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Detail of wrapper of STAMMESKUNST - Volume 1 Australien, Ozeanien, Afrika (bodrogi1ap 160/190)
Bodrogi, Tibor STAMMESKUNST (Volume 1) Australien, Ozeanien, Afrika. BNo. 963-13-0626-7. First Edition, 1981. Pp: 307+207; 250mm x 215mm; 1.89kg. 17 col, 360 b/w, 244 fig, 10 maps. Einleitung. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (split front hinge). Corvina Kiado, Budapest, 1981. (All text is in the German language. This first book is detailed look at ethnographic artefacts from Australia, Oceania and Africa, many of which come from the Ethnographic Museum in Budapest. Numerous pieces are illustrated with photographs and line drawings which give a view of design motifs and forms) (Keywords: Ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal, Oceania, Polynesia, Melanesia, Africa).
Book Code: Q025a SOLD - now out of stock AU$140
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Detail of wrapper of STAMMESKUNST - Volume 2 Amerika, Asien (bodrogi1bp 160/189)
Bodrogi, Tibor STAMMESKUNST (Volume 2) Amerika, Asien. BNo. 963-13-0669-0. First Edition, 1981. Pp: 274+156; 250mm x 215mm; 1.62kg. 16 col, 238 b/w, 194 fig, 7 maps. Literatur, kartenverzeichnis, glossarium, index. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (split back hinge). Corvina Kiado, Budapest, 1981. (All text is in the German language. This first book is detailed look at ethnographic artefacts from the Americas and Asia, many of which come from the Ethnographic Museum in Budapest. Numerous pieces are illustrated with photographs and line drawings which give a view of design motifs and forms) (Keywords: Ethnology, North, Central, South America, Southeast, Asia).
Book Code: Q025b SOLD - now out of stock AU$140
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Detail of front cover of THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ROCK ART . (chippindale1p 150/195)
Chippindale, Christopher & Paul S.C. Tacon (editors). THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ROCK-ART. Africa, Europe, North America & Australia. BNo. 0-521-57256-8. First Edition, 1998 (pb). Pp: xviii, 373; 245mm x 190mm; 0.90kg. num b/w & fig, 11 tab. List of contributors, acknowledgments, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear & faint stain in top margin of a few pages). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. (The book's nineteen chapters range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and of formal methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit) (Keywords: Rock art, archaeology, Africa, Europe, Australia, North America).
Book Code: Q115 SOLD - now out of stock AU$54
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Christensen, Erwin O. PRIMITIVE ART. Africa, Americas and the South Seas. BNo. 55-11109. First Edition, 1955 (UK). Pp: 384; 280mm x 260mm; 1.73kg. 31 col, 348 b/w, 49 fig, 5 maps. Introduction, acknowledgments, selected bibliography, index. A good hardback copy (missing dust wrapper). Cvr: g. (penned name on fep). Bonanza Books, Crown Publishers Inc, The Viking Press, 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: H185 AU$120
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Crawley, Ernest (edited by Theodore Besterman). DRESS, DRINKS AND DRUMS. Further Studies of Savages and Sex. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1931. Pp: xii, 276; 220mm x 140mm; 0.68kg. no illus. Editor's preface, index. A good hardback copy. Cvr: g. (faded on spine; minor wear; lacks dw). Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1931. (This book brings together three of the author's longer studies under the one title. The main paper is on the sexual psychology of dress and references include various tribes of Papua New Guinea and Australia) (Keywords: Psychology, tribe, Pacific, Melanesia, Australia).
Book Code: C133 SOLD - now out of stock AU$55
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Fagg, William. THE TRIBAL IMAGE. Wooden figure sculpture of the world. BNo. 7141-15096. First Edition, 1970 (pb). Pp: (60); 210mm x 210mm; 0.17kg. 79 b/w. Introduction. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (wrap a little soiled & chipped at base of spine). Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1970. (This book is a subjective selection of wooden figures in the British Museum's Department of Ethnography, being based upon sculptural interest and quality) (Keywords: Ethnology, Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania).
Book Code: K207 AU$28
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Feest, Christian F. THE ART OF WAR. War and peace in tribal societies. BNo. 0-500-06010-X. First Edition, 1980 (pb). Pp: 96; 250mm x 190mm; 0.30kg. 50 col, 52 b/w & fig, 1 map. Bibliography, acknowledgments, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g(-). (crease on front cover). Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1980. (This book is an account of the extraordinary range of weapons that proliferate in all tribal societies. It describes the technology that underlies them and explains the significance of the decoration of those objects) (Keywords: New Guinea, Dani, Tuareg, Hawaii, Kamehameha, Zuni, Konyak Naga, Maori).
Book Code: J164 AU$10
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Detail of wrapper - PRIMITIVE ART (fraser02bp 150/201)
Fraser, Douglas. PRIMITIVE ART. Discusses outstanding examples from every major area. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1962. Pp: 320; 210mm x 160mm; 0.80kg. 59 col, 124 b/w, 3 maps. Preface, suggested readings, index, photographic credits. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Thames and Hudson, London, 1962. (The text discusses outstanding examples of primitive art from every major area, including West Africa, Nigeria, the Congo, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific Islands, Australia, and the Americas) (Keywords: Ethnology, Bushongo, Sudan, Cmeroons, Dongson, Melanesia, New Guinea, Polynesia, Peru, Nootka, Eskimo).
Book Code: G238 AU$45
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Garcia, Luis Pericot; John Galloway & Andreas Lommel. PREHISTORIC AND PRIMITIVE ART. Including art of: Africa, North American Indian, and Oceania. BNo. n/a. First Edition (UK), 1969 (1967). Pp: (iv), 340; 310mm x 225mm; 2.32kg. 51 col, 438 b/w & fig. Conclusion, the present, notes, bibliography, photographic credits, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Thames and Hudson, London, 1969. (In this book, which world-wide in scope, the three authors survey the birth of man's artistic sensibility in the remote past, together with the art of primitive societies which still survive. They discuss the works of art, not only from the standpoint of their aesthetic quality and their place in artistic evolution, but in relation to the magical, religious or ritual purposes which so many of them have served.) (Keywords: Ethnology, Mossi, Dogon, Bakota, Zuni, Nootka, Iroquois, Melanesia, Sepik, Arnhem Land, Asmat, Polynesia, Marquesas).
Book Code: P187 AU$140
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