Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Stewart Culin
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
Great ethnographic classic describes nearly 100 games: dam combat, turnip lanterns, violet fighting, cherry gaming, many more. Games seen as vestiges of ancient rites and rituals. 147 line illus.
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Twenty-Fourth Annual Report Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
""A Trooper's Narrative of Service in the Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902"" is a first-hand account of the author's experiences as a trooper during the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 in…
A Trooper’s narrative of service in the Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 (1903). This book, A Trooper’s narrative of service in the Anthracite Coal Strike 1902 , by Stewart Culin, is…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
China In America: A Study In The Social Life Of The Chinese In The Eastern Cities Of The United States (1887) is a historical book written by Stewart Culin. The…
Chinese Games With Dice is a book written by Stewart Culin in 1889, which provides a comprehensive guide to the various dice games played in China. The book covers a…
Chinese Games With Dice And Dominoes is a comprehensive guide to the various traditional games played in China using dice and dominoes. The book was written by Stewart Culin, an…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and…
Mancala, the National Game of Africa, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation…
Stewart 1858-1929 Culin
Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. This work describes the practice of…
Takes up games of chance, involving guessing and throwing dice. This title shows that the games of North American tribes were remarkably similar in method and purpose.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
![Cover image for Chinese Games with Dice; [Paper] Read Before the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, March 14, 1889](https://thumbs.readings.com.au/hMe778XqIQCLjJQZ1MDRUUofqYc=/200x0/https://readings-v4-production.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/45f/69e/deb/45f69edebd1d3af094053d95119ad20060bdcfcd/down-net_http20200517-4-38hd6l.jpg)
