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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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Visual Anthropology Review: Volume 11 Number 1/Spring 1995by: N/A

Visual Anthropology Review: Volume 11 Number 1/Spring 1995
by: N/A

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 144 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Includes: Articles on the cinema of Tim Asch, Paradise by James Clifford (on Papua New Guinea), Subtitling Ethnographic Films, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Record # 382083

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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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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the Westby: Saul, John Ralston

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
by: Saul, John Ralston

Softcover. Canada, Penguin Books, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 640 pages. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we've never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our "rational elites" have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts--"Voltaire's bastards"--whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertain-ment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins--whose "pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor" (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)--Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural estab-lishments of the West. Clean copy.

Record # 386022

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PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Album by: Weiser, Judy

PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Album
by: Weiser, Judy

Hardcover. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. In this book, Judy Weiser shows how mental health professionals can use clients' personal photos and family albums as catalysts for therapeutic communication. She reveals how initiating a dialogue based on such personally symbolic artistic expressions gives form to feelings which otherwise might be resistant to verbal investigations. She shows how to use this dialogue to stimulate recall of forgotten, blocked, or denied information and memories, and to apply these insights to an effective therapeutic framework. A comprehensive guide to PhotoTherapy, this book provides the theoretical principles, detailed techniques, anecdotal illustrations, and practical exercises that will help mental health professionals apply this approach in practice. Looking at all types of photographs - whether they are ones that clients respond to, collect, pose for, or create - Weiser describes various ways to engage clients with photographic imagery. Providing several examples from actual cases to illustrate how clients' responses to photographs can be integrated into the therapeutic process, she offers practitioners a powerful therapeutic tool, regardless of their particular theoretical orientation. Clean copy.

Record # 397270

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Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thoughtby: R. J. Hankinson

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought
by: R. J. Hankinson

Softcover. UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 499 pages. R. J. Hankinson traces the history of ancient Greek thinking about causation and explanation, from its earliest beginnings through more than a thousand years to the middle of the first millennium of the Christian era. He examines ways in which the Ancient Greeks dealt with questions about how and why things happen as and when they do, about the basic constitution and structure of things, about function and purpose, laws of nature, chance, coincidence, and responsibility. Clean copy.

Record # 399148

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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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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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Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speakby:  Fernea Elizabeth Warnock and Basima Qattan Bezirgan Edited by

Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak
by: Fernea Elizabeth Warnock and Basima Qattan Bezirgan Edited by

Softcover. Austin TX, University Of Texas Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400+ pages. A collection of autobiographical and biographical writings by and about Middle Eastern women. Many of the selections have been translated by the editors from Arabic, Persian or French. Illustrated with b/w photos.

Record # 374787

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Customary Law in Papua New Guinea: A Melanesian View by: Scaglion, Richard (editor)

Customary Law in Papua New Guinea: A Melanesian View
by: Scaglion, Richard (editor)

Softcover. Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages, bibliography, index. Mild fade to part of cover wrapper, otherwise clean.

Record # 378363

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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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Torres Strait Islanders: Custom and Colonialismby: Jeremy Beckett

Torres Strait Islanders: Custom and Colonialism
by: Jeremy Beckett

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Looks at the customs and effects of colonialism on the Torres Strait islander people, and the move many of them have made to mainland Australia were they have recreated island culture in a new environment.

Record # 378767

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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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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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History and Traditions of Tikopia by: Raymond Firth

History and Traditions of Tikopia
by: Raymond Firth

Hardcover. Wellington NZ, The Polynesian Society, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, 203 pages. With maps, tables and folding chart, a further study of Tikopia, looking at the traditional tales of island creation, miraculous feats and of struggles for land and power, and how much the traditions are still part of island culture.

Record # 380364

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King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry by: David Dean Shulman

King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry
by: David Dean Shulman

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st pbk, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 447 pages. A scholarly study of South Indian society, particularly the political order, as seen in literary images in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit texts. The king must endergo experiences of exile, masquerade, and possession by a clownlike anti-self, all these transformations being integral components of his role.

Record # 380695

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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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Racial Theoriesby: Michael Banton

Racial Theories
by: Michael Banton

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press], 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers with gilt stamping. This is the original edition, later revised. Small nick to cloth on rear cover. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 382044

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by: Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
by: Jacob A. Riis

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 304 pages. Illustrated with b&w plates (drawings and photographs). Later printing, originally printed in 1890. Bound in 1/4 blue cloth and decorated beige paper covered boards, with bright gilt titles on the spine. Boards have wear, chipping to paper. extremities of the boards. Riis's famous muck raking work exposing the despair and harsh conditions of life among the poor in NYC. Includes chapters on Jew Town, The Color Line, the Italians and other groups. Led to major reforms includes floor plans for tenements to improve the lot of the immigrants. Monumental work in the reform movement. Previous owner's small oval sticker on front cover and on inside front cover, light pencil notes to front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean interior.

