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Detail of wrap of THE ART OF WAR by Christian Feest (feest1p 150/196 FEES01)
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 very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. 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: F281 AU$14
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Firth, Raymond. HUMAN TYPES. (pb). The classic introduction to social anthropology. BNo. 0-349-11260-6. Revised Edition, 1975 (1938) (pb). Pp: 184; 195mm x 130mm; 0.16kg. 18 b/w, 5 fig, 3 tab. Introduction, bibliography, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor wear, browning of paper). Sphere Books Ltd, London, 1975. (This book represents the main principles of social anthropology and contains many examples from field research) (Keywords: Social anthropology, ethnology, material culture, sociology, Melanesia, Polynesia, Malaysia).
Book Code: F257 AU$10
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Detail of wrapper of PRIMITIVE ART (fraser02bp 150/199 FRAS02)
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 good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (minor chipping on dw). 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: N373 AU$35
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Detail of wrapper of EXPRESSIONS OF BELIEF - Masterpieces of African, Oceanic and Indonesian Art (greub5p 170/233 GREU05)
Greub, Suzanne (editor). EXPRESSIONS OF BELIEF - Masterpieces of African, Oceanic and Indonesian Art. From the Museum Voor Volkenkunde Rotterdam. BNo. 0-8478-0959-5. First Edition, 1988. Pp: 248; 305mm x 230mm; 1.82kg. 106 col, 23 b/w, 3 map. Exhibition itinerary, contributors, foreword, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (penned name of fep). Rizzoli International Publications Inc, New York, 1988. (This book presents objects from one of the pretigious ethnological museums in Europe. The pieces come from the major tribal art areas of Africa (43), Oceania (28), and Southeast Asia (31)) (Keywords: Ethnology, Africa, Southeast Asia, Oceania, Nkisi, Congo, Agwe Chaka, Cameroon, Melanesia, New Ireland, Malanggan, Kani, Batak, Kenyah, Kalimantan).
Book Code: E404 AU$120
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Hammond, Peter B. AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY. A descriptive coverage. BNo. 0-02-349790-4. Second Edition, 1978. Pp: xvi, 544; 230mm x 220mm; 1.20kg. num b/w & fig. Preface, glossary, references cited, index. A good hardback copy with illustrated boards. Cvr: g. (name & tape marks on fep). Macmillan Publishing Co Inc, New York, 1971. (The book provides a descriptive coverage of both cultural and social anthropology. The author's objective is to combine the basic aspects of society and the major categories of culture with a theory that suggests the casual interrelationships that unite them) (Keywords: Cultural, social anthropology).
Book Code: C457 AU$20
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Detail of board - NEW PERSPECTIVES IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (keesing01p 150/215 KEES01)
Keesing, R.M. & F.M. Keesing. NEW PERSPECTIVES IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Core concerns of social anthropology. BNo. 0-03-085486-5. First Edition, 1971. Pp: xvi, 455; 235mm x 160mm; 0.78kg. 47 fig & tab. Preface, case examples, further reading, bibliography, name index, subject index. A very good hardback copy with illustrated board. Cvr: vg. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, New York, 1971. (The focus is on social anthropology with less emphasis on material culture, folflore and art. There are 74 case studies from the world's tribal peoples) (Keywords: Social anthropology, world, Trobriand Islands, Solomon Islands, Africa, Americas).
Book Code: C080 AU$34
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Detail of wrap - THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ART (morphy08p 150/214 MORP08)
Morphy, Howard & Morgan Perkins (editors). THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ART. A Reader. BNo.978-1-4051-0562-0. First Edition, 2006 (pb). Pp: x, 566; 245mm x 170mm; 1.00kg. num b/w & fig. Acknowledgments, about the editors, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Blackwell Publishing, Melbourne, 2006. (This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. The book advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art and provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times) (Keywords: Art anthropology, primitive, Africa, Americas, Asia, Australia, Oceania, Tikopea, Abelam, Yoruba, Nilotes, Yolngu, Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Maori, South American Rain Forest, New Guinea Highlands).
