Description: Die Nayarit-Expedition, Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter Mexikanischen Indianern. Erster Band. Die Religion der Cora-Indianer in Texten nebst Wörterbuch von Konrad Theodor Preuss. Published in Leipzig by Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner. 1912, 396 pp, 4to, 8 x 11.5”, softcover binding. Condition as-is, with some exterior and interior age-related shelf-wear and damage. Some chipping and creasing to edges of boards and spine. A good deal of hinge-wear, due to the heavy bookblock. Age-related toning and foxing to some uncut pages, deckle-edged. Includes ten plates including one in full color acting as frontispiece and one being a map; one folded chart (with music), 30 text figures. A well-illustrated monograph on the Cora-Indians from the Sierra del Nayarit in northwestern Mexico, divided in several sections, including a dictionary and annotated music scores. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. Scarce copy of a German language book on travels by Konrad Theodor Preuss (1869-1938) a German ethnologist interested in Latin America. From 1905 to 1907 he undertook research trips to Mexico to the Cora and Huicholes of the Sierra Madre Occidental. In 1912 he became a professor of ethnology. He gave lectures on ethnography and archeology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University, Berlin. From 1920 Preuss headed the North and Central America section of the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin. This specific book once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar and collector of obscure dictionaries, Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967) 'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages". Rahder's black-inked Yale University faculty stamp and pen markings can be found throughout this folio. FORN-SHELF-641-0124-eb0551
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Place of Publication: Leipzig
Language: German
Author: Konrad Theodor Preuss
Publisher: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner
Topic: Latin American
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1912
