Ahmed, Akbar S. MILLENNIUM AND CHARISMA AMONG PATHANS. | £12.00 | |||||
A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology. 173pp. Index. Card covers. Based on field-work in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan's N.W.Frontier Province. The author was Political Agent, South Waziristan Agency. Fine. 1976 Routledge & Kegan Paul. | ||||||
Ahmed, Akbar S. PUKHTUN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. | £35.00 | |||||
Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society. 406pp. Index. Based on field-work in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan's N.W.Frontier Province. The author was political Agent, South Waziristan Agency. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. | ||||||
Ahmed, Akbar S. MILLENNIUM AND CHARISMA AMONG PATHANS. | £16.00 | |||||
A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology. 173pp. Index. Based on field-work in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan's N.W.Frontier Province. The author was Political Agent, South Waziristan Agency. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. 1976 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. | ||||||
Aiyappan, A. REPORT ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF THE PROVINCE OF MADRAS. | £30.00 | |||||
vi + 185pp. 15 plates of b/w photographs. Internally very good but some staining to boards. 1948 Government Press, Madras. | ||||||
Amin, Prof. R.K. MOGRI. | £5.00 | |||||
Socio-Economic Study of a Charotar Village. 170pp. Study of a village in Gujerat. Very good in very good dw. No date, Sardar Vallabhbhai Vidyapeeth University | ||||||
Amin, Prof. R.K. VALASAN. | £5.00 | |||||
Socio-Economic Study of a Charotar Village. 72pp. Study of a village in Gujerat. Very good in very good dw. No date, Sardar Vallabhbhai Vidyapeeth University | ||||||
Ao, A Lanu (edits). NAGA CULTURAL ATTIRES AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. | £5.00 | |||||
132pp. Index. Many colour photographs. Very good in fine dw. Bookplate. 1999 First edition, Concept Publishing, New Delhi. | ||||||
Bailey, F.G. CASTE AND THE ECONOMIC FRONTIER. | £14.00 | |||||
A village in highland Orissa. 292pp. Index. 8 plates of b/w photographs. Fine. 1971 Reprint, Manchester University Press. | ||||||
Baker, J.Mark. THE KUHLS OF KANGRA. | £12.00 | |||||
Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya. 271pp. Index. Water-management in a social and political context. Fine in fine dw. 2005 University of Washington Press, Seattle. | ||||||
Baldizzone, Tiziana and Gianni (photograph). BRAHMAPUTRA. | £16.00 | |||||
Tales from the River. 240pp. 4to. Map. Superb colour photographs. Following the river from Tibet to the sea with history of exploration Fine in fine dw. 1998 Local Colour, Hong Kong. | ||||||
Beattie, Hugh. IMPERIAL FRONTIER. | £35.00 | |||||
Tribe and State in Waziristan. 352pp. Index. How the British sought to manage the Pashtun groups in the nineteenth century. Fine in laminated pictorial boards. 2002 First edition, Curzon Press. | ||||||
Berreman, Gerald D. HINDUS OF THE HIMALAYAS. | £14.00 | |||||
430pp. Index. Study of the Pahari people of Garhwal. Fine. 1963 First edition, University of California Press. | ||||||
Bista, Dor Bahadur. PEOPLE OF NEPAL. | £22.00 | |||||
210pp. Index. Folding map. Many b/w photographs. Excellently written survey of all the regions and localities of Nepal. Very good in very good dw. 1980 Reprint, Kathmandu. | ||||||
Bock, Carl. THE HEAD-HUNTERS OF BORNEO. | £12.00 | |||||
344pp. Index.Endpaper map. 30 plates in colour from paintings of Dyaks and 7 engraved illustrations.. Card covers. First published in 1881. Fine. 1985 Facsimile reprint, Oxford University Press, Singapore. | ||||||
Carter, Anthony. ELITE POLITICS IN RURAL INDIA. | £16.00 | |||||
Political Stratification and Alliances in Western Maharashtra. 207pp. Index, Fine in fine dw. 1974 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Channa, Subhadra Mitra (edits). NAGALAND. | £10.00 | |||||
