Summa Anthropologica en homenaje a Roberto J. Weitlaner

  • Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia, 1966
By [WEITLANER, Robert J.] CASO, Alfonso (prologue); Wigberto Jiménez Moreno, B. Dahlgren Jordán (et al) (contrib.)
Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (24cm); fore- and bottom- edges untrimmed; [6],7-669,[3]pp; colorful illustrations, black-and-white photographic halftones, and fold-out illustrations throughout. Some pages of text unopened. Text in Spanish and English. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pencilled notes throughout, and his pictorial bookplate to front flyleaf (with inked price). Shelf-wear and -soil, with 1" tear to crown, and creases to spine and wrapper edges; Good.

Contributions includes Alfonso Caso's "Mapa de Santo Tomás Ocotepeque, Oaxaca", Searle Hoogshagen "A Sketch of the Earth's Supernatural Functions in Coatlan Mixe", and Otto Schumann G.'s "Fonemica del Dialecto Xinca de Chiquimulilla". [88011].

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