The Art of The North-East Frontier of India
Itanagar, Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, 1988/ 1959. More
Itanagar, Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, 1988/ 1959. More
London, Oxford University Press, 1964. With the ownership signature of artist Mary Packer Harris. More
London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim. 1898. More
London, Tavistock Publications, 1966. 'This volume derives from material presented at a Conference on 'New Approaches in Social Anthropology' ... held at Jesus College, Cambridge, 24-30 June 1963'. More
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2020. Offered with the matching companion volume, edited by Paul MONAGHAN and Michael WALSH: 'More Than Mere Words. Essays on Language and Linguistics in Honour of Peter Sutton' (xii, 298 pages with 13 illustrations from photographs, 7 diagrams or charts, 7 maps, and 32 tables). 'Peter..... More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1981 (first English edition)/ 1971 (first edition in French). More
Paris, Mouton, 1962. A discussion of attempts by Elcho Islanders to grapple with the problems of social and cultural change. More
London, Athlone Press, 1967 (second revised edition)/ 1939. With a 22-page introduction, a 15-page epilogue and numerous postscripts new to this edition (which omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts). One in the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology. More
London, Edward Arnold, 1929 [first edition]. With the ownership signature of Dr Edith Ulrica 'Rica' Hubbe (1885-1967), dated March 1930. Rica maintained a correspondence with an array of Adelaide notables; 'including letters from 'Ray' and Phyllis Cilento and Doris Simpson'. The State Library of South Australia holds 'papers relating to..... More
Hamburg, Cram, de Gruyter and Co., 1948. Monographien zur Volkerkunde, Number 1. This is the first of three volumes on the Mbowamb, Mount Hagen tribes in East Central New Guinea. The date of publication is printed '1943-1948'. Apparently, this volume was published in 1948; the other two volumes appeared in..... More
London, George Philip and Son, 1860. 'George Fife Angas' is written in pencil on the front endpaper; we know this to be in a later secretarial hand, indicating that the book came originally from his personal library. More
London, Sotheby's, 2016. More
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
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
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours [east of Lake Eyre] ... For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in..... More
Melbourne, Department of External Affairs (printed in Sydney by William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer), 1913. Bulletin of the Territory of Papua, Number 1. The report deals predominantly with the Purari Coal Expedition of 1912, but it also contains a potted 'history of discoveries to date in regard to the special..... More
Perth, Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material, 1976. Of considerable Aboriginal interest. More
Sydney, Australasian Publishing Co, 1944. Inscribed, dated (14 June 1939) and signed by John Russell Black (1908-1988), patrol officer and explorer (Australian Dictionary of Biography) to anthropologist Graeme Pretty (with his pencilled emendation of the presentation date to 1969). 'First White Man to go to Rabaul, in New Britain, and..... More
London, The Royal Anthropological Institute, 1955. Not least, Peter M. Worsley; 'The Totemic System of the WaniNdiljaugwa' (pp57-58) and Dr Alphonse Riesenfeld; 'Prehistoric Stone Objects from New Britain' (pp58-59). Loosely inserted is an order form for the Institute's Christmas Cards. More
Ditchling, The Institute, 1958. Not least, J.A. Fraser Roberts; 'The Contribution of Genetics to Physical Anthropology' (pp115-129). More
Barcelona, Ediciones Poligrafa, 1977 (first edition). 216 illustrations (62 in colour). More
London, Routledge and Kegan, 1964 [sixth impression]/ 1922. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1988 (first edition). With the ownership label of Reverend Bill Edwards, and a few of his emphases. More
New York, Vantage Press, 1976 (first edition). Presentation copy to Reverend Bill Edwards, inscribed and signed by the author. More
Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1936. This is Anthropology Leaflet Number 32 from the series published by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chigaco. More