Primitive Environment by Brain Robert (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Original U.S. Edition , book, binding DJ and text all in fine condition, binding tight and square no damage, DJ with price not clipped text clean and unmarked no names no stamps.

From the library of historian John Wright, author of various works on the Zulus, and signed by him on the front free endpaper. 4to; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 128, incl. index; lavishly illustrated in colour and monochrome, with some maps. Dustwrapper a little foxed to reverse side; trace of foxing to edges. Good to very good condition. "In his opening chapter Dr Brain writes: 'A major purpose of this book is to ask whether it is in fact feasible to help isolated, exotic cultures to survive in a modern world . or whether all minority people of this planet must now radically change their way of life, or die.' This book looks at the colonizing process from the side of the many simple societies that were forced to undergo the traumatic experience of contact with European culture. It looks at what happened then (extinction in Tasmania ad Tierra del Fuego) and at what is happening now (extinction and enforced change in Brazil, North America, Australia and elsewhere). In conclusion Robert Brain puts the case for a new world of the future, in which differences between peoples would not only be tolerated, but encouraged. Time, however, is short. 'Most of the groups which we commonly call 'primitive' will have disappeared within one generation from now unless drastic measures are taken.". …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1972 Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated photographic look at the effects of colonialism on traditional cultures throughout the world and history. Copy is in good condition. Minimal wear to the red cloth boards. Clean, unmarked interior. Tightly bound with no lean to the spine. Dust jacket is good+. Some general wear and creasing around the edges. Only the most minor chipping to top and bottom of spine; no significant loss at all. Due to the size and weight, additional shipping charges may be required depending on destination.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. The book is very good with slight edge wear and tape residue to end papers from mylar jacket in a very good dust jacket with slight edge wear and a one inch closed tear to lower spine end.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide Bon Etat qlq taches et écornures. in4. 1972. Cartonné jaquette. 136 pages. Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has light wear and it is lightly tanned. The dust jacket has been clipped. The inside cover has been signed by a previous owner. The edges of the book are somewhat tanned and lightly spotted. 128 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size J: 12"-13" Tall (304-330mm).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. NO Dustwrapper. Simple societies and the effect modern civilisation has on them. George Philip & Son Ltd, London 1972. illus 128pp hb inside spine split, drawing on fep, picture removed, page edges browned, fair.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, olive end papers. 4to. 11½'' x 9¼''. Contains 128 pp with monochrome and colour illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, $7.95. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENVIRONMENTAL.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. into the primitive environment, brain robert, in english 121 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.