Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Wisdom of China and India.

Yutang, lin, edited by, · 1955

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Modern Library, (1955). G Hardback.

The Golden Bough: a study in magic and religion.

Frazer, Sir James George, · 1963

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Macmillan, (1963). ABRIDGED Ed. G PB. Primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable role whih regulated the succession in the priesthood of Diana at. Ariia. On the crucial question of putting kings to death either at the end of a fixed period or whenever their heal...

The Harmless People.

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall (Inscribed by author), · 1959

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Vintage, (1959). G PB (slight wear). A groundbreaking work of anthropology. A study of primitive people. Thomas was one of the first Westerners to live with the. bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana amd South-West Africa. Her account of thees nomadic hunter gartherer...

Thinking through Cultures: expeditions in cultural psychology.

Shweder, Richard, · 1991

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, (1991). VG PB. We hve to understand the way persons, cultures, and natures make each other up, its goal is to seek the mind indissociably. embedder in the meanings and resonances that are both its product and its components. Shweder, an anth...

Woman Culture & Society.

Rosaldo, Michelle and Louise Lamphere, edtied by, · 1974

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Stanford, Calif., Stanford Univ., (1974). G PB. 16 women anthropologiss analyze the place of women in human societies. Cover creases, some highlighting/marks, edge wear.

Parade of the Living.

Bradley, John Hodgdon, Jr., · 1930

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Coward-McCann, 1930. 1st ed. VG. Blue binding, yellow lettering on spine, endpapers show march of evolution. Edge wear.

Primitive Heritage: an anthropological anthology.

Mead, Margaret and Nicolas Calas, · 1953

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Random, (1953). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Primitive man's behavior with all his varied customs, rituals and taboos, comes under the scrutiny of the world's foremosts. anthropologists. DJ edge wear and faded on DJ spine.

Yanomamo: case studies in cultural anthropology.

Chagnon, Napoleon A., · 1992

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Ft. Worth, Harcourt Brace College Pubs, (1992). 3rd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Changes since the first edition have been castastrophic in the tropical forests where the Yanomamo live. Few cover creases.

One River: explorations and discoveries in the Amazon rain forest.

Davis, Wade, · 1996

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Touchstone, (1996). 9th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Davis went to the Amazon in the wake of his professor to unveil botanical secrets of coca, the notorious cocaine, a sacred. plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. Two generations of explorers are drawn together ...

The Dobe !Kung: cases studies in cultural anthropology.

Lee, Richard B., · 1984

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Ft. Worth, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1984). 11th ptg. VG PB. Study of the !Kung San, foragers of Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert of northwestern Botswana near Nammibia. Edge wear.

Zuni Fetishes.

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, introduction by Tom Bahti, · 1986

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Las Vegas, NV, K C Publications, (1986). 6th ptg. VG PB. The use of fetishes by Indians dates from pre-Columbian times but their use is as prevalent today as in the past as a means. of trying to control forces beyond man's immediate power. Sl soil on binding.

The Neandertal Enigma: solving the mystery of modern human origins.

Shreeve, James, · 1996

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Morrow, (1996). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. The disappearance of the Neandertals is one of the first & greatest mysteries in the human adventure & emergence of. modern huamns.

And Keep Your Powder Dry: an anthropologist looks at America.

Mead, Margaret, · 1965

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Morrow, 1965. 2nd ed. VG. Expanded edition of a classic work on the American character. Owner book plate ft endpaper.

The Silent Language.

Hall, Edward T., · 1990

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Anchor, (1990). 21st ptg. VG PB. Space & time are tools which all humans use to transmit messages, guarding their office desk, a walled patio, keeping a. client waiting.

The Tiwi of North Australia.

Hart, C. W. M., Arnold R. Pilling, & Jane C. Goodale, · 1988

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1988). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Highlighting & underlining.

Male and Female: a study of the sexes in a changing world.

Mead, Margaret, · 1949

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Morrow, (1949). G. Owner inscription fep, binding somewhat mottled.

The Red Ape, Orang-utans & Human Origins.

Schwartz, Jeffrey H., · 1987

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Schwartz offers persuasive evidence that our closest relative is not the chimpanzee or gorilla but the orang-utan.

With a Daughter's Eye: a memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.

Bateson, Mary Catherine, · 1984

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

NY, Morrow, (1984). VG in VG DJ. Price clipped. Owner inscription fep.

Lucy's Child: the discovery of a human ancestor.

Johanson, Donald and James Shreeve, · 1989

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Morrow, (1989). VG PB. Anxiety, exhiliration, and grubby politics are revealed behind the discovery of a few bits of blackened bone in Olduvai Gorge.