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Amazon Journey: An Anthropologist's Year Among Brazil's Mekranoti Indians
by Werner, Dennis
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067149290X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671492908
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. An account of a young anthropologist's year living in the Brazilian jungles with the Mekranoti Indians, in their unique, isolated culture, describing their way of life, their customs, their language, earning the trust and friendship of the villagers. The author also shows how anthropologists collect and analyze data in the field. The book is bound in brown cloth over spine, gilt titled, with speckled tan paper-over boards; very clean and unmarked, Tight and solid, square. Internals very clean and completely unmarked. Publishers stamp on bottom edge. Clean jacket has light wear around spine head and upper corners. 296 pages with glossary and index. 8.75 x 6 inches. 1985, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014352
- Title
- Amazon Journey: An Anthropologist's Year Among Brazil's Mekranoti Indians
- Author
- Werner, Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 067149290X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671492908
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- MEKRANOTI INDIANS ETHNOLOGY OF SOUTH AMERICA BRAZIL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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