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The Origins of Cool in Postwar Americaby: Dinerstein, Joel

The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
by: Dinerstein, Joel

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 541 pages. b&w illustrations. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion, and a youthful search for social change. Through portraits of iconic figures, Dinerstein illuminates the cultural connections and artistic innovations among Lester Young, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Marlon Brando, and James Dean, among others. We eavesdrop on conversations among John-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, and Miles Davis, and on a forgotten debate between Lorraine Hansberry and Norman Mailer over the 'white negro' and Black cool. We come to understand how the cool worlds of Beat writers and Method actors emerged from the intersections of film noir, jazz, and existentialism. Clean copy.

Record # 383663

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Harvest of the Sea: Coastal Subsistence in Modern Wainright. A Report for the North Slope Borough's Coastal Management Program.by: Richard K. Nelson

Harvest of the Sea: Coastal Subsistence in Modern Wainright. A Report for the North Slope Borough's Coastal Management Program.
by: Richard K. Nelson

Softcover. North Slope Borough, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of an Inupiat village on Alaska's North Slope and how the people live off their surroundings. Whaling, caribou hunting, fox trapping, seal and walrus hunting and other methods of subsistence are covered. Maps, b&w photos. Crease to rear cover, clean copy.

Record # 385757

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

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

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

Record # 396510

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Visual Anthropology Review: Volume7 Number 2/Fall 1991by: N/A

Visual Anthropology Review: Volume7 Number 2/Fall 1991
by: N/A

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 124 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: Post-Bourgeois Tattoo, The Ethnographer's Tale, Who's Story Is It?, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Record # 382085

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Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation by: Mary Catherine Bateson

Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation
by: Mary Catherine Bateson

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. In 1968, a conference was held to explore the ultimate question- Are the problems created by man's pursuit of his conscious purposes- problems that now threaten to destroy both the web of meaning in human life and the ecological web of this planet- actually within the competence of man to solve? 324 pages plus index. No markings, covers lightly splayed.

Record # 380313

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Nuer Religionby: Evans-Pritchard, E. E.

Nuer Religion
by: Evans-Pritchard, E. E.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 335 pages, 15 b&w plates, 5 text illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 378331

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Matrilineal Kinship by: David M. Schneider & Kathleen Gough (Edited by)

Matrilineal Kinship
by: David M. Schneider & Kathleen Gough (Edited by)

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 761 pages, charts/diagrams, map; Contents: Introduction: the distinctive features of matrilineal descent groups / David M. Schneider -- pt. I. Nine matrilineal kinship systems -- pt. II. Variation in matrilineal systems / Kathleen Gough -- pt. III. Matrilineal descent in cross-cultural perspective / David F. Aberle. Subjects: Matrilineal kinship. Matricentric families Traditional societies Social anthropology. Social history. Clean copy.

Record # 378770

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Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 6 - Physical Anthropology, Lingustics and Cultural Geography of South American Indians by: Steward, Julian H. (ed.)

Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 6 - Physical Anthropology, Lingustics and Cultural Geography of South American Indians
by: Steward, Julian H. (ed.)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Goverment Printing Office, 1st, 1950, Hardccover, olive green cloth with gilt title on spine. 715 pages, Illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, portraits, tables, maps, fold-in maps & color map in rear pocket. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. Small ownership sticker inside front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 381657

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Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugarby: Fernando Ortiz; Translator Harriet de Onis

Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar
by: Fernando Ortiz; Translator Harriet de Onis

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages plus index. Though written over fifty years ago, Cuban Counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of Latin American and Caribbean intellectual history. Treating tobacco and sugar both as agricultural commodities and as social characters in a historical process, he examines changes in their roles as the result of transculturation. Clean copy. Spine faded.

Record # 378631

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The Nature of Cultureby: Kroeber, A.L.

The Nature of Culture
by: Kroeber, A.L.

Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 438 pages, mild waviness to pages. A collection of his most important essays, selected by Kroeber himself.

Record # 380342

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

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

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

Record # 381650

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Orokaiva Magic by: F. E. Williams

Orokaiva Magic
by: F. E. Williams

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Reprint of the 1928 edition. Concerning the indigenous peoples of Papua it covers the Taro primitive religious cult and the "garden culture" and magic of the Orokaiva. Dark-blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 231 pages includes index, glossary & fwd., + frontis. and 6 b&w illus, a diagram and a fold-out map at back. Francis Edgar Williams (9 February 1893 - 12 May 1943) was an Australian anthropologist who worked for the government of the Territory of Papua from 1922 to 1942. One of the few anthropologists of his time able to spend two continuous decades in the same location without having to regularly return to a metropolitan university or institution, he performed during those twenty years heavy field work, and published many books and articles. Several pages with light pencil marks in margins. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 381525

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The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performanceby: Richard Schechner

The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance
by: Richard Schechner

Hardcover. NY/London, Routledge, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 283 pages, b&w illustrations. " Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behavior and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, THE FUTURE OF RITUAL asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. It is richly illustrated with over 50 photos of pereformances and public events." Clean copy.

