Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with paper label on spine, lettering faded. Introduction by Franz Boas. 291 pages including index. No date on title page, only date is 1934 on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1935. A bright, tight copy.
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.
Hardcover. Honolulu HI, The Institute for Polynesian Studies , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, about 15 pages with light pencil marking.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The first English translation of a classic 20th century French ethnography. Do Kamo focuses on the Canaque people of New Caledonia. Translated by Basia Miller Gulati. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Cooper Square Publishers, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 373 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out map. A reprint of a title originally published in 1939, this release is updated by Ralph Piddington with recent studies. Nine Chapters: Warfare in Central Polynesia, Kava in Samoa and Tonga, Kava in other Polynesian Islands, The Arioi, Sex Courtship and Infanticide, Stability and Change in Polynesian Culture, The Origins of Polynesian Culture, Polynesia and Melanesia, and Past and Present in Polynesia. Plus Appendix Assam Parallels. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. Pittsburgh PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 227 pages. Contents : "Dance when I die!": context and role in the clowning of Murik women / Kathleen Barlow -- Exaggeration and reversal: clowning among the Lusi-Kalai / David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts -- Clowning with food: mortuary humor and social reproduction among the north Mekeo / Mark S. Mosko -- Reflections of an anthropologist who mistook her husband for a yam: female comedy on Tubetube / Martha McIntyre -- Horrific humor and festal farce: carnival clowning in Wape society / William E. Mitchell -- When she reigns supreme: clowning and culture in Rotuman weddings / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Where the spirits laugh last: comic theater in Samoa / Caroline Sinavaiana. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.
NY/Sydney AU, Academic Press , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with silver and gilt stamping, 286 pages. Numerous tables, maps, plans and illustrations (some from photographs, others by Margrit Koettig). Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Canberra, Australian National University, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages, black and white photographic illustrations and maps in the text.
Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 297 pages. Softcover. In very good condition, clean and bright inside. Wrapper has a slight yellowing at top edge, barely visable. Binding tight.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 120 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. Includes: Reading Trash, Artaud, Rouch, & the Cinema of Cruelty; Remembering the Revolution, Forgetting the Empire; 'Thirty Centuries, the Splendors of Mexico'; What Is Real About Virtual Reality?; Marketing Alterity, other essays and reviews. Clean.
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."
Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth spine with printed paper label and white paper covered boards with red titles, 110 pages. This copy INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Stefansson on the half title page, and dated 'London, June 5 1931.' No. 16, in the General series of 'Psyche Miniatures'.
Hardcover. NY, MacMillan Company, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 312 pages. Includes footnotes, bibliography, and index. Foreword by Stephen Spender. A narrative study of the troubling phenomenon why many European intellectuals and artists were drawn to and embraced Fascism during the period between the world wars. This conundrum may find expression today. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, navy cloth, title in gilt to spine. In a worn and chipped dust jacket with some closed tears. 107 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 570 pages. A scholarly study of British anthropologists and their contributions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With the same piercing intelligence as the bestselling Say it Loud!, Interracial Intimacies hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other. Analyzing the tremendous changes in the history of America's racial dynamics, Randall Kennedy challenges us to examine how prejudices and biases still fuel fears and inform our sexual, marital, and family choices. He takes us from the injustices of the slave era up to present-day battles over race matching adoption policies, which seek to pair children with adults of the same race. He tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics, the historic role of legal institutions in policing racial boundaries, and the real and imagined pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy. Clean copy.
Softcover. Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages, bibliography, index. Mild fade to part of cover wrapper, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 481 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, b&w frontispiece of author's portrait. Light edgewear, previous owner's short ink inscription to front endpaper, pencil notations to rear endpapers, very mild pencil markings in page margins; a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. AUDIO CD in rear. From the book: "This innovative ethnography provides. . .a rare intimate view into the everyday life of a working band. The audio CD contains some of False Prophet's most popular cuts.
