Search Results: Ethnology from Focloir

Amerchama Excavations in the Chama Valley, New Mexico, by J.A. Jeancon. [Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 81.].


Washington, DC, 1923, 89 pages, illustrations, maps.good to veery good copy of hardcover.

Ancient world 1407re Wolfram, Herwig. History of the Goths. Completely Revised from the Second German Edition. Translated by Thomas J. Dunlap. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, 613 pages, maps, notes, bib, index. Fine in fine dust jacket, very bright well-made book. (German title: Geschichte der Goten). Is this a book club edition? May have been one of the publications made to the same standards as other publications and distributed through the BOMC channels. Excellent study. $10.00 Box A 104
From dust jacket: Much studied and much misunderstood, the Goths represent all the barbarian peoples whose presence inside and outside the late Roman Empire accelerated its transformation into the eastern Byzantine world and the Western Medieval kingdoms. Herwig Wolfram corrects erroneous perspectives of the past on Gothic history and places it within its proper context, that of late Roman society and institutions. Rejecting the nationalistic view of the Goths as a "Germanic people," he… Read More

Ancient world 639Frazer, James George, Sir. Myths of the origin of fire: an essay. London: Macmillan, 1930, 238p, index. Good, solid, clean tight copy, page 39 has some offsetting in the gutter from a ticket stub. $45.00

Tibet nwro Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René de. Oracles and demons of Tibet: the cult and iconography of the Tibetan protective deities. Kathmandu: Tiwari's Pilgrims Book House, 1996, xiv, 666 p, indexes, illus. Very good, clean tight copy in good dust jacket. This work was reprinted by various Indian and Nepalese publishers but all share the same dust jacket, probably shared the same printer. Appears to be a reprint of the Oxford 1956 edition. $75.00

Ancient world 1131 Rose, H. J. (Herbert Jennings, 1883-1961). Primitive culture in Italy. London: Methuen & Company, 1926, ix, 253, bib, index. Book dusty but generally in good shape. $10.00
Contents: I. Introductory -- II. Race, religion and culture -- III. The Gods -- IV. Worship and magic -- V. Worship and magic (continued): the Calendar -- VI. Tabus, priests, and kings -- VII. Their exits and their entrances -- VIII. Family and clan -- IX. The law. I. Crimes and torts -- X. The Law. II. Property, public opinion, status, etc. -- XI. Some negative considerations -- Bibliography -- Index.

Ancient world 567 Donaldson, John William. Varronianus: a critical and historical introduction to the ethnography of ancient Italy and to the philological study of the Latin language. Third edition, revised, and considerably enlarged. London/Cambridge:John W. Parker and Son/Deighton, Bell, and Company, 1860, xx, 564p,indices, pub ads. The book is in good condition overall, clean, tight page block with no marks, with the following detractions: the cover has fraying along the spine edges and to the top and bottom of spine, the corners are bumped. There is a 2 inch by 3 inch corner of the front free endpaper that has been removed with scissors. There is the signature of the former owner, an Oxford scholar and the blind bookseller's stamp of the Oxford bookseller, Richards, on front free endpaper. $60.00

Australia pspp Porteus, Stanley D. 1883-.The psychology of a primitive people : a study of the Australian aborigine London : E. Arnold, 1931, xv, 438 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. bibliographical references and index. Some light fading to cover, good, clen, tight copy of an interesting study

Irish in America bjsn Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896. The snake dance of the Moquis of Arizona. (Series: A Rio Grande classic). [Chicago]: [Rio Grande Press], [1962], xvi, 271 pages, index, plates. Very good copy of the reproduction of the 1884 edition, published by Scribner, New York. $20.00 Box 2027
A 19th century Army officer and ethnologist relates his experiences and observations regarding the customs of the Hopi Indians, mistakenly called Moqui Indians at that time, focusing particularly on the 16-day ritual known as the snake dance. Bourke was an amazing character even had Sigmund Freud write an introduction to his work on scatology.