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

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 144 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Includes: Shoot for the Contents, Films of Memory, Encounter with a Road Siren, other essays and reviews. Light rubbing to covers. Clean.

Record # 382087

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

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

Record # 382088

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The North Alaskan Eskimo: A Study in Ecology and Society by: Robert F. Spencer
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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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Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption by: Kennedy, Randall
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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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The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka by: Moore, Mick
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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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The Way of the Masks by: Levi-Strauss, Claude
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The Way of the Masks
by: Levi-Strauss, Claude

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 249 pages, b&w photos. The book is almost entirely about trying to understand the deep meaning of the unusual-looking Sxwayxwey* mask of the Coast Salish, by referring to the origin myths, dances and costumes associated with it. A large part of the book attempts to clarify this by contrasting and comparing it with the Tsonoqua mask which is associated with several tribal groups from various parts of coastal British Columbia. He weaves a huge matrix of