American Historical Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Leslie Spier

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Editors: Riley, Carroll L. (1923-2017) and Taylor, Walter W. (1913-1997)

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Pub Date: 1967

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: 3 copies.  Copy 1 (FL): Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.  Some light scuffing to front and rear boards.  Gilt on spine starting to wear, still readable.  Light edge and corner wear.  Copy 2 (RM): Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Three approx. 1/4″ tears to upper front cover edge.  Numerous small chips to upper edge, spine head and foot.  One small chip area on lower front cover edge.  Rear flap fold missing piece about the size of a pencil eraser.  Sun fading to spine.  Some smudges to rear cover.  A few small spots to upper front cover corner.  Copy 3 (SR): Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends, folds.  At least two previous owners.  First (?) previous owner ex-library, their single stamp on upper corner ffep.  Second previous owner’s stamp on ffep, and upside down bookplate on rear pastedown.   Light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  One approx. 1″ closed tear on lower rear cover edge.  Numerous small chips, tears, and wear to upper edges and spine head and foot.  Some fading to edges.

Notes: Spier (1893-1961).  Festschrift.  “Spier’s procedures were those of the natural and physical sciences: he gathered his data, organized them, and then generalized only so far as the data would allow, no more.  More than any of his contemporaries he exemplified the methodologies of the physical sciences which were Boas’ legacy and throughout his life he continued periodically to remind his colleagues of the obligations as scientists.”  (From the Preface)  Spier was trained as an engineer, but gravitated to archaeology after a summer working with the Geological Survey of New Jersey.  He was a student of Franz Boas at Columbia, worked at the American Museum of Natural History, taught at the University of Washington, Yale, and the University of New Mexico.