Search Results: Ethnology from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Cambridge: Anthropology Resource Center, 1976. Paperback. 106p., wraps, 8.25x10.75 inches, remainder mark on bottom edge else very good condition.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. Hardcover. xvii+350p., preface, maps, photos, tables, appendix, bibliography, index, very good first edition in dj. A Shona-speaking group of Bantu living in a Matriarchal society along the Zambesi River.

Menasha, Wisconsin: American Anthropological Association, 1933. Paperback. 77p., wraps, partly unopened, very good condition. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, #40. Ethnography of a tribe in Manchuria by the Mongol specialist Lattimore, including a glossary of terms. Lattimore, an American raised in China, was later to become an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek, and in the 1950s was accused by McCarthy of being a "top Soviet agent.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc, 1930. Hardcover. Reprint of the Morrow first issue: x, 372p., frontis, introduction, appendices, map, glossary, photos on glazed inserted stock. Hardbound in green cloth boards lettered black, lacks the dust jacket. Mild external signs of age and handling, quite sound and clean within and marked only by an inked ownership tracing to Stanford University.

Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1917. Paperback. [xvii], 206p., errata slip tipped in, softbound in plain printed brown yapp-edged wraps, the overlapped margins ragged with a corner-tip loss. Else sound, and clean and unmarked, a very good copy, if somewhat uglified by the irregular marginal damage. Papers of Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol VII. "This Paper is the result of work carried on by Mr. Means as a graduate student during the years 1915-1917. It consists mainly of translations of early Spanish books and manuscripts" - from opening "Note" - translation of the "crabbed" eccentric handwriting of the period nearly as difficult as translating from pictograph material.

Athens: Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou, 1994. 280p., paperback, mild shelfwear. Text in Greek. On the peoples of the Balkans.

New York: E.P.Dutton & Co., Inc, 1965. Hardcover. First American edition: 256p., illustrated with numerous photo sections, mostly b&w with several dynamite color shots, Hardbound in red cloth boards lettered orange and green and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself bears scattered spots of foxing to fore-edge, and the jacket is a little edgeworn with short tears at the head-rim, an otherwise perfectly sound copy, clean and unmarked. Contains several of the finest colorphoto portraits of indigenous people this cataloguer has seen (while going over a large collection of such books).

Berkeley: the Society, 1952. Paperback. Four issues of the 8.5x11 inch paperbound publication, mimeographed interior with printed covers. Very good. Includes articles on native Alaskan cultures, linguistics, etc.

Bruxelles: Editions de l'Institut de Sociologie Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1968. 262p., 8.75x11 inches, avant-propos, introduction, bibliographies, illustrated with figures, charts and tables, large folding paper map and 14 maps on translucent sheets in pocket at rear, text in French, joint over the endpocket has a hairline crack from the bulge of maps, hinge remains sound, very good else in publisher's original cloth and gilt. Etudes Ethnologiques.

Abidjan: Institute par Africain pour le Développement Économique et Social (INADES), 1974. Paperback. 151p., 5.5x7.5 inches, bibliography, photos., map, text in French, spine slightly sunned, very good reprint in wraps.

Bogota: Editorial Iqueima, 1953. 198p., text entirely in the Spanish language; stiff wraps with dj, formerly in the library of Harvard professor Gordon F. Wiley, donated to Tozzer Library but rejected with stamp to that effect inside front cover. Long inscription (in English) by author to Wiley includes the note, "Had it not been for your eventful letter to me dated April 18, 1950, I would not be an anthropologist today.

Bogota: Editorial Iqueima, 1953. Paperback. 198p. paperback, very good.

Paris: Université de Paris Institut d'Ethnologie, 1971. 271p., 8.25x10.5 inches, avant-propos, notice phonetique, introduction, apostilles, conclusion, bibliographie, lexique, tables, maps, photos, figures, a large folding map at the rear, text in French (but of course!) very good in original red wraps. Mémoires de l'Institut de l'Ethnologie VIII.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. xii, 297p., line maps, charts and diagrams; first edition hardbound in cloth boards gilt and dust jacket, entirely clean and sound, a near-fine copy.

Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe 中国社会科学出版社, 1980. 27 issues of the slender bimonthly journal on ethnic policy and ethnology in the People's Republic of China; standard length 80 pages, pages mildly toned, good to very good in wraps. Text in Chinese, with English table of contents on some later issues. Numbers present are: 1980: 1, 2, 4, 6; 1981: 1, 2, 4, 5; 1982: 1-6; 1983: 1-6; 1984: 6; 1985: 1, 6; 1990: 1-4.

Dar Es Salaam/Berkeley & Oxford: Mkuki na Nyota/UC Press & James Currey, 1997. Hardcover. x, 262p., glossary, introduction, extensive footnotes, conclusion, bibliography, index, illustrated with maps, photographs and tables, very good first edition in green cloth and gilt.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. Hardcover. xli, 546p., four line maps, hardbound in 9x6 inch brown cloth boards titled gilt. A near-fine copy, front free endsheet bears a tiny datestamp (year of publication), looks unhandled. F.y.i. the second edition, issued six years later, appears in two volumes, which implies additional material.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1920. pp. [207]-342, plates 34-37, folded table, very good in wraps.

Chengdu: Sichuan daxue bowuguan 四川大学博物馆, 1989. 314p., 16 black and white photo plates, lightly worn wraps; text mostly in Chinese with table of contents in English. Much material on new discoveries in southwestern China, as well as metallurgy from related cultures in Southeast Asia; edited by an international board.

Chengdu: Sichuan daxue bowuguan 四川大学博物馆, 1990. 385p., 16 black and white photo plates, lightly worn wraps; text mostly in Chinese with table of contents in English. Much material on new discoveries in southwestern China, as well as metallurgy from related cultures in Southeast Asia; edited by an international board.