Search Results: Anthropology from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: Summit Books, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow boards, yellow cloth spine with gilt titles, orange endpapers, 285, [1] pp, b & w photos & drawings throughout, notes, bibliography, index. DJ covered with adhesive plastic, else as new. According to the DJ, "Until now it has been generally accepted that 12,000 years ago modern man migrated from Asia and Europe across the Bering land bridge into North America. But a wealth of new findings indicates that fully developed man has been in the Americas for at least 50,000 years and possibly for as long as 250,000 years--far earlier than Homo sapiens has been placed in Europe, the Middle east or anywhere else. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Glossy paper side-stapled in tan printed paper wraps, 24 figures including maps & b & w photos, notes. One leaf dog-eared, covers slightly sunned near edges, owner's name rubber-stamped on front cover. Contains papers presented at a conference held May 1-3, 1961, by Ethel Boissevain; Louis S. B. Leakey; Herbert S. Lewis; Warren L. d'Azevedo; Francis P. Conant; William Bascom; W. B. Schwab; Roger W. Wescott; Robert A. & Barbara B. Levine; Igor Kopytoff; E. Colson; Soy Sieber; Elliott P. Skinner; and Absolom Vilakazi. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.

New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., Inc., 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige covers with brown orange titles & decorations, xi, 394, [9] pp, 153 figures, bibliography, index, list of publisher's books. Covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Sir Wilfred Edward Le Gros Clark was Professor of Anatomy at Oxford, among many other honors. Le Gros Clark expanded his 1953 Munro Lectures at the University of Edinburgh into "an introductory textbook which is intended for students of whom some may have no special knowledge of comparative anatomy." This copy is a reprint of the third edition which was first published in 1971. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd Ed, later ptg. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 21 X 13½ cm.

New York: Exposition Press, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burnt orange cloth, brown titles on front board & spine, 68, [4] pp, 16 ff b&w plates, index. Corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, a few small foxed spots on front free endpaper & last page of index. Price-clipped DJ spine slightly faded, bottom corners of flaps trimmed, slight wear to extremities; in Brodart archival cover. From the introduction: "The Paluwalla Tree of Life of the Cuna Indians of San Blas, Panama, is so holy that it is considered sacrilegious to talk about it to outsiders; hence, complete information is difficult to obtain. In fact, it is only by chance that the scientific world even knows that the Cunas carry out a most secret ceremony in the jungle before the Tree of Life.... I had tried for ten years to get Cuna medicine priests to talk to me about this most sacred ceremony but in vain. It was a taboo topic of conversation. Finally, I had to… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly white pictorial card covers, x, 150 pp, index. One-inch tear at head of spine. Mark Hall manuscript maps laid in. Consists mostly of detailed drawings of fossil skulls of hominids, with basic descriptions of when & where they were found, dates for the fossils, and the occasional range map. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. Trade Paperback. Good/No dj. 28 X 21 cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full grey cloth, gilt & black titles & decorations, dec. endpapers, 384 pp, line drawings scattered throughout, index. Spine ends slightly rubbed. DJ spine is sunned a bit, has a 2 cm tear to top edge of rear panel, and is covered with adhesive plastic. This book, according to the DJ, "traces human origins from the days of the old hunters into the time of the Greek and Roman Civilizations." Contents: the nature of human life; the old hunters; the new farmers; new societies, the new world; cities & bronze. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Series title: Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. Sewn in mostly orange pictorial wraps, black titles on white spine, vii, 87 pp, 1 f. b & w photo plate, bibliography. Probably a first printing, since publisher's name changed to Holt, Rinehart & Winston early in 1960. After spending nine months in a Palauan village on Babeldaob in 1947-8 and several shorter stays during the following decade, Barnett here attempts "to convey an understanding of Palauan society and culture by presenting the Palauan view of the world in terms of the author's understanding of how the Palauan sees and comprehends what goes on around him. The objective, then, has been to delineate a way of life as free from the anthropologist's conventionalized structuring of it as possible, in the hope of communicating what it means to live and die in a small village in Palau. Shipping weight… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in mostly red pictorial covers, black titles on white spine, ix, 86 pp, 1 f. b & w. photos, map, bibliography. Early printing, probably a first printing, since the publisher's name changed to Holt, Rinehart & Winston early in 1960. Anthropological study of the Nyoro people based on 22 months of field work carried out from 1951 to 1955. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Series title: Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. Sewn in mostly blue pictorial wraps, black titles on white spine, vii, 103 pp, 1 f. b & w photo plate, bibliography. Probably a first printing, since publisher's name changed to Holt, Rinehart & Winston early in 1960. According to a foreword by the series editors, "This is a lively book about a high-spirited but self-controlled people who had a complex, satisfying way of life before it was uprooted by the white man. With the help of the Cheyenne elders still living when he did his fieldwork, and through a masterly study of the survivng culture, Dr. Hoebel has made this way of life live again." Contents: ritual & tribal integration; social structure; subsistence & war; world view & the Cheyenne personality. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth boards, brown cloth spine with foil titles & black rules, xxxiii, 499, [1] pp. Owner's address label on ffep, edges slightly faded, faintly musty. DJ corners & spine ends rubbed, a few tears (longest is 2 cm); in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "The Children of Sanchez is a deep and intimate account of an actual family from the slums of Mexico City.... The story they tell is in their own words. ... It is a measure of Oscar Lewis' genius that he has used the techniques of anthropology to give people who are rarely heard from directly--the inheritors of the culture of poverty--their own voice." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine, vi, 320 pp, 3 ff b & w plates (including frontispiece). Externally bumped & rubbed, spine & edges slightly faded, half-title torn at gutter, a few dog-eared leaves & marginal notes in pencil. The author, a professor of experimental medicine, examines the influence of climate on longevity, activity, courses of diseases, etc., in laboratory animals, farm animals, & humans. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . G+/No dj. 22½ X 15½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, maps on endpapers, xiii, 438 pp, 2 ff b & w plates, 28 illustrations in text, notes, bibliography, index. Edges of boards slightly faded, else fine. DJ moderately rubbed, covered with adhesive plastic. According to Heyerdahl's preface, this book is "an anthology of reports and speeches previously published independently, which I have here combined and edited to form a coherent book." Heyerdahl explores the evidence for early navigation found in ancient petroglyphs, seals, reliefs, pottery, etc. He also considers the navigational capabilities of various types of ancient vessels, ocean currents, archeological evidence suggesting contact between ancient civilizations. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, xviii, 260 pp, frontispiece, numerous b & w drawings, notes, index. Spine ends rubbed, light soil to edges, errata sheet laid in. DJ moderately rubbed, torn (to 1") and chipped at extremities, in mylar cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. Illus. by Campbell Grant. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, foil titles on spine, top edge dyed green, [iii], 181 pp, chapter notes, glossary. A few small spots on boards & top edge. DJ extremities rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Contains essays on human genetic & cultural evolution by James F. Crow, Hermann J. Muller, Julian H. Seward, Demitri B. Shimkin, Walter A. Rosenblith, B. F. Skinner, and Henry A. Murray. The entire collection was first published in the Summer 1961 issue of Daedalus. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). . VG+/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

