Papers comprising Sotheby's July 1989 sale lot 165, c.1989, mainly n.d.
File
MS. Eng. c. 7876
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises, with a list of the papers and descriptive notes compiled by Sotheby's cataloguer,
- Incomplete essay on baroque painters, written during undergraduate archaeology studies at the University of Edinburgh, c.1968
- University of Edinburgh examination paper for Fine Art M.A. Hons., n.d.
- Incomplete drafts of sections marked I-XII of unpublished work 'The Nomadic Alternative' on subjects including childrearing; anti-materialism; territorialism; and rites of passage into manhood, n.d.
- Miscellaneous writings on subjects including guerrilla warfare; the history of the city; language and communication; Chinese nomads; and a newspaper cutting concerning nomad art, n.d.
- Draft extracts from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'Protection from Predators'; Nemadi camp in Oualata; on Lorenz; on economic wandering; with last page autobiographical account of using eye complaint to get travel leave from Sotheby's, n.d.
- Draft extracts from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on behaviour; notion of the survival of the fittest; and Hesoid, n.d.
- Draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'Rousseau and the Hunters', n.d.
- Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' outlining Chatwin's thesis, n.d.
- Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on Jehovah and Isaiah; Hebrews; glossary of words; nomad children, n.d.
- Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on hunters and the nemadi; 'The progress of skeletal evolution'; 'The ignoble savage'; 'The primordial murder'; 'Civilised man is a domestic animal'; 'Homo Faber'; 'The upthrust of moral progress'; 'Man has no instincts'; Plato and Aristotle on progress of races, n.d.
- Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on language; 'Animal metaphors'; instinctive behaviour; 'The Wander Voyage' and Beowulf; shamans; 'The homeless state'; pyramids; nomads; religion, ritual and wandering, n.d.
- Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' with filing cards from card index of research notes (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723); miscellaneous notes; notes on marriage and travelling; and notes on Attila the Hun and the origin of dreams, n.d.
- Filing cards from card index of research notes for 'The Nomadic Alternative' (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723), n.d.
- Working papers for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on subjects including innate orientating system; arrival of the horse; Christ's recruitment of hunters and gatherers; nomads of Tibet; Communist manifesto; Beowulf; human cycle; and Lovejoy; and filing card from card index of research notes (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723), n.d.
- Notes on J.B.S. Haldane's 1965 Huxley Memorial Lecture; with material on Konrad Lorenz; filing card from card index of research notes for 'The Nomadic Alternative' (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723), n.d.
Dates
- c.1989, mainly n.d.
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. c. 7876
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk