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661-683 pages with diagrams, maps, tables and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 23, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the assemblages provided by the excavations without being able to explain them. It has been argued that an assemblage of stone tools represents the activities which have taken place on a particular site and that typological differences reflect different activities. The validity of the assumptions on which this "functional argument" relies has, however, never been verified.… Read More

294-314 pages with maps and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Anthropological Research Volume 30, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. As a result of its goals and previous experience, a colonizing society adopts a more or less consistent and successful strategy for exploitation of natural and human resources in newly occupied territory. This paper proposes a framework for describing the strategic bases for specific patterns of resource exploitation. The Spanish colonization of Cuba is examined with attention to the ways in which previous experiences on Española affected the Spanish strategy for exploitation of Cuba's natural resources and human population. In contrast to Española, Spanish colonization of Cuba followed a pattern aimed at maximizing efficiency in resource exploitation. The primary vehicle of the new strategy was the location of Spanish settlements. An approach which views colonial expansion from the perspective of ecosystem… Read More

24-33 pages with photographs, charts, tables, figures and maps. Quarto (11 1/2" x 8 1/2") loose pages. Volume 218, number 6. First edition. Onion Portage in Alaska is an unusual Arctic archaeological site. It provides a record of human habitation going back at least 8500 years, when its occupants were not far removed from their forebears in Asia. Condition: Loose pages. Age toning to edges else very good.

249-257 page with table. Quarto (10" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. The Economic History Review, second series, Volume XXIV, Number 2 complete issue. First edition. The Economic History Review is a peer-reviewed history journal published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Economic History Society. It was established in 1927 by Eileen Power and is currently edited by Sara Horrell, Jaime Reis and Patrick Wallis. Its first editors were E. Lipson and R. H. Tawney and other previous editors include M. M. Postan, H. J. Habbakuk, Max Hartwell (1960–1968), Christopher Dyer, Nicholas Crafts, John Hatcher, Richard Smith, Jane Humphries, Steve Hindle and Phillipp Schofield. Condition: Spine age toned, edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed else very good.

EP Dutton & Co 1978 New York, 1978 Very good issued in wrappers 1st Paperback Wrappers Large Octavio Mall 199p Light edge wear.. Soft cover.

x+53 pages with folding map, figures, tables and references. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation number thirty-six. First edition. This is a monograph reviewing the known geographic distribution and demography of the Zoque-speaking peoples of Chiapas and the eastern Isthmian regions of Oaxaca, Veracruz and Tabasco. George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic… Read More

362 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter orange cloth with black lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Haiti and New York may seem worlds apart, but in this tense and engrossing novel they're literally right next door to each other. When Brooklyn jeweler Moe Rosen plays the good Samaritan and saves his next-door neighbor, restaurant-owner Miz Ark, from a mugger, his impulsive act opens a door into a whole different world. The Haitian community that revolves around Miz Ark's restaurant embraces Moe as a wanga, a good-luck charm, and Moe's luck starts to change personally and professionally. Meanwhile, young Fabrice Lacroix flees Haiti on a raft when the family he works for is murdered by the evil Col. Hugo Ferray. The two plot lines begin their slow, tense advance toward each other as Fabrice makes his way from Haiti to New York, and Ferray is squeezed out of Haiti by the CIA. That both men are heading for Miz Ark should… Read More

Pages clean, binding tight. Cover in VG condition. Appears to be unread/unused.

vi + 154 pp., including index. Seventh printing (1965). Pages clean, binding tight, cover and spine in like-new condition except for small sticker at the base of spine.

Alexander Dalrymple the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific, Terra Australis Incognita.xvi+502+[2 dedication] pages with tables, three folding maps of Robert de Vaugondy and engraved by E. Dussyat at back and ribbon book mark. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in full period leather with five raised bands with red label and gilt lettering to spine with gilt decorative vignettes to spine compartments. Covers with gilt ruled edges. (Sabin 18344; Du Rietz 246; Hill 392) First French edition.Alexander Dalrymple was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty. He was the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific, Terra Australis Incognita. He produced thousands of nautical charts, mapping a remarkable number of seas and oceans for the first time, and contributing significantly to the safety of shipping. His theories prompted a number of expeditions in search of… Read More

xv+584 pages with frontispiece map, tables, charts, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards with "NP" blind stamped to cover in original jacket. American Museum Sourcebooks in Anthropology. First edition. 29 papers written by various authors. Within the limits of the book s scope-as revealed by an examination of its contents rather than declared purpose-it is a useful collection, bringing together materials as diverse as Max Weber on The Meaning and Presuppositions of Modern Capitalism (pp. 438-440) and Andrew P. Vayda on Pomo Trade Feasts . Condition: Points moderately rubbed. Jacket price clipped, spine lightly sunned else very good to fine in like jacket.

