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8vo. viii, 571 pp. Illus., index. Navy cloth. Good. Although Alfred Louis Kroeber "is known primarily as a cultural anthropologist, he did significant work in archaeology and anthropological linguistics, and he contributed to anthropology by making connections between archaeology and culture. He conducted excavations in New Mexico, Mexico, and Peru. In Peru he helped found the Institute for Andean Studies (IAS) with the Peruvian anthropologist Julio C. Tello and other major scholars. / Kroeber and his students did important work collecting cultural data on western tribes of Native Americans. The work done in preserving information about California tribes appeared in Handbook of the Indians of California (1925)." / Alfred Louis Kroeber "was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley". / Thomas Talbot Waterman was an American anthropologist. Kroeber wrote an obituary for Waterman, described Waterman as âÂÂone of the vivid figures of American anthropology and one of its great teachers . . . Waterman was first of all a brilliant, incisive, colorful teacher, rarely systematic and sometimes erratic, but extraordinarily stimulating". âÂÂ" Kroeber, "Thomas Talbot Waterman," American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. - Sep., 1937), pp. 527-529.

Codice articolo BL4100

4to. (53)-61 pp. Errata slip, 3 folding color plates. Dark green cloth, gilt spine. Blind-stamp of Mount Wilson Observatory. FINE. FIRST EDITION. Daniel Brinton was a pioneer anthropologist in the United States. Brinton was Professor of Ethnology and Archeology in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and in 1886 became Professor of American Linguistics and Archeology in the University of Pennsylvania. DAB, III, pp. 50-51.

Codice articolo S8226

Two volumes. 250 x 175 mm. Tall 8vo. xvi, 767; viii, 763, [ads, 1] pp. 539 figs., 8 beautiful lithographic plates. Quarter navy cloth, cloth corners, marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled edges; lightly rubbed. Crainz rubber stamp on title. Fine. SIXTH EDITION of Ploss' most popular work. It was also one of the most read books in Germany - it went through six editions. "A vast amount of data concerning every aspect of woman is collected into these volumes. Anthropology, psychology, aesthetics, physiology are all treated at length in what has become a standard and authoritative work. Subsequent editions were edited by Max and Paul Bartels and by von Reitzenstein. . . " Garrison and Morton. Herman Ploss devoted the majority of his career to professional societies, being instrumental in the establishment of several, notably the Obstetrics Society of Leipzig. He served as an officer of several throughout his life. Ploss did his studies in Leipzig, graduating in 1846. He served in the army and in government as medical advisor. Garrison and Morton 179 (1st ed., 1885); Hirsch, IV, p. 593 (1883); Osler 3700 (1913).

Codice articolo M5090