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2 volumes in one. Volume I: Indigenismo Lingüística Arqueología. lvi+[8 plates]+210 pages with frontispiece, plates, maps, figures and bibliographies. Volume II: Antropología física. 415 pages with figures, plates, tables (some folding), charts and bibliographies. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in half leather with six raised spine bands and lettering in gilt over pebbled boards. From the library of Van Kemper. First edition limited to 700 copies. In this homage to the great scholar and anthropologist Juan Comas notable for his critical work on race, and his participation in drafting the UNESCO statement on race. He fled Spain during the regime of Franco, and spent the rest of his life in Mexico. He was professor of physical anthropology at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico between 1940 and 1943, and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1955 until his death. Over ten articles by notables in their field. 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. Spine ends rubbed and a little scuffed else very good. Seller Inventory # A2394
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