Author: from the library of professor Robert V Kemper
Anales del Museo Nacional de Arqueologia Historia y Etnografia
Year: 1935
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Museo nacional de Arqueologia, Historia y Etnografia
Place: Mexico City
Description:
581 pages with tables (some folding), maps (some folding), illustrations (some folding) and drawings. Small quarto (10 3/4" x 8 3/4") bound in three quarter leather with red and black labels to spine with gilt lettering. From the library of professor Robert V Kemper. Volume II of Quinta Epoca. First edition.
Contents: Estudio de los entierros de la Piramide de Cholula by Javier Romero; La Guerra del Pacifico, Polemica sostenida entre el Sr D Rafael Nieto and D Andres Molina Enriquez; Tradicones y Leyendas Mexicanas by Ruben M Campos; Mas Gemas del Arte Maya en Palenque by Enrique Juan Palacios; Juicio referente a la personalidad de D Valentin Gomez Farias by Jose R Benitez; Vocabulario de la Lengua Chol by Marcos E Becerra; Las Instituciones Aztecas Some considerations about their origin, character and evolution by Roque J Ceballos Novelo; El Jarabe by Gabriel Saldivar; La Cultura Maya by Alfredo Barrera Vazquez; Historia de la Escuela de Medicina en Michoac�n by Jesus Romero Flores; Los Indios Tarahumaras de Chihuahua by L H Arpe; La Astronomia Maya by John D Teeple.
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 name stamped to spine heal. Title small rectangle excised to remove a previous owner's name else a very good copy.
