London. George Allen & Unwin. n.d.(c. 1940). Foreword by Arthur Waley. Folded map, 209pp, index, appendices, prior owner's bookplate neatly tipped in front free endpaper, endpapers and worn dustjacket browned, dustjacket with some loss on extremities, still a good hardback copy. "The Blue Grove is a work on an unknown..... More
Kottakkal. Arya Vaidya Sala. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 40pp, some insect damage fore edges and first few leaves with partial loss of caption on first leaf, corners little creased, wrappers, oblong octavo. An overview of the Arya Vaidya Sala, an enterprise started by P.S. Varier to manufacture..... More
Ithaca. NY. Cornell University Press. 1996. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 184pp, references, index, spine trifle sunned, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179164. More
Ithaca. Cornell University Press. 1994. ix + 221pp, some leaves creased at fore edge, very good copy in dustjacket with faded spine. After the sudden death of a young girl who was suffering from a fever the villagers of Bisipara in eastern India are convinced that her death was caused..... More
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1961, 1963. Volume IV: 2 black and white plates, vii + 192pp. Volume V: xi+ 395pp. Both volumes in original red cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the spines and in the original dustwrappers, slightly sunned on each spine but generally in good order. A...... More
Calcutta. Shillong. 1960. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, 110pp, index, bibliography, glossary, first few pages little creased, price-clipped dustjacket now protected, a good copy. An ethnographic study of the Idu Mishmis - one of the main tribes inhabiting the wild and rugged hills of the..... More
Helsinki. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 2001. Maps, 338pp, bibliography, glossary, inscription from author on titlepage, dustjacket spine a little sunned, otherwise very good paperback copy. Folklore Fellows' Communications, no. 278. When referring to this item please quote stockid 212544. More
United States: University of California Press, 2005. 242pp, index, notes, references, glossary, index, very good paperback copy. "At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums. No One Cries for the Dead offers an original..... More
New Jersey. Prentice Hall. [c. 1971]. Map, xiv + 164pp, a good copy in trifle worn and marked paperback, small tear on head of spine. "This essay is an attempt to convey what one anthropologist and historian has learned about India. It draws on the work of hundreds of other..... More
United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011. xxiii + 155pp, index, bibliography, a very good copy. Workplace bullying, a pattern of persistent and targeted emotional abuse within the context of an evolving unequal interpersonal relationship, has so far not received academic attention in India. This book explores the phenomenon of..... More
Department of Publication. University of Gauhati. Assam. 1960. Map, tables, 9 folding, illustrations, xii + 149pp, appendices, index, patchily faded dustjacket. The Rabha are a sub-group of the Bodo people of Assam. When referring to this item please quote stockid 4280. More
Calcutta. Uni of Calcutta. 1945. Black and white illustrations, folding tables, xvi + 336pp, appendices, glossary, index, wrappers worn with some loss spine, foxed throughout, a good ex-library reading copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 161566. More
New Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2009. First Edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 351pp, dustjacket extremities a little worn, still a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176991. More
Shillong. Published on behalf of the Adviser to the Governor of Assam. 1964. Second edition. Foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations including photographs, 296pp, index, inscription half-title, edges browned, dustjacketrubbed on extremities and some loss on spine. Discussion of the tribes of the North East Frontier..... More
New York. The American Museum of Natural History. 1980. Black and white photographic and line illustrations, 323-554pp, index, bibliography, covers little shelf worn, spine and covers a little faded, a sound secondhand paperback copy. 25.3 x 18.4cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179311. More
Bombay. Bhatkal. 1963. Third revised edition. xiv + 404pp, index, endpapers patchily browned, good copy in torn dustjacket, now protected First published in 1943 as The Aborigines So-Called and Their Future. "In this third revised edition Dr. Ghurye, besides giving a historical account of these tribes and the attitude of..... More
Assam. Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art & Culture. 1995. Colour and black and white photographic plates, 84pp, title page stamped Complimentary copy. Small hole upper cover and preliminary leaves, lower corner bumped. Very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176909. More
Calcutta. Pannalal Das Gupta. 1967. Black and white photographic plates, xvi + 256pp, from the library of Dr Andrew Selth with his name and chop on front free endpaper, dustjacket worn and chipped, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179836. More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1969. Map, black and white photographic plates, xiv + 314pp, index, bibliography, glossary, appendices, price clipped dustjacket worn and marked, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178569. More
Delhi. Mittal Publication. 1986. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, 71pp + 16 plates, some staining to margin of one plate, tall quarto, price-clipped dustjacket worn with some loss, otherwise a good copy. Contains diaries of two tours undertaken by two British officers - J.P. Mills of..... More
Calcutta. Nagarjun. September 1958 - August 1959. Volume II only. [6]pages of advertisements + 1100pp, some insect damage marbled endpapers, some light soiling edges, damaged dustjacket. A carefully written separate handwritten leaf loosely inserted states that this volume was presented to Professor A.L. Basham by the author of the paper..... More
London. Century Publishing. 1985. Plan of village, 13 black and white photographic plates, 215pp, maroon cloth covered boards and spine, patchily faded dustjacket but otherwise a good copy. "When a series of misfortunes stranded Jainub and her children, this young Afrikaans mother had to find the courage and determination to..... More
New Delhi. Affiliated East-West Press. 1969. xx + 140pp, indices, extremities trifle worn, endpapers and edges lightly foxed, otherwise good. When referring to this item please quote stockid 35127. More
New York. Colombia University Press. 2003. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 316pp, index, notes, glossary, appendix, spine and upper cover little sunned, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178416. More
Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 1962. 230 - 245pp, offprint from the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, original stapled wrappers trifle faded. When referring to this item please quote stockid 67379. More