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The Todas. by Rivers, W. H. R - 1906
by Rivers, W. H. R
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Macmillan and Co. London. 1906. First edition. Royal 8vo. xviii, 737pp. Folding map frontis., 20 folding genealogical tables, numerous photo illus. Original green cloth, gilt. Slightly faded, spotted, bumped and rubbed. Foxing to endpapers, pages untrimmed. Small Parker & Son Booksellers plate to fep.
William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864-1922) FRCP, FRS. Anthropologist, ethnologist, neurologist, psychologist. A detailed study of the people "of the Nilgiri Hills in Southern India". His innovative methodology in this work was later adopted as standard anthropological practice.
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Oosterhout: Anthropological Publications, 1967 Anthropological Publications reprint of Macmillan 1906 original. An extraordinarily detailed volume regarding the people of the undulating plateau of the Nilgiri Hills in Southern India. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the ffep. Provenance provided upon request. Ex-library reference book, with some but not all usual treatments. Condition notes: 7545 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; several sets of pp are smaller that others and laid in; there are numerous fold-outs. Cover: red, gilt titles spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems slightly worn. A nice copy of this squat, fat volume.
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The Racial Analysis of Human Populations in Relation to Their Ethnogenesis and Some Possibilities for Estimating Inter-Population Relationship on the Basis of Continuous Traits in Current Anthropology Volume 3, Number 1
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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