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Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe by: G.E.M. Anscombe

Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
by: G.E.M. Anscombe

Softcover. Charlottesville VA, Imprint Academic, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 298 pages. This volume presents a collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'.Anscombe (1919-2001) read classics and philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of his literary executors, she played a large part in editing his unpublished works and was their principal English translator. Clean copy.

Record # 399165

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Second Waigani Seminar: The History of Melanesiaby: N/A

Second Waigani Seminar: The History of Melanesia
by: N/A

Softcover. Port Moresby AU, University of Papua and New Guinea, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 675 pages. Papers delivered at a seminar sponsored jointly by the University of Papua and New Guinea, the Australian ... at Port Moresby from 30 May to 5 June 1968. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 399739

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Economics of Alfred Marshall, Theby: Davenport, H. J.

Economics of Alfred Marshall, The
by: Davenport, H. J.

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 481 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, b&w frontispiece of author's portrait. Light edgewear, previous owner's short ink inscription to front endpaper, pencil notations to rear endpapers, very mild pencil markings in page margins; a clean, tight copy.

Record # 807270

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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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Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Scienceby: Collins H. M. and T. J. Pinch

Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science
by: Collins H. M. and T. J. Pinch

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bight dust jacket, 210 pages. Explores the idea of socio-cognitive discontinuity and its problems, The authors, from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath, were asked to participate in a series of experiments with children who claimed to be able to bend metal by paranormal means (i.e., fraud). The book investigates metal bending, parapsychology and the quantum theory, and more. Clean copy.

Record # 374352

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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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Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmologyby: Simon J. Harrison

Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology
by: Simon J. Harrison

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 221 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the significance of names amongst the people of Avatip in the Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea in the formation and evolution of their very culture. Clean copy.

Record # 380303

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Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self; Sentiment, Place and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines (SIGNED COPY)by: Myers, Fred R.

Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self; Sentiment, Place and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines (SIGNED COPY)
by: Myers, Fred R.

Hardcover. Washington DC/Canberra, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, fading to spine. 334 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY MYERS on the front fly leaf. The Pintupi are a hunting-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert. They were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society. This book presents a comprehensive ethnographic interpretation of the ways in which Pintupi politics, cosmology, kinship systems, nomadic patterns and social values reinforce and sometimes contradict each other.

Record # 380340

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Sacrifice: Its Nature and Functionsby: Hubert, Henri ; Mauss, Marcel ; Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (fwd); Halls, W. D. (trans)

Sacrifice: Its Nature and Functions
by: Hubert, Henri ; Mauss, Marcel ; Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (fwd); Halls, W. D. (trans)

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1964, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 165 pages. An all-too-brief but still enthralling exploration of the sacred and the profane as shown though the medium of the sacrifice, "Sacrifice" gives the reader, through its erudite and gentle manner, a view of the role sacrifice plays in human societies. Tammuz, Dionysus, Soma, Christ, the Greek ritual of Bouphria: all are explored with grace and depth. Several dog-earred pages otherwise clean.

Record # 380435

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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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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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The Christians Of Kerala. History, Belief And Ritual Among The Yakoba by: Susan Visvanathan

The Christians Of Kerala. History, Belief And Ritual Among The Yakoba
by: Susan Visvanathan

Madras, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Lightly worn dust jacket. 279 pages, includes bibliography, index. The author explores the relationship between Christianity and Hiduism in India. Clean copy.

Record # 383846

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Dieties and Dolphins: The Story of the Nabataeans by: Glueck, Nelson

Dieties and Dolphins: The Story of the Nabataeans
by: Glueck, Nelson

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Sraus and Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 650 pages, b&w illustrations. A rare study of the Nabataeans, whose kingdom included that archaeological wonder of the world:, Petra. Name on front fly leaf, dj spine with fading.

Record # 386539

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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by: Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
by: Heather Ann Thompson

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 6th pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 724 pages. On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed thirty-nine men hostages as well as prisoners and severely wounded more than one hundred others. In the ensuing hours, weeks, and months, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners. And, ultimately, New York State authorities prosecuted only the prisoners, never once bringing charges against the officials involved in the retaking and its aftermath and neglecting to provide support to the survivors. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Clean copy.

Record # 397353

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: First Edition 1690by: John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: First Edition 1690
by: John Locke

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gray and gilt title, lettering on spine. A facsimile edition reprinted from the first issue of the first edition in 1690. 362 pages plus contents section in rear. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new.

Record # 399158

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Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by: Greenberg, Gary

Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease
by: Greenberg, Gary

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 432 pages. "Am I happy enough?": This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. Am I not happy enough because I am depressed? is a more recent version. Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured--not as an illness, but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way. "Greenberg['s] bouts of deep depressions [are] smartly conveyed here, including [his] participation in a clinical trial for an antidepressant...the author engages in extended, illuminating discussions of a host of therapeutic techniques, the confounding power of the placebo effect, the evolution of psychopharmacology and the ways in which expectations shape response. A humanistic, witty exploration of the human response to depression." --Kirkus. Clean copy.

