic plates. Collated, complete.Tales of the author John Hunter Crawford's visits to and times with the 'travelling people' in Scotland. With chapters titles including 'Baptism and...
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NZ$255.54
WE JAPANESE; Being descriptions of many of the customs, manners, ceremonies, festivals, / arts and crafts, / of the Japanese . .
by Hearn, Lafcadio
Miyanoshita, Hakone: Fujita Hotel, Ltd. / Yamagata Press, 1950. Combined Edition / Later Printing. decorated cloth. Near Fine. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts. 8vo, printed beige cloth with binding sewn in Japanese style, 889 B&W woodcut illustrations, 591 pages (made of Japanese paper with double sheets folded over). Exceptionallly Fine Illustrated and useful Compendium about everything Japanese done with Japanese paper, cloth binding, and printing. Small ink signature of previous owner on...
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NZ$246.82
Ostrov rajskikh ptits / Остров райских птиц
by Malakhovskij Kim Vladimirovich / Малаховский Ким Владимирович
Наука, 1976. Softcover/Paperback. Fair. В этой книге рассказывается об истории и современном положении крупнейшей страны Океании - Папуа Новой Гвинеи. Долгие годы народ этой страны находился под пятой европейских колонизаторов. После второй мировой войны в Папуа Новой Гвинее стало шириться...
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