Research Catalog

Title

The Horizon book of vanishing primitive man / by Timothy Severin ; foreword by Colin M. Turnbull ; editor, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. ; picture editor: Douglas Tunstell.

Author

Severin, Timothy

Publication

New York : American Heritage Pub. Co., ©1973.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Turnbull, Colin M.
• Josephy, Alvin M., 1915-2005
• Tunstell, Douglas
• Dedalus Foundation, donor. NN
• Robert Motherwell Book Collection (New York Public Library. Art Division)

Uniform Title

Horizon (New York, N.Y.)

Alternative Title

Vanishing primitive man

Subject

• Indigenous peoples
• Civilization > History
• Anthropology

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 378).

Source (note)

• of the Dedalus Foundation;

Contents

Genesis: an introduction -- A living stone age -- Children of the forest [Pygmies of the Ituri forest in Africa] -- The Cunas of Golden Castile -- Aristocrats of the ocean [Polynesians] -- The "Click" people [South African Bushmen, who lived today off the resources of the Kalahari Desert] -- Technocrats of the North [Eskimos] -- The sky people of Hokkaido [The Ainus, the gentle aboriginal Caucasoids of northern Japan] -- Cannibas and missionaries [Melanesians of New Guinea] -- The ski runners of Lapland [Lapps] -- The spartans of the Mato Grosso [Indians of Brazil] -- Exodus, Judges, and Lamentations -- The life of primitive man: a series of picture portfoliois.

Call Number

ReCAP 25-16133

ISBN

• 0070563489
• 9780070563483
• 0070563497
• 9780070563490

LCCN

73007781

OCLC

628357

Author

Severin, Timothy.

Title

The Horizon book of vanishing primitive man / by Timothy Severin ; foreword by Colin M. Turnbull ; editor, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. ; picture editor: Douglas Tunstell.

Imprint

New York : American Heritage Pub. Co., ©1973.

Description

379 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 378).

Summary

Includes chapters on the Ainu, Eskimos and Lapps.

Source

Copy in ReCAP 25-16133 Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2025. NN

Added Author

Turnbull, Colin M., writer of foreword.

Josephy, Alvin M., 1915-2005, editor.

Tunstell, Douglas.

Dedalus Foundation, donor. NN

Robert Motherwell Book Collection (New York Public Library. Art Division)

Added Title

Horizon (New York, N.Y.)

Other Form:

Online version: Severin, Timothy. Horizon book of vanishing primitive man. New York, American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade distribution by McGraw-Hill [1973] (OCoLC)578465532

Online version: Severin, Timothy. Horizon book of vanishing primitive man. New York : American Heritage Pub. Co., ©1973 (OCoLC)593067399

Research Call Number

ReCAP 25-16133

JFF 74-83