Search Results: Anthropology from Aardvark Rare Books

Santa Fe, NM: FishDrum Magazine Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Trade paperback, 8 in. x 5.25 in., pp. xxi, 148. Inscribed and signed by author on half title page. White cardstock covers with black line drawing of cross and title to front and spine. Light soiling to covers. Gentle thumbing; half-inch crease on lower rear corner. Eli Sagan (March 3, 1927 - January 4, 2015) was an American businessman who headed one of the nation's largest manufacturers of outerwear for young women, an autodidact in cultural sociology who wrote several widely reviewed books on the subject and a political activist who served on the national finance committee for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, a role that earned him a spot on Richard Nixon's Enemies List in 1973. His extensive readings in anthropology and psychology led Sagan to write on the subject of cultural anthropology. He authored several books on the subject, including 1985's At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism,… Read More

Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, 1980. Softcover. Good Plus. Oversize offprint. Mint-green paper covers, glue-bound.

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 9 in. x 5.9 in., pp. 144. Illustrated with frontis photograph, and many other black and white photographs and drawings. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine. Rubbing to extremities; bottom corners just showing. Head and tail-cap of spine a touch frayed. Previous owner's bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. The science, history, and usage of the poison used on arrow-tips by indigenous people in South America.

Paris, France: Societe D'Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1924. Paperback. Very Good. In French. Preface de M. Paul Pelliot, de l'Institut. 121 images on 44 separate plates. Paperbound signatures missing spine paper/label. 194 pp, including the table of plates. Some sunning and edgewear to paper covers. This copy bears the stamp (upper front cover) of Theodore Stern, professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, and the author of The Klamath Tribe: A People and Their Reservation. Book opens with Physical Description of the countryside, followed by a Historical Summary and notes on the general distribution of populations in what was then known as Northern Tonkin, or the (French) colonized areas of Northern Indo-China. Chapters divided into: 1) Le Haut-Tonkin (Northern Indo-China); 2) Le Groupe Thai (Tho et les Thai, Tho du bassin du Si-Kiang, Tho de la Rioviere Claire, Tho-ti, Thai blancs du Fleuve Rouge, Thai blancs de la Riviere Noire, Thai noirs, Nng, Nhang,… Read More

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1951. Softcover. Good. Quarto, 10.6 in. X 7.75 in., pp. 205 - 290, [32] (plates). Illustrated with 32 pages of black and white plates, twenty-six text figures, and fourteen tables. Original light blue card-paper covers with black title to front and advertising to back. Sunning to spine; creasing to covers; thumbing to corners. Ink stamp and name to top of front board. Unmarked interior. WEIDENREICH, FRANZ (1873-1948), German anatomist, physical anthropologist, and paleontologist. Born in the Palatinate, Weidenreich taught anatomy at Strasbourg from 1899 to 1918 and at Heidelberg from 1921 to 1924. In 1928 he was appointed professor of anthropology at Frankfurt University. In 1935, during the Nazi regime, he left Germany and took a position at Union Medical College in Peking (Beijing), China. He settled in the United States in 1940, and from 1941 until his death was affiliated with the Museum of Natural History in New York City. A leading scholar of… Read More

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Paperback. GOOD. Soft covers, dark blue text on blue-green paper. 10 1/2" x 7 3/4". Corners bumped, irregularly shaped 1" chip to lower spine, some sunning. Stamps on cover from Wyoming Hist-Geol Society Wilkes Barre PA. 420 pp. Reading copies only. Volume 40: Part 3 of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History.

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1962. Paperback. GOOD. Softcover, black printing on blue green paper. Some sunning and rubbing to extremities. Corners nudged. Bump and small closed tear at top of spine. 421 pp. and 28 b+w plates. Volume 49: Part 2 of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Theodore Schwartz studied and worked closely with Famous Anthropologist Margaret Mead.

Ramona, California: Ballena Press, 1973. Paper. Near Fine. Quartos. Cream card covers with red petroglyphs to covers. . Black and white photographs. Volume 2 consists of 384 pages of many hundreds of Pictographs. Previous owner's name and address to front endpaper. Appears unread. Previous owner whose name appears in front of both volumes was George Robert Talbott "...an interdisciplinary scientist specializing in mathematics, physics and chemistry. He also wrote about the criticisms of Immanuel Velikovsky, of whom he said that "I was glad to have [Immanuel] Velikovsky as a teacher".