Hardcover. NY, New York Academy of Sciences, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated light beige cloth covers, 277 pages. A classic work on Bali, profusely illustrated with field photographs by Bateson, Margaret Mead's husband. The 100 b&w plates were taken 1936 to 1937. A pioneering work in which the two celebrated anthropologists, with the assistance of Belo, Mershon, McPhee, Spies, Goris and others, analyse the character of the Balinese through their expressions and interactions, demonstrated in a series of photographs. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 407 pages. Chapters include: Myth and Ritual, Religion and Healing, Witchcraft and Sorcery, 20th Century Theories of Religion, The Science of Religion and others. Owner's small sticker inside front cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, Revised Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 618 pages, b&w illustrations. Features a vast amount of factual data bout the customs and rituals of the Murngin, the result of several years of study in the region. This new revised edition has 16 charts, a map of the tribes and clans, 17 photos and a glossary. Some light pencil marking in a few chapters.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. In a lightly worn dust jacket with tape repairs. B&w illustrations, folding map in rear. R. H. Codrington (1830-1922), was an Anglican priest who made the first systematic study of Melanesian society and culture. Described in his obituary in the journal Nature as 'the apostle of Melanesia', his work is still regarded as an ethnographic classic. First published in 1891. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 249 pages, b&w photos. The book is almost entirely about trying to understand the deep meaning of the unusual-looking Sxwayxwey* mask of the Coast Salish, by referring to the origin myths, dances and costumes associated with it. A large part of the book attempts to clarify this by contrasting and comparing it with the Tsonoqua mask which is associated with several tribal groups from various parts of coastal British Columbia. He weaves a huge matrix of elements of the masks, the dance costumes, the dances, the origin myths, related myths, and only kind-of-sort-of related myths. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press., 4th pr., 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers, black lettering on spine, 342 pages. Endpapers map, foreword by the author; includes: caste and class, religion, sex relations & home life, politics and economcs, and modern Haiti, notes & bibliography, index. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 305 pages. The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline. Clean copy.
Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 230 pages. Jean Baudrillard is one of the most topical and controversial theorists in France today. He has played a major role in the development of critical social theory and cultural sociology, and his writings are currently at the center of the 'post-modernism' debate. This volume makes his most important work widely available in English for the first time. It includes selections from the entire range of his writings, from his early work on advertising and commodity culture to his most recent writings on simulation and desire. Throughout the selections Baudrillard stresses the ways in which our lives are embedded in a world if images which have no clear reference and which are reproduced by the new mechanisms of cultural production in contemporary societies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with a sunned spine. This is the first of a series of volumes in which the famous French anthropologist attempts to reduce some of the basic myths of the South American Indians to a comprehensible psychological pattern. 387 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Clean copy.
Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 5th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 250 pages, b&w illustrations. This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World's architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney characters and themes. This book takes the reader on an alternative ride through "the happiest place on earth" while asking "What makes this forty-three-square-mile theme park the quintessential embodiment of American leisure?" Turning away from the programmed entertainment that Disney presents, the authors take a peek behind the scenes of everyday experience at Disney World. In their consideration of the park as both private corporate enterprise and public urban environment, the authors focus on questions concerning the production and consumption of leisure. Featuring over fifty photographs and interviews with workers that strip "cast members" of their cartoon costumes, this captivating work illustrates the high-pressure dynamics of the typical family vacation as well as a tour of Disney World that looks beyond the controlled facade of themed attractions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian/GPO, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth, gilt lettering on spine faded. 490 pages, 3 fold-out plates include 2 maps. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1sr, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 306 pages, 190 photographs, 4 maps. Cloth cover. The only book-length study devoted to the photographic aspects of the work of the groundbreaking anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume links a series of photo-essays based on Trobriand institutions--and cultural themes. The photographs, all previously unpublished, were taken between 1915 and 1918.
Softcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages, b&w illustrations. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and highlights its significance in shaping the state's economic, political, and social contours. Fink draws both on interviews and on her own firsthand experience working on the production floor of a pork-processing plant. She weaves a fascinating account of the meatpacking industry's history in Iowa--a history, she notes, that has been experienced differently by male and female, immigrant and native-born, white and black workers. Like new.