A Contemporary Ethnography. 311pp. Index. 11 academic essays. Very good in chipped dw. Inscription and bookplate. 1992 Cosmo Publications, New Delhi. | ||||||
Clarke, Marieka. WE ARE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE. | £10.00 | |||||
The Story of a Development Project in an Adivasi Village. 257pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1991 First edition, Ajanta Publications, Delhi. | ||||||
Eglar, Zekiye. A PUNJABI VILLAGE IN PAKISTAN. | £15.00 | |||||
xv + 240pp. Index. 3 maps. Study of a village in Gujrat District. Fine in chipped dw. An excellent copy. 1960 First edition, Columbia University Press, New York. | ||||||
Elwin, Verrier. THE AGARIA. | £10.00 | |||||
292pp. Index. Anthropologist's study of iron-smelting tribe in Central India. First published in 1942. Fine in fine dw. 1991 Second impression, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Elwin, Verrier. MARIA MURDER AND SUICIDE. | £10.00 | |||||
259pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. 2 maps. A slack copy with marked boards but internally clean and complete. 1943 published in India for Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Endle, Rev Sidney. THE KACHARIS. | £10.00 | |||||
121pp. Index.16 rather smudgy illustrations in b/w. Folding map. Facsimile reprint of 1911 original. Study of tribal people of North Bengal. Very good in very good dw. 1995 Cosmo Publications, Delhi. | ||||||
Fricke, Tom. HIMALAYAN HOUSEHOLDS. | £10.00 | |||||
Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes. 243pp. Index. Card covers. Study of the Nepali village of Timling. Fine. 1994 Columbia University Press. | ||||||
Fuchs, Stephen. THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF INDIA. | £14.00 | |||||
308pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1977 Macmillan. | ||||||
Furen, Wang and Wenqing, Suo. HIGHLIGHTS OF TIBETAN HISTORY. | £10.00 | |||||
206pp. Index. The Chinese version of Tibetan history and of British involvement there. Card covers. Fine. 1984 First edition, New World Press, Beijing. | ||||||
Ganchaudhuri, Jagadish et al (edit). PEOPLE OF INDIA: TRIPURA. | £25.00 | |||||
Anthropological Survey of India Vol XLI. 553pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Seagull Books, Calcutta. | ||||||
Ghosh, Anandamayee. THE BHOTIAS IN INDIAN HIMALAYAS. | £10.00 | |||||
A Socio-Linguistic Approach. 215pp. Index. 8 b/w photographs. Very good in very good dw. 2007 B.R.Publishing, Delhi. | ||||||
Gore, M.S (introduces). A SURVEY OF RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (VOL 1). | £10.00 | |||||
479pp. Index. Chapters include studies of Census data, Villages, Urbanisation and Cities, Industries and Trade Unions and Caste. Very good in very good dw. 1974 Popular Prakashan, Bombay. | ||||||
Gorer, Geoffrey. HIMALAYAN VILLAGE. | £19.00 | |||||
An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim. 488pp. 32 plates. A major anthropological study. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. A very clean, bright copy. 1967 Second edition, Nelson. | ||||||
Gorer, Geoffrey. HIMALAYAN VILLAGE. | £10.00 | |||||
An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim. 488pp. Index. 32 plates. Paperback edition. Very good. 1967 New York. | ||||||
Gorer, Geoffrey. HIMALAYAN VILLAGE. | £10.00 | |||||
An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim. 488pp. Index. 32 plates. Paperback edition. Fine. 1984 Alan Sutton. | ||||||
Gough, Kathleen. RURAL SOCIETY IN SOUTHEAST INDIA 1950s TO 1980s. | £22.00 | |||||
458pp. Index. Study contrasting caste and class in two villages of Thanjavar Dirstrict. Very good in very good dw. 1981 First edition, Cambridge University Press, Delhi. | ||||||
Hatch, W.J. THE LAND PIRATES OF INDIA. | £55.00 | |||||
An Account of the Kuravers a Remarkable Tribe of Hereditary Criminals their extraordinary skill as Thieves cattle-lifters and Highwaymen and their manners and customs. 272pp. Index and folding map. 23 plates. Study of the South Indian caste. Very good indeed. Armorial bookplate. 1928 First edition, Seeley Service. | ||||||
