Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Very Good. 1949. Hardcover. Clean copy in red cloth with gold gilt title on front. Frontispiece present. Minor shelf wear.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good. Book New York: MacMillan, 1963. 24th printing. Very Good. 614 pgs. Very Good-Red cloth board with black & gold title box, gold lettering. Exceptionally clean & tight. Occasional underlining and notations alongside text. Owner's name inside. Slight speckling on top edges, other edges bright and clean, cover very clean. Color and black & white photos & illustrations. Chapters on the Tasmanians, Kazaks, Eskimos, Iroquois, Hopi, Samoans, Hottentots, and many more primitive peoples. Decorated endpapers. 8vo. Anthropology.
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Very Good in no dustcover jacket. No signs of cover wear, clean glossy, pages clean, bright and unmarked, spine tight.614 pp. Tightly bound, illustratedListing Includes Books Image. Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping. Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S.
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Very Good. Size: 5x1x8; This study of 18 primitive societies in every continent but Europe was first published in 1934 and was a standard text in anthropology courses for decades. Includes one chapter on Tasmania, and one chapter on the Aranda tribe; Tasmania; approx. census before white contact Law, general life, water transport, food, shelters, baskets; Initiation (scarification), funeral rites, mourning, disposal of dead, abortion, infanticide, magic and witchcraft, music, dances, percussion instruments, stick-beating, personal adornment, recreation, effect of early contact; Aranda; physical appearance, general ecology, food, cooking, artefacts-carrying bags and other implements, weapons, social organization, totemic system, religious beliefs, abortion, infanticide, childbirth, childhood, initiation rites. George Peter Murdock, (1897-1985) was an American anthropologist who specialized in comparative ethnology, the ethnography of African and Oceanic peoples, and social theory. He is perhaps most notable as the originator, in 1937, of the Cross-Cultural Survey, a project of the Institute of Human Relations of Yale University, in which a vast amount of anthropological data was cataloged so that any known aspect of a society's culture could be quickly summoned from a data bank.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket 27th printing, 1971. (anthropology, indigenous people) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.