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Book Condition: Used Better than very good
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA

United States
About Item: 36 pages with two plates. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") issued in wrappers. Edited by Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 6.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in… Read More
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