Janah, Sunil (photographs). THE TRIBALS OF INDIA THOUGH THE LENS OF SUNIL JANAH. | £35.00 | |||||
144pp. 4to. Account of his trips all over India illustrated with over 100 b/w photographs from the previous thirty years Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, Oxford University Press, Calcutta. | ||||||
Jeffery, Patricia and Roger, DON'T MARRY ME TO A PLOWMAN! | £5.00 | |||||
Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India. 294pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1996 Westview Press, Colorado and Oxford. | ||||||
Majumdar, D.N. HIMALAYAN POLYANDRY. | £13.00 | |||||
Structure, Functioning and Culture Change. A Field-Study of Jaunsar-Bawar. 389pp. Index.19 b/w photographs. 4 maps and 5 charts. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. A clean, bright copy. 1962 First edition, Asia Publishing House. | ||||||
Manohar, Aashi and Shah, Shampa (edit). TRIBAL ARTS AND CRAFTS OF MADHYA PRADESH. | £18.00 | |||||
144pp.121 photographs in colour and 36 line illustrations. Map. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1996 First edition, Mapin, Ahmedabad. | ||||||
Marshall, Andrew. THE TROUSER PEOPLE. | £10.00 | |||||
A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire. 308pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Travels observing the atrocities of the regime against the hill tribes and an account of the life and work of Sir George Scott. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First US edition, Counterpoint, Washington. | ||||||
Marshall, Andrew. THE TROUSER PEOPLE. | £12.00 | |||||
A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire. 308pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Travels observing the atrocities of the regime against the hill tribes and an account of the life and work of Sir George Scott. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good in near-fine dw. 2002 First edition, Viking. | ||||||
Matheson, Sylvia A. THE TIGERS OF BALUCHISTAN. | £14.00 | |||||
A woman's five years with the Bugti tribe. 213pp. Index. 26 photographs. 27pp introduction and bibliography on the Bugti people. Fine in fine dw. 1997 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Karachi. | ||||||
Mayer, Adrian C. CASTE AND KINSHIP IN CENTRAL INDIA. | £10.00 | |||||
A Village and its Region. 295pp. Index. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1970 Reprint, Routledge and Kegan Paul. | ||||||
McNeely, Jeffrey A. and Watchel, Paul Spencer. SOUL OF THE TIGER. | £10.00 | |||||
Searching for Nature's Answers in Southeast Asia. 390pp. Index. Card covers. Much on traditional folklore of snakes, tigers, elephants, monkeys etc. Fine apart from garish bookplate. 1991 Oxford University Press, Singapore. | ||||||
Meik, Vivian. THE PEOPLE OF THE LEAVES. | £15.00 | |||||
194pp. 16 plates of b/w photographs. Tribal people of Rairakhol in Orissa. Very good. 1931 First edition, Philip Allan. | ||||||
Meik, Vivian. THE PEOPLE OF THE LEAVES. | £16.00 | |||||
194pp. 16 plates of b/w photographs. Tribal people of Rairakhol in Orissa. Very good in edge-worn dustwrapper. 1931 First edition, Philip Allan. | ||||||
Mohanti, Prafulla. MY VILLAGE, MY LIFE. | £5.00 | |||||
Nanpur: a portrait of an Indian Village. 232pp. Born in an Orissa village, the author became an architect in England. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, Davis-Poynter. | ||||||
Morris, Brian. FOREST TRADERS. | £10.00 | |||||
A Socio-Economic Study of the Hill Pandaram. 219pp. Index. Study of Kerala hunter-gatherers. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, The Athlone Press. | ||||||
Nambiar, P.K. CENSUS OF INDIA 1961. | £45.00 | |||||
Madras: Part V: C - Todas. 147pp. 4to. 2 maps, 61 tables, 38 photographs mainly in colour. A study of all aspects of Toda life and culture. Stiff card wrappers and unlettered cloth spine. Very good indeed. 1965 Madras. | ||||||
