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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red endpapers. Decorated cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. An innovative exploration of the place of the erotic in Renaissance art and culture, focusing on a notorious set of images created by the young Italian master Giulio Romano. Clean copy.
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.
Softcover. Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 136 pages, typed manuscript, double spaced. The section headings are: the universe: the mythical origins of men; the ghosts or spirits; how men obtained food and the necessities of life; sickness & death; geographical myths; hunting stories; stories of cunning; social relations of people; love stories. Mild cover wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Academic Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 428 pages, endpaper maps. An examination of the ecology of man's environment, man's use and perception of biological resources, & the physiology and health of the human organism, from Papua New Guinea to the atolls of the South West Pacific. Clean copy.
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. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt stamping, 291 pages. Gift exchange plays a crucial role in the social and political organization of Mendi in Papua New Guinea. This book reveals how considerable light can be shed on Mendi society, particularly on its political economy, by examining both the well-known ceremonial exchange festivals and the hitherto relatively little-studied everyday gift-giving practices. The author shows that the latter are crucial for understanding inter-group politics, the process of leadership, male-female relationships and the status of women, and the production, distribution and circulation of wealth. Currently the only book available on this society, the work offers an unusual combination of a social structural analysis with a study of local history and change. It is also of interest for its integration of the study of gift exchange and politics with the study of gender roles and relationships. Clean, bright copy.
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. Williamsburg VA, College of William & Mary, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 528 pages, b&w illustrations. The collected papers in this book describe human sexuality and gender among a small sample of societies on the island of Borneo. Expressions of human sexuality vary widely among the 200 autonymic societies, which range in population from a few hundred persons to three-quarters of a million. Some are quite open about the subject, others circumspect and discreet. The present work contains studies of eight societies, with references to others. It does not deal with Chinese and Malays, who with others will be the subjects of future monographs on the same topic. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. The autobiography of an intelligent, traditional Hausa woman. An excellent piece of ethnography. The author, the wife of social anthropologist, became Baba's friend in Nigeria. After many conversations between the two women, she agreed to dictate the story of her life. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
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.
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
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.
Softcover. Canberra AU, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, b&w illustrations. The author became interested in Karo Araua when she heard for the first time the 'Song about Karo', the poem in traditional form in which he was the hero. Most writings about Papua New Guinea deal with the successful people who managed the colonial encounter. Karo, hanged in Port Moresby in 1938, was not successful, but his name lives on among his own people. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Schenkman Publishing Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, black cloth with white lettering on spine. 247 pages, b&w photographic illustrations, color folding map tipped-in at front pastedown, rear pictorial endpaper. This on-the-ground study of one square mile in Detroit was written in collaboration with neighborhood residents, many of whom were involved with the famous Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. This work, at its core, is dedicated to understanding global phenomena through the intensive study of a small, local place. Beginning with an 1816 encounter between the Ojibwa population and the neighborhood's first surveyor, William Bunge examines the racialized imposition of local landscapes over the course of European American settlement. By 1967 the neighborhood was mostly African American; Black Power was ascendant; and Detroit would experience a major riot. Immersed in the daily life of the area, Bunge encouraged residents to tell their stories and to think about local politics in spatial terms. His desire to undertake a different sort of geography led him to create a work that was nothing like a typical work of social science. The jumble of text, maps, and images makes it a particularly urgent book and a major theoretical contribution to urban geography that is also a startling evocation of street-level Detroit during a turbulent era. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages. Science of Logic , first published between 1812 and 1816, is the work in which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel outlined his vision of logic. Hegel's logic is a system of dialectics, i.e., a dialectical metaphysics: It is a development of the principle that thought and being constitute a single and active unity. Science of Logic also incorporates the traditional Aristotelian syllogism: It is conceived as a phase of the "original unity of thought and being" rather than as a detached, formal instrument of inference.For Hegel, the most important achievement of German idealism, starting with Immanuel Kant and culminating in his own philosophy, was the argument that reality (being) is shaped through and through by thought and is, in a strong sense, identical to thought. Thus ultimately the structures of thought and being, subject and object, are identical. Since for Hegel the underlying structure of all of reality is ultimately rational, logic is not merely about reasoning or argument but rather is also the rational, structural core of all of reality and every dimension of it. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 438 pages. Reprint of original 1885 first edition. Brown cloth covers, pasted labels with titles to front cover and spine, b&w frontispiece of Mathus's portrait. Slight rubbing to covers, spine label lightly soiled, wear to spine top edge, previous owner's signature to front endpaper dated 1947, stiff binding, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 368 pages. On a volcanic island in the Savu Sea so remote that other Indonesians call it "The Land Left Behind" live the Lamalerans: a tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who are the world's last subsistence whalers. They have survived for half a millennium by hunting whales with bamboo harpoons and handmade wooden boats powered by sails of woven palm fronds. But now, under assault from the rapacious forces of the modern era and a global economy, their way of life teeters on the brink of collapse. Award-winning journalist Doug Bock Clark, one of a handful of Westerners who speak the Lamaleran language, lived with the tribe across three years, and he brings their world and their people to vivid life in this gripping story of a vanishing culture. Jon, an orphaned apprentice whaler, toils to earn his harpoon and provide for his ailing grandparents, while Ika, his indomitable younger sister, is eager to forge a life unconstrained by tradition, and to realize a star-crossed love. Frans, an aging shaman, tries to unite the tribe in order to undo a deadly curse. And Ignatius, a legendary harpooner entering retirement, labors to hand down the Ways of the Ancestors to his son, Ben, who would secretly rather become a DJ in the distant tourist mecca of Bali.
