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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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The Papuan Languages of New Guineaby: Foley, William A.

The Papuan Languages of New Guinea
by: Foley, William A.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's green wrappers lettered in white, 305 pages. Two pages with light marking (241-242). Otherwise a clean, bright copy. This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea will be of interest not only to general and comparative linguists and to typologists, but also to sociolinguists and anthropologists for the information it provides on the social dynamics of language content.

Record # 380297

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Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned Salmon Industry, 1870-1942by: Friday, Chris

Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned Salmon Industry, 1870-1942
by: Friday, Chris

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30975

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The Nobility and the Chiefly Tradition in the Modern Kingdom of Tongaby: George E. Marcus

The Nobility and the Chiefly Tradition in the Modern Kingdom of Tonga
by: George E. Marcus

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.

Record # 379951

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Blood of the Monster the Nez Perce Coyote Cycle by: Walker Deward E. and Daniel N. Matthews

Blood of the Monster the Nez Perce Coyote Cycle
by: Walker Deward E. and Daniel N. Matthews

Hardcover. Glendo, Wyoming , High Plains Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 244 pages. An incorrigible trickster, a clever thief, a rogue, sometimes a magnanimous hero, often a vengeful loser, but always a survivor, Coyote is the most complex character in the Nez Perce cycle of traditional myths. An anthropological analysis of Coyote's social relations with the other characters reveals how the myths, while entertaining stories, also impart traditional cultural values, proper social relations, and other practical information. Coyote's actions are often humorous, with consequences that account for many of the blessings and hardships of the Nez Perce experience. These translations from the native language are the most reliable and the most comprehensive available. Supplemented by myths from Archie Phinney and Herbert Spinden, Deward Walker's collection provides insights into the world and the myths of the Nez Perce Indians.

Record # 371862

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Black Angerby: Sachs, Wulf

Black Anger
by: Sachs, Wulf

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.

Record # 385514

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Good Sex: A Woman's Guide to Losing Inhibitionby: Charlotte Kane

Good Sex: A Woman's Guide to Losing Inhibition
by: Charlotte Kane

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.

Record # 387877

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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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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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Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War by: Ward, Margaret E.

Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
by: Ward, Margaret E.

Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages. In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the way for the adoption. Within a few weeks, Margaret Ward and Thomas de Witt were the parents of a toddler they named Nelson-an adorable boy whose prior life seemed as mysterious as the fact that government officials in two countries had inexplicably expedited his adoption. In Missing Mila, Finding Family, Margaret Ward tells the poignant and compelling story of this international adoption and the astonishing revelations that emerged when Nelson's birth family finally relocated him in 1997. After recounting their early years together, during which she and Tom welcomed the birth of a second son, Derek, and created a family with both boys, Ward vividly recalls the upheaval that occurred when members of Nelson's birth family contacted them and sought a reunion with the boy they knew as Roberto. She describes how their sense of family expanded to include Nelson's Central American relatives, who helped her piece together the lives of her son's birth parents and their clandestine activities as guerrillas in El Salvador's civil war. In particular, Ward develops an internal dialogue with Nelson's deceased mother Mila, an elusive figure whose life and motivations she tries to understand.

Record # 374282

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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

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Black Hamletby: Sachs, Wulf

Black Hamlet
by: Sachs, Wulf

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co,, reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. The true story of an African medicine man as he leaves his home to practice his medicine in the city. Wulf Sachs was born in Russia and trained at the Psychoneurological Institute in St. Petersburg. A citizen of South Africa who resided in Johannesburg, he was a practicing psychoanalyst and the author of many books on psychiatry and literary criticism. Classic account of a two and half year psychoanalysis of a South African witch doctor. This book was earlier published with the title Black Anger. Derived from a review posted on-line: Black Hamlet is at the same time a case study in psychoanalytic therapy, the report of a scientific investigation, a political polemic, a collection of ethnographic observations, and the biography of a common man whose remarkable features would otherwise have been overlooked. Clean copy.