Nambiar, P.K. CENSUS OF INDIA 1961. | £45.00 | |||||
Madras: Part V: B - Ethnographic Notes on the Scheduled Tribes. 268pp. 4to. Maps, Tables, drawings and photographs in b/w. Chapters on the life and culture of Muduvars, Kadars, Kanis or Kannikars, Mala Malasars, Paniyans, Palliyans and Mullu Kurumbars. Stiff card wrappers and unlettered cloth spine. Very good indeed. 1964 Madras. | ||||||
Pehrson, Robert N. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE MARRI BALUCH. | £10.00 | |||||
127pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. Wrappers a little darkened 1966 Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York. | ||||||
Pennell, Dr T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. | £24.00 | |||||
A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches. 324pp. Index. 11 photographs. Very good. 1909 Third edition Seeley & Co. | ||||||
Pennell, T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. | £80.00 | |||||
A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches. 324pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Doctor missionary on the North-West Frontier Corners bumped but a very good copy in the original green cloth 1909 Third edition Seeley & Co. | ||||||
Rangachari, Diwan Bahadur K. THE SRI VAISHNAVA BRAHMANS. | £28.00 | |||||
Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Vol II Part 2. 158pp. 4to. Card covers. Index. 12 plates of b/w photographs. Very good indeed. In the original wrappers as issued. 1931 Government Press, Madras. | ||||||
Saberwal, Satish. MOBILE MEN. | £5.00 | |||||
Limits to Social Change in the Punjab. 267pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. Owner's name. 1976 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. | ||||||
Sen, Sipra. TRIBES OF NAGALAND. | £14.00 | |||||
xvi + 283pp. Index. 190pp bibliography of Nagaland and the Tribes. Very good in very good dw. Library rubber stamp mark on title page but no other library marks. 1987 First edition, Mittal, Delhi. | ||||||
Shah, B.V. And Thacker, J.D. SCHEDULED CASTE AND SCHEDULED TRIBE COLLEGE STUDENTS IN GUJARAT. | £5.00 | |||||
330pp. Index. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1978 First edition, Sardar Patel University. | ||||||
Shah, Manubhai M. INTEGRATION OF DISTRICT DAIRY COOPERATIVES IN GUJERAT. | £5.00 | |||||
276pp. Card covers. 6 folding tables. Very good. Owner's name. 1977 Sardar Patel University. | ||||||
Sharma, Naresh and Dreze, Jean. SHARE-CROPPING IN PALANPUR. | £5.00 | |||||
62pp. Card-covered stapled booklet. Fine. 1990 London School of Ecomomics. | ||||||
Singer, Andre. GUARDIANS OF THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. | £12.00 | |||||
The Pathans. 168pp. Card covers. Beautifully colour-illustrated study of Pathan life and society. Based on the Mohmand village of Kado near Peshawar. Very good indeed. 1982 Time-Life Publications. | ||||||
Singh, K.S. BIRSA MUNDA AND HIS MOVEMENT 1872-1901. | £16.00 | |||||
a Study of a Millenarian Movement in Chotanagpur 324pp. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Seagull Books, Calcutta. | ||||||
Singh, Prakash. NAGALAND. | £6.00 | |||||
India: The Land and the People. 210pp. Index. Card covers. Very good indeed. Inscription and bookplate 1995 Fourth edition, National Book Trust, New Delhi. | ||||||
Smith, William Carlson. THE AYO NAGA TRIBE OF ASSAM. | £58.00 | |||||
A Study in Ethnology and Sociology. xxvii + 244pp. Index.16 b/w photographs. Very good internally but cup ring and other marks on blue boards. 1925 First edition, Macmillan. | ||||||
St Joseph, J.D. LIFE IN THE WILDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. | £16.00 | |||||
428pp. Sketch maps and 46 b/w photographs. The author's career in the Forest Department from 1891-1914. Edited from his papers with excellent detail on forest conservation, wild-life and the tribal peoples of Central India. Very close observation of tigers. Sadly, for such a lavishly produced book, no index. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. | ||||||
