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Inland Tribes of Southern Africa
by Becker, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Granada, 1979). 4to; original brown cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 188; maps, numerous colour and black-and-white photographs. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper. Dustwrapper torn with loss. A little spotting to half-title page. "Peter Becker is justly celebrated for his books and broadcasts on the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. In this latest, superbly illustrated volume of travel and exploration he visits Lesotho and the remote regions of the Central and Northern Transvaal ... He tells first of the Basotho and of his visits to the legendary hilltop fortresses at Butha-Buthe and Thaba Bosiu. He seeks out scattered segments of the Ndebele tribe, famous for their wall decorations and magnificent beadwork. Then, moving still farther north, we watch Malatji the Kwena medicine man at work and observe the Kopa women create fantastic headdresses actually built into the hair. We inspect a Venda brewery, see the great beer pots made, and follow in detail the secret initiation rites for Venda boys and girls." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5403
- Title
- Inland Tribes of Southern Africa
- Author
- Becker, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Granada, 1979)
- Keywords
- South Africa. African anthropology. Tribes Anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....