Search Results: Anthropology from 100 POCKETS

Ottowa, Canada: Dept of Northern Affairs & Nat'l Resources, 1962. Issue No R2-162 . Soft Cover/Magazine. Near Fine/None as Issued. Bert Beaver (Photographer). Text/As New. Vintage 1962 printing. Stapled softcover/NF w/light edge & surface wear.COVER ART: "Stone carvings of spearman, angry owl, & running bear"; photos. LAID IN: Newspaper article by Raymond A. LaJoie of Eskimo art in Rankin Inlet, Arctic; insert of which left faint discoloration to title page. This 41-page issue outlines the development of Eskimo carvings, and a special coverage of "The Women's Art".

Reno. NV: Impart Publishers, 1976. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Stapled. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Stapled soft cover/NF w/light edge wear & small loss by lower staple. Magazine. Volume No. 1 of Impart's Special Collector Series, 1976. Cover Story: Iron Eyes Cody (1904 - 1999). Film actor, of Italian descent, known for his portrayal of Native Americans, Iron Eyes Cody was honored for his work by the American Indian community in 1995.

Berkeley, CA: Univ of California, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. 1961 First Edition, Printing 30. Biography of Ishi (ca. 1860 - 1916), one of the Native Americans in Northern California to have lived most of his life without contact with Euro-American culture. Ishi literally means "man" in Yahi. This account by anthropologist Theodora Kroeber (1897 - 1979), who never met Ishi herself, is based on notes & comments of her anthropologist husband, Alfred L. Kroeber (1876 - 1960). This book was first published a year after Alfred Kroeber's death. 255 pgs w/archival photos, 10 chapters in 2 parts: Part I, Ishi the Yahi; and Part II, Mister Ishi, followed by Epilogue: Death in a Museum.

Berkeley, CA: Univ of California, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; sound w/trace edge rubs, faint creasing to front cover & light discoloration to back. PO name to fEP. 1961 First Edition, 23rd Printing. Biography of Ishi (ca. 1860 - 1916), a Native American of Northern California who lived most of his life without contact with Euro-American culture. Ishi literally means "man" in Yahi. This historical account by anthropologist Theodora Kroeber (1897 - 1979), who never met Ishi herself, is based on notes & comments of her anthropologist husband, Alfred L. Kroeber (1876 - 1960). Found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, CA, Ishi, brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman, lived there for the remainder of his life under the care & protection of Alfred Kroeber & the staff of the Univ. of California's Museum of Anthropology. This book was first published a year after… Read More

New York, NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1964. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/Near New & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF; strong & sound with faint edge & surface wear, and showing discoloration. PO name to fEP. Case study of Demirciler, a village of 60 houses, not too distant from Ankara. This treatise is based on some six years of field work, when the village primarily engaged in wheat farming and tended sheep and goats. Relatively insulated, the residents all shared the precepts of the Muslim faith and were further bound by a rich store of folklore and superstition; modern education was still absent. Written half century ago, the study is an excellent reference/resource for understanding the Turkey of today.

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/bracketing to pg 6, else As New. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint vertical creasing to front & trace edge rubs. Park of Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology, Sanford Univ. Field work conducted between 1949 - 1953. Landlocked country in East Africa, British Protectorate 1894, and became an independent Commonwealth state in 1962. Ruled 1971 - 1979 by dictator Idi Amin. The society and culture described by John Middleton are no more; as a historical documentation of a way of life once was, the work is invaluable.

Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, 1998. First American Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Peter Cox & John Gilkes (Illustrators). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Soft cover/NF w/light shelfwear to edges & corner tips. First published in UK, 1997; this is the 1998 1st American Edition, 1st Thus. Archaeological mystery of 13 crystal skulls of varying sizes --- carvings of clear, milky quartz (known in the art world as "rock crystal") that thrilled the world. Claimed pre-Columbian finds from Maya temples. Overtime, specimens held by the British Museum & the Smithsonian show they were actually produced in 19th century Europe w/modern tool & Brazilian rock crystals . Popular speculations generated volumes in print, film & games. 387 pgs w/photos (color & b/w) & illustrations, an evolution in 25 chapters.

Garden City, NY: Chanticleer Press/Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Vintage 1958 First Edition,First Thus. Chocolate-brown linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. Illustrated DJ/VG w/nips, chips, closed tears to leading edges & faint creasings to front; under mylar. Anthropoloy. Monograph on pre-literate peoples of the world extant after World War II. Text by Edward Weyer, director of the Museum of Anthropology at the Univ of California in 1958, and illustrated with photographs. A study of tribal life including that of Eskimos, the Navajo Indians, the Lacandones & San Blas of Central America, the Head-shrinking Jivaros of South America, the Ovimbundu slave traders of Africa, the Hairy Ainus of Japan, and the Aruntas of the Australian desert. A chronicle of our fellow human brethren.

Houston, TX: Humble Oil, 1972. Vol XI (11), No 1, 1972 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. 7 pages XI of 1972. Aboriginal art of the Alaskan Chilkat art of the Tlingits.12-piece collection. Reproduction of masks housed in Russian museums. Art work selected by Carl Heinmiller, and reproduced by craftsman schooled at the institution of Natives of Alaska Indian Arts, Inc. Project funded by Humble Oil & Refining Company. Outstanding recovery of cultural heritage in mythology and art.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ Press, 1990. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Gehard Binder (Illustrator). Paperback. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG; w/light edge rubs, push to corner tips, faint creasing to lower front corner & upper back, and, slight bend to lower back corner pages from poor shelving. Documentation of trance experiences by Hungarian born anthropologist and expert in linguistic studies Dr. Felicitas Goodman (1914 - 2005) who studied the phenomenon of "speaking in tongues" and the effects of body posture as well as sounds on trances.