John Victor Murra (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [3]-36 pages with bibliography. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6) bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume V, number 1, Spring. First edition. Other article "Recent Research on Latin American University Students" by John H Petersen. Condition: Some underlining, corners creased and rubbed, edge wear else a very good copy. …

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 710-728 pages with cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 64 Number 4 complete issue. From the library of Robert van Kemper. First edition. The value of cloth in the Inca empire is one of the only articles in the literature to explore the problem of meaning in relation to textiles. Robert V. Kemper, born in San Diego, California, on November 21, 1945, resided in Dallas, Texas, where he was Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1971 from the University of California at Berkeley and spent the academic year 1971-1972 there as a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mexican American Studies before joining the SMU faculty. At SMU, he served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology, President of the Faculty Senate, and member of the University Board of Trustees. His research interests included migration and urbanization, history of anthropology, community development, tourism, Mexico, and the United States. His numerous publications include Anthropologists in Cities (1974), Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzan Peasants in Mexico City (1977), Migration Across Frontiers: Mexico and the United States (1979), Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology (2002), and Urban Life (5th ed., 2010). He has served as President of the Society for Latin American Anthropology and the Society for Urban Anthropology, as well as editor of Human Organization, editor for Social-Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropologist, and associate editor for Urban Anthropology. Condition: Kemper's stamp to front wrapper. Light edge wear, spine sunned, corners gently bumped else very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 208pp.incl.index; HB blue w/gilt on blk.; corners&edges rubbed; ink underline&marginalia otherwise clean,tight pgs. The socio-economic structure of the Incas.