Sorcery in its Social Setting. A Study of the Northern Rhodesian Cewa
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1970/ 1965. More
Anthropology
R. Austin Freeman. The Anthropologist at Large
Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Signed by the author. More
R. Austin Freeman. The Anthropologist at Large
Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Signed by the author. More
R. Austin Freeman. The Anthropologist at Large
Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Inscribed archly 'A rare unsigned copy, the property of Michael Abbot. 6 xi '83'. In our experience unsigned copies are indeed extremely uncommon. More
Blood and Race. A Study of the Colour Problem
Sydney, The Anglican Truth Society, 1957. More
Growing Up in New Guinea. A Comparative Study of Primitive Education
London, Routledge, 1931 [first edition]. The author's second book. More
Mythen und Erzahlungen der Kustenbewohner der Gazelle-Halbinsel (Neu-Pommern)
Munster, Aschendorff, 1909. Myths and legends of the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, with parallel text in both the original Tolai and German (and an early example on both counts). 'Anthropos-Bibliothek. Internationale Sammlung Ethnologischer Monographien. Band 1, Heft 1'. More
Die Inseln des Stillen Oceans, eine Geographische Monographie. [Volume 1]: Melanesien und Neuseeland. [Volume 2]: Polynesien und Mikronesien
Leipzig, Paul Frohberg, 1875 and 1876 (both first editions). More
The Lost World of Irian Jaya
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (third impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
The Firm and the Formless. Religion and Identity in Aboriginal Australia
Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1982 (first edition). Not stated as such, but from the collection of Reverend Bill Edwards, and with his occasional emphases. More
Biological Anthropology and Prehistory: Exploring our Human Ancestry
Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 2005. More
Coming into being among the Australian Aborigines. A study of the procreative beliefs of the native tribes of Australia
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974 (fully revised and expanded edition)/ 1937. '... the question of primitive nescience of paternity - the most exciting and controversial issue in the comaprative science of Man'. More
The Story of People. Edited with notes by Tsuyoshi Amemiya
Tokyo, Kinseido, 1988. Inscribed and signed by the author to C.P. Mountford's son and wife. More
Red Professor. The Cold War Life of Fred Rose
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2015. 'Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors. More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party..... More
The Torres Strait Collections of A.C. Haddon. A Descriptive Catalogue
London, British Museum Publications, 1984. The only material 'acquired from the Torres Strait Islanders during the nineteenth century ... [that was] systematically collected and adequately documented is that obtained by Professor A.C. Haddon in 1888-9 and 1898' (page 38). In fact, Haddon's collections of Torres Strait artefacts taken back to..... More
Anthropology in Theory. Issues in Epistemology
Malden, Blackwell, 2006. 'a dazzling collection [with] impeccable taste in theory ...'. More
Our African Adventure
London, Seeley Service & Co., [1954]. This expedition, 'which was developed in conjunction with the [American Museum of Natural History's] Department of Anthropology, concerned itself primarily with the little-known natives of the Turkana District of northwestern Kenya Colony, and was the first major scientific expedition ever to return from that..... More
Aboriginal Conception Beliefs
Melbourne, Hyland House, 1981. More
Remarks and Inventions. Skeptical Essays about Kinship
London, Tavistock Publications, 1974. With the ownership signature of Peter Sutton, inscribed 'Cambridge, 1982'. More
Knowing the Gururumba
New York, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1965. One in the Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology series. More
Spirit of Siberia. Traditional Native Life, Clothing and Footwear
Vancouver/ Toronto, Douglas and McIntyre, 1998. With a related three-page newspaper article loosely inserted. More
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1959. 'A record of [a] strange and primitive culture, including seasonal customs, initiation rites, superstitious practices and beliefs ... and the traditional juvenile argot which continues to flourish in street and playground, largely unknown and certainly unheeded by the adult world'. More
Papuan Belief and Ritual
New York, Vantage Press, 1976 (first edition). Presentation copy to Reverend Bill Edwards, inscribed and signed by the author. More
Proceedings of the National Seminar on the Conservation of Cultural Material, Perth 1973
Perth, Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material, 1976. Of considerable Aboriginal interest. More
A Share of the Harvest. Kinship, Property, and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988. More