Record # 399641

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They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigrationby: Antin, Mary

They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration
by: Antin, Mary

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 142 pages, 4 b&w illustrations by Joseph Stella. Embossed brown cloth, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 402937

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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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False Prophet: Fieldnotes from the Punk Underground (with CD)by: Taylor, Steven

False Prophet: Fieldnotes from the Punk Underground (with CD)
by: Taylor, Steven

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. AUDIO CD in rear. From the book: "This innovative ethnography provides. . .a rare intimate view into the everyday life of a working band. The audio CD contains some of False Prophet's most popular cuts.

Record # 374257

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The Principles of Social Evolutionby: Hallpike, C. R.

The Principles of Social Evolution
by: Hallpike, C. R.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 412 pages including index. Dispelling the general assumption that social institutions survive because of their sophisticated adaptive advantages, this ground-breaking work asserts that the commonest customs and institutions may endure because of their very simplicity or as a result of simple human proclivity. Using religious, military, and kinship institutions to illustrate this argument, the author shows that a precise combination of these factors may lead to the emergence of new forms of social evolution. Clean copy.

Record # 378335

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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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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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The Wrestler's Body:Identity and Ideology in North India by: Alter, Joseph S.

The Wrestler's Body:Identity and Ideology in North India
by: Alter, Joseph S.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 305 pages. The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline. Clean copy.

Record # 382047

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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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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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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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Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 3. The English and Latin Texts (ii) by: Thomas Hobbes/edited by Noel Malcolm

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 3. The English and Latin Texts (ii)
by: Thomas Hobbes/edited by Noel Malcolm

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages 557-1400. Clean, like new.

Record # 399145

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Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man: A Challenge to Semidetsiaby: Ivor De Wolfe

Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man: A Challenge to Semidetsia
by: Ivor De Wolfe

Hardcover. London, Architectural Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, in yellow linen boards with titling in gold. 156 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man, addresses "urban living" in the mid- to late twentieth century with reference to the impact of technology, new town planning, the death of the automobile, and a tongue-in- cheek attitude towards the then contemporary issues informing the development of urbanism in both academic and public imagination. At times bitingly critical, and at others erudite if not wholly 'politically correct' Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man is a refreshing look back at 'cutting edge' developments in architecture and urbanism from the 1970s, and is surprisingly relevant given our current situation. An uncommon title by the great promoter of modernism. the author edited Architectural Review and wrote several articles for it as well as books under the pseudonym, Ivor De Wolfe. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 399436

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A'aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self by: Stephen, Michele

A'aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self
by: Stephen, Michele

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 381 pages, b&w illustrations. Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, A'aisa's Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years' fieldwork, this richly detailed study of Mekeo esoteric knowledge, cosmology, and self-conceptualizations recasts accepted notions about magic and selfhood. Drawing on accounts by Mekeo ritual experts and laypersons, this is the first book to demonstrate magic's profound role in creating the self. It also argues convincingly that dream reporting provides a natural context for self-reflection. In presenting its data, the book develops the concept of "autonomous imagination" into a new theoretical framework for exploring subjective imagery processes across cultures.

Record # 399745

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Narcissus Leaves the Pool: Familiar Essaysby: Epstein, Joseph

Narcissus Leaves the Pool: Familiar Essays
by: Epstein, Joseph

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Previous owner dated signature on front flyleaf. Just a touch of wear to dust jacket at corners, still in very good condition. Binding tight.

Record # 5560081

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Classical Social Theoryby: Craib, Ian

Classical Social Theory
by: Craib, Ian

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 297 pages. Softcover. In very good condition, clean and bright inside. Wrapper has a slight yellowing at top edge, barely visable. Binding tight.

Record # 30962

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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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The History of the Melanesian Society - 2 Volume Setby: Rivers, W. H. R

The History of the Melanesian Society - 2 Volume Set
by: Rivers, W. H. R

Hardcover. Netherlands, Anthropological Publications, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, reprint of a book first published in 1914. Vol. I: 400 pages plus 22 pages of b&w plates. Vol. II: 610 pages including index and fold-out map. Red cloth covers with black and gilt title on spine. Cllean, no marking.

Record # 378290

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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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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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Ancient Polynesian Societyby: Irving Goldman

Ancient Polynesian Society
by: Irving Goldman

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 625 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Contents: Principles of Status; The Maori of New Zealand; Manihiki-Rakahanga; Tongareva; Magaia; Easter Island; The Marquesas; Mangareva; The Society Islands; The Hawaiian Islands; The Samoan Islands; Tongs; Uvea; Futuna; The Tokelaus; Tikopia; Pukpuka; Niue; Ontong Java; The Status Lineage; Principles of Kinship; The Economics of Status; The Rituals of Status; Status and Evolution. Owner's name inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 381719

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Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption by: Kennedy, Randall

Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption
by: Kennedy, Randall

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With the same piercing intelligence as the bestselling Say it Loud!, Interracial Intimacies hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other. Analyzing the tremendous changes in the history of America's racial dynamics, Randall Kennedy challenges us to examine how prejudices and biases still fuel fears and inform our sexual, marital, and family choices. He takes us from the injustices of the slave era up to present-day battles over race matching adoption policies, which seek to pair children with adults of the same race. He tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics, the historic role of legal institutions in policing racial boundaries, and the real and imagined pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy. Clean copy.

Record # 382295

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