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Detail of front wrapper of PRIMITIVE ART - PRE-COLUMBIAN - NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN - AFRICAN - OCEANIC (anton01bp 175/234 ANTO01)
Anton, Ferdinand et al. PRIMITIVE ART - PRE-COLUMBIAN - NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN - AFRICAN - OCEANIC. Ferdinand Anton, Frederick J. Dockstader, Margaret Trowell, and Hans Nevermann, respectively. BNo. 0-8109-1459-X. First American Edition, 1979 (1967) Pp: 526; 280mm x 220mm; 2.50kg. 302 col, 250 b/w, 9 fig, 7 maps, 4 tables. Bibliographical notes, index, photo credits. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: g. (minor creasing of dw; fitted with p/sl). Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 1979. (The extraordinary sophistication of the vanished Pre-Columbian civilisations are discussed; Indian tribal arts are outlined, illustrated and commented upon including Eskimo, Kwakiutl, Iroquois, Hopi, Navajo, Olmec and Mixtec) (Keywords: Ethnology, African, Montol, Songe, Pende, Senufo, Bambara, Oceanic, Melanesia, Sepik, Tami, Sulka, Micronesia, Palau, Polynesia, Marquesas, Hawaiian, Maori).
Book Code: N413 AU$95
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Detail of wrapper of SHIELDS (benitez1p 150/191 BENI01)
Benitez-Johannot, P & Jean Paul Barbier. SHIELDS - Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania. From the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum. BNo. 3-7913-2341-5. First Enlish Edition, 2000 (1998). Pp: 256; 310mm x 240mm; 1.78kg. 120 col,130 b/w, 100 fig, 21 maps. Foreword, references, bibliography, index, acknowledgments, credits. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 2000. (The exhibition displayed shields from the musee Barbier-Mueller collection from across Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia. Each of the one-hundred shields is shown with a full-page colour photograph together with a complementary line drawing and, in most cases, archival black and white field-photograph showing the shield type in use by the tribal person) (Keywords: Gascoyne & Murchinson Rivers, Broome, Fitzroy, Kardjarri, Warlpiri, San Cristobal, Santa Isabel, New Georgia, Bougainville).
Book Code: N496 AU$165
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Detail of wrapper - THE WHITE MAN (blackburn10p 160/207 BLAC10)
Blackburn, Julia. THE WHITE MEN. The first response of aboriginal peoples to the white man. BNo. 0-8129-0826-0. First Edition, 1979. Pp: 192; 245mm x 185mm; 0.90kg. num col, b/w & fig, 4 maps. Foreword, introduction, tribal locations, notes, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Time Books, New York, 1979. (In this anthology the author has collected together a wide selection of native responses to the arrival of the first Europeans, showing how white civilisation had a bewildering and often violent impact on ancient traditions and patterns of living) (Keywords: Social anthropology, tribal art, indigenous peoples, colonization, world, Africa, Melanesia).
Book Code: E104 AU$33
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Braddon, Russell et al. RIVER JOURNEYS. Six very different rivers of the world. BNo. 0-563-20204-1. First Edition, 1984. Pp: 208; 245mm x 185mm; 0.74kg. num col & b/w, 6 maps. The contributors, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1984. (River Journeys is about six very different rivers; Michael Wood travells the Congo; Christina Dodwell explores both the Sepik and Waghi in Papua New Guinea; William Shawcross travels along the Mekong River in Indochina; Germaine Greer follows the Sao Francisco in the north-east region of Brazil; and Russell Braddon goes down the Murray River in south-east Australia) (Keywords: Travel, exploration, cultures, world, rivers).
Book Code: D002 AU$22
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Chagnon, Napoleon A. YANOMAMO. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. BNo. 0-03-032819-5. Fourth Edition, 1992 (1977) (pb). Pp: xxii, 266; 235mm x 160mm; 0.39kg. 68 b/w, fig & maps. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, glossary, references cites, films, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor wear). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, Fort Worth, 1992. (The author has spent approximately five years in the field with the Yanomamo during some twenty-five field trips. This extended and intimate contact has provided important data on a way of life) (Keywords: Anthropology, South America, Venezuela, Brazil, Yanomamo).
Book Code: G130 AU$20
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Detail of wrapper - PRIMITIVE ART (christensen01p 180/235 CHRI01)
Christensen, Erwin O. PRIMITIVE ART. Africa, Americas and the South Seas. BNo. 55-11109. First Edition, 1955 (UK). Pp: 384; 280mm x 260mm; 2.10kg. 31 col, 348 b/w, 49 fig, 5 maps. Introduction, acknowledgments, selected bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (minor wear on dw). Thames and Hudson, London. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1955. (This book surveys all the major areas: Africa, North, Middle and South America, Australia, and the South Seas) (Keywords: Tribal art, Ife, Ekoi, Eskimo, Pueblo, Maya, Olmec, Melanesia, Marquesas, Maori, Polynesia).
Book Code: J228 AU$150
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Conrad, Jack. MANY WORLDS OF MAN. Drawings by Stephen Rogers Peck. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1967. Pp: xiv, 305; 230mm x 150mm; 0.75kg. 97 b/w & fig, 4 maps. Appendix, index. A good hardback copy. Cvr: g. (minor wear). Macmillan and Company Limited, London, 1967. (The author explains the origins of racial and cultural differences. Many illustrations of artefacts from all the major regions of the world) (Keywords: Ethnology, Africa, Americas, Oceania).
Book Code: Q020 AU$20
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Detail of wrap of TRIBAL ART TRAFFIC - A Chronicle of Taste, Trade and Desire in Colonial and Post-Colonial Times (corbey1p 150/220 CORB1)
Corbey, Raymond. TRIBAL ART TRAFFIC. A Chronicle of Taste, Trade and Desire in Post-Colonial Times. BNo. 90-6832-197-8. First Edition, 2000 (pb). Pp: 255; 220mm x 150mm; 0.48kg. 48 b/w. Preface, notes, references. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Royal Tropical Institute, The Netherlands, 2000. (This book traces the movements of hundreds of thousands of masks, statues, shields and weapons from overseas tribal cultures to and within North Atlantic societies, in colonial and post-colonial times. It also sketches the emergence of a western market for tribal art in the course of the twentieth century) (Keywords: Ethnology, tribal art market, Africa, Oceania, Southeast Asia, Australia).
Book Code: N810 AU$78
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