Record # 382742

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Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbookby: Harris John F. and Stephen K. Stearns

Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook
by: Harris John F. and Stephen K. Stearns

Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2nd Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages, b&w drawings throughout. .This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of analysis, illustrates techniques for computing Maya calendrics, uses the currently accepted orthography, provides syllabary and syntax, suggests new glyph readings, and presents various interpretations. The second edition includes updated versions of three publications on Maya hieroglyphs. Serving as a self-teaching tool, it introduces analysis methods, calendrics, orthography, syllabary, syntax, new glyph readings, and interpretations for both beginners and scholars. Light fading to spine, clean copy.

Record # 385726

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Banish the Night:  Fighting Kur, Timango, and other devils in New Guinea by: Leonard Barnard

Banish the Night: Fighting Kur, Timango, and other devils in New Guinea
by: Leonard Barnard

Softcover. Mountain View CA, Pacific Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A missionary's experience in the 1930s among the natives of New Guinea. Clean copy.

Record # 396301

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Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics: Conscience and Scriptureby: Luisa Simonutti (Editor)

Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics: Conscience and Scripture
by: Luisa Simonutti (Editor)

Hardcover. Springer, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards, 266 pages. The volume presents illuminating research carried out by international scholars of Locke and the early modern period. The essays address the theoretical and historical contexts of Locke's analytical methodology and come together in a multidisciplinary approach that sets biblical hermeneutics in relation to his philosophical, historical, and political thought, and to the philological and doctrinal culture of his time. The contextualization of Locke's biblical hermeneutics within the contemporary reading of the Bible contributes to the analysis of the figure of Christ and the role of Paul's theology in political and religious thought from the seventeenth century to the Enlightenment. The volume sheds light on how Locke was appreciated by his contemporaries as a biblical interpreter and exegete. It also offers a reconsideration that overarches interpretations confined within specific disciplinary ambits to address Locke's thought in a global historic context. Clean, like new.

Record # 399143

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Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledgeby: Murray, Patrick (Irving Adler)

Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge
by: Murray, Patrick (Irving Adler)

Hardcover. Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Humanities Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, author Irving Adler's copy, with his markings throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, bright and tight.

Record # 457131

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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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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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Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918 by: Young, Michael W.

Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918
by: Young, Michael W.

Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1sr, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 306 pages, 190 photographs, 4 maps. Cloth cover. The only book-length study devoted to the photographic aspects of the work of the groundbreaking anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume links a series of photo-essays based on Trobriand institutions--and cultural themes. The photographs, all previously unpublished, were taken between 1915 and 1918.

Record # 378349

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Mambu: A Melanesian Millenniumby: Burridge, K.O.L. (Kenelm Oswald Lancelot)

Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium
by: Burridge, K.O.L. (Kenelm Oswald Lancelot)

Hardcover. London, Methuen and Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket, 296 pages. Russet cloth lettered in silver on spine. Illustrated with 2-color line frontispiece, 16 half-tone photographsic plates and 5 line illustrations in the text. An important and early anthropoliogical study of a little known phenomenon. The title is taken from the given name of a native New Guinean who started the cargo cult, circa 1935. Similar to other messianic movements, Burridge's first hand account is a scholarly examination of the religious, political, and economic aspects which make up the cult.

Record # 378646

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Savage Life And Scenes In Australia And New Zealand. Being an Artists Impressions of Countries and People at the Antipodes (2 Vols.)by: Angas, George French

Savage Life And Scenes In Australia And New Zealand. Being an Artists Impressions of Countries and People at the Antipodes (2 Vols.)
by: Angas, George French

Hardcover. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spines, Vol. I. xii, 340 pages; tinted frontispiece; 9 illustrations; Vol. II. viii, 280 pages; tinted frontispiece; 10 illustrations 7 are tinted; appendix. Facsimile of title originally published London, Smith, Elder & Co, in 1847. Library stamp to front endpapers otherwise clean, bright copies.

Record # 378702

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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]

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2nd pr., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 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 cover wrapper.

Record # 380316

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Tepoztlan, A Mexican Village: A Study Of Folk Lifeby: Redfield, Robert

Tepoztlan, A Mexican Village: A Study Of Folk Life
by: Redfield, Robert

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 6th pr., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 247 pages. The author, a trained ethnologist, lived among a Mexican community of 4, 000 where Spanish and the local Aztec dialect was well preserved. Photographs, map of town. Owner's name inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Record # 380347

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Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma by: Vilsoni Hereniko

Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma
by: Vilsoni Hereniko

Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamp in gilt, 197 pages, b&w maps. (Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 12) An imaginative and thought-provoking study of clowning in Rotuma, especially of ritual clowning in contexts of marriage ceremonies and the weaving of fine mats. Pencil marking throughout text.

Record # 380677

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Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A study of variation in language, customs, and human biologyby: Terrell, John

Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A study of variation in language, customs, and human biology
by: Terrell, John

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 299 pages, b&w illustrations. How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity. A few pages with light pencil marking, otherwise clean.

