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
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
China: Empire of Living Symbols
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate The origins of Chinese ideographs were not known until 1899, when a scholar went to an apothecary for some medicine made of “dragon bone.” To his surprise, the bone, which..... 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
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
A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. “For any scholar examining the economic and financial viability of the family unit, or the degree to which family members related as a working and economic unit as well as an intimate one, this book not only offers a very important..... 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
Structural Anthropology
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Loretta Li (cover design). First Anchor Books Edition. Paperback. Structural anthropology, in contrast to cultural anthropology, is developing a science of society and culture that owes much to the modern science of linguistics and that examines not the contents of the items..... More
The Naked Ape
London: Triad/Grafton Books, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. 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
Peasants
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1966. First Edition, Sixteenth Printing. Softcover. Part of the Foundations of Modern Anthropology Series. This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant's relation to markets and non-peasant..... More
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
New York: The Free Press, 2010. Hardcover. More
Civilization and Capitalism: The Structures of Everyday Life (Volume I)
London: Collins/Fontana Press, 1981. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Kirkus (Jan. 1, 1981): The Braudel craze set off in 1972 by the English translation of his great work The Mediterranean has abated a bit, but it is likely to flourish again with the appearance in English of his..... 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
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
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
Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations, Vol. III (A Twentieth Century Fund Study)
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1968. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
China in Antiquity
The University of Massachusetts Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. The first general account of Chinese society and history in the period before the country's unification in 221 BC. More
The Birth of China: A Study of the Formative Period of Chinese Civilization
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1954. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. A former Yale library book. More
Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom
Southern Materials Center Inc. (Taipei) / Bell Publishing Company (New York), 1967. Mary Jane Harley (jacket and endpaper designs). Hardcover. This is a Taiwanese reprint although it is unclear whether it is an authorized reprinted or a pirated edition. From jacket flap: This is the first complete history in..... More
Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang Through the Song is a study of emerging kinship structures in a central coastal Fujian province from the 9th..... More
