Search Results: Anthropology from Conover Books

India: Ernakulam, 1992. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used signed first edition! Green wrappers with black and white lettering. Very very rare and out-of-print title! Inscribed by the author on the half-title page! Included with the title is a sheet of paper from a notepad which is inscribed and dated by the author as well! 160 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Extremely scarce and hard-to-find signed copy! "Rt. Rev. Mgr. Alexander Vadakumthala, through his excellent treatise on Human Rights of the people of Indian Origin in the Union of South Africa, has placed us all in a deep debt of gratitude by throwing light on a subject vitally important and yet comparatively obscure. The title itself gripped my attention, the pages, as I turned over them, fascinated my sensitivity, the quotations, with which the book is replete, excited my soul and, on the whole, Vadakumthala's informative… Read More

Aurora, Illinois, U.S.A.: Social Science & Sociological Resources, 1974. A hint of edge wear, gently scuffed, overall a very crisp and clean first editon! Red wrappers with black lettering. 113 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and thought-provoking pages! "Study of cultural and social anthropology is increasingly recognized as manh's means of understanding and creating freedom and control for himself and his fellow man. First social anthropologists by virtue of the comparative study of institutionalized social relations were Charles Montesquieu, Jens Kraft, Izaak Iselin and Adam Feruson...." ---- From Origins of Cultural and Social Anthropology: An Introduction.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Aurora, Illinois, U.S.A.: Social Science & Sociological Resources, 1974. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, lightly shelf worn, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, no dj, missing the ffep, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a clean used first edition! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, overall a clean used first edition! 113 historical pages. " Study of cultural and social anthropology is increasingly recognized as man's means of understanding and creating freedom and control for himself and his fellow man. First social anthropologists by virtue of the comparative study of institutionalized social relations were Charles Montesquieu, Jens Kraft, Izaak Iselin and Adam Ferguson. Early descriptive ethnographic traditions were established by the writings of J. F. Lafitau in 1724 on the Huron tribe after a much earlier work by Garcilaso de la Vega on the Inca....." ---- from Origins of Cultural and Social Anthropology:… Read More