Anthropology
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
$2,000.00 Add to cartMasatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.
A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs. -
Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens
$150.00 Add to cartW. O. Oldman
London: W. O. Oldman, 1976.
Limited Edition Facsimile of 130 catalogues of British ethnographic dealer William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949). Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, of which this is number 434. -
Heat: Gary Lee: Select Texts, Art & Anthropology
$100.00 Add to cartGary Lee; Maurice O’Riordan
Darwin: Disheval Books, 2023.
An extensive anthology spanning five decades of the career of Larrakia artist and anthropologist Gary Lee. An important collection of writings and imagery on ethnicity, masculinity, and queerness in Darwin and beyond. With contributions by Dino Hodge, Daniel Browning, Tracey Moffatt, Jane Cush, Maurice O’Riordan and Wendy Brady. Edited by Maurice O’Riordan. Features extensive bibliography and a Larrakia & Darwin Aboriginal glossary. -
The Aboriginal Photographs of Baldwin Spencer
$100.00 Add to cartBaldwin Spencer; John Mulvaney
Melbourne: Viking O’Neil, 1987. -
Aboriginal Australians
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. 139, [3] pages, [28] pages of black and white illustrations, figures in the text. Cloth, pictorial jacket.
Moderate tanning to jacket verso, minor to endpapers. Very minor chips to jacket edges. Very Good Condition. -
Australian Aboriginal Anthropology: Modern Studies in the Social Anthropology of the Australian Aborigines
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First Edition.
25cm x 17cm. xiv, 341 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Papers by Elkin, Berndt, Strehlow, and many others.
Very Good Condition in Good Jacket. Spine head and tail, corners lightly pushed. Several small chips to jacket edges. Very Good Condition. -
Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land
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Second Edition.
25cm x 18cm. xvi, 245 pages, black and white illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
Very minor foxing. Minor creasing with very minor chip to top edge of jacket. Very Good Condition. -
Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians
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Reo.
23cm x 15cm. xxiii, 290 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Creasing. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
The Riddle of the Sphinx, or Human Origins
$150.00 Add to cartGeza Roheim
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1934.
Psychoanalytic anthropology by Hungarian Geza Roheim (1891-1953). Roheim and his wife lived on and around the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission in central Australia for nine months in 1929. The 9 pages of illustrations in this work being photographs from this time showing Aboriginal ceremony. -
The Arunta: A Study of a Stone Age People (2 Volumes)
$650.00 Add to cartBaldwin Spencer; F. J. Gillen
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927.
Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions between 1875 and 1912 marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs which are well represented throughout. -
Savage Life in Central Australia
$600.00 Add to cartG. Horne; G. Aiston
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924.
Study of the Wangkangurru (Wonkonguru) and Dieri people. Photographic illustrations throughout. -
From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West
$40.00 Add to cartSusan J. Napier
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. -
Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
$30.00 Add to cartJ. S. Eades; Tom Gill; Harumi Befu
Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2000. -
Precarious Japan
$30.00 Add to cartAnne Allison
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. -
Savage Life in Central Australia
$60.00 Add to cartGeorge Aiston; George Horne
Virginia: David M. Welch, 2009.
Australian Aboriginal Culture Series No. 7/ -
Among Wild Animals and People in Australia
$120.00 Add to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2012.
Originally published in Swedish in 1915 as ‘Bland vilda djur och folk i Australien’. Here translated into English for the first time by Margareta Luotsinen and Kim Akerman. “From October 1910 to August 1911 biologist Erik Mjoberg and his seven man Swedish team travelled by bullock wagon through the West Kimberley collecting invertebrates, birds, mammals, and ethnographic research material. Their ten month journey took them from Derby, along the Fitzroy River upstream to Mount Anderson Station. Some members then went on to Noonkanbah, the St George Ranges and Fitzroy Crossing, while others went south to Mowla Bluff. After the return to Derby two members went to Sunday Island and then followed the stock route across the Leopold Ranges to Mount Barnett. Extensive collections were also made around Derby and Meda Station. Finally the expedition re-convened in Broome where side trips included a coastal trip by pearling lugger collecting marine specimens and another trip to Beagle Bay, collecting birds. Eric Mjöberg’s idiosyncratic text remained in the Swedish language until this long-awaited English translation. Now, for the first time, this unique perspective on biota and people is brought to a new generation of readers with an interest in Kimberley history and geography.” (publisher’s blurb) -
Ethnological Notes and Phallic Rites of the Aboriginal Tribes of Western and South Australia
$40.00 Add to cartR. H. Matthews
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020. -
Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia
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Reprint.
