Author: Ernest Crawley
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: marriage, primitive, bearing, thought, rose, mystic, study
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0766126722
ISBN-13: 9780766126725

1902. Contents: Taboo Imposed; Sexual Taboo; Human Relations; Commensal Relations; Sexual Relations; Breaking of Taboo; Theory of Union; Confirmation and Engagement; Marriage and its Ceremonies; Husband, Wife and Mother-in-Law; Parents and Child; Marriage System.

Author: David Wescott
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: primitive, technology, society, ancestral, skill
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2001-08-20
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1586850989
ISBN-13: 9781586850982

The Stone Age is the common denominator of mankind, and through experimental archeology—the relearning and replication of ancient skills—we take a step of discovery and understanding into this rich past. In this collection, drawn from the pages of the Bulletin of Primitive Technology, learn to create tools to fabricate more complex technologies; master the arts of the bow and arrow; build a shelter or fashion clothing from fibers or buckskin. Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills provides the guide to rediscovery of the skills and crafts that bind us all into this great human f

Author: Franz Boas
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: art, primitive
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1955-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0486200256
ISBN-13: 9780486200255

America’s foremost anthropologist surveys textiles, ceramics, woodcarving, basketry, metalwork, etc. All areas of world, but very full on Northwest Coast Indians. More than 350 illustrations of baskets, boxes, totem poles, weapons, etc.

Author: Francine Prose
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, people, primitive
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0060934697
ISBN-13: 9780060934699

What are these barbaric rituals that pass for social and family life? Who are these fearsome creatures who linger in decaying mansions and at glittery malls, trendy weddings and dinner parties? These are the questions that trouble Simone, a beautiful, smart young Haitian woman. She has fled the chaotic violence of Port-au-Prince only to find herself in a world no less brutal or bizarre -- a seemingly civilized landscape where dead sheep swing from trees, lightbulbs are ceremonially buried, fur-clad mothers carve terrifying goddesses out of pumice...and where learning to lie is the principal ri

Author: Franz Boas
Publisher: Macritchie Press
Keywords: man, primitive, mind
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 1406737631
ISBN-13: 9781406737639

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Robert. H Lowie
Publisher: Maurois Press
Keywords: religion, primitive
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 140674655X
ISBN-13: 9781406746556

PRIMITIVE RELIGION BY ROBERT H. LOWIE, PH. D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AUTHOR OF Primitive Society LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LTD. BROADWAY HOUSE 68-74, CARTER LANE, E. G. 1936 Printed in Great Britain by MACKAYB LTD., Chatham PREFACE THIS work does not purport to be a handbook of either the theories broached on the subject of primitive religion or of the ethnographic data described in hundreds of accessible mono graphs. My purpose is to provide an introduction to further study in which other than the traditional topics shall assume a place of honor.

Author: Franz Boas
Publisher: Macritchie Press
Keywords: man, primitive, mind
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $41.45
ISBN-10: 1443726001
ISBN-13: 9781443726009

THE MIND of PRIMITIVE MAN by FRANZ BOAS. Originally published in 1911. PREFACE: Since 1911, when the first edition of The Mind of Primitive Man was published much work has been done in all the branches of science that have to be considered in the problem with which the book deals. The study of heredity has made important strides and has helped to clear up the concept of race. The influence of environment upon bodily form and behavior has been the subject of many investigations and the mental attitudes of primitive man have been studied from new points of view. For this reason a large part of t