Bristol: Pentacle Books, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly white pictorial card covers, black titles on spine, [ix], 84 pp, 6 ff b & w photo plates. Covered with adhesive plastic, bottom corner bumped. Photo-offset reprint of the original 1873 edition with a 1973 foreword by John Michell, according to which "J. Eitel, a clergyman of the London Missionary Society and author of a work on Buddhism, took advantage of his mission to China to make a sympathetic study of the oral and literary traditions of feng-shui. A hundred years after its first publication his treatise is still the only substantial work in English on the subject and the original edition is scarece." Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. Illus. by Photographs by Ernst Börschmann. 20½ X 14 cm.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Series title: The Scientist's Library: Biology and Medicine. Full grey cloth with titles & device, xii, 201 pp, 153 figures, bibliography, index, list of publisher's books. Sir Wilfred Edward Le Gros Clark was Professor of Anatomy at Oxford, among many other honors. The author discusses the accumulated fossil evidence, its tentative interpretation, and how that interpretation might change as further evidence comes to light. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ed, 5th ptg. . Fine/No dj. 22 X 14½ cm.

St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in pictorial card covers with black & white titles on tan spine,xix, 227 pp, many b & w figures in text, chapter bibliographies, glossary, index. Surface chips & rubbing, bookplate. College textbook in elementary paleoanthropology. Contents: the primate background; the paleontological approach; dating of fossil materials; evolution of the pongids; early hominid radiation; Ramapithecus: possibly the earliest known hominid; theories of hominid evolution; acquisition of bipedalism; the australopithecines; Homo erectus; middle Pleistocene hominids and the Neanderthal problem; the appearance of modern man. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 25 X 17 cm.

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt titles on spine, x, 355 pp, 83 figures (including some maps), 2 maps not in numbered figures, 4 charts including one fold-out, 16 numbered tables plus other tables in text, bibliography, index. Slight shelf wear. Price-clipped DJ chipped at bottom front corner, covered with adhesive plastic. According to the DJ, "This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archaeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a geologist and as a prehistorian, and has written this book first to meet the needs of archaeologists wishing to learn the stratigraphical frameworks now applied to Quaternary deposits, and second to meet the needs of geologists requiring to know the terminology of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cultures." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ed. . Near… Read More

New York: Universe Books, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards with gilt tiles, 127 pp, many illustrations by author. DJ has a 3 cm closed tear, a scratch, & light edge wear. Book & jacket in heavy mylar. Armen, a Basque poet and painter, writes about a boy raised by a herd of gazelles in the Sahara. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 25 X 16½ cm.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in pictorial card covers, blue & black titles on beige spine, 288 pp, 24 ff b & w plates, many drawings in text, bibliography, index. Fagan tells a comprehensive story of the development of theories and acquisition of archeological data about the origins of human life in North America, and which of the early inhabitants might be the ancestors of American Indians. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.