25cm x 22cm. vi, 282 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
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Violence: Ethnographic Encounters
$10.00 Add to cartParvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Oxford: Berg, 2009. -
Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia
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Facsimile Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. xx, 516 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Cambridge facsimile of the original 1914 edition.
Minor creasing to tail fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel. Near Fine Condition. -
The Australian Medicine Man
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First Thus.
24cm x 16cm. xii, 194 pages. Pictorial french fold wrappers.
Originally published in German as ‘Der Australische Medizinmann’ and available here for the first time in English, translated by Ian Campbell. Petri’s landmark 1952 book on Aboriginal medicine men, shamans, witchdoctors. With a Foreword by Susan Bradley and Introduction by Kim Akerman.
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion
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First Edition.
23cm x 14.5cm. xii, [2], 409, [3]; [vi], 408 pages, 2 volumes, frontispiece. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration.
First edition of James George Frazer’s highly influential comparative study of mythology and religion, with the frontispiece and 2 pages of advertisements in volume 1. PMM 374. This copy with a 1914 Cambridge letter calling on committee members and funds for the establishment of a Frazer Fund for Social Anthropology laid in.
Minor shelf wear. Minor foxing, mostly to endpapers. This copy without tissue guard at frontispiece. Very minor pencil annotations. Near Fine Condition. -
Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection
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First Edition.
23.5m x 15cm. xvi, 300 pages, 1 map, black and white illustrations and maps in the text. Illustrated matte papered boards.
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The Native Tribes of Central Australia
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Second Printing.
22cm x 14cm. xxiv, 671 pages, 3 folding tables, 2 folding maps, 4 folding colour plates, black and white illustrations and 1 map in the text. Original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions between 1875 and 1912 marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs which are well represented throughout. The second printing with new preface by James George Frazer.
Some insect damage to cloth. The interior very clean. Good Condition. -
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
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Second Edition.
27cm x 20cm. 208 pages, colour photographs and illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
The Aboriginal Photographs of Baldwin Spencer
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First Edition.
29cm x 26cm. xii, 185 pages, black and white illustrations. Green cloth, white lettering, pictorial jacket.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Printer’s fault to tail fore-edge corner of page 5/6. Minor discolouration to jacket. Very Good Condition. -
Hopousia or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society
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First Edition.
24cm x 15.5cm. 476 pages, frontispiece. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
Unwin’s unfinished sequel to Sex and Culture (1934), published posthumously. “..a non-narrative Utopia where Sex is described as being made available through two forms of marriage: the monogamous alpha form entitles its adherents to accept responsibility for running the world; the polygamous beta form welcomes free love. Citizens can change from one marriage formula to the other. The rulers of the world are made free by this structure to focus on the maintenance of a sustainable state, where energy flows where needed, and returns. From this balance and restraint, Unwin argues, equity will flow, but his death before the book was finished abruptly truncated any summary argument. In his long introduction, Aldous Huxley recognizes this deficit while recognizing the importance of Unwin’s “formulation of the sexual and economic conditions of social energy.”” (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) BROMER B59.1.
Minor bump to tail fore-edge corner. Small patch of insect damage to front free-endpaper. Light foxing throughout. Previous owner’s name and address. Good Condition. -
Wanderings in Wild Australia (2 Volumes)
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. xxviii, xiv, 930 pages, [2] advertisements, 574 figures on plates and in the text, 16 colour plates, 4 folding maps, 2 volumes (continuous pagination). Original green cloth, gilt lettering, gilt top edge, no jackets.
Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions between 1875 and 1912 marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs which are well represented throughout.
Very minor wear and discolouration to spines. Minor blemish to edges of cloth on volume 1. Near Fine Condition. -
Across Australia (2 Volumes)
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. xiv, xvii, 516 pages, 365 figures (on 206 plates, 7 in colour), 2 folding maps, black and white illustrations in the text, 2 volumes (continuous pagination). Original red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration.
Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions between 1875 and 1912 marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs which are well represented throughout.
Minor discolouration to spine. Slight insect damage to board edges, mostly fore-edges. Minor foxing. Very minor pencil marginalia. Very Good Condition. -
Des Races Humaines ou Elements d’Ethnographie
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18cm x 11cm. 114 pages, 2 coloured plates (title and frontispiece). Quarter leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Text is in French.
Accomplished 19th century Belgian geologist and early proponent of evolutionism Jean Baptiste Julien d’Omalius turns to anthropology and sets about dividing and describing the races of the world by skin colour. The small section devoted to Australian Aboriginals describing them as the lowest form of the human race is omitted in some later editions. Unrecorded in Australian collections.
Minor wear to binding. Minor foxing to edges and interior. Very Good Condition.