Branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans

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Woodens clubs from Figi

Writing board charm (African?)

Ge Guoluo (Ge Lolo) family carrying loads. The woman holds a spindle in her hand to indicate that the tribe uses the fibres of the ge plant for spinning, from .

Pozi (Poren) looking civilized.

Melville island man and a larakia woman

Woodens clubs from New Ireland & Duke of York Ireland

Small native boy of Siam holding a cigar

Lama. Two monks of the Lama tribe selling beads.

Chinese manuscript Yun-nan ying chih Miao-Man t'u ts'e.

Chinese manuscript Yun-nan ying chih Miao-Man t'u t'se.

Native woman of Siam

Iron staff surmounted by pellet balls and grotesque figures. African [?]

Nudité et pudeur : le mythe du processus de civilisation / Hans Peter Duerr ; traduit de l'allemand par Véronique Bodin avec la participation de Jacqueline Pincemin.

AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa / Fraser G. McNeill.

Paragrana.

Civilizační nemoci. II / K. Danek.

The Scotish Gaël, or, Celtic manners : as preserved among the Highlanders, being an historical and descriptive account of the inhabitants, antiquities, and national peculiarities of Scotland, more particularly of the northern, or gaëlic parts of the country, where the singular habits of the aboriginal Celts are most tenaciously retained / by James Logan.

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Anthropology, Cultural

Images from the collections

Images about Anthropology, Cultural

Works from the collections

Nudité et pudeur : le mythe du processus de civilisation / Hans Peter Duerr ; traduit de l'allemand par Véronique Bodin avec la participation de Jacqueline Pincemin.

AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa / Fraser G. McNeill.

Paragrana.

Civilizační nemoci. II / K. Danek.

Anthropology, Cultural

Images from the collections

Images about Anthropology, Cultural

Works from the collections

Nudité et pudeur : le mythe du processus de civilisation / Hans Peter Duerr ; traduit de l'allemand par Véronique Bodin avec la participation de Jacqueline Pincemin.

AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa / Fraser G. McNeill.

Paragrana.

Civilizační nemoci. II / K. Danek.

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