Record # 380296

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Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotismby: Ness, Immanuel

Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
by: Ness, Immanuel

Softcover. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30974

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Politics and History in Band Societiesby: Eleanar Leacock and Richard Lee (Ed.)

Politics and History in Band Societies
by: Eleanar Leacock and Richard Lee (Ed.)

Softcover. London, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 500 pages, maps and charts. The papers collected in this volume present important information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. The volume focuses on two themes: first, on the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organise their social and economic lives; and second, on their fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy. The contributors maintain that gatherer-hunters are not examples of a disappearing way of life, but peoples who have maintained their social and economic practices through long periods of contact with stratified societies. The aim of this volume it to make known to as wide an audience as possible the daily lives, the patterns of relations between the sexes and the political orientations of the world's contemporary foragers. Clean copy.

Record # 380467

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Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales and Their Relation to Chippewa Lifeby: Victor Barnouw

Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales and Their Relation to Chippewa Life
by: Victor Barnouw

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 295 pages. Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales, originally published in 1977, was the first collection of Chippewa folklore to provide a comparative and sociological context for the tales. These myths and tales were recorded between 1941 and 1944 by four young field workers who later became prominent anthropologists: Joseph B. Casagrande, Ernestine Friedl, Robert E. Ritzenthaler, and Victor Barnouw himself. The tales--which include stories of tricksters, animals, magical powers, and cannibal ice-giants--were told primarily by five members of the Lac Court Oreilles and Lac du Flambeau bands of Chippewa: John Mink, Prosper Guibord, Delia Oshogay, Tom Badger, and Julia Badger. Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales is read as much for its fascinating stories as for its scholarship.

Record # 371861

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

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

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

Record # 385435

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Reflections On Fieldwork In Moroccoby: Paul Rabinow

Reflections On Fieldwork In Morocco
by: Paul Rabinow

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 170 pages. Having previously published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, here Rabinow describes in straight-forward language a series of encounters with his informants, from a French innkeeper holding on to the vestiges of a colonial past to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. The unfolding of these encounters over the length of the author's stay in Morocco develops the book's main theme, that the collection of cultural data shapes and informs that material and its participant observer as well.

Record # 387748

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Sudden and Awful: American Epitaphs and the Finger of God by: Mann, Thomas C. / Greene, Janet

Sudden and Awful: American Epitaphs and the Finger of God
by: Mann, Thomas C. / Greene, Janet

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 99 pages. A collection of colonial, pioneer, and frontier American tombstone inscriptions. Previous owners name at top right corner of front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397818

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The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Lifeby: Doug Bock Clark

The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
by: Doug Bock Clark

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.

Record # 374061

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When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth In The Metropolitan Fringe by: Tom Daniels

When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth In The Metropolitan Fringe
by: Tom Daniels

Softcover. Island Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Strips of urban and suburban "fabric" have extended into the countryside, creating a ragged settlement pattern that blurs the distinction between rural, urban, and suburban. As traditional rural industries like farming, forestry, and mining rapidly give way to residential and commercial development, the land at the edges of developed areas -- the rural-urban fringe -- is becoming the middle landscape between city and countryside that the suburbs once were. When City and Country Collide examines the fringe phenomenon and presents a workable approach to fostering more compact development and better, more sustainable communities in those areas. It provides viable alternatives to traditional land use and development practices, and offers a solid framework and rational perspective for wider adoption of growth management techniques.

Record # 374279

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Religious Texts of the Oral Tradition from Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya) Part A: The Origin and Sources of Lifeby: Freerk C. Kamma

Religious Texts of the Oral Tradition from Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya) Part A: The Origin and Sources of Life
by: Freerk C. Kamma

Softcover. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. Detailed english language scientific investigation into pagan religious charms as observed and explained by a dutch protestant missionary minister who worked an extended time amongst Papuan tribes of Irian Jaya, former dutch territory of New Guinea. Clean copy.

Record # 378390

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The Fon and His Hundred Wives by: Rebecca Reyher

The Fon and His Hundred Wives
by: Rebecca Reyher

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 318 pages, b&w photos. Travel adventures in one of the last strongholds of polygamy, Cameroon. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 380852

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Early Tonga As the Explorers Saw It, 1616-1810by: Ferdon, Edwin N.