Hardcover. Melbourne University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 140 pages. The reasons for rituals in different societies with accounts of the relevant customs in Papua New Guinea, the Solomons and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Previous owner's label on front fly leaf. Maps, charts.
Softcover. Wellington NZ, Polynesian Society, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 170 pages. Originally published in 1978 as a series of articles in The Journal of the Polynesian Society. Wrappers rubbed, internally very good, clean.
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. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages including index.The polymathic Rivers was a pioneering neuroscientist, psychologist, and anthropologist who made substantial contributions to all these fields in the pre-WWI period. Interest in Rivers increased in recent years because he appears as a major and particularly sympathetic character in Pat Barker's outstanding trilogy of novels on WWI. Slobodin's book, which is the only effort at a biography of Rivers, deals mainly with his work as a pioneering ethnologist. Light foxing to rear dj panel, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 311 pages. For generations of anthropologists, the Baining people have presented a challenge, because of their apparent lack of cultural or social structure. This group of small-scale horticulturists seems devoid of the complex belief systems and social practices that characterize other traditional peoples of Papua New Guinea. Their daily existence is mundane and repetitive in the extreme, articulated by only the most elementary familial relationships and social connections. The routine of everyday life, however, is occasionally punctuated by stunningly beautiful festivals of masked dancers, which the Baining call play and to which they attribute no symbolic significance. In a new work sure to evoke considerable repercussions and debate in anthropological theory, Jane Fajans courageously takes on the "Baining Problem," arguing that the Baining define themselves not through intricate cosmologies or social networks, but through the meanings generated by their own productive and reproductive work.
Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 440 pages, b&w illustrations. George Stocking has been widely recognized as the premier historian of anthropology ever since the publication of his first volume of essays, Race, Culture, and Evolution, in 1968. As editor of several publications, including the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series, he has led the movement to establish the history of anthropology as a recognized research specialization. In addition to the study Victorian Anthropology, his work includes numerous essays covering a wide range of anthropological topics. The eight essays collected in The Ethnographer's Magic consider the emergence of anthropology since the late nineteenth century as an academic discipline grounded in systematic fieldwork. 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. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Hardcover, green cloth with black lettering. Frontis portrait. This text is an expansion of the author's 1937 article Black Hamlet : the mind of an African Negro revealed by psychoanalysis. "This is the true story of John Chavafambira. It is a unique, never-before-written account of a native African medicine man, his life experiences and inner conflicts, etched against the background of two worlds-- white and black -- in collision. It is an amazing study of seemingly irreconcilable elements, laid in South Africa where the clash of color is most violent". Clean copy but mild musty odor.
Softcover. New Tradition Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages. Exploring subjects such as exhibitionism, repression, and oral sex, this guide is a must-read for anyone seeking a more fulfilling, less inhibited sex life. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Vincent Stuart, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket., black cloth with gilt stamping. A nice copy of the Second Edition (1962, original published in 1894). Limited to 500 copies. Clean.
Softcover. Charlottesville VA, Imprint Academic, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 298 pages. This volume presents a collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'.Anscombe (1919-2001) read classics and philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of his literary executors, she played a large part in editing his unpublished works and was their principal English translator. Clean copy.
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. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press,, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 339 pages including index. A wide-ranging exploration of conflicting American attitudes toward affluence. This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. St. Augustin GR, Anthropos Institute, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. This volume complete in itself. Illustrated in b/w. Bibliography.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 8th pr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 751 pages. -In this wide-ranging book, based on her Gifford Lectures, philosopher Nussbaum draws on philosophy, psychology, anthropology, music and literature to illuminate the role emotions play in thoughts about important goals. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph. Study of the Waropen tribe, the only coastal tribe in Northern New Guinea which at that time still remained pagan, under the instructions of the Netherlands Bible Society at Amsterdam. The manuscript was finished in 1942 but only published in 1947 in Dutch. An English translation was commissioned by the Editorial Board of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde after the untimely death of the author in 1955. Illustrated with many b/w photographs and drawings, one folding map in-text and one at rear.
Hardcover. NY, Basic Books , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This title offers a withering and clear-eyed critique about (but not for) intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not those power holders accept the general vision or the particular policies favored by intellectuals. In "Intellectuals and Society", Thomas Sowell not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views and visions have emerged. Ultimately, he shows how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of society. Clean copy.
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.
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