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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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Rituals of Kinship Among the Nyakyusaby: Monica Wilson

Rituals of Kinship Among the Nyakyusa
by: Monica Wilson

London/NY, Oxford University Press / International Affrican Institute, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with fading to spine. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Examines the rituals celebrated by kinsmen on the occasion of births, marriages and deaths within the group.

Record # 380733

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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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Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoptionby: Trenka, Jane Jeong & Julia Chinyere Oparah & Sun Yung Shin

Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption
by: Trenka, Jane Jeong & Julia Chinyere Oparah & Sun Yung Shin

Softcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, reprint, 2021, Softcover, 329 pages. Many adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most intimate aspect of globalization through essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Moving beyond personal narrative, transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported--about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, the contributors unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice. Clean copy.

Record # 383569

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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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Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide: the Psychiatric Knowledge and the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe by: Devereux, George

Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide: the Psychiatric Knowledge and the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe
by: Devereux, George

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 586 pages. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 175). 10 b&w plates. Clean copy. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396509

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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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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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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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The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Spaceby: Editor: Hirsch, Eric, Editor: O'Hanlon, Michael

The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space
by: Editor: Hirsch, Eric, Editor: O'Hanlon, Michael

Softcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations. Subjects; Landscape assessment. Human geography. Geographical perception. Space perception. Cognition and culture; history. Landscape Social aspects. Landscape assessment Great Britain. Cognition and culture. Clean copy.

Record # 378691

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Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest by: Fink, Deborah

Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest
by: Fink, Deborah

Softcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages, b&w illustrations. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and highlights its significance in shaping the state's economic, political, and social contours. Fink draws both on interviews and on her own firsthand experience working on the production floor of a pork-processing plant. She weaves a fascinating account of the meatpacking industry's history in Iowa--a history, she notes, that has been experienced differently by male and female, immigrant and native-born, white and black workers. Like new.

Record # 374349

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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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Coming into Being Among the Australian Aborigines: A Study of the Procreative Beliefs of the Australian Aboriginesby: Montagu, Ashley

Coming into Being Among the Australian Aborigines: A Study of the Procreative Beliefs of the Australian Aborigines
by: Montagu, Ashley

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd Ed., 1974, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. This revised and expanded second edition, again tackles the question of procreation within the aboriginal tribes. As Ernest Jones said of the first edition (from the rear panel of the dust wrapper) " ... by far the most valuable study among the large literature that has accumulated over the vexed question of whether Australian aborigines are really ignorant of the physiological effects of procreation and whether they are " so to speak " pretending for social and religious reasons to be thus ignorant ". This landmark study was first published in 1937, and this second edition takes into account later fieldwork and new information that became available on the subject.

Record # 380327

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The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdomsby: Kirch, Patrick Vinton

The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
by: Kirch, Patrick Vinton

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 314 pages, index, b&w illustrations. This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data have since been exploited. The author combines this fresh archaeological data with comparative ethnographic and linguistic materials to present an innovative and perceptive account of the processes of culture change in the islands over three millennia. Using comparative ethnography, lexical reconstruction and direct archaeological evidence, the author reconstructs the broad outlines of Ancestral Polynesian Society, from which the diverse societies of the Polynesian region descended. Major processes of cultural change are analysed in detail, including colonization, adaptation to changing environments, development of intensive production and social conflict and competition. Clean copy.

Record # 381638

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History of Autobiography in Antiquity (Two Volumes)by: Misch, Georg, Dr. Karl Mannheim (Editor)

History of Autobiography in Antiquity (Two Volumes)
by: Misch, Georg, Dr. Karl Mannheim (Editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1st Editions, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction. Two Volumes: Vol. 1: 352 pages. Vol. 2: 706 pages plus publisher ads. Previous owner's name on front flyleafs. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, fading to boards, especially to spines. Binding tight. Spines straight. Pages/edges have light tanning, otherwise clean. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99173

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Orokaiva Societyby: F. E. Williams

Orokaiva Society
by: F. E. Williams

Hardcover. Oxford UK, The Clarendon Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 355 pages, 38 plates with titles (including frontispiece, mostly phtographic, folding map). Contents: Introduction; The Orokaiva People; Daily Life; Personal Enhancement; The Food Quest; Arts of Life; Individual, Family, and Clan; The Plant Emblem; Marriage; The Tribes; Warfare; Initiation Ceremonies; Ceremonies of Mourning; Dance and Drama; The Spiritual Substitute; Survival After Death; Medicine and Magic; Morality; Note on Orthography; Glossary; Index. Reprint of a book first published in 1930.

Record # 378666

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Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolutionby: Del Gandio, Jason, Ak Thompson

Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution
by: Del Gandio, Jason, Ak Thompson

Hardcover. Albany, NY, SUNY, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover. Decorated covers, high gloss finish. In excellent condition, super clean and bright inside. Small spot of soil on foreedge. Covers are very good.

