VOYAGE TO GREENLAND; A Personal Initiation into Anthropology
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977. B&W personal photos. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, brown quarter cloth with gold lettering & red dividers on spine over light speckled-brown boards; well illustrated with photographic title page depicting base camp, 35 B&W snapshots on 18 pages, 10 B&W figures in-text, and 4 maps; archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (clipped at bottom of front flap though price of $9.95 at top intact) depicting Frederica De Laguna's exploratory vessel in Greenland, 285 pages. Near Fine / Good +. Item #8996
ISBN: 0393064131
Frederica De Laguna (1906 - 2004) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist influential for her work on Paleoindian and Alaska Native art and archaeology in the American northwest and Alaska.
She founded and chaired the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College (1938 to 1972), and served as vice-president of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) from 1949 to 1950, and as president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) from 1966 to 1967.
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