Early Tonga As the Explorers Saw It, 1616-1810
by: Ferdon, Edwin N.

Hardcover. Tucson AZ, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 339 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the people and customs of Tonga, based on the ethnographic observations of European visitors before the period of intensive Christian missionary activity. Clean copy.

Record # 378295

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Savage and the Innocent, Theby: Mayberry-Lewis, David

Savage and the Innocent, The
by: Mayberry-Lewis, David

Hardcover. London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The study of two of the most primitive tribes in Latin America. Foxing and light soiling to top copy edge. Light rubbing to top and bottom board edges. Rubbing and mild wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to front endpapers and flyleaf. Many b&w photos throughout.

Record # 951314

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Africa Adornedby: Fisher, Angela

Africa Adorned
by: Fisher, Angela

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, inc., Reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout (more than 400). Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Brown cloth cover boards, bold gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. Dust jacket unclipped, has small rip at bottom of front cover and wear at top of spine, otherwise very good. A look at the jewelry and body art of the African people.

Record # 32857

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Sex and Race, Vol. 3: Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition by: Rogers J. A.

Sex and Race, Vol. 3: Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition
by: Rogers J. A.

Hardcover. NY, Helga M. Rogers, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket. In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the "color problem." Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called "the bran of history"--the uncollected, unexamined history of black people--in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. Indeed his belief in one race--humanity--precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. The series marshals the data he had collected as evidence to prove his underlying humanistic thesis: that people were one large family without racial boundaries. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X. Clean copy.

Record # 381570

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

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

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

Record # 378662

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Situationist City, The by: Sadler, Simon

Situationist City, The
by: Sadler, Simon

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 464566

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

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

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

Record # 380469

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Early Factory Masters, The: The Transition to the Factory System in the Midlands Textile Industryby: Chapman, Stanley D.

Early Factory Masters, The: The Transition to the Factory System in the Midlands Textile Industry
by: Chapman, Stanley D.

Hardcover. New York, Augustus M. Kelley, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, with photographs, illustrations and charts. Minor dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise,bright and tight copy.

Record # 854287

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Women's Lives, Men's Lawsby: MacKinnon, Catharine A.

Women's Lives, Men's Laws
by: MacKinnon, Catharine A.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 558 pages. In the past twenty-five years, no one has been more instrumental than Catharine MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice." This collection, the first since MacKinnon's celebrated Feminism Unmodified appeared in 1987, brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women.By making visible the deep gender bias of existing law, MacKinnon has recast legal debate and action on issues of sex discrimination, sexual abuse, prostitution, pornography, and racism. The essays in this volume document and illuminate some of the momentous and ongoing changes to which this work contributes; the recognition of sexual harassment, rape, and battering as claims for sexual discrimination; the redefinition of rape in terms of women's actual experience of sexual violation; and the reframing of the pornography debate around harm rather than morality. The perspectives in these essays have played an essential part in changing American law and remain fundamental to the project of building a sex-equal future. Clean copy.

Record # 384102

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Taking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Cultureby: Talvacchia, Bette

Taking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Culture
by: Talvacchia, Bette

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.

Record # 99041

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Hypnotic Realities: The Induction of Clinical Hypnosis and Forms of Indirect Suggestionby: Milton H. Erickson; Ernest L. Rossi; Sheila I. Rossi

Hypnotic Realities: The Induction of Clinical Hypnosis and Forms of Indirect Suggestion
by: Milton H. Erickson; Ernest L. Rossi; Sheila I. Rossi

Hardcover. NY, Irvington Publishers, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Hypnotic Realities is a verbatim transcript of Dr. Erickson's induction of clinical hypnosis and his approaches to trance training. It provides students and professionals with clear examples of the evolution of clinical hypnotic phenomena. Two major innovations in this volume are the utilization theory of hypnosis and indirect forms of suggestion.... Each chapter includes an essay by Ernst Rossi which clarifies and elaborates on the relevant issues of Dr Erickson's work just illustrated. In these essays, Dr. Rossi analyzes Dr. Erickson's approach in order to uncover some of the basic variables that can be isolated and tested by future experimental work. These sections are a bridge between the clinical art of Dr. Erickson's hypnotherapy and the systematic efforts of the science of psychology to understand human behavior. 326 pages. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 380240

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

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

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

Record # 380344

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The Chinese of Sarawak: A Study of Social Structureby: T'ien, Ju-K'ang

The Chinese of Sarawak: A Study of Social Structure
by: T'ien, Ju-K'ang

Softcover. London, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers, 91 pages. One in a series of Monographs of Social Anthropology published by The London School of Economics and Political Science; this one is No. 12 and deals with the Chinese of Sarawak, a province of Malaysia located on the island of Borneo. There are several detailed fold-out maps and many charts and tables. Measures 7.25" x 9.75".

