Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
Viking Adult, April 1992. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Anthropology
Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah
University of Utah Press, April 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Fremont is a culture (ca. 300-1300 A.D.) first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the area. Initially thought to be a simple socio-political system, recent reassessments of the Fremont assume a more.....
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Harper Perennial, February 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. #1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative.....
The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Violence
Perseus Books, 1999. Hardcover. 323 pages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. In The Dark Side of Man, Michael Ghiglieri, a biologist and protege of Jane Goodall, takes on one of the most highly charged debates in modern science: the biological roots of bad behavior. Beginning.....
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Harper, April 2021. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and named one of the best science books of 2021 by Science News "DeSilva takes us on a brilliant, fun, and scientifically deep stroll.....
Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
Inner Traditions, November 2000. Trade Paperback. Remainder Copy - like new. A comprehensive examination of the rituals and philosophies that created and sustained medieval troubadour culture - Debunks the myth of the platonic nature of courtly love, showing the many sexual similarities to the Tantric practices of India - Reveals.....
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Penguin Books, September 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read. --The Wall Street Journal The blockbuster New York Times bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series When did people first start to wear.....
Archaic Culture Horizons in the Valley of Mexico
University of California Press, 1925. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 373-408, plate 20, 182 figures in text. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Minor edge wear.
Our Earliest Ancestors
Columbia University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 158 pages. First US edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Tracing mankind's evolution from the birth of life on Earth three billion years ago to the emergence of modern human beings, this volume explains how the field.....
Abhandlungen zur Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte. Band II. Festschrift zur Feier des 25Jahrigen Bestehens der Frankfurter Gesellscaft...
H. Bechhold Verlag, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 140 pages with 21 plate pages. Plates in color and B/W. Text in German. 12.75 x 10 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in decorated paper over boards and black cloth covers. Pasted title page in tan on front cover.....
Mexican Kinship Terms
University of California Press, 1931. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1-14. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in gray wrappers (paperback). Pages uncut.
Kankanay Ceremonies
University of California Press, 1920. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 343-384. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Some tanning to cover edges.
Versteinertes Leben
Atlantis, 1936. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 120 pages with 48 pages of plates in B/W and 16 figures in text. Text in German. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in black cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering on front cover and spine. Water staining to lower edge.....
The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers Number 10
Kroeber Anthropological Society, 1954. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 99 pages with errata sheet. First edition (first printing). Very good in blue printed wrappers (paperback). Much of spine is missing, contents very good.
The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers Number 6
Kroeber Anthropological Society, 1952. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 87 pages with errata sheet pasted in. First edition (first printing). Very good in blue printed wrappers (paperback). Much of spine is missing, contents very good.
Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers Number 4 (November 1951)
Kroeber Anthropological Society, 1951. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 87 pages with errata pasted in. First edition (first printing). Very good in blue printed wrappers (paperback). Much of spine is missing, contents very good.
Anthropological Essays
Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 523 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket with light fading to spine and chipped corners.
Prehistory of the Southwest (New World Archaeological Record Series)
Academic Pr, January 1984. Hardcover.
Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
Columbia Univ Pr, November 1971. Hardcover.
Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
Simon & Schuster, August 1995. Hardcover. This is a biography of the first family of anthropology - Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey, whose discoveries have laid the foundations for much of our knowledge about the origins of man.
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Vintage, October 1982. Trade Paperback.
The Dream Culture of the Neanderthals: Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom
Inner Traditions, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Explores the influence of Neanderthal man on the cultural and biological development of humanity - Traces the power of long-held beliefs and superstitions to the influence of Neanderthal lunar and dream-based traditions - Offers a compelling vision of a unified humanity that can benefit.....
Journey from Eden: The Peopling of Our World
Thames & Hudson, November 1990. Hardcover.
Songs at the River's Edge: Stories from a Bangladeshi Village
Pluto Press, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Katy Gardner's account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the.....
Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the Samoans (Chandler and Sharp Publications in Anthropology and Related Fields)
Chandler & Sharp Pub, February 1996. Trade Paperback.