desert people study walbiri aborigines de m j meggitt (19 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. xix / 348 pp bw photos and maps, brown close gilt titles. Appears to be rebound with old spine laid over new, new cloth clean and sound, spine faded, EX Library usual marks, general reading wear to pages, dust wrapper worn with edge wear and tears.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. pp.xx+348. 21.5cm. 16 black and white photographic illustrations. Location map. Tables. Bibliography. Index. hard cover in worn and repaired dust jacket. 'Nolan' in ink on front end paper (thought to be the artist Sidney Nolan). A good copy.

22.0 x 14.0cms 348pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper This book deals with Walpiris'' history contacts with the invaders internal groupings and economic political and religious significance. It covers their family & kinship systems; sexual & educational practices; social & cultural institutions. It exmines their prospects in the light of Canberra''s plan to assimilate them into European society.

8vo; pp. xix, 348; 16 b/w. photographs, bibliography, index; original wrappers, a very good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; third impression of a 1962 copyright; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in very good condition with clean text and tight binding. Dust jacket shows fading and edge wear, a few small tears.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Very light shelf wear.

Soft Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. xix, 348pp, index, bibliography, bw ills, diagrams, map. Tan cloth in jacket. Jacket rubbed, even toning to page edges. Ethnography of the Walbiri Aboriginal people of Central Australia dealing with the tribe's history, contact with European settlers, relationships with neighbouring tribes, internal groupings and their economic/political/religious significance, family and kinship system, and sexual and educational practices. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Very Good. Revised Edition. Heavy, sturdy book, quality peach cloth, bright red lettering on spine, ink owner's name at top of first front end paper, 348 pages including some maps and two glossy photo sections. DJ beneath mylar has tiny nick near bottom front tip, microtear at top back edge, very slight surface wear to top back tip, worn along most of back bookfold edge, light brown spotting to top of inside back flap, ink name on first front end paper. Near Very Good DJ/Near Very Fine book.

Hard Cover. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : VG+. Reissue. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original brown boards (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced $7.50 (slightly rubbed & nicked); pp. xx, 348, with illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition (Unstated). 348 pages; B&W photographs. Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Light foxing to the top exterior edge of textblock. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Boards. Reprint. 8vo, pictorial wraps, b&w plates, pp 338 including bibliography and title page. Ownership signature, otherwise very clean. Near-fine condition. When first published in 1962, "Desert People" was one of the few complete ethnographies of an Aboriginal people. This study of the Warlbiri of Central Australia describes at first hand a way of life that was still, in the 1950s, largely autonomous. It deals with the tribe's history, its contacts with European settlers, its relationship with neighbouring tribes, its internal groupings and their economic, political and religious significance, its family and kinship system, and its sexual and educational practices.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Australian edition: 348 pages. Illustrated, a small bookseller's label, lightly stained lower front edge, small tears on back of dust jacket.

348 pp including index, b&w photographic plates, fine copy in very good, illustrated d/j. First edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First Edition. Endpapers lightly foxed. Jacket rubbed at extremities, a couple of tiny perforations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages.

Hard Cover. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original brown boards (occ. spotting & offsetting, prev. owner's name to FFE) in dustwrapper priced 52s. 6d. (a little rubbed & frayed, slightly marked); pp. xx, 348, with illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good +. First edition. 348pp, ills. Orig. cloth & worn, ruffed dj.

1962. South Pacific, Australia. University of Chicago Press. 348p., very good cloth and good dust jacket. (brown cover design).

Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1974. 8vo. Orig. illust. stiff wrapper a little worn. xiv 338pp. With maps tables b/w plates and diagrams. NOTE: A complete ethnography of an Aboriginal tribe. This study of the Walbiri of Central Australia describes at first hand a way of life that was still in the 1950s largely autonomous.

(Sydney 1962). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In worn dustjacket (xx,348pp.). With 8 full-page plates, 7 text-diagrs., and map. 1st edition. Contents fine.