Record # 30971

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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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The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979by: Horowitz, Daniel

The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979
by: Horowitz, Daniel

Softcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press,, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 339 pages including index. A wide-ranging exploration of conflicting American attitudes toward affluence. This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. Clean, like new.

Record # 371322

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Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molestingby: Kincaid, James

Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting
by: Kincaid, James

Hardcover. Duke University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape. Claiming that our culture has yet to come to terms with the bungled legacy of Victorian sexuality, Kincaid examines how children and images of youth are idealized, fetishized, and eroticized in everyday culture.

Record # 385430

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Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccanby: Crapanzano, Vincent

Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan
by: Crapanzano, Vincent

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 187 pages. Summary: Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and he seeks, with crippling ambivalence, liberation from 'A'isha Qandisha, the she-demon. In a sensitive and bold experiment in interpretive ethnography, Crapanzano presents Tuhami's bizarre account of himself and his world. In so doing, Crapanzano draws on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and symbolism to reflect upon the nature of reality. Two pages with check mark/lines in margin, otherwise clean.

Record # 387755

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Psychedelic Review: Winter 1970/71 Number 11by: Mogar, Robert and Gerald Pearlman

Psychedelic Review: Winter 1970/71 Number 11
by: Mogar, Robert and Gerald Pearlman

Softcover. San Francisco, Psychedelic Review, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with color pictorial wrappers, 85 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. The last issue of the controversial journal on psychedelic substances, originally founded by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Mild wear, light soil, overall very good, no markings.

Record # 397862

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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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Film as Ethnography by: Crawford Peter Ian/Turton David

Film as Ethnography
by: Crawford Peter Ian/Turton David

Softcover. Manchester University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels. Subjects: Motion pictures in ethnology. Ethnology Fieldwork. Motion pictures Social aspects. Motion pictures in ethnography. Documentary television programs. Mild fading to covers. No marking.

Record # 380309

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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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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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Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Societyby: Bruce M. Knauft

Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Society
by: Bruce M. Knauft

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 474 pages, b&w illustrations. Fascinating study of the Gebusi people of PNG, who have one of the highest homicide rates in the world, because the execute suspected sorcerers. Despite this, the Gebusi are known for being good company. PNG is one of the most fascinating places on our planet, and this is one piece of the mosaic. First 25 pages with highlighting, pencil marking. Rest of the book is clean.

Record # 381724

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Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narrativesby: Jackson, Michael

Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives
by: Jackson, Michael

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages. Poet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings to this study of the folktales of the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone a sensitivity to the philosophical nuances of literature. Clean copy. Review slip laid in.

Record # 378629

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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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Roots of the Earth: Crops in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by: Paul Sillitoe

Roots of the Earth: Crops in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
by: Paul Sillitoe

Hardcover. UK, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 285 pages, b&w illustrations. The author lived among the Wola of New Guinea for several years, studying the cultivation and consumption of their crops. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 381649

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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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A New Dealby: Stuart Chase

A New Deal
by: Stuart Chase

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 257 pages. Later printing. Bound in black cloth boards with paper titles present to the spine and front board. Stuart Chase was an American economist and engineer trained at MIT. His writings covered topics as diverse as general semantics and physical economy. His hybrid background of engineering and economics places him in the same philosophical camp as R. Buckminster Fuller. Chase's thought was shaped by Henry George, Thorstein Veblen and Fabian socialism. Chase spent his early political career supporting "a wide range of reform causes: the single tax, women's suffrage, birth control and socialism." Chase's early books The Tragedy of Waste (1925) and Your Money's Worth (1928) were notable for their criticism of corporate advertising and their advocacy of consumer protection. Although not a Marxist, Chase admired the planned economy of the Soviet Union, being impressed with it after a 1927 visit. Chase stated that "The Russians, in a time of peace, have answered the question of what an economic system is for." It has been suggested that he was the originator of the expression a New Deal, which became identified with the economic programs of American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 382734

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Mechanical Bride, The: Folklore of Industrial Manby: McLuhan, Marshall

Mechanical Bride, The: Folklore of Industrial Man
by: McLuhan, Marshall

Hardcover. New York , The Vanguard Press, Inc, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 157 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, faint musty smell. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856889

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Kathakali Dance Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play by: Phillip Zarrilli

Kathakali Dance Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play
by: Phillip Zarrilli

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colorful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time. This landmark volume explores Kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India and the west. During these performances heroes, heroines, gods and demons tell their stories of traditional Indian epics. The four Kathakali plays included in this anthology, translated from actual performances into English are: * The Flower of Good Fortune * The Killing of Kirmmira * The Progeny of Krishna * King Rugmamgada's Law Each play has an introduction and detailed commentary and is illustrated by stunning photographs taken during performances. Clean copy.