Record # 380857

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Experimental Foundations of Rorschach's Testby: Schachtel, Ernest G.

Experimental Foundations of Rorschach's Test
by: Schachtel, Ernest G.

Hardcover. London, Tavistock Publications , 1st UK, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. 342 pages. The author offers an important contribution to the interpretation of the Rorschach ink blots and brings to light new test data. Clean copy.

Record # 375180

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The Social History of an Indonesian Town by: Clifford Geertz

The Social History of an Indonesian Town
by: Clifford Geertz

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, red cloth in a worn, faded dust jacket. Modjokuto is a small Indonesian town founded under Dutch colonization in the mid-1800s. The author made a field study in 1952-54 into the social, economic and political history of the town. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 380694

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Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movementby: Friedman, Gerald

Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement
by: Friedman, Gerald

Softcover. London, Routledge, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Softcover. In excellent condition, clean inside and out. Binding tight.

Record # 30982

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Mongol Community and Kinship Structure by: Vreeland, Herbert Harold

Mongol Community and Kinship Structure
by: Vreeland, Herbert Harold

Softcover. New Haven CT, HRAF Press, 2nd Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 359 pages, map, charts, errata slip tipped-in.

Record # 381534

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The Papuas of Waropenby: G. J. Held

The Papuas of Waropen
by: G. J. Held

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.

Record # 378663

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Day of Shining Red: An Essay on Understanding Ritual by: Lewis, Gilbert

Day of Shining Red: An Essay on Understanding Ritual
by: Lewis, Gilbert

UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 233 pages. Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people involved have not given a good enough reason for these customs. The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond those offered by the people themselves runs through this book. The book focuses on the various interpretations that have been offered by anthropologists of ritual and symbolism. It offers a critical discussion of theories in this field in general, identifying their strengths and weaknesses when applied to the particular case of puberty rituals in a West Sepik village in Papua New Guinea. It then goes on to suggest an alternative approach, which draws on aesthetic as well as anthropological theory, and pays particular attention to the emotional and aesthetic experiences of people as they perform the rites. Pencil marking to about 25 pages, name on inside front cover.

Record # 381173

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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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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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The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolutionby: Calhoun, Craig

The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolution
by: Calhoun, Craig

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 321 pages. formulate an adequate theory of "populist" movements. In a novel analysis of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, Calhoun argues that popular protest was mounted by reactionary radicals whose ideology was largely a defense of the traditional values of culture and community against an emerging industrial order. He also offers through reconsiderations of several histories of class struggle, including E. P. Thompson's influential masterpiece, The making of the English Working Class. Calhoun focuses on the social foundations for collective action. In his view, English radicalism during the 1810s and early 1820s was based in local and craft communities. Rather than include this English populism within the Marxist notion of class struggle, Calhoun shows that it was rooted in the particular situation of English workers in social and economic transition. As he reassesses these populist movements, he broadens our understanding of community, class, tradition, and collective action. Clean copy.

Record # 384161

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Microstructure of the Foreign-Exchange Market, The: A Selective Survey of the Literatureby: Lucio Sarno, Mark P. Taylor

Microstructure of the Foreign-Exchange Market, The: A Selective Survey of the Literature
by: Lucio Sarno, Mark P. Taylor

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Princeton Studies in International Economics No. 89, May 2001. 58 pages. Gray stiff wrapper. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 386110

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The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracyby: Christopher Lasch

The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy
by: Christopher Lasch

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Controversy has raged around Lasch's targeted attack on the elites, their loss of moral values, and their abandonment of the middle class and poor, for he sets up the media and educational institutions as a large source of the problem. In this spirited work, Lasch calls out for a return to community, schools that teach history not self-esteem, and a return to morality and even the teachings of religion. He does this in a nonpartisan manner, looking to the lessons of American history, and castigating those in power for the ever-widening gap between the economic classes, which has created a crisis in American society. Clean copy.