Book Code: V319 AU$54
Note: Contributors and essays are:
(x) Perkins, Morgan & Howard Morphy - Introduction: The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice; (1) Boas, Frank - Primitive Art; (2) Levi-Strauss, Claude - Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America; (3) Fagg, William - Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art; (4) Bateson, Gregory - Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art; (5) Firth, Raymond - Tikopia Art and Society; (6) Forge, Anthony - The Abelam Artist; (7) Rubin, William - Modernist Primitivism : An Introduction; (8) Danto, Arthur C. - Defective Affinities: “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art; (9) Clifford, James - Histories of the Tribal and the Modern; (10) Price, Sally - A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places; (11) Clunas, Craig - Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art; (12) Vogel, Susan - Introduction to Art/Artifact : African Art in Anthropology Collections; (13) Gell, Alfred - Vogel's Net : Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps; (14) Thompson, Robert Farris - Yoruba Artistic Criticism; (15) Lechtman, Heather - Style in Technology : Some Early Thoughts; (16) Coote, Jeremy - "Marvels of Everyday Vision" : The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes; (17) Morphy, Howard - From Dull to Brilliant : The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power among the Yolngu; (18) Munn, Nancy D. - Visual Categories : An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems; (19) Rosman, Abraham and Paula G. Rubel - Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual; (20) Jonaitis, Aldona - Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Shaman's Masks; (21) Guss, David M. - All Things Made - To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest; (22) O'Hanlon, Michael - Modernity and the "Graphicalization" of Meaning: New Guinea Highlands Shield Design in Historical Perspective; (23) Graburn, Nelson H.H. - Arts of the Fourth World - Introduction to Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions; (24) Phillips, Ruth B. - The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the "Strictly Commercial"; (25) Steiner, Christopher B. - The Art of the Trade: The Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market; (26) Thomas, Nicholas - A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art; (27) Myers, Fred - Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings; (28) Bennett, Gordon - Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artists Approach; (29) Townsend-Gault, Charlotte - Kinds of Knowing; (30) Rickard, Jolene - Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird that Carries Language Back to Another;
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Morris, Desmond & Peter Marsh. TRIBES. Examination of the "primitive" tribes of today. BNo. 1-871307-18-X. First Edition, 1988. Pp: 160; 280mm x 220mm; 1.05kg. Over 100 col & b/w. Foreword, introduction, bibliography, index, acknowledgments, credits. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Pyramid Boks, Octopus Publishing Group, London, 1988. (The authors trace the origins of the tribal mores and behaviour and examines the primitive tribes of today so that the readers may infer the nature and structures of the tribes prehistory) (Keywords: Social anthropology, tribal bonding, rites of passage, emblems of allegiance).
Book Code: C590 AU$19
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Detail of dust wrapper of ''Masterpieces of Primitive Art (newton1p 170/239 NEWT01)
Newton, Douglas & Lee Boltin. MASTERPIECES OF PRIMITIVE ART. The Nelson Rockefeller Collection. BNo. 0-394-50057-1. First Edition, 1978. Pp: 264; 290mm x 215mm; 1.56kg. 254 col, 16 b/w. Acknowledgments, foreword, introduction, bibliography, credits. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York, 1978. (Photographs of artefacts from Black Africa, the islands of Oceania, Precolumbian America, and many Indian cultures of the northern continent have been organised into four major categories: faces, human figures, animals, and "abstractions") (Keywords: Ethnology, Abelam, Yau, Elema, New Guinea, Bini, Nigeria, Lega, Zaire, Mabuiag, Torres Strait).
Book Code: C091 AU$80
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Detail of dust wrapper - LIVING TRIBES - Art and Civilization of Siberia (prior01p 170/234 PRIO01)
Prior, Colin. LIVING TRIBES Art and Civilization of Siberia. BNo.1-84119-545-6. First Edition, 2003. Pp: 192; 300mm x 240mm; 1.60kg. num col, 1 map. Introduction, note on photography, bibliography, acknowledgments. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Constable & Robinson Ltd, London, 2003. (Focusing on expressive qualities of ritual, costume and physiognomy, Colin Prior's photographs document what stands to be lost were these living cultures to disappear. The photographs are supported by a concise text, with references to classic field work and further reading) (Keywords: Tribal peoples, World, Africa, Asia, Himba, Herero, Maasai, Turkana, Samburu, Berber, Balti, Ladakhi, Bhutanese, Lisu, Padaung, Toraja, Khampa, Aborigine, Inuit).
Book Code: T027 AU$48
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Detail of dust wrapper - MASKS AND MAGIC (riley05bp 170/222 RILE05)
Riley, Olive L. MASKS AND MAGIC. The Americas, Africa and Oceania. BNo.n/a. First Edition, 1955. Pp: v, 122; 270mm x 215mm; 0.74kg. 53 b/w. Acknowledgments, bibliography. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (wear & repaired tear on dw; wear on cvr). Thames & Hudson, London, 1955. (Fifty-two masks from different parts of the world are illustrated, each with a description about its function and use. Regions include: Eskimo, North American Indian, Africa, and Oceania) (Keywords: Ethnology, anthropology, Americas, Africa, Oceania).
Book Code: W041 AU$55
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Singer, Andre & Leslie Woodhead. DISAPPEARING WORLD. Television and Antnthropology. BNo. 1-85283-211-8. First Edition, 1988. Pp: 256; 290mm x 225mm; 1.62kg. Num col, 1 map(ep). Acknowledgments, preface, foreword, introduction, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Boxtree Ltd, London, 1988. (This book is linked to the Disappearing World series run by Granada Television and draws upon an archive of interviews and photographs taken specially by the film-makers) (Keywords: Social anthropology, Asia, Africa, Khalkha, Kirghiz, Pathans, Sherpa, Meo, Kataragama, Sakuddei, Kawelka, Lau, Shilluk, Masai, Azande, Tuareg, Umbanda, Quechau).
Book Code: C608 AU$45
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