Record # 382051

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Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystiqueby: Jaclyn Geller

Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique
by: Jaclyn Geller

Softcover. NY, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1st, 2001, Softcover, 428 pages. Jaclyn Geller exposes the social forces that shape how people feel about weddings, calling into question some of the deepest-held beliefs about this tradition. Divided into three sections, the book begins with how-to-get-your-man manuals and ends with the newlywed year. First there's ?Courtship and the Marriage Quest." Geller looks at the absurd nature of proposals, the inane practice of engagement and gift-giving, and the bizarre rules governing the wedding dress. In part two, ?The Big Day," she deals with the specifics of the wedding itself. There are place cards and table settings, rigid photo ops, vows, toasts, garter belts, and daddy dances. What do these highly scripted procedures say about this most treasured ritual? Finally, the author explores some of marriage's deeper implications in ?Living in the Plural": the strangely isolating honeymoon and the establishment of marital identity that begins with a simple thank-you note. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 384031

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Ninth of Thermidor, The: The Fall of Robespierre (Problems in European History: A Documentary Collection)by: Bienvenu, Richard (Editor)

Ninth of Thermidor, The: The Fall of Robespierre (Problems in European History: A Documentary Collection)
by: Bienvenu, Richard (Editor)

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st paperback, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Softcover. Light pencil underlining in a few places. Wrapper good, with a touch of agewear, no tears, some slight moisture damage at the bottom of the back cover.

Record # 99029

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Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by: Paul Ricoeur

Lectures on Ideology and Utopia
by: Paul Ricoeur

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 353 pages. The only available collection of Ricoeur's lectures on ideology and utopia, this seminal collection discusses the work of Althusser, Marx, Habermas, Geertz, Mannheim, and Weber. Clean copy.

Record # 397580

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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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The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lankaby: Moore, Mick

The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka
by: Moore, Mick

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, blue clith with gilt lettering on spine, 328 pages. Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than fifty years' history of pluralist democracy and such issues directly affect the interests of the smallholder population. Yet successive Sri Lankan governments have pursued economic policies favouring food consumers and the state itself at the expense of agricultural producers. In exploring the features of Sri Lanka's history, geography, politics and economy which explain this paradox, the author looks in detail at some of the dominant features of contemporary Sri Lanka: the political consequences of the plantation experience; the persistence of elite political leadership; and the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict. Clean copy, paper tanning slightly.

Record # 382296

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Literacy in Traditional Societiesby: Goody, Jack (ed)

Literacy in Traditional Societies
by: Goody, Jack (ed)

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 350 pages. Introduction + 10 essays. Specific societies noted incl Traditional China & India, Buddhist Village in North-East Thailand, Kerala, Islamic Learning in Western Sudan, Northern Ghana, Somali Nomads, Madagascar, Melanesia, Pre-Industrial England. Bibliography & Index. Clean copy.

Record # 378388

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Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa by: Smith, Mary

Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa
by: Smith, Mary

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. The autobiography of an intelligent, traditional Hausa woman. An excellent piece of ethnography. The author, the wife of social anthropologist, became Baba's friend in Nigeria. After many conversations between the two women, she agreed to dictate the story of her life. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 380850

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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

Price: $60.00 
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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

Price: $150.00 
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The Prehistory of Australia by: Mulvaney, D.J.

The Prehistory of Australia
by: Mulvaney, D.J.

Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, faded spine. 276 pages, 81 photos, 27 drawings, 11 maps. Volume 65 in the series 'Ancient People and Places', edited by Glyn Daniel. Owner name inked on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 380339

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The Edge of the Forest: Land, Childhood, and Change in a New Guinea Protoagricultural Societyby: Sorenson, Richard E., Forward by Margaret Mead

The Edge of the Forest: Land, Childhood, and Change in a New Guinea Protoagricultural Society
by: Sorenson, Richard E., Forward by Margaret Mead

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild chipping. 278 pages, 150 b&w illustrations throughout, some fold-out plates. 16 maps and 8 tables. Clean copy.

Record # 381529

Price: $18.00 
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Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind Anim Culture South New Guineaby: Baal, J Van, Dr.

Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind Anim Culture South New Guinea
by: Baal, J Van, Dr.

Hardcover. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth cover with gilt lettering, 988 pages, 24 b&w plates, drawings in text, folded maps in rear pocket, all very good condition. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy of a scarce volume.

Record # 378661

Price: $200.00 
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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

Price: $12.00 
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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

Price: $18.00 
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Happiness For Husbands and Wivesby: Shryock, Harold

Happiness For Husbands and Wives
by: Shryock, Harold

Hardcover. Mountain View CA, Review and Herald Publishing , 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 256 pages. A well-intentioned and very campy book of advice and encouragement for a married couple from the well-known Adventist, Harold Shryock. Circa 1949 and reflects the attitudes of the period. Color and b&w photos illustrate this domestic fantasy. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387844

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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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