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Libros antiguos y modernos

Furer Haimendorf, Christoph Von

Himalayan Barbary

1956

46,06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1956
Lugar de impresión
New York. Abelard-Schuman Inc.
Autor
Furer Haimendorf, Christoph Von
Edición
First American edition.
Materia
Travel - Asia Native Peoples Anthropology
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xiv, 241 pp, 35 illustrations from photos, including full-page, double-page map of Suansiri area in Assam with inset, index. original cloth with gilt title lettering on spine, dj (not price clipped, chip at spine end), clean and fine in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The anthropologist author explored the area west of the Subansiri River to gather information on the Daflas and Apa Tanis tribes in the eastern Himalayas. The author describes their codes of honour, the strategy of raiding, bartering of slaves, system of hostages, their techniques of peace negotiations, justice, execution of criminals, social etiquette, customs of these peoples.
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