44-64 pages with tables and cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 67, number 1 complete issue. First edition.Primitive money is a complicated subject for several reasons. There is not in common use a set of analytical categories designed to reveal distinguishing characteristics of markedly different systems: economies without markets and machines still tend to be viewed through the theoretical spectacles designed for Western economy. Second, francs, sterling,and dollars are only the most recent of a long series of foreign monies introduced into primitive economies. Earlier, Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and others introduced cowrie, manillas, beads, etc., with varying permeation and varying disruption of indigenous monetary systems. Only rarely do anthropologists succeed in disentangling the foreign from the indigenous in a way which reveals the nature of the old money and the consequences of the new.Condition: Spine sunned, corners… Read More

Pages clean except for previous owner's penciled initials at upper right of first page. Binding tight, cover in VG condition.

220-240 Pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume Xi, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. The study of social organization has moved from a peripheral to a central position in the burgeoning literature of the Eskimo. Presentations of Eskimo kinship systems have had an important impact on attempts at classifying kinship terminologies and kinship has become a major preoccupation of field workers in the Central Eskimo regions in recent years. Less well explored but still significantly represented in the recent literature are such topics as family and local organization, authority structure, alliance mechanisms, and cultural ecological explorations of features of society. Condition: Corners bumped, light rubbing to wrapper else very good.

645-650 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXIV, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Japan's Cultural Identify by Robert N Bellah; Ch'ing-i and Chinese Policy Formation During the Nineteenth Century by Lloyd E Eastman; The Decan Riots of 1875 by Ravinder Kumar; Pattern in the Imagery of Jivanananda Das by Mary M Lago and Tarun Gupta; Jose P Laurel by David Steinberg; Symbolism and Function by Arthur P Wright. Condition: Edge wear, comers and spine ends bumped else very good.

260 pages. Octavo (8 12/" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition.Young jockey Nick Storr is scheduled to ride his father's prize horse in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, but he is suddenly replaced and uncovers fixes, frauds, mob connections, and possibly murder when he searches for an explanation.Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.

Doubleday & Co 1965 Garden City, 1965 About very good in a very good dust jacket 1st American Hardbound Large Octavio 336p Previous owner's name on front end paper, underlining in inex, pages 49, 144 and 170, head page ends soiled.. Hardcover.

101-110 pages with tables and bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XXI Number 2 complete issue. First edition.
The topic of Huron marriage and kinship is a hornet's nest for the anthropologist. Since the first reports registered by the Recollet and Jesuit missionaries, authors have cited four different types of filiation-descent groups1 and no less than ten different forms of post-marital residence.2 In 1624 Pere LeCaron wrote: "most Huron have several wives and change whenever it pleases them." The Jesuit Brebeuf (1957:25) reported that eleven years later in 1635 one of the major advantages in proselytizing the faith among the Huron was that they were already monogamous with a strong incest taboo: "they marry into neither their direct nor collateral lines." The exogamy prohibition has been variously applied to the ohwachia (matrilocal extended family) (Tooker 1964), the matrisib or clan (Richards 1957), or the entire tribe (Smith 1970). It… Read More

xi + 363 pp., including references (no index). In near-new condition, with pages clean, binding tight, no bends to cover. Slight "oops" on spine: appears to be a tear, but nothing is loose.

x+421 pages with diagrams, photographs, charts, tables, graphs, figures, illustrations and maps. Quarto (11 3/4" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Foreword by Miguel Angel Corzo. First edition.Contents: "The Materials Science of Material Culture: Examples from the Andean Past" by Heather Lechtman; "Pre-Columbian Pottery: Research in the Maya Region" by Ronald Bishop; "Kiln Firing at Batan Grande: Today and in Formative Times" by Ursel Wagner, Rubert Gebhard, Enver Murad, Josef Riederer, Izumi Shimada and Fritz Wagner; "Ceramics Among the Hohokam: Modeling Social Organization and Exchange" by David R Abbot and David M Schaller; "New World Obsidian: Recent Investigations" by Michael D Glascock; "Obsidian Artifacts from Oaxaca, Mexico: Source Identification and Hydration Dating" by J Michael Elam, Michael Glascock and Hector Neff; "Obsidian from Pueblo Grande, Arizona: Modeling Social and Economic Patterns in Lithic Procurement" by Jane Peterson, Douglas Mitchell and M Steven… Read More