Sundar, Nandini. SUBALTERNS AND SOVEREIGNS. | £10.00 | |||||
An Anthropological History of Bastar 1854-1996. 296pp. Index. Ex-library copy. A study of resistance in Central India. Minimal markings. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. | ||||||
Thorburn, S.S. BANNU or Our Afghan Frontier. | £16.00 | |||||
480pp. Facsimile reprint of 1876 original. Very detailed account of Pashto culture. Very good in pictorial boards. 1999 Sang-e-Meel, Lahore. | ||||||
van der Veer, Peter. GODS ON EARTH. | £10.00 | |||||
The management of Religious Experiece and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre. xv + 310pp. Index. Study of Ayodhya. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, The Athlone Press. | ||||||
Vinding, Michael. THE THAKALI. | £32.00 | |||||
A Himalayan Ethnography. 470pp. Index. 4 maps. 51 colour photographs, Major study of the people of a Mustang valley. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Owner's name. 1998 First edition, Serindia Publications. | ||||||
von Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph. HIMALAYAN BARBARY. | £13.00 | |||||
241pp. Index. 35 b/w photographs. Map. Tribal peoples on the borders of Assam and Tibet. Very good in rubbed dw. Bookplate. 1955 First edition, Murray. | ||||||
von Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph. THE APA TANIS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS. | £10.00 | |||||
A Primitive Society of the Eastern Himalayas. 166pp. Index. 2 maps. 8 b/w photographs. Very good in very good dw. 1962 First edition, Routledge. | ||||||
von Furer-Haimendorf, Cristoph. HIMALAYAN TRADERS. | £16.00 | |||||
Life in Highland Nepal. 316pp. Index. 44 b/w photographs and 7 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1975 First, Murray. | ||||||
von Furer-Haimendorf, Cristoph. THE SHERPAS OF NEPAL. | £12.00 | |||||
Buddhist Highlanders. 298pp. Index. 55 b/w photos. Folding map. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. A very clean, bright copy. 1964 First edition, Murray. | ||||||
von Furer-Haimendorf, Cristoph. THE SHERPAS OF NEPAL. | £10.00 | |||||
Buddhist Highlanders. 298pp. Index. 55 b/w photos. Folding map. Very good in very good dw. Corner of front endpaper clipped. Darkening to paper. 1979 Reprint, East-West Publications, New Delhi.. | ||||||
Whitehead, John. THANGLIENA. | £12.00 | |||||
A Life of T.H.Lewin amongst the Wild Tribes on India's Nort-East Frontier. 437pp. Index. 21 photographs. Account of service of soldier, administrator, scholar who ruled the Lushai Hill Tracts from 1865-74. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Paul Strachan. | ||||||
Whitehead, John. THANGLIENA. | £13.00 | |||||
A Life of T.H.Lewin amongst the Wild Tribes on India's Nort-East Frontier. 437pp. Index. 21 photographs. Account of service of soldier, administrator, scholar who ruled the Lushai Hill Tracts from 1865-74. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Paul Strachan. | ||||||
Wilkins, E. Gordon. BY HANDS, BULLOCKS AND PRAYERS. | £10.00 | |||||
Building the Moorshead Memorial Hospital, Kond Hills, Orissa, India. 223pp. 47 b/w photographs. Husband and wife missionary doctors and the hospital they helped to build amongst the Kond tribal people in the foothills of the Eastern Ghats from 1936 to 1951. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, by the author. | ||||||
Wyon, John B. and Gordon, John E. THE KHANNA STUDY. | £5.00 | |||||
Population Problems in the Rural Punjab. 437pp. Index. 119 figures and illustrations. Very good indeed in rubbed dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Harvard University Press. | ||||||
Zehol, Dr.Lucy 9edits). WOMEN IN NAGA SOCIETY. | £6.00 | |||||
103pp. Fine in laminated boards. 1998 Regency Publications, New Delhi. |
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