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Kathakali Dance Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play by: Phillip Zarrilli

Kathakali Dance Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play
by: Phillip Zarrilli

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colorful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time. This landmark volume explores Kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India and the west. During these performances heroes, heroines, gods and demons tell their stories of traditional Indian epics. The four Kathakali plays included in this anthology, translated from actual performances into English are: * The Flower of Good Fortune * The Killing of Kirmmira * The Progeny of Krishna * King Rugmamgada's Law Each play has an introduction and detailed commentary and is illustrated by stunning photographs taken during performances. Clean copy.

Record # 382051

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The Miami Indians of Indiana: A Persistent People, 1654-1994by: Stewart Rafert

The Miami Indians of Indiana: A Persistent People, 1654-1994
by: Stewart Rafert

Softcover. Indiana Historical Society, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 358 pages, 2 maps, b/w photos, appendices, notes, important dates, bibliography, index. Explores the history and culture of the Miami Indians, who have fought for many years to gain tribal status from the U.S. government. Clean copy.

Record # 383044

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Cycles of the Sun Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization by: Malmstrom, Vincent H.

Cycles of the Sun Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization
by: Malmstrom, Vincent H.

Softcover. Ausyin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmstrom to discover an unexpected "hearth" of Mesoamerican culture. In this boldly revisionist book, he sets forth his challenging, new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems--the intellectual achievement that gave rise to Mesoamerican civilization and culture. Malmstrom posits that the 260-day calendar marked the interval between passages of the sun at its zenith over Izapa, an ancient ceremonial center in the Soconusco region of Mexico's Pacific coastal plain. He goes on to show how the calendar developed by the Zoque people of the region in the fourteenth century B.C. gradually diffused through Mesoamerica into the so-called "Olmec metropolitan area" of the Gulf coast and beyond to the Maya in the east and to the plateau of Mexico in the west. Clean copy.

Record # 385850

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Struggle for Land: Agriculture and Group Territories Among the Chimbu of the New Guinea Highlands by: Brookfield, H.C. & Paula Brown

Struggle for Land: Agriculture and Group Territories Among the Chimbu of the New Guinea Highlands
by: Brookfield, H.C. & Paula Brown

Hardcover. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 193 pages, b&w illustrations. Two color maps in rear pocket in excellent condition. The relationship between people and terrain in a small densely settled area in the New Guinea Highlands. Clean copy.

Record # 396510

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Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 3. The English and Latin Texts (ii) by: Thomas Hobbes/edited by Noel Malcolm

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 3. The English and Latin Texts (ii)
by: Thomas Hobbes/edited by Noel Malcolm

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages 557-1400. Clean, like new.

Record # 399145

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Taking the Wheel - Women and the Coming of the Motor Ageby: Scharff, Virginia

Taking the Wheel - Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
by: Scharff, Virginia

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages. B&W photos. The twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of women in society. Gender conventions cast women as too weak, dependent, and flighty to manage the fiery motored beast. Overcoming that stereotype was as difficult for women as gaining access to the vote, the professions, and education, yet their personal feats of driving in both war and peace demolished the gender barriers against their taking the road. After women proved once and for all that they could drive under the worst conditions in World War I, they adapted the automobile to their domestic roles in urban society during the 1920s. Written with flair and verve, this volume displays Scharff's erudition in social, cultural, gender, and technological history.

Record # 600341

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Ninth of Thermidor, The: The Fall of Robespierre (Problems in European History: A Documentary Collection)by: Bienvenu, Richard (Editor)

Ninth of Thermidor, The: The Fall of Robespierre (Problems in European History: A Documentary Collection)
by: Bienvenu, Richard (Editor)

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st paperback, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Softcover. Light pencil underlining in a few places. Wrapper good, with a touch of agewear, no tears, some slight moisture damage at the bottom of the back cover.

Record # 99029

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Land of Desire Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Cultureby: Leach, William R.

Land of Desire Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
by: Leach, William R.

Softcover. NY, Vintage, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 510 pages, b&w illustrations. This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos. Like new, clean.

Record # 374346

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The Melanesians of British New Guinea. With a Chapter by F. R. Barton, and an appendix by E- L. Giblinby: Seligmann, C.G. With F.R. Barton And E.L. Giblin

The Melanesians of British New Guinea. With a Chapter by F. R. Barton, and an appendix by E- L. Giblin
by: Seligmann, C.G. With F.R. Barton And E.L. Giblin

Hardcover. NY, AMS Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light brown cloth with black lettering on spine. A quality reprint of the edition published by Cambridge University in 1910. Pictorial frontis; 79 plates from photographs, figures in text. Fold-out map in rear, fold-out chart. Extensive study of the indigenous Melanesians of Papua New Guinea. Distinctly different from the Papuans of the archipelago, the Melanesians posed an extremely interesting problem to early 20th century ethnographers. There is some light pencil marking to about 20 pages. Also an inked biographical note about a Captain Barton (one of the contributors) on the copyright page. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 378648

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Marriage in Tribal Societies by: Meyer Fortes (Ed.)

Marriage in Tribal Societies
by: Meyer Fortes (Ed.)

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth, 157 pages. Essays by Esther N. Goody, Grace Harris, Jean La Fontaine, Marguerite S. Robinson. Book review laid-in. Clean copy.

Record # 378709

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Language and the Politics of Emotion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) by: Lutz, Catherine; Abu-Lughod, Lila

Language and the Politics of Emotion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)
by: Lutz, Catherine; Abu-Lughod, Lila

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings. In this collection of original essays by anthropologists concerned with the relationship of language and emotion, it is argued that the key focus to the study of emotion might be the politics of social life rather than the psychology of the individual. Through close studies of talk about emotion and emotional discourses in social contexts from poetry and song to therapeutic narratives, scholars who have worked in India, Fiji, the United States, Egypt, Senegal and the Solomon Islands show how emotion is tied to politics of everyday interaction. Their arguments and cross-cultural findings will intrigue and provoke anyone who has thought about the relationship between emotion, language and social life. The book will be of special interest to those who find the boundaries between cultural, psychological and linguistic anthropology, sociology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and social psychology too confining. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 380299

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Alur Society. A Study in Processes and Types of Dominationby: Southall, Aidan W.

Alur Society. A Study in Processes and Types of Domination
by: Southall, Aidan W.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, W. Heffer & Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. 395 pages, b&w illustrations, charts. Alur Society became a classic for a number of reasons. Being much more than a descriptive account of an African society, it was the first intensive ethnography to adopt the ideas of Max Weber. It pioneered the idea that religion and ritual could be the basis of political action. It also showed how state systems could evolve not just on the basis of conquest but as a result of societies without kings inviting those with kings to govern them. Southall's theory of the segmentary state was adopted by many political anthropologists and political scientists, being applied not just to Africa but also to India and other parts of the world. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 380337

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Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrificeby: M.E. Combs-Schilling

Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice
by: M.E. Combs-Schilling

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the red front fly leaf. With penetrating insight Combs-Schilling illuminates the remarkable survival of one of the world's oldest monarchies, still ruling after 1200 years. The author unravels the paradox of this ancient yet progressive institution that has weathered invasion, economic collapse, and colonial assault. The pillars of stability for which political analysts typically search -- military strength, bureaucratic control, and commercial prosperity -- have often been absent in Morocco, sometimes for centuries. How then has the monarchy stood firm? In this remarkable book, Combs-Schilling argues that the answer is to be found in the distinctive forms of ritual practice developed during times of great crises. Unique among Islamic governments, the Moroccan monarchy became cnetral to the popular celebrations of the most sacred rituals of Islam, cloaking itself in their sanctity. Combs-Schilling breaks new ground in thinking about ritual. The author explores the consequences of the replication and reinforcement of Morocco's national ceremonies in villages and homes and the metaphorical equivalence thereby built. The author outlines how ritual metaphors simultaneously fuse the monarchy with the hallowed prophets of Islam and the mundane structures of family life.

Record # 380368

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Rituals of Kinship Among the Nyakyusaby: Monica Wilson

Rituals of Kinship Among the Nyakyusa
by: Monica Wilson

London/NY, Oxford University Press / International Affrican Institute, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with fading to spine. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Examines the rituals celebrated by kinsmen on the occasion of births, marriages and deaths within the group.

Record # 380733

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Shrinking-Population Economics: Lessons From Japanby: Akihiko, Matsutani

Shrinking-Population Economics: Lessons From Japan
by: Akihiko, Matsutani

Hardcover. Tokyo, International House of Japan, 1st English Ed., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 201 pages. Many of the world's major economies face shrinking populations this century. Everyone from Japan and Italy to China will have older and then shrinking populations in the foreseeable future. Japan is the first major economy to head down this path and there is a great deal to learn from their experience. Professor Masutani's book is the best text available in English. Some quick lessons - automation is not a solution, economies will shrink. The sometimes desperate acts that companies and governments take to prevent this shrinkage (like running deficits and over investment in automation and infrastructure) will make things worse, not better. Shrinking populations can lead to a healthier and happier population if the right policy steps are taken. Companies need to shift focus from growing the top-line (sales) to a focus on value generation and the bottom line. Clean copy.

Record # 381615

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The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lankaby: Moore, Mick

The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka
by: Moore, Mick

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, blue clith with gilt lettering on spine, 328 pages. Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than fifty years' history of pluralist democracy and such issues directly affect the interests of the smallholder population. Yet successive Sri Lankan governments have pursued economic policies favouring food consumers and the state itself at the expense of agricultural producers. In exploring the features of Sri Lanka's history, geography, politics and economy which explain this paradox, the author looks in detail at some of the dominant features of contemporary Sri Lanka: the political consequences of the plantation experience; the persistence of elite political leadership; and the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict. Clean copy, paper tanning slightly.

Record # 382296

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Georg Simmel: On Women, Sexuality and Love by: Simmel, Georg; Oakes, Guy [Editor]

Georg Simmel: On Women, Sexuality and Love
by: Simmel, Georg; Oakes, Guy [Editor]

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages. This book presents the first English translation of 4 important essays by the noted German philosopher dealing with love, sexuality and relations between men and women. Clean copy. Some fading to dust jacket spine.

Record # 385435

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Happiness For Husbands and Wivesby: Shryock, Harold

Happiness For Husbands and Wives
by: Shryock, Harold

Hardcover. Mountain View CA, Review and Herald Publishing , 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 256 pages. A well-intentioned and very campy book of advice and encouragement for a married couple from the well-known Adventist, Harold Shryock. Circa 1949 and reflects the attitudes of the period. Color and b&w photos illustrate this domestic fantasy. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387844

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Sigmund Freud and Hypnosis: The Interaction of Psychoanalysis & Hypnosis by: Kline, Milton

Sigmund Freud and Hypnosis: The Interaction of Psychoanalysis & Hypnosis
by: Kline, Milton

Hardcover. NY, Julian Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, decorative device on front cover. According to his biographers, Freud was not comfortable in making hand passes and touching the subject, which were the (limited) techniques available at the end of the 19th century. Freud studied with Charcot and Bernheim (the two schools of thought which conflicted with each other), but later gave hypnosis up in favor of his free association technique. This book begins by discussing the reasons Freud did that. It states that Freud at the end of life regretting not using hypnosis more. His followers balked at hypnosis, erroneously believing the cures were temporary since the ego was being bypassed (and their theoretical beliefs required the ego to be the agent). But this book reveals that Freud did not abandon hypnosis for the reasons commonly thought, and so it is essential reading for all students of Freud. The second part of the book goes into commentary on hypnosis in theory and practice. Small ink doodle to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 398104

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The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernismby: Richard Wolin

The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
by: Richard Wolin

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 375 pages. In probing chapters on C. G. Jung, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot, Wolin discovers an unsettling commonality: during the 1930s, these thinkers leaned to the right and were tainted by a proverbial "fascination with fascism." Frustrated by democracy's shortcomings, they were seduced by fascism's grandiose promises of political regeneration. The dictatorships in Italy and Germany promised redemption from the uncertainties of political liberalism. But, from the beginning, there could be no doubting their brutal methods of racism, violence, and imperial conquest. Postmodernism's origins among the profascist literati of the 1930s reveal a dark political patrimony. The unspoken affinities between Counter-Enlightenment and postmodernism constitute the guiding thread of Wolin's suggestive narrative. In their mutual hostility toward reason and democracy, postmodernists and the advocates of Counter-Enlightenment betray a telltale strategic alliance--they cohabit the fraught terrain where far left and far right intersect. Clean copy.

Record # 399194

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History Without a Subject: The Postmodern Conditionby: Ashley, David

History Without a Subject: The Postmodern Condition
by: Ashley, David

Softcover. Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Softcover. Clean inside, tight binding, wrapper shows a touch of age/shelf wear. In very good condition.

Record # 30977

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To Be or Not To Be:  A Study of Suicideby: Dublin/Bessie Bunzel, Louis

To Be or Not To Be: A Study of Suicide
by: Dublin/Bessie Bunzel, Louis

Hardcover. NY, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black and gilt lettering on spine. A scarce study of suicide published in the thirties. B&w photo of co-author Dublin laid-in. Both writers worked for the Metropolitan Insurance Company. Clean copy.

Record # 372402

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The People in Between: The Pitjantjatjara People of Ernabella by: Hillard, Winifred

The People in Between: The Pitjantjatjara People of Ernabella
by: Hillard, Winifred

Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with spine faded, small piece gone from rear panel, 253 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 378302

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The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian Peopleby: Courlander, Harold

The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian People
by: Courlander, Harold

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 371 pages, b&w illustrations. A bright, clean copy with sunning to spine.

Record # 378632

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Two Studies of Kinship in London (London School of Economics Mongraphs on Social Anthropology, No.15)by: Firth, Raymond (ed.)

Two Studies of Kinship in London (London School of Economics Mongraphs on Social Anthropology, No.15)
by: Firth, Raymond (ed.)

Hardcover. London, The Athlone Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 94 pages, bibliography. Previous owner's name otherwise a clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 378689

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Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea (Explorations in Anthropology)by: Juillerat, Bernard (Nora Scott, transl.)

Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea (Explorations in Anthropology)
by: Juillerat, Bernard (Nora Scott, transl.)

Hardcover. Oxford/NY, Berg, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, glossy boards, 601 pages. This book explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years' research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their rainforest environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a carefully negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony between the sexes. Pencil marking to 10 pages otherwise clean.

Record # 379668

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Journey to the Crocodile's Nest. an Accompanying Monograph to the Film Madarrpa Funeral at Gurka'Wuyby: Morphy, Howard

Journey to the Crocodile's Nest. an Accompanying Monograph to the Film Madarrpa Funeral at Gurka'Wuy
by: Morphy, Howard

Softcover. Canberra AU, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong, 160 pages. Details an Australian film made in 1976 and released in 1979. The traditional, extremely complex mortuary rites for a young child at an Aboriginal homeland settlement on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Foreword by Ian Dunlop. Previous owner's name opposite half-title page, otherwise clean.

Record # 380323

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Milk, Honey and Money: Changing Concepts in Rwandan Healingby: Taylor, Christopher C.

Milk, Honey and Money: Changing Concepts in Rwandan Healing
by: Taylor, Christopher C.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 257 pages, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, b&w illustrations. In precolonial Rwandan culture, the body and the organization of the universe were thought of in terms of the flow and blockage of fluids. Operating in a "gift economy," the king and ritual specialists regulated these fluids--milk, honey, rain, blood--thereby ensuring the health of the people and the fertility of their land and cattle. Today, much of same imagery suffuses popular healing, and many sicknesses are depicted as perturbations in the flow of bodily humors. However, not all healers adhere to the precolonial symbolic forms. Identifying a primary image schema in Rwandan popular concepts of the body and cosmology, Milk, Honey, and Money explains how specifically Rwandan forms have been affected by the culture's capitalist transformation. Clean copy.

Record # 380351

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The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology)by: James F. Weiner

The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology)
by: James F. Weiner

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a dust jacket with light fade to edges, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a number of myths of the Foi people, elegantly bringing together significant ethnographic materials in a way that has important implications for the development of social theory in anthropology and in Melanesian studies. Scholars of semiotic-symbolic anthropology and of comparative religion will also share the author's interest in the meaning and role of mythology in Foi culture. Instead of relying on orthodox methods of Freudian or structuralist interpretation, James Weiner assumes there is a dialectical relationship between the images of Foi myth and the images of the Foi's social world. He demonstrates how each set of these images is dependent upon the other for its creation. This innovative study locates Foi social meaning in the re-creation and attempted solution of the moral dilemmas that are crystallized in mythology and other poetic usages.

Record # 380691

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Feminism and Anthropologyby: Moore, Henrietta L.

Feminism and Anthropology
by: Moore, Henrietta L.

Cambridge UK, Polity Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear. This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and balanced assessment of, the theoretical and practical issues raised by the development of a feminist anthropology. Clean copy.

Record # 381527

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Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Societyby: Bruce M. Knauft

Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Society
by: Bruce M. Knauft

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 474 pages, b&w illustrations. Fascinating study of the Gebusi people of PNG, who have one of the highest homicide rates in the world, because the execute suspected sorcerers. Despite this, the Gebusi are known for being good company. PNG is one of the most fascinating places on our planet, and this is one piece of the mosaic. First 25 pages with highlighting, pencil marking. Rest of the book is clean.

Record # 381724

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Visual Anthropology Review: Volume 9 Number 1/Spring 1993by: N/A

Visual Anthropology Review: Volume 9 Number 1/Spring 1993
by: N/A

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 180 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Special Issue on feminist approaches to the visualization of culture, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Record # 382086

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Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystiqueby: Jaclyn Geller

Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique
by: Jaclyn Geller

Softcover. NY, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1st, 2001, Softcover, 428 pages. Jaclyn Geller exposes the social forces that shape how people feel about weddings, calling into question some of the deepest-held beliefs about this tradition. Divided into three sections, the book begins with how-to-get-your-man manuals and ends with the newlywed year. First there's ?Courtship and the Marriage Quest." Geller looks at the absurd nature of proposals, the inane practice of engagement and gift-giving, and the bizarre rules governing the wedding dress. In part two, ?The Big Day," she deals with the specifics of the wedding itself. There are place cards and table settings, rigid photo ops, vows, toasts, garter belts, and daddy dances. What do these highly scripted procedures say about this most treasured ritual? Finally, the author explores some of marriage's deeper implications in ?Living in the Plural": the strangely isolating honeymoon and the establishment of marital identity that begins with a simple thank-you note. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 384031

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G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire by: Frank, Katherine

G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
by: Frank, Katherine

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insiders account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club regulars. Given that all of the clubs where she worked prohibited physical contact between the exotic dancers and their customers, in G-Strings and Sympathy Frank asks what-if not sex or even touching-the repeat customers were purchasing from the clubs and from the dancers. She finds that the clubs provide an intermediate space-not work, not home-where men can enjoyably experience their bodies and selves through conversation, fantasy, and ritualized voyeurism. At the same time, she shows how the dynamics of male pleasure and privilege in strip clubs are intertwined with ideas about what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Franks ethnography draws on her work as an exotic dancer in five clubs, as well as on her interviews with over thirty regular customers-middle-class men in their late-twenties to mid-fifties. Clean copy.

Record # 387382

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Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by: Paul Ricoeur

Lectures on Ideology and Utopia
by: Paul Ricoeur

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 353 pages. The only available collection of Ricoeur's lectures on ideology and utopia, this seminal collection discusses the work of Althusser, Marx, Habermas, Geertz, Mannheim, and Weber. Clean copy.

Record # 397580

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Titi Lucreti Cari: De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex (Three Volume Set)by: Carus, Titus Lucretius & Cyril Bailey

Titi Lucreti Cari: De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex (Three Volume Set)
by: Carus, Titus Lucretius & Cyril Bailey

Hardcover. UK, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three matching hardcovers with gilt lettering on spines, 1785 pages. Includes Latin text. Name on front fly leaf of each book, otherwise a clean, bright set.

Record # 399159

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Mechanical Bride, The: Folklore of Industrial Manby: McLuhan, Marshall

Mechanical Bride, The: Folklore of Industrial Man
by: McLuhan, Marshall

Hardcover. New York , The Vanguard Press, Inc, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 157 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, faint musty smell. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856889

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Incoherent Empireby: Mann, Michael

Incoherent Empire
by: Mann, Michael

Hardcover. Londno, Verso, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket unclipped.

Record # 30961

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Polyandrous Marital Status in Rural Tibetby: Jiao, Ben

Polyandrous Marital Status in Rural Tibet
by: Jiao, Ben

Softcover. Beijing, China Tibetology Publishing House, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. "The publication of Dr. Ben Jiao's dissertation in China is a welcome addition to the growing literature in China about Tibetan culture and society as well as an excellent example of how anthropological approaches and frameworks can bring penetrating analyses to our understanding of complex social institutions. And, of course, it is especially fitting that the first Tibetan to receive a PhD in the West has conducted the first study of Tibetan fraternal polyandry in Tibet-and that his study is a major contribution to the field of anthroplogy and Tibetan studies."

Record # 371205

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No Money on Our Skins: Hagen Migrants in Port Moresby (New Guinea Research Bulletin, 61)by: Marilyn Strathern

No Money on Our Skins: Hagen Migrants in Port Moresby (New Guinea Research Bulletin, 61)
by: Marilyn Strathern

Softcover. AUS, New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 467 pages., illustrations, bibliography, index. Includes 6 pages of errata (bound-in). Clean copy

Record # 378287

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Cultural Aspects of Infant Undernutrition Among the Lujere People of Papua New Guinea: A Nursing Perspectiveby: Gillam, Elizabeth Alice

Cultural Aspects of Infant Undernutrition Among the Lujere People of Papua New Guinea: A Nursing Perspective
by: Gillam, Elizabeth Alice

Hardcover. self-published, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a self-published field study, bound in green cloth covers with gilt title on front, 276 pages printed on one side only, includes maps, charts and many color photos pasted onto the pages. A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Sciences at Massey University in New Zealand. the author was a missionary nurse in various provinces of Papua New Guinea from 1962 until 1972. She later returned in 1980 to research this study. A unique item.

Record # 378406

Price: $300.00 
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Papuans of the Trans-Fly by: F. E. Williams

Papuans of the Trans-Fly
by: F. E. Williams

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering in a lightly worn dust jacket, 452 pages illustrated with 19 plates including frontispiece, figures in text maps and diagrams. Detailed anthropological study of a people of the far south-West of New Guinea, by the Government Anthropologist.

Record # 378662

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Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale by: Katsuichi Honda; Kyoko Selden Translator; David L. Howell Foreword

Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale
by: Katsuichi Honda; Kyoko Selden Translator; David L. Howell Foreword

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. In this engaging tale, Honda Katsuichi reconstructs the life of an Ainu woman living on the northern island of Japan over five hundred years ago. Harukor's story, created from surviving oral accounts of Ainu life and culture as well as extensive scholarly research, is set in the centuries before the mainland Japanese nearly destroyed the way of life depicted here. In the first person, the fictional Harukor tells us of her childhood, her adolescence, and her motherhood, drawing on tales and songs performed by her grandmother and other bards. She describes festivals, weddings, childbirth and midwifery, traditional healing methods, battles, and funerals in detail. Her story is followed by the adventures of her oldest son, Pasekur, which end by foreshadowing an early Ainu rebellion against Japanese encroachment.

Record # 379101

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The Psychology of Culture: A Course of Lectures by: Sapir, Edward, Editor: Irvine, Judith T.

The Psychology of Culture: A Course of Lectures
by: Sapir, Edward, Editor: Irvine, Judith T.

Softcover. Berlin/NY, Mouton de Gruyter, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 266 pages. Edward Sapir (1884-1939), one of this century's leading figures in American anthropology and linguistics, planned to publish a major theoretical statement on culture and psychology. He developed his ideas in a course of lectures presented at Yale University in the 1930s, which attracted a wide audience from many social science disciplines. Unfortunately, he died before the book he had contracted to publish could be realized. Like de Saussure's (ours de Linguistique Generale before it, this work has been reconstructed from student notes, in this case twenty-two sets, as well as from Sapir's manuscript materials. Judith Irvine's meticulous reconstruction makes Sapir's compelling ideas - of surprisingly contemporary resonance - available for the first time. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 380307

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The Contemporary Culture of The Cahita Indians. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 142. by: Beals, Ralph L.

The Contemporary Culture of The Cahita Indians. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 142.
by: Beals, Ralph L.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in gray wrappers, 244 pages, 20 full page photo plates on slick paper. 33 text figures. 1 map. Errata slip tipped in. Owner's small sticker on inside cover otherwise clean.

Record # 380344

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Six Korean Women: The Socialization of Shamansby: Harvey, Youngsook Kim

Six Korean Women: The Socialization of Shamans
by: Harvey, Youngsook Kim

Saint Paul MN, West Publishing Group, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth pictorial covers, faded spine. The life histories of 6 Korean shaman women who share in common the social ascription of outcast status. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 380469

Price: $28.00 
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Zickary Zan: Childhood Folklore by: Jack and Olivia Solomon

Zickary Zan: Childhood Folklore
by: Jack and Olivia Solomon

Hardcover. University AL, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w Illustrations by Mark Brewton. Poems, folk games, riddles, proverbs, nonsense verse, parodies, counting-out-chants, taunts and autograph verse. Living lore still in the active possession and use of children, still transmitted orally and in practice.

Record # 381268

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Transformation Scene: The Changing Culture of a New Guinea Villageby: Hogbin, Ian

Transformation Scene: The Changing Culture of a New Guinea Village
by: Hogbin, Ian

Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket. Summary of the effects of German, Japanese and Australian occupation and the subsequent cultural adjustments to change. Based on years of field and background research. Very detailed records of religion, work, trade, councils and courts, community dynamics. Illustrated by 2 maps, 16 pages of plates, 326 pages including index. Owner's signature on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 381650

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Aluanda: A Look at Afro-Brazilian Cultsby: Frances O'Gorman

Aluanda: A Look at Afro-Brazilian Cults
by: Frances O'Gorman

Softcover. Rio de Janeiro, Liberia Francisco Alves, 1st, 1977, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 108 pages. Scholarly book on African-Brazilian religious cults in South America and Mexico. Clean copy

Record # 382068

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Manners and Social Usages. New and Enlarged Edition Revised By the Author by: Mrs. John Sherwood

Manners and Social Usages. New and Enlarged Edition Revised By the Author
by: Mrs. John Sherwood

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, Revised Ed., 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board, as well as decorative silver gilt towards top of front board. Gilt edge to top of edge block. 487 pages plus publisher's ads. An attractive copy of this popular soup-to-nuts etiquette manual., first published in 1884. This is the enlarged, revised edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383478

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