Hardcover. London, Methuen and Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket, 296 pages. Russet cloth lettered in silver on spine. Illustrated with 2-color line frontispiece, 16 half-tone photographsic plates and 5 line illustrations in the text. An important and early anthropoliogical study of a little known phenomenon. The title is taken from the given name of a native New Guinean who started the cargo cult, circa 1935. Similar to other messianic movements, Burridge's first hand account is a scholarly examination of the religious, political, and economic aspects which make up the cult.
Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd Ed., 1974, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. This revised and expanded second edition, again tackles the question of procreation within the aboriginal tribes. As Ernest Jones said of the first edition (from the rear panel of the dust wrapper) " ... by far the most valuable study among the large literature that has accumulated over the vexed question of whether Australian aborigines are really ignorant of the physiological effects of procreation and whether they are " so to speak " pretending for social and religious reasons to be thus ignorant ". This landmark study was first published in 1937, and this second edition takes into account later fieldwork and new information that became available on the subject.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 314 pages, index, b&w illustrations. This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data have since been exploited. The author combines this fresh archaeological data with comparative ethnographic and linguistic materials to present an innovative and perceptive account of the processes of culture change in the islands over three millennia. Using comparative ethnography, lexical reconstruction and direct archaeological evidence, the author reconstructs the broad outlines of Ancestral Polynesian Society, from which the diverse societies of the Polynesian region descended. Major processes of cultural change are analysed in detail, including colonization, adaptation to changing environments, development of intensive production and social conflict and competition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1st Editions, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction. Two Volumes: Vol. 1: 352 pages. Vol. 2: 706 pages plus publisher ads. Previous owner's name on front flyleafs. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, fading to boards, especially to spines. Binding tight. Spines straight. Pages/edges have light tanning, otherwise clean. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 221 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the significance of names amongst the people of Avatip in the Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea in the formation and evolution of their very culture. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 6th pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 724 pages. On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed thirty-nine men hostages as well as prisoners and severely wounded more than one hundred others. In the ensuing hours, weeks, and months, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners. And, ultimately, New York State authorities prosecuted only the prisoners, never once bringing charges against the officials involved in the retaking and its aftermath and neglecting to provide support to the survivors. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Clean copy.
Softcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, reprint, 2021, Softcover, 329 pages. Many adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most intimate aspect of globalization through essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Moving beyond personal narrative, transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported--about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, the contributors unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice. Clean copy.
Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2nd Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages, b&w drawings throughout. .This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of analysis, illustrates techniques for computing Maya calendrics, uses the currently accepted orthography, provides syllabary and syntax, suggests new glyph readings, and presents various interpretations. The second edition includes updated versions of three publications on Maya hieroglyphs. Serving as a self-teaching tool, it introduces analysis methods, calendrics, orthography, syllabary, syntax, new glyph readings, and interpretations for both beginners and scholars. Light fading to spine, clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 586 pages. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 175). 10 b&w plates. Clean copy. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 144 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. Includes: Articles on the cinema of Tim Asch, Paradise by James Clifford (on Papua New Guinea), Subtitling Ethnographic Films, other essays and reviews. Clean.
Softcover. Manchester University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels. Subjects: Motion pictures in ethnology. Ethnology Fieldwork. Motion pictures Social aspects. Motion pictures in ethnography. Documentary television programs. Mild fading to covers. No marking.
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 625 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Contents: Principles of Status; The Maori of New Zealand; Manihiki-Rakahanga; Tongareva; Magaia; Easter Island; The Marquesas; Mangareva; The Society Islands; The Hawaiian Islands; The Samoan Islands; Tongs; Uvea; Futuna; The Tokelaus; Tikopia; Pukpuka; Niue; Ontong Java; The Status Lineage; Principles of Kinship; The Economics of Status; The Rituals of Status; Status and Evolution. Owner's name inside front cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Looks at the customs and effects of colonialism on the Torres Strait islander people, and the move many of them have made to mainland Australia were they have recreated island culture in a new environment.
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