Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnology from

Sydney: Australia & New Zealand Book Company, 1975. 181pp, index, maps, notes, bw ills. Or card. Some yellowing to covers, some toning to page edges, small bookseller label and stamp.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. xxii, 162pp, indexes, bw ills, maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Jacket with slight edge wear and some fading to spine, original price sticker to front. Ongka, a leader of the Melpa society of Mount Hagen in the New Guinea highlands, at the age of 60 looks back at his youth just before… Read more about this item

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1925. 52 bw plates, frontis, 2pp text. Or card. Bumped at corners.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982. 239pp, bibliography, bw ills. Or white cloth in jacket. Foxing to edges, fading to spine. Name etc written on title page. Miklouho-Maclay went to New guinea in 1871 sponsored by the Russian Geographical Society continuing his investigations there for periods of time until 1883. He moved to Sydney where he settled in 1878. He also spent… Read more about this item

London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1922. xvi, 324pp, index, glossary, map, bw ills. Or green cloth lacking jacket. Spine faded, some edge wear. 16 years on India's north-west frontier with Afghanistan.. Sixth & cheaper Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1931. 52 bw plates, frontis, 3pp text. Or card. Minor bump to top corner.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Madang: The Department of Enga, 1989. 64pp, references, bw & col ills, map. Or pictorial card. Faint spotting to cover, prev owner name or price blacket out at top of title page. Culture of the people of the Enga Province in the New Guinea Highlands. The Enga form the largest language group in PNG.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.… Read more about this item

New York: AMS Press, 1983. xix, 326pp, index, bibliography, appendices, map. Or green cloth. No jacket. Original price sticker still affixed, thumb stain on dedication page. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Port Moresby: Papua Pocket Books, 1969. Unpaginated (34pp), notes, bw ills, music. Or card. Light toning to cover. A collection of Tolai (New Guinea) songs with English translations and music.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo.

Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford., 1964. 60pp + 16pp bw plates at rear; index, references, appendix, text ills, maps. Or card. Sticker shadow bottom centre of front cover, minor bump to bottom corner. The tools, weapons and domestic crafts of the Akuti and Nauti peoeple of Ekuti Ranges in Papua New Guinea.. Second Impression. Soft Cover. Very Good.… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Robert Brown & Associates, 1992. 163pp, references, bw ills, map. Or card. Light toning to top edge otherwise excellent. Women's traditions of the Enga of Papua New Guinea.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Ipu, Albert Wet.. 8vo.

London: British Museum Press., 1989. 164pp, index, bibliography, gloss, num bw & col ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Some foxing to endpapers and prelims, very light edge wear to jacket. New Guinea Highlanders traditions of self-adornment are among the world's most remarkable. Arrayed in a profusion of plumes and furs, paints and shells, clanspeople dance or parade before critical… Read more about this item

New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971. 241pp + folding genealogy + 4pp bw ills at rear, index, bibliography, text ills, map, glossary. Or manila card covers. Red stamp in form of seal on title page. Reprint of 1929 edition published by the Bishop Museum. The result of four years in the Lau Islands of Fiji, mainly on the main island… Read more about this item

Canberra: Australian National University, 1973. xi, 197pp, index, references, map. Or blue cloth in jacket. Light toning to endpapers, slight edge wear to jacket with a couple of tiny nicks at edge. SIGNED and inscribed (to Carolyn) by author on front free endpaper. Examines the dichotomy betwen traditional New Guinea law and imposed Prussian law.. Signed & Inscribed by the… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1979. xxiii, 199pp, index, glossary, bw ills, maps. Or green cloth in jacket. FAding to spine and adjacent area of jacket, some foxing to top edge. The author tells of prospecting for gold in New Guinea in the 1930s. He prospected at Edie Creek, Wau and Waria and spent much of time on Nauti Creek on… Read more about this item

Sydney: The Australian Museum, 1982. 74pp, further reading, num bw & col ills. Or pictorial card. Very light edge war to covers. Based on the gallery of the same name at The Australian Museum, Sydney.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Square 8vo.

Sydney: Ayers & James Pty. Ltd, 1945. 99pp, bw ills, frontis portrait. Attractive pictorial card covers. Slight rubbing. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Farquharson, Shiela.. 8vo.

Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1972. 265pp, index, references, notes, tables, diagrams, maps. Or cloth in jacket. Jacket with silverfish holes along flap folds, some fading to spine. Social order among Mount Hagen people.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. xxiii, 355pp, bw plates, text-figures, index, folding sketch map at rear. Or black cloth in jacket. Ex-library college with usual stamps (inc cancelled stamp), numbers etc, label to spine). Tape stains to endpapers, some foxing to page edges. The tenth in a series of anthropological reports published by the Papuan Government.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Near… Read more about this item

Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press, 1971. xx, 125pp, num col photos. Or boards in jacket. Moderate edge wear to jacket, some foxing to prelims. Mainly photographic look at the Highlanders of Paua New Guinea.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.