Record # 381524

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Essays in Polynesian Ethnology by: Williamson, Robert Wood; Piddington, Ralph-Editor

Essays in Polynesian Ethnology
by: Williamson, Robert Wood; Piddington, Ralph-Editor

Hardcover. NY, Cooper Square Publishers, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 373 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out map. A reprint of a title originally published in 1939, this release is updated by Ralph Piddington with recent studies. Nine Chapters: Warfare in Central Polynesia, Kava in Samoa and Tonga, Kava in other Polynesian Islands, The Arioi, Sex Courtship and Infanticide, Stability and Change in Polynesian Culture, The Origins of Polynesian Culture, Polynesia and Melanesia, and Past and Present in Polynesia. Plus Appendix Assam Parallels. Clean copy.

Record # 381716

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The North Alaskan Eskimo: A Study in Ecology and Society by: Robert F. Spencer

The North Alaskan Eskimo: A Study in Ecology and Society
by: Robert F. Spencer

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian/GPO, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth, gilt lettering on spine faded. 490 pages, 3 fold-out plates include 2 maps. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 382244

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The Standardization of Error (SIGNED COPY)by: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

The Standardization of Error (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth spine with printed paper label and white paper covered boards with red titles, 110 pages. This copy INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Stefansson on the half title page, and dated 'London, June 5 1931.' No. 16, in the General series of 'Psyche Miniatures'.

Record # 384286

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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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Wolf Child and Human Child Being a Narrative Interpretation of the Life History of Kamala the Wolf Girl by: Gesell, Arnold

Wolf Child and Human Child Being a Narrative Interpretation of the Life History of Kamala the Wolf Girl
by: Gesell, Arnold

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, navy cloth, title in gilt to spine. In a worn and chipped dust jacket with some closed tears. 107 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397859

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Examination of Pharisaic Traditions Supplemented by Semuel Da Silva's Treatise on the Immortality of the Soulby: Uriel Da Costa

Examination of Pharisaic Traditions Supplemented by Semuel Da Silva's Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul
by: Uriel Da Costa

Hardcover. NY, E.J. Brill, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 578 pages plus charts, b&w photos in rear. Translation and notes by H.P. Salomon and I.S.D. Sassoon. Da Costa's long-lost book rejects the divine origin of the rabbinic tradition. His insight was that what he calls Pharisaism is irreconcilable with the religion of the Pentateuch and therefore cannot derive from the same source. He claims, for example, that the Law of Moses does not allow for a belief in an afterlife for individual human beings. Concomitantly he denied the Mosaic origin of the notion of eternal punishment. The rabbinic reading of the Mosaic Law appeared to him almost as great a falsification as the Christian one. Yet there could be no reversion to Christianity and despite his deep rift with the synagogue he still believed in ultimate redemption for the Jewish people. As he so dramatically declares in his closing sonnet, Israel's rehabilitation depends on its shedding man-made doctrines, and holding fast to the Law in its purity.

Record # 399162

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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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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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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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The Haitian People by: Leyburn, James G

The Haitian People
by: Leyburn, James G

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press., 4th pr., 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers, black lettering on spine, 342 pages. Endpapers map, foreword by the author; includes: caste and class, religion, sex relations & home life, politics and economcs, and modern Haiti, notes & bibliography, index. Clean copy.

Record # 378630

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The 'Hiri' in History. Further aspects of long distance Motu trade in Central Papua. Pacific Research Monograph Number Eight. by: Dutton, Tom.(Ed)

The 'Hiri' in History. Further aspects of long distance Motu trade in Central Papua. Pacific Research Monograph Number Eight.
by: Dutton, Tom.(Ed)

Softcover. Canberra, Australian National University, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages, black and white photographic illustrations and maps in the text.

Record # 378665

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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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Masks, Transformation, and Paradoxby: Napier, A. David

Masks, Transformation, and Paradox
by: Napier, A. David

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece?in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon?provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 380304

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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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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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Contexts and Levels: Anthropological Essays on Hierarchyby: Barnes, R.H., Daniel De Coppet, R.J. Parkin [Editors]

Contexts and Levels: Anthropological Essays on Hierarchy
by: Barnes, R.H., Daniel De Coppet, R.J. Parkin [Editors]

Softcover. Oxford UK, JASO, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 219 pages. Journal of the Anthropological Society Occasional Papers No. 4. Clean copy.

Record # 380866

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Tongan Society at the time of Captain Cook's visits: Discussions with Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupouby: Elizabeth Bott/with the assistance of Tavi

Tongan Society at the time of Captain Cook's visits: Discussions with Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupou
by: Elizabeth Bott/with the assistance of Tavi

Softcover. Wellington AU, The Polynesian Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 187 pages. Clean, bright copy. With notes, glossary, index.

Record # 381648

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Visual Anthropology Review: Volume 8 Number 2/Fall 1992by: N/A

Visual Anthropology Review: Volume 8 Number 2/Fall 1992
by: N/A

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 120 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Includes: Reading Trash, Artaud, Rouch, & the Cinema of Cruelty; Remembering the Revolution, Forgetting the Empire; 'Thirty Centuries, the Splendors of Mexico'; What Is Real About Virtual Reality?; Marketing Alterity, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Record # 382084

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