Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Manners and Customs
New York: Philosophical Library, Inc, 1967. J. de Vries. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Anthrolopology
In Defence of Sociology (Essays, Interpretations & Rejoinders)
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of... More
A Macao Narrative
Hong Kong: Heinemann, 1978. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. More
Sex and the Japanese: The Sensual Side of Japan
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. "Sex and the Japanese" provides a broad look at the changing concepts of sexuality in Japanese culture. From the days of concubines and geishas to the present, sex and sexuality in Japan have been more openly discussed and available than in the West... More
Seeds, Spades, Hearths and Herds: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1972. Second Edition, Third Printing. Paperback. Some of the author premises regarding domestication of animals and foodstuffs: agriculture did not originate from a shortage of food; domestication is found in areas of marked diversity in plants or animals; primitive cultivators could not establish themselves in... More
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968. Paperback. More
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. This edition is published in conjunction with the exhibition Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization organized by the Albuquerque Museum. More
Japanese Society
Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1995. First Tuttle Edition, Tenth Printing (Japanese edition). Paperback. Includes publisher's promotional wrap-around band in Japanese. This short work presents a configuration of the important elements to be found in contemporary Japanese social life, and attempts to shed new light on Japanese society. Nakane... More
Manchu Archival Materials
Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing, Co., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Collection of essays by Professor Ch'en Chieh-hsien of National Taiwan University concerning the study of Ch'ing archival material. More
In Times of Great Chaos
Hong Kong: Helping Hand Ltd, 1989. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (Outsized). With contributions by: David Bonavia, Father Sean Burke, Anthony Lawrence, Bea Hutcheon, Margaret Ng, Ann Quon, Nancy Ma Thompson, Sybil Wong. A photo book recounting the first-hand experiences of hardship and struggle, through personal interviews with elderly Hong... More
Visions of the Past
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1983. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Illustrated with 8 pages of color photos, 127 b/w photos and 5 maps. More
Chinese Creeds and Customs (Volume 1)
Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, Ltd., 1966. Colonel Valentine Rodolphe Burkhardt (illustrations). First Edition, Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. Colonel Burkhardt was a career military officer who spent most of his life stationed in and around China and Hong Kong. He was a man of many talents -- among them butterfly... More
The Chinese
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1982. Revised Edition. Paperback. From Kirkus, Oct. 15, 1980: A journalist's tally of conditions in China today--of some interest to anyone who hasn't read other books on the subject, but a disappointment considering the author's credentials. From 1972 to 1976 Bonavia was the London Times'... More
Social Relations and Spatial Structures
Houndsmill, Basingstoke: The Macmillan Company, 1985. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. More
The Naked Ape
Corgi Books, 1968. Reprint. Paperback. This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at... More
Britain in Pictures: English Villages
London: William Collins, 1942. Second Edition. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Return to Laughter
New York: Anchor Books Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. Paperback. More
The Harmless People
New York: Vintage Books, 1959. Reprint. Paperback. In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years... More
The Mummies of Urumchi
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Some of Ürümchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years―contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies but even more beautifully preserved. Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Asian but Caucasoid―tall, large-nosed and blond with thick beards and... More
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
New York: The Free Press, 2010. Hardcover. More
A Study in Naxi Pictography (纳西象形文字谱)
云南: 云南人民出版社, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare edition. Signed by author. Also includes a personal letter written by the author. More
Book of the Hopi
New York: Penguin Books, 1985. Neil Stuart (cover). Paperback. More
Japan: A Short Cultural History (Revised Edition)
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. From a Japan Times book review, Sept. 27, 2014: If there’s room in your life for just one general history of Japan, let this be the one. In the hands of a master, history becomes art. British scholar-diplomat Sir George Bailey Sansom (1883-1965)... More
Political Anthropology
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1972. Edward Wright (cover painting). Paperback. A Pelican Book. Part of the Pelican Anthropology Library. Originally published in the French as Anthropologie Politique. Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith. More
Village in Vietnam
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition (presumed), Sixth Printing. Hardcover. From the jacket blurb: The product of a long observation in the field (the research was sponsored by the Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group), this is the first full treatment of Vietnamese culture to be published... More