Record # 397792

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In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Maya Communityby: June Nash

In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Maya Community
by: June Nash

Softcover. Prospect Heights IL, Waveland Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 374 pages. A detailed anthropological study of the Mayan people of Tzo? ontahal made during four field sessions between 1957 and 1965.

Record # 380345

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Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crisesby: Stewart, David Ogden

Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises
by: Stewart, David Ogden

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1st Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Cover boards bound in black cloth, yellow paste down on front cover board and spine with black titles. Deckled untrimmed edges. Light tanning from age to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. A parody outline of etiquette by the author of "A Parody Outline of History".

Record # 32388

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Myths & Legends From Mt. Hagen by: Vicedom, Georg F (Andrew Strathern trans)

Myths & Legends From Mt. Hagen
by: Vicedom, Georg F (Andrew Strathern trans)

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.

Record # 378356

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Boyhood Rituals in an African Society: An Interpretationby: Simon Ottenberg

Boyhood Rituals in an African Society: An Interpretation
by: Simon Ottenberg

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 343 pages. This is an anthropological study of boyhood in a group of related Igbo villages called Afikpo, in souteastern Nigeria. About half of the book is taken up with the description and analysis of adolescent initiation rites, providing a close and detailed view of rituals that for the most part have only been touched upon in literature. The work makes use of psychoanalytic theory, with a logic that is grounded in data, blended with traditional cultural anthropological analysis. Ottenberg's understanding of the dynamics of the symbols and their unstated meanings contributes to the study of ritual process in any society. The data on ritual initiation alo0ne make this a major contribution to African ethnography, and Ottenberg's descriptive material on male secrecy and related gender distinctions provides a background fora more general understanding of West African secret societies.

Record # 379219

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Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats Districtby: Falkenberg, Johannes

Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District
by: Falkenberg, Johannes

Hardcover. Oslo University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. A first-hand account of the changing social structures of the Aborigines based on accounts from the tribe members.

Record # 378300

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The Miyanmin: Human Ecology in a Papua New Guinea Society (Studies in Cultural Anthropology)by: Morren, George E. B.

The Miyanmin: Human Ecology in a Papua New Guinea Society (Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by: Morren, George E. B.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, UMI Research Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and red, 355 pages. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Some light pencil markings to about 20 pages.

Record # 378658

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Communal Rituals of the Nyakyusaby: Monica Wilson

Communal Rituals of the Nyakyusa
by: Monica Wilson

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightky worn and soiled dust jacket. 228 pages, b&w illustrations including several fold-out charts. Extends the study begun in her earlier 'Rituals Of Kinship Among The Nyakyusa' to include detailed accounts of traditions of origin, cosmology, and moral values. Contents: The Mythological Charter; The 'Divine Kings'; The Ritual of Chieftainship; Sacrifices at the Groves of Chiefs; Land & Power; Cleansing the Country; Rain-making & 'Sprinkling the Homesteads'; Kasitile the Priest; Medicines; Nyakyusa Cosmology; Pagan & Christian; Twenty Years' Change; Religion & Social Structure. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 380336

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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 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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Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Societyby: Miriam Kahn

Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society
by: Miriam Kahn

London, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages, b&w maps, diagrams. The Wamira people of Papua New Guinea display what outsiders would describe as an obsession with food. Who owns how many pigs, how much taro grows in whose garden, and who contributes what food at a feast, are all questions uppermost in their thoughts. Wamirans account for this preoccupation by saying that they suffer from perpetual "famine." They explain this by means of an elaborate and colorful myth about Tamodukorokoro, a monster who would have brought them abundant food, but whom, in typical Wamiran style of fearing what they desire, they chased away. In this carefully crafted and beautifully evocative book, Dr. Kahn, who lived with the Wamira people for two and a half years, argues that Wamirans' "famine" has in fact little to do with the belly. For Wamirans, concepts of food and hunger are cultural constructs. Dr. Kahn writes with a degree of nuance that takes the reader beyond academic analyses into the experience of the ethnographer and the daily lives of the people with whom she resided. Clean copy.

