Archaeology And Anthropology from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Virgilio Montalvo, Santo Domingo, D.R., 1927; First Edition; 8vo, 301 pages; printed wraps. Fifty-seven writings by distinguished Dominican writer/poet/educator Ramon Emilio Jimenez describing the traditions, beliefs, customs, character, personality, occupations,landscape, and everyday lives of the Dominican people. A Dominican native, Jimenez (1886-1970) held numerous government administrative positions throughout his lifetime, most notably that of State Secretary of Education… Read more about this item

Michael O’Mara Books, Ltd., London, 1997; First Edition; 8vo, 248 pgs; blue cloth; gilt spine titles; illustrated. A detailed description of the beliefs and everyday lives of all social classes of Ancient Egypt, with whole chapters on farmer, builder, women & children, scribe, priest, craftsman, artist, soldier, administrator, and king. Profusely illustrated with one hundred drawings and over… Read more about this item

The Itzan Society, Los Angeles, 1940; First Edition. Large map showing in detail the geographic ranges of the Amerindian tribes of the Americas at the close of the pre-Columbian era, with notations as to their territories, cities, populations, racial types, languages, cultures, etc. Compiled and edited in 1940 by distinguished American archaeologist Max Wells Jakeman (1910-1998) for… Read more about this item

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1999; First Edition; quarto; two volumes; black cloth; gilt titles; woven cloth marker ribbon. Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s extraordinary photographic study chronicling pagan ceremonial rites of the various black tribes from across the African continent -- North, East, South, West, and Central Africa. Much-detailed chapters explaining practices related to birth and… Read more about this item

Biblioteca Aportacion Historica, Mexico City, 1947; First Edition; #69 of 100 numbered copies; 8vo, 33 pages. First publication of an historic manuscript in the National Museum of Mexico describing the Nahua system of counting and the etymological roots of Nahuatl number words. Originally authored in mid 19th century by notable Mexican linguist Faustino Chimalpopoca, Nahuatl translator to the… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1953; First Edition; tall 8vo, 99 pages; illustrated. Over sixty reproductions of wall paintings of spirit figures which play a part in the rites of the Buyeye secret society of Bantu snake charmers in Sukumaland, Tanganyika. Four of the figures are reproduced in color on tipped-in plates. Text by Hans Cory, notable Government… Read more about this item

Bison Books, Nebraska, 1978; First Edition; 8vo, 298 pgs. Collection of oral folk tale performances of the Zuni, translated by Dennis Tedlock. Very Good Plus, in illustrated stiff wraps.

The Herbert Press, London, 1980; First Edition; 8vo, 288 pages. Detailed descriptions and historical backgrounds for over 70 of the most important and interesting places, islands, and buildings of Greece, each illustrated with maps and photographs. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket. A clean, bright, and sharp copy.

Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, NM, 1984; First Edition; 8vo, 132 pages; illustrated. Blanche C. Grant’s controversial 1925 study of the life ways of the Indians of Taos Pueblo. First printing of the paperback edition. Fine, in illustrated wraps.

Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1962; First Edition, third printing; 8vo, 398 pages plus a 13-page index at the back; illustrated. Geoffrey Thomas Bibbey’s engrossing study, from contemporary archaeological evidence, of a connected worldwide history of the second millennium B.C., a period in which some of the most well-known events in man’s history took place, but had previously… Read more about this item

Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1993; First Edition; 8vo, 421 pages; illustrated. In depth study of the myth cycle of the opossum in indigenous Mesoamerican cultures and its connection with Quetzalcoatl. Authored by Alfredo Lopez Austin, professor of anthropology at the National University of Mexico, specialist in Aztec ideology. Translation by Bernard and Thelma Ortiz de Montellano.… Read more about this item

Belknap/ Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1969; First Edition; large 8vo, 733 pages; illustrated. Seminal anthropological study of the Tzotzil-speaking highland village of Zinacantan, covering geographic and cultural setting, material culture and economics, social structure, religious beliefs and rituals, etc. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket that has a single 1" closed edge… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, NY, 1976; First Edition; 4to, 248 pages. Authoritative study, profusely illustrated with 264 b&w photographs of masks from all regions of the African continent, each identified as to tribe, place of origin, and use. Includes masks of the Dogon, Bambara, Senufo, Guere (Ngere)-Wobe, Baule, Kuyu, Yoruba, Baga, Bapende, Bwa, Bobo-Fing, Ibo, and many other tribes. Lengthy… Read more about this item

University Of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1987; First Edition; 8vo, 243 pages; illustrated. Twelve writings on numerous aspects of Sioux Indian religion by such authors as Arval Looking Horse, Vine Deloria, Beatrice Medicine, Emerson Spider, et al. Nine pages of suggested readings for further study at the back, together with a 10 page bibliography. Illustrated by Arthur Amiotte.… Read more about this item

Editorial Porrua, Mexico, 1961; Second Edition, revised and enlarged by the author; 8vo, 385 pages. Professional instruction in Nahuatl grammar and pronunciation, accompanied by twenty selections from primary source 16th century Nahuatl literary manuscripts, followed by their corresponding translations into Spanish. Also included are a number of later-century texts demonstrating dialectical variations and the evolution over time of… Read more about this item

Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1971; First Edition, first printing; 4to, 530 pages; illustrated. Second volume of the intensive two-volume archaeological study of the Americas, here focusing on the continent of South America from man’s first appearance there to the coming of the Europeans. Authored by Gordon R. Willey, Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American Archaeology and Ethnology… Read more about this item

Alaska-Northwest Publishing Co., Juneau, 1959; First Edition; Signed; square 8vo, 86 pages; illustrated. First person account of Alaskan Eskimo life by full-blood Eskimo Paul Green, born 1901 in Kotzbue, and whose Eskimo name was Aknik. Tells about how he got his name, the Alaskan Arctic, hunting bear, seal, whale, and caribou, how to make a snow house and… Read more about this item

Antigua Libreria Robredo y Editorial Aurora, Mexico, D.F, 1961; 8vo, 142 pages. A grammar, vocabulary, and reader of Nahuatl to Spanish, and Spanish to Nahuatl. Very Good, in red, white, and green stiff wraps. Page margins tanned.

Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1966; First Edition, 4th printing; 4to, 530 pages; illustrated. Formidable archaeological study of North and MIddle America, spanning the period of time from man’s first appearance on the American continent to the coming of the Europeans. Authored by distinguished American archaeologist Gordon R. Willey, Ph.D., Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American Archaeology and Ethnology… Read more about this item

Smith College, Northhampton, MA, 1964; First Edition; 8vo, 43 pages of text plus 31 pages of b&w photographic plates; white boards; gilt titles. Thesis study focusing on the question of the dating of the metopes from the temple of Athena at Ilion, unearthed by Schlieman in 1872. Were they part of the structure Strabo claims Lysymachos erected, or… Read more about this item