Primitive and non-literate cultures


22 books
A mantis carol

Laurens van der Post

Primitive and non-literate cultures San (Bushmen, African people) Civilization and primitive cultures Taaibosch, Hans (Bushman, travelller)

ENG
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Aboriginal men of high degree

the John Murtagh Macrossan Memorial Letters for 1944

A. P. Elkin, M.A.

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs Ethnology--Australia Religion--Aboriginal Australians Shamanism--Australia Primitive and non-literate cultures

ENG
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Die Ahnen rufen

ein Weißer erlebt seine Wiedergeburt als Papua

Piet Bogner

Reincarnation--Case studies Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs Primitive and non-literate cultures Tribes--Papua Komongu (Tribe) Ethnology--Papua New Guinea

GER
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First contact

New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world

Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson

Primitive and non-literate cultures Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs Ethnology--Papua New Guinea

ENG
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Hope lies in our ability to bring back to awareness what it is to be human

by Robert Wolff

Senoi (South East Asian people) Ethnology--Malaysia Philosophical anthropology Primitive and non-literate cultures Spiritual memoirs

ENG
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I come from the stone age

Heinrich Harrer; transl. from the German by Edward Fitzgerald

Travel--Indonesia--New Guinea Dani (New Guinean people)--Social life and customs Primitive and non-literate cultures

ENG
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Klank en muziek

de oorsprong van de muziekinstrumenten

Walter Maioli; ill. v. Michaela Rangoni Machiavelli

Musical instruments--History Primitive and non-literate cultures

DUT
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Le temps du rêve

le mémoire du peuple aborigène australien

Cyril Havecker; trad. de l'anglais p. Yvonne Malykke

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs Arts--Australia--Aboriginal Tribes--Australia Primitive and non-literate cultures

FRE
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Leaves from the Jungle

life in a Gond village

by Verrier Elwin

Gondi (Indic people) Tribes--India Tribes--Social life and customs Primitive and non-literate cultures

ENG
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Magic, Science and Religion, and Other Essays

by Bronisław Malinowski; sel. & w. an introd. by Robert Redfield

Social stratification--Racial, ethnic or national groups Anthropology--Cultural and social Tribes--Social life and customs War--Anthropological views Language--Anthropological views Myth--Anthropologcial views Primitive and non-literate cultures Magic--Social aspects Science--Social aspects Religion--Role of religions in society

ENG
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Magie, Wissenschaft und Religion und andere Schriften

Bronislaw Malinowski

Social stratification--Racial, ethnic or national groups Anthropology--Cultural and social Tribes--Social life and customs War--Anthropological views Language--Anthropological views Myth--Anthropologcial views Primitive and non-literate cultures Magic--Social aspects Science--Social aspects Religion--Role of religions in society

GER
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Musée du quai Branly

museum guide book

Museum--France--Paris Museum--Ethnological and anthropological Anthropology--Physical Primitive and non-literate cultures Arts--Primitive

ENG
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Pandora's seed

why the hunter-gatherer holds the key to our survival

Spencer Wells

Civilization--Modern--Criticism Primitive and non-literate cultures Nature--Effect of human beings on Human ecology--Philosophy Agriculture--Environmental aspects

ENG
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Primitive song

by C. M. Bowra

Primitive and non-literate cultures Singing--Anthropological aspects Music--Origin Literature--History Ethnomusicology Music--Non-literate peoples

ENG
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Subterranean

James Rollins

American fiction--Thrillers Antarctica--Fiction Monotremes Marsupials Caves--Exploration (Geomorphology / speleology) Primitive and non-literate cultures

ENG
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The fatal impact

the invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840

Alan Moorehead

Primitive and non-literate cultures Pacific Islands natives Pacific Islands--Australian Aborigine Pacific Ocean--History Australia--History Tahiti--History Antarctica--Discovery and exploration

ENG
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The impossible adventure

journey to the Far Amazon

by Alain Gheerbrant; transl. by Edward Fitzgerald

Travel--South America Amazon river Natives of South America Natives of South America Primitive and non-literate cultures

ENG
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The kingdom of the young

abridged from The Muria and their Ghotul

Verrier Elwin

Muria (Indic people) Primitive and non-literate cultures Adolescence / Puberty--Physiological aspects Dormitories Tribes--India Tribes--Social life and customs

ENG
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The masks of God

Primitive mythology

Joseph Campbell

Mythology and Religion Primitive and non-literate cultures Religion--Prehistoric

ENG
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The world until yesterday

what can we learn from traditional societies?

Jared Diamond

Dani (New Guinean people)--Social life and customs Social evolution Social change--Case studies Primitive and non-literate cultures Civilization--Modern--Criticism Civilization--Comparative Indonesia--Social life and customs--New Guinea

ENG
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Totem and Taboo

some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics

by Sigmund Freud; authorized transl. by James Strachey

Psychoanalytic system--Freud Psychoneuroses Primitive and non-literate cultures

ENG
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Wenn die Geister wiederkehren

Weltdeutung und religiöses Bewußtsein in primitiven Kulturen

Imogen Seger

Primitive and non-literate cultures Ethnophilosophy

GER
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