Record # 380690

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Time and Social Structure and Other Essays by: Fortes, Meyer

Time and Social Structure and Other Essays
by: Fortes, Meyer

Hardcover. London, The Athlone Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, orange cloth covers, 287 pages. Anthropological essays by the author based on his 30 years of field work in Ghana. Clean copy.

Record # 378708

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Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (SIGNED COPY)by: Delores S. Williams

Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (SIGNED COPY)
by: Delores S. Williams

Hardcover. Maryknoll NY, Orbis Books, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagarmother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God, Delores Williams finds a prototype for the struggle of African-American women. Through Hagars story of poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounter with God, she traces parallels in the history of African-American women from slavery to the present day. What emerges from this shared interplay of race, sex, and class, is a new womanist theology that promotes survival and wholeness as well as liberation. Clean copy.

Record # 381593

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Party Politics: 3 Volume Setby: Jennings, Sir Ivor

Party Politics: 3 Volume Set
by: Jennings, Sir Ivor

Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume I: Appeal to the People, 388 pages. Volume II: The Growth of Parties, 404 pages. Volume III: The Stuff of Politics, 493 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, small stain on top edge of volume II, otherwise, all clean and tight.

Record # 854250

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Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth Century Bali by: Geertz, Clifford

Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth Century Bali
by: Geertz, Clifford

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 295 pages with index, "Here Clifford Geertz applies his well-known cultural analysis to the social organization of nineteenth-century Bali. He offers a vivid portrait of the symbols, myths, rituals, and ceremonies - in short, the drama - that essentially constituted the precolonial negara, the Balinese state." Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386016

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Race and Civilizationby: Frederick Hertz

Race and Civilization
by: Frederick Hertz

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, tattered dust jacket with a yellow sticker on front cover. 328 pages. The Austrian-born sociologist's reflections on race, physical differences, race mingling and decay of nations, race and psychology, backward races, etc. Spine cloth torn at top with a 1/2" square gone. Names on front endpapers. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 396613

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Visual Anthropology Review: Volume 8 Number 1/Spring 1992by: N/A

Visual Anthropology Review: Volume 8 Number 1/Spring 1992
by: N/A

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1992, Book: 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: Shoot for the Contents, Films of Memory, Encounter with a Road Siren, other essays and reviews. Light rubbing to covers. Clean.

Record # 382087

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Growing Up Fastby: Lipper, Joanna

Growing Up Fast
by: Lipper, Joanna

Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Price blacked out. Minor stains on fore edge. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy. Growing Up Fast tells the life stories of Shayla, Jessica, Amy, Colleen, Liz, and Sheri--six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper first met in 1999 when they were enrolled at the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Less than a decade older than these teen parents, she was able to blend into the fabric of their lives and make a short documentary film about them. Over the course of the next four years she continued to earn their trust as they shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed post-industrial landscape of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Record # 852277

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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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Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea by:  Douglas Newton

Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea
by: Douglas Newton

Softcover. NY, Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,112 pages. Original color illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Outline guide to the objects used in upper Sepik River rituals and the context in which they are employed. Based on author's field trips to the region in 1964, 1965, and mainly 1967. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings throughout.

Record # 380527

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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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Male Cults and Secret Initiations in Melanesiaby: Allen, M.R.

Male Cults and Secret Initiations in Melanesia
by: Allen, M.R.

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.

Record # 378633

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New Guinea Diaries, 1871-1883 by: Mikloucho Maclay

New Guinea Diaries, 1871-1883
by: Mikloucho Maclay

Softcover. Kristen Pres, 2nd Ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages. b&w illustrations. The diaries of a Russian explorer who lived on the coast of Papua New Guinea for several years. He kept a diary translated here from the Russian by C.I. Sentinella with biographical and historical notes.

Record # 380676

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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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W.H.R. Rivers by: Richard Slobodin

W.H.R. Rivers
by: Richard Slobodin

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.

Record # 380354

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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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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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The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology by: Stocking, George W. Jr.

The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology
by: Stocking, George W. Jr.

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.

Record # 381886

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