Record # 380366

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Yena: Art and Ceremony in a Sepik Societyby: Bowden, Ross

Yena: Art and Ceremony in a Sepik Society
by: Bowden, Ross

Softcover. Oxford UK, Pitts River Mjuseum, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 179 pages, illustrated with 16 double sided black and white plates that contain 36 photographs, along with 10 black and white line drawn figures throughout the text, also with 7 tables and 1 map, with a foreword by Rodney Needham. Clean copy.

Record # 378355

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Work and Play of Winnicottby: Simon A. Gronlnick

Work and Play of Winnicott
by: Simon A. Gronlnick

Hardcover. NY, Jason Aronson, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Donald Woods Winnicott (1896 - 1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. Clean, like new.

Record # 379202

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

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

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

Record # 372402

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Ritual and Knowledge Among the Baktaman of New Guineaby: Barth, Fredrik

Ritual and Knowledge Among the Baktaman of New Guinea
by: Barth, Fredrik

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press/Universitetsforlaget , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 292 pages, b&w illustr4ations. 'Analyzes the culture, particularly the ritual life, of a recently contacted aboriginal society--the Baktaman, a nation of 183 persons occupying a tract of mountain rain forest near the center of New Guinea.' - Front flap blurb. Clean copy.

Record # 378656

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The Yolngu and Their Land: a System of Land Tenure and the Fight for Its Recognition by: Nancy M. Williams

The Yolngu and Their Land: a System of Land Tenure and the Fight for Its Recognition
by: Nancy M. Williams

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The book focuses on the Aboriginal system of land tenure in the northeast of Arnhem Land, Australia. Yolngu land tenure is a system based on rational economic principles while deriving its validity and moral force from a rich religious mythology. The book is a contribution to the ethnography of Australian Aborigines, to comparative hunter-gatherer studies, to the analysis of systems of land tenure, and to the history of ideas about property. Clean copy.

Record # 380329

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Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmologyby: Telban, Borut

Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmology
by: Telban, Borut

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press , reprint, 2004, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. Dancing Through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit things, rituals, and dances. 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Light pencil marking to several pages, bumping to cover fore-edge.

Record # 381643

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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotionsby: Martha C. Nussbaum

Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
by: Martha C. Nussbaum

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.

Record # 378617

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Belief Magic and Anomie: Essays in Psychosocial Anthropologyby: Parsons, Anne

Belief Magic and Anomie: Essays in Psychosocial Anthropology
by: Parsons, Anne

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A collection of 15 essays. No markings.

Record # 380305

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The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N. by: Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N.

The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N.
by: Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N.

Hardcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price clipped dust jacket. 192 pages with frontispiece, maps, color plates, black and white plates, figures, facsimiles and index. Admiral Henry Byam Martin's first command in the British Navy was Captain of the 50-gun frigate, H.M.S. Grampus, in the year 1846. He was ordered to a sail from Plymouth 'round the Horn to Hawaii for further orders. Those orders sent him to Tahiti for a full year, the fatal year in which the French subjugated the Tahitians by bloody force, made the island a "Protectorate" of France but allowed the glamorous Queen Pomare to be the titular ruler until they took it over completely, as a colony, in 1880. This Polynesian portion of Captain Martin's daily Journal has lain unnoticed in the depths of the British Museum until this publication. But it still sparkles with wit and with acute observations of the personalities and events of that critical year in the struggle between the French and English for the conquest of the Pacific and the hopeless struggles of the poor islanders to defend their homelands and their freedom. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 382848

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Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An (Two Volumes)by: Locke, John

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An (Two Volumes)
by: Locke, John

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Reprint, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1: 535 pages. Volume 2: 495 pages, plus publisher ads. Hardcovers. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine, a touch of chipping to tops and bottoms of spine. Some tanning to pages and edges from age. Domestic shipping only. Binding good. Spines straight. First appearing in 1689, the essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and influenced many enlightenment philosophers, such as David Hume and George Berkeley. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99181

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

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

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

Record # 385850

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Karo: The Life and Fate of a Papuanby: Amirah Inglis

Karo: The Life and Fate of a Papuan
by: Amirah Inglis

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.

Record # 385976

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Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution by: Bunge, William, Foreword: Heynen, Nik, Foreword: Barnes, Trevor

Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution
by: Bunge, William, Foreword: Heynen, Nik, Foreword: Barnes, Trevor

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.

Record # 396523

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

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

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

Record # 382086

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