Category: Anthropology

Medicine and Ethnology. Selected Essays

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press : 1971

Seller ID: 851

KEY ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF CULTURE IN MEDICINE BY ONE OF ITS PIONEERS. 9 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gil title to cover and spine, 195 pp, very good. ERWIN HEINZ ACKERKNECHT (1906 - 1988) was an active and influential Trotskyist in the 1930s who had to flee Germany in 1933 after Hitlerâ€™s rise to power. It was in the United States, the country that granted him citizenship, that Ackerknecht became an influential historian of medicine. He wrote groundbreaking works on the social and ecological dimensions of disease and was a forerunner of contemporary trends in social and cultu...
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Beach-La-Mar. The jargon or trade speedh of the western Pacific

By: Churchill, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Carnegie Institution : 1911

Seller ID: 646

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON THE TRADE SPEECH OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS, WITH EXTENSIVE INDEX OF VOCABULARY. Two works bound as one. 10 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 brown pebbled calf binding with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt titles, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down (stating Sold to R. Harry 2/5/53), handstamp of R. Harry Jr. to lower front endpaper. Beach-La-Mar: 54 pp including index of vocabulary; A Comparative Study of Temperature Fluctuations in Different Parts of the Human Body by Francis G. Benedict and Edgar P. Slack: 73 pp including tables and graphs. Original p...
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Problems of the Sexes

By: Finot J;

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press : 1913

Seller ID: 165

1913 SCARCE TRANSLATION OF FRENCH SOCIOLOGIST'S PLEA FOR EQUALITY OF THE SEXES. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 408 pages, original green cloth binding, gilt design to cover, gilt title to spine, Page edges soiled, text unmarked. Very good. CONTENTS: Between Man and Woman; Woman Humiliated and Slandered; Creative Genius and Intelligence Have No Sex; Woman and Science; The Birth of the New Woman--Psychology of the Movement In France; In Other Countries: The English Movement, In the United States, the Scandinavian Countries, and Elsewhere, The German Woman; Feminist International Freemasonry; ...
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Margaret Mead

By: Fox, Renee C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Institute for Intercultural Studies : 1979

Seller ID: 1011

1979 ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHROPOLOGIST MARGARET MEAD WITH LETTER BY HER ANTRHOPOLOGIST DAUGHTER THE YEAR AFTER HER MOTHER'S DEATH. 11 inches tall offprint from The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, brown paper cover with gilt title, tissue flyleaves, 23 pp including bibliography of works, LAID IN TLS, typed letter with letterhead of Institute for Intercultural Studies, Inc. dated January 5, 1979, to friends of the Institute signed Mary Catherine Bateson, President and daughter of Margaret Mead. MARGARET MEAD (1901 - 1978) was an American cultural anthrop...
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Workshop and Symposium on Slow, Latent, and Temperate Virus Infections held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, December 7, 8, and 9, 1964

By: Gajdusek, D.Carleton, Gibbs, Clarence J. Jr. and Alpers, Michael

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington DC, US Government Printing Office : 1965

Seller ID: 774

1965 PROCEEDINGS OF A LANDMARK NIH SYMPOSIUM ON SLOW VIRUS INFECTION INCLUDING PAPERS OF THE PIONEERS THAT LED TO A NOBEL PRIZE FOR GAJDUSEK IN 1976. 10 1/2 inches tall publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, signature of Cornelis Van Ness MD to front flyleaf, xx, 489, black & white and color figures. Covers, binding and pages clean except for several marginal notations; very good. From the FOREWORD: The research projects in our Institute, involving the remote and isolated intense foci of chronic central nervous system disease, namely, the study of kuru in New Guinea an...
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Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. Volume I. Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia

By: Hatcher, J. B. and Scott, William B.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Princeton University : 1903

Seller ID: 1102

FOLIO VOLUME NARRATIVE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXPEDITIONS TO PATAGONIA, 1896-1899, BY J B HATCHER, FUNDED BY J P MORGAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. 13 inchs tall folio volume, printed paper binding, photographic frontis with tissue guard, xvi, 314 pp, 50 figures on heavy paper with tissue guards, color double-page map of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia: The Plains, The Mountains, The Rivers of Patagonia, The Lakes of Southern Patagonia; The Coast of Patagonia; Climate; The Native Indian Tribes, Settlement...
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The Bell Curve. Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

By: Herrnstein, Richard J. and Murray, Charles

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press : 1994

Seller ID: 858

CONTROVERSIAL STUDY BY PSYCHOLOGIST AND SOCIAL SCIENTIST PROPOSES THAT CORRELATION OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS WITH INTELLIGENCE JUSTIFIES EUGENIC MEASURES. 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black paper covered boards, gray cloth spine with gilt title, xxvi, 845 pp, illustrations; near fine in very good dust jacket. Cited by Engs in The Eugenics Movement (2005): Written by Harvard psychologist RICHARD J. HERRNSTEIN (1930-1994) and social scientist CHARLES MURRAY (b. 1943), The Bell Curve proposes that a strong correlation exists between intelligence and socioeconomic achievement, as well as between intel...
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Contribution to the Anthropology of Central and Smith Sound Eskimo, IN Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. V, PartII

By: Hrdlicka, Ales

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History : 1910

Seller ID: 954

1910 STUDY OF SKULLS OF ESKIMOS FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN CANADA COLLECTED BY WHALERS, BY FIRST ANTHROPOLOGIST TO PROPOSE COLONIZATION OF AMERICA FROM EAST ASIA. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue buckram binding, gilt title to spine, original printed paper covers bound in, small handstamp bottom of cover Marshall H. Saville Collectioin, small embossed seal of the Museum of the American Indian, bottom of title page, page 177 - 280, plates IX - XXIII; very good. ALES HRDLICKA (1869 - 1943) was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. Young H...
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Tuberculosis Among Certain Indian Tribes of the United States

By: Hrdlicka, Ales

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1909

Seller ID: 831

1909 ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF TUBERCULOSIS IN AMERICAN INDIANS BY SMITHSONIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND EUGENICIST--ANNOTATED COPY OF PROMINENT AMERICAN RACIST STATISTICIAN. 9 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, bookplate of Frederick L. Hoffman front flyleaf, handstamp of Statisticians' Department, Oct 25, 1912, top of title page, 48 pp, 22 plates, corners bumped, pencil marginal annotations, otherwise very good. ALES HRDLICKA (1869 - 1943) was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. Young HrdliÄka attended evening courses to impro...
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The Governing of Men. General Principles and Recommendations Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp

By: Leighton AH;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1945

Seller ID: 132

1945 ILLUSTRATED PROSPECTIVE SOCIOLOGIC STUDY OF AN INTERNMENT CAMP FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WW II. 8 3/4 inches hardcover, xvi, 404 pages, tan cloth binding, previous owner signature front free endpaper, photographic illustrations, maps and graphs. LIght soiling to covers and edges, text unmarked, very good. PREFACE: 'In the spring of 1942 the United States Government had its first experience with large-scale evacuation when it removed from the Pacific coastal regions all of the approximately 110,000 Japanese who had formerly lived there. These people were sent to ten Relocation Centers ...
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Blackberry Winter. My Earlier Years

By: Mead, M.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co., Inc. : 1972

Seller ID: 372

SIGNED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST MARGARET MEAD. Small quarto. Green cloth boards, spine gilt, vg in vg dj. Inscribed and signed by author on title page, To June St John, Margaret Mead, 1976. Laid in glossy postcard of Mead and lecture handbill, U Michigan Ann Arbor, November 3, 1976. Cited by GL Miller (1992): This autobiography by Margaret Mead (1901-1978), who became one of the most well-known and influential anthropologists of the twentieth century, is, despite its subtitle, a revealing self-portrait that ranges from childhood to grandmotherhood. Mead describes her ...
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New Guinea Headhunt

By: Mytinger C;

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1946

Seller ID: 125

1946 1st PRINTING ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF HEADHUNTERS BY ARTIST-ANTHROPOLOGIST, COPY SIGNED BY NOBEL LAUREATE D. CARLTON GAJDUSEK. 8 3/4 inches black hardcover, viii, 441 pages, cloth binding, map of New Guinea printed on front paste-down and endpaper, ownership signature of D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D. Washington, D.C. V 58 top of map, numerous illustrations and plates of author's drawings and paintings throughout, very good. CAROLINE MYTINGER (1897-1980 ) was a noted portrait artist who together with her childhood friend Margaret Warner sought adventure in the study of indigenous peoples of Melane...
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King Robert the Bruce, 1274 - 1329. His Skull and Portraiture (published in Biometrika: a journal for the statistical study of biological problems)

By: Pearson, Karl

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cambridge, England, Biometric Laboratory, University College, London. Cambridge University Press : 1924

Seller ID: 771

1926 ANTHROPOMETRIC COMPARISON OF SKULL WITH PORTRAITS OF 14th CENTURY SCOTTISH KING ILLUSTRATED WITH 16 PLATES BY FOUNDER OF BIOMETRICS, KARL PEARSON. 12 1/2 inches tall offprint in brown card covers and olive cloth bound spine with printed paper title label, 24 pp, 16 black-and-white plates, corners worn, unmarked, pages crisp and clean, very good. KARL PEARSON (1857-1936) was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge in 1876 to study mathematics, graduating in 1879. He then travelled to Germany to study physics at the University of Hei...
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The Skull and Portraits of George Buchanan

By: Pearson, Karl

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Biometric Laboratory, University College, London. Cambridge University Press : [1926]

Seller ID: 810

1926 BIZARRE ANTHROPLOGICAL COMPARISON OF SKULL WITH PORTRAITS OF 16th CENTURY SCOTTISH SCHOLAR, WITH 30 PLATES AND 6 TRANSPARENCIES OF SKULLS IN BACK POCKET. 11 inches tall hardcover, tan paper covered boards, printed title to cover, green cloth spine with paper title label, [ii], frontis portrait of Buchanan, [ii], 24 pp, 30 plates, 6 tissues of cranial contours in pocket on back paste-down, fine in custom archival mylar cover. KARL PEARSON (1857-1936) was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge in 1876 to study mathematics, graduatin...
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Crania Suecica Antiqua: Eine Darstellung der Schwedischen Menschen-SchÃ¤del aus dem Steinzeitalter, dem Bronzezeitalter und dem Eisenzeitalter sowie ein Blick auf die Forschungen Ã¼ber die Rassencharaktere der EuropÃ¤ischen VÃ¶lker [Crania Suecica antiqua: A representation of the Swedish human skulls from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age as well as a look at the research on the racial characters of the European peoples]

By: Retzius, Gustaf

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Stockholm, Aftonbladets : 1900

Seller ID: 895

A DELUXE ATLAS OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: 100 PLATES OF LIFE-SIZE SKULLS OF PREHISTORIC HUMANS IN SWEDEN, STONE AGE, BRONZE AGE, AND IRON AGEL.Elephant folio, 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches hardcover, publisher's blind dust jacket, 3/4 pebbled white cloth with burgundy paper covered boards, gilt title to cover, gilt title to black leather label and gilt author red leather label to spine, [8], iv, 182 pp, 100 photographic plates. As new in publisher's cardboard box with black cloth covered sides and pink printed paper label, edges rubbed. MAGNUS GUSTAF RETZIUS (1842 - 1919) enrolled at the Uppsala Unive...
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Atlas of Skeletal Maturation

By: Todd, T. Wingate

Price: $200.00

Publisher: St. Louis, C. V. Mosby Co. : 1937

Seller ID: 1306

1937 SCARCE CLASSIC ATLAS OF SKELETAL MATURATION--A KEY REFERENCE FOR DOCUMENTING CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 12 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt title to spine, dedication To the Children of America and of the World this book and its successors are dedicated by those workers drawn from all disciplines of biological science and banded together as the Associated Foundations of the Laboratory of Anatomy to promote the welfare of the Child in the interest of the Nation to the end that physical and mental health, in their fullness, may be added to the ideals ...
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Histoire Naturelle du Genre Humain, Nouvelle Edition, Augmentee et entierement refondue, ave figures

By: Virey, julien-Joseph

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris, Crochard : 1824

Seller ID: 1259

1824 PRE-DARWINIAN ILLUSTRATED TREATISE ON ORIGIN OF HUMAN RACES BY FRENCH POLYGENIST, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, COPY OF NOTED AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST. Three hardbound volumes 8 inches tall, 3/4 leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, armorial bookplate of H.L. Shapiro to front paste down of each volume. Vol. I, ink signature, J J Virey on half title page, [iv], i-xl, 514 pp, 1 uncolored and 5 handcolored plates; Vol. II, [iv], i-iii, 431 pp, 2 colored plates; Vol. III, [iv], i-iii, 534, Errata, list of titles by same author. Light wear to covers, Vol. I expertly rebacked with retention of ...
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Where There is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

By: Werner, David

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Palo Alto, Hesperian Foundation : 1990

Seller ID: 792

UNIQUE ILLUSTRATED MANUAL FOR HEALTH CARE IN DEVELOPING WORLD ENVIRONMENTS FAR FROM MEDICAL FACILITIES. 9 3/4 inches tall paper covered volume, color printed covers, 403 pp, illustrated by the author, previous owner signature front flyleaf, no other marks, binding tight, very good. DAVID B. WERNER (born 1934) is author of the book Donde No Hay Doctor (Where There is No Doctor), co-founder and co-director of HealthWrights (based in Palo Alto, California) and Adjunct Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, Department of International Health. A biologist and educator by ...
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Category: Anthropology