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The Performing Arts: Music and Dance
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn A. R. Blacking; Joann Keali’inohomoku
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
The Fabrics of Culture: The Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJustine M. Cordwell; Ronald A. Schwarz
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
Life in Southern Nigeria: The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Amaury Talbot
London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. -
Yoruba Beaded Crowns: Sacred Regalia of the Olokuku of Okuku
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUlli Beier
London: Ethnographica, 1982. -
Art of Africa
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Kerchache; Jean-Louis Paudrat; Lucien Stephan
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993.First Edition in English, translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. With an essay, The Principal Ethnic Groups of African Art by Francoise Stoullig-Marin.
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El arte de los antiguos y de los primitivos: Asia anterior – India – Indochina – Tibet – China – Japon – Los tchuktches
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. y B. Forman
Mexico: Editorial Hermes, 1963.The art of the ancients and primitives: Anterior Asia – India – Indochina – Tibet – China – Japan – The Tchutches.
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Akono’anga Maori / Cook Islands Culture
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRon Crocombe; Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe
Suva and Rarotonga: Institute of Pacific Studies, 2003. -
Aida: Life and Ceremony of the Gogodala
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. L. Crawford
Bathurst: Robert Brown and Associates in association with The National Cultural Council of Papua New Guinea, 1981. -
Oceanic Art / Ozeanische Kunst / Art Oceanien (2 Volumes)
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnthony J. P. Meyer
Koln: Konemann, 1995.Photographs by Olaf Wipperfurth.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Bangkok: SDI Publications, 1996.Originally published as An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress of Natives of the Pacific Islands. Second Edition expanded and edited by Bruce L. Miller with additional maps and portraits of Pacific Island natives. One of 999 unnumbered copies.
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An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress of the Natives of the Pacific Islands
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
London: The Holland Press, 1969.Drawn and Described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Facsimile Edition of the complete Three Series of the very limited edition published by Edge-Partington and Heape 1890-98.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, Third Series: An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands.
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Manchester: Lithographed by Palmer Howe & Co., 1898.Drawn and Described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. One of 175 numbered copies initialed by Edge-Partington and Heape. This copy with the 7 leaves of additional notes for all 3 parts.
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Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity
AU$10,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Schuster; Edmund Carpenter; Lorraine Spiess.
New York: Rock Foundation, 1986-88.Based on the Researches & Writings of Carl Schuster. Edited & Written by Edmund Carpenter. Assisted by Lorraine Spiess. A cornerstone of comparative anthropology, mythology, and art history. This monumental work draws on the vast ethnographic record assembled by American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969). Schuster died suddenly of cancer, leaving the material unpublished. Carpenter spent nearly two decades editing Schuster’s archive into this twelve-volume synthesis. The result is an epic survey of visual and mythic patterns: from Paleolithic Europe to the tribal societies of Oceania, the Americas, and Africa. Issued privately in a very small edition distributed directly to museums and researchers Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism is likely the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of traditional symbolism ever published.
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Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Dell
Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1998. -
Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic as performed by Jumabay Bazarov
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Reichl
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2007.Edige is one of the most esteemed oral epics of the Karakalpaks, a Turkic-speaking people, who live on the mouth of the Amu Darya and the shores of the Aral Sea. Edige is a historical personage from the time of Timur at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. The singer, Jumabay Bazarov, was the last Karakalpak singer of heroic epics who stood in an entirely oral tradition. In this edition and translation an attempt has been made to capture as much of his oral performance as possible, including the singer’s dialect features and his musical style. FF Communications No. 289 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Collaborative Representations: Interpreting the Creation of a Sami Ethnography and a Seto Epic
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKristin Kuutama
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2006.The focus of this book revolves around two manifestly representative texts from the early twentieth century: Johan Turi’s story of Sami experience Muitalus samiid birra and the Seto epic Peko performed by Anne Vabarna. The current analysis of the complex performative interaction between the culture bearer, his or her repertoire, and the culture researcher benefits from an interdisciplinary anthropological and folkloristic approach, informed by hybridity and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries in historicizing inquiries into cultural documentation and textual practices. FF Communications No. 289 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Holy Mountain: Studies on Upper Altay Oral Poetry
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLauri Harvilahti; Zoja S. Kazagaceva
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2003.The aim of this study is to achieve a synthesis in forming a new overall view of the stylistic-poetic and structural devices used to produce the archaic mythical and epic cultural tradition of the Upper Altay region. Attention is also being paid to the inherent ethnic nature of the Altaian ethnic groups, to cultural influences and to some extent their present cultural identity. FF Communications No. 282 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart Blackburn
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2001.Is fantasy the defining element in fairy tales? This question is the starting point for Stuart Blackburn’s study of Tamil oral tales. Having collected over 300 tales, 100 of which are translated in this book, he concludes that although fantasy, and humour, are present, at the core of the tales lies a moral vision in which wrongdoing, especially physical cruelty, is punished. Only the second full-length study of Indian tales from oral tradition, this book places the Tamil tradition in an international context, describes the telling sessions and includes tellers’ interpretations of some tales. FF Communications No. 278 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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A Motif-Index of Luis Rosado Vega’s Mayan Legends
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJim C. Tatum
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000.The Mayan Culture, long recognised as among the most advanced indigenous groups of Latin America, possesses a rich heritage of mythology and traditions still very apparent in the Yacatan Peninsula at the closing of the twentieth century. Although Mayan legends have been studied and published as early as 1844, there exists no extensive motif-index dealing with the topic. This work attempts to help fill that need by indexing the works of Yacatecan writer Luis Rosaldo Vega. FF Communications No. 271 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Humane Policy; or Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Bannister
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1830.Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) was the first Attorney-General of New South Wales, though short-lived in the position due to constant clashing with other figures of the new colony, including over the mistreatment of the Aborigines. Though failing to find content in his work he is noted as being philanthropic and humane in his disposition with “a devotion to the welfare of children, convicts, and coloured inhabitants of the Empire” (ADB). Upon returning to England he authored numerous pamphlets on behalf of indigenous people in the colonies, and this, his longest work on the subject, largely devoted to South Africa, though with numerous references from his time in New South Wales. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Fairclough and the Aborigines Protection Society in manuscript at the crown of the title page.