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Allen, Benedict The Proving Grounds
London Flamingo 1992 0586090096 / 9780586090091 Reprint Softcover
Octavo Size. Black & white illustrations. Colour photographs and Black and White drawings. Very Good condition. 391 pages A journey through the interior of New Guinea and Australia ID222126
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Barfield, Lawrence Northern Italy Before Rome
London Thames & Hudson 1971 0500020752 / 9780500020753 1st Edition Hardback
Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Ancient Peoples and Places Series No 76. Neat address label to ffep. 208 pages ID268281
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Barley, Nigel Not a Hazardous Sport
London Viking 1988 067081329X / 9780670813292 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 206 pages A hilarious account of the results of the author's invitation to a team of wood carvers from Sulawesi to reproduce a traditional rice barn for the British Museum. ID253350
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Blomberg, Rolf Chavante an Expedition to the Tribes of the Mato Grosso
London George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1960 1st UK Edition Hardcover
Octavo Size. Near Very Good condition in Good+ DJ, now protected in plastic sleeve. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped. Top edge has dent marks. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. DJ is tanned and price clipped. Light edge wear to DJ, back is lightly rubbed. 119 pages The Chavante Indians inhabit the shores of Rio das Mortes, Brazil. Rolf Blomberg lead the first non-Brazilian expedition to visit this tribe and other in that region. ID191648
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Brewster, A.B. The Hill Tribes of Fiji
London Seeley Service & Co 1922 1st thus Hardback
Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Good condition. No dustjacket. Rebacked with original cloth pasted to spine and covers. Covers lightly rubbed and marked. New endpapers large fold-out map to rear has been repaired in several places with sticky tape. Webbing showing at small section of front hinge. Some very light foxing scattered throughout book. Some pencil marks to margins. Photograph [p186] tipped in with pink tape. From the library of the Methodist Overseas Mission - one stamp to half-title page. Inscription ' H.C.H Nadroga from the Author' to half-title page. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 302 pages A Record of Forty Years' Intimate Connection with the Tribes of the Mountainous Interior of Fiji, With a Description of Their Habits in War & Peace, Methods of Living, Characteristics Mental & Physical, From the Days of Cannibalism to the Present Time. ID258621
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Carey, Margaret Beads and Beadwork of East and South Africa (Shire Ethnography)
Aylesbury Shire Publications 1986 0852637977 / 9780852637975 1st Edition Softcover
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Previous owner's name to the title page. 64 pages In this book, the many types of beads and beadwork that occur in Africa, from the Sudan to Namibia, are differentiated and described within their cultural setting. ID271403
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Dark, Philip J.C. Kilenge Life and Art. A Look at a New Guinea People
London Academy Editions 1974 0856700118 / 9780856700118 1st Edition Hardback
Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 132 pages The author records his first impressions of the little known Kilenge people for whom the western world had only peripherally intruded. He looks at how aesthetic expressionism finds many outlets among the Kilenge - from masks to the planting of decorative shrubs. ID263180
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Elliott, Aubrey The Magic World of the Xhosa
London Collins 1972 0002119455 / 9780002119450 Reprint Hardback
Oblong Small Quarto Size [approx 30x21cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 144 pages The world of the Xhosa is both strange and mystifying, peopled by dark and powerful forces that surround and command the Xhosa's daily life. ID262345
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Farb, Peter HUMANKIND
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1978 022401580X / 9780224015806 1st Edition Hardback
Small Quarto Size. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD Dustjacket. DJ protected in Mylar cover. Black & white illustrations. 528pages ID143737
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Fox, Robin ENCOUNTER WITH ANTHROPOLOGY
New York Harcourt, Brace & World 1973 0151287937 / 9780151287932 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners and crease to front flap. 360pages+index ID246881
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Golde, Peggy [Edited by] Women In The Field: Anthropological Experiences
Chicago Aldine Publishing Company 1970 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size. VERY GOOD in GOOD Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Bright pink Dustjacket is slightly rubbed especially to edges and spine ends. Book has some mild insect damage to edges. Previous Owners name/details to Preliminary Pages.Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 343 pages 12 Women anthropologists explain what they do, why they have chosen to do it and how they feel about their work. ID227466
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