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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 6-11 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume III, Number 1 complete issue. First edition.  The Amahuaca are a Panoan-speaking Indians of the Peruvian Montana. The Amahuaca dwell near the remonte and seldom-visited upper reaches of the Inuya, Sepahua, Purus and Yuua. Their habitat is an extensive region of rugged terrain covered with dense tropical rain forest lying near the Brazilian border. No Amahuaca supernatural being is powerful or exalted enough to merit being called a god. The Amahuaca tell of a rather important culture hero, Rantanka, who taught them how to plant, how to hunt, how to make some axes and so forth, but he no longer plays a role in their lives, and in fact most informants say he is dead. In this paper the author describes the aspect of dealing with spirit beliefs. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, spine sunned, small tear at spine heal else very good.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 179-186 pages with cited references. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. American Antiquity Volume 39, number 2, Part 1 complete issue. First edition. The view that technological advance was the prime cause of the early civilizations is examined and rejected. Instead, it is argued that civilization was an organizational solution to specific social and ecological problems. Even where technology gave an impetus to the rise of civilization, it can be shown that the tools or weapons involved were themselves developed in response to societal demands. Thus, the invention of the steam engine, which led to the Industrial Revolution, can be traced back to the need by feudal states in Europe to cope with a severe shortage of labor. This interpretation is presented, not as a repudiation of cultural materialism, but as an elaboration on it. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, rubbed and creased, check marks to back wrapper else very good.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 77-95 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 `1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Anthropological Research Volume 29, Number 2 complete issue. First edition. It is widely believed that Herbert Spencer dealt only with the general nature and direction of social evolution, and did not concern himself with its mechanisms and detailed workings. But this is not true. Spencer devoted considerable attention to the process by which societies adapt themselves to their environments, and the ways in which this adaptation is related to evolution. Indeed, in certain of his writings Spencer portrayed social evolution as the accumulation of structural and functional changes that occur as societies successively reequilibrate themselves to altered conditions of existence. Condition: Previous owner's name to page 77, spine sunned, edge wear, corners bumped else very good.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 331-341 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume IX Number 4 complete issue. First edition. The Amahuaca or Amhuaca are indigenous peoples of the southeastern Amazon Basin in Peru and Brazil. Isolated until the 18th century, they are currently under threat from ecological devastation, disease and violence brought by oil extractors and illegal loggers. In 1998 they numbered about 520. The largest community of the Amahuaca is in Puerto Varadero, a jungle community on the Peruvian Brazilian border. Other articles: The Inkyo System in Southwestern Japan: Its Functional Utility in the Household Setting by Kenne H K Chang; Father Arithmetic: Numeration and Counting in New Britain by Michel Panoff; Witchcraft as Negative Charisma by Paul R Turner; Mallinitiation in New Guinea Highlands Societies by Andrew Strathern; The Ethnography of Two-Section Systems by Warren Shapiro; A Fifth Analysis of the Star Husband Tale by Frank W Young; Parental Rejection, Food Deprivation and Personality De elopment: Test of Alternative Hypotheses by Ronald F Rohner. Condition: Institutional stamps to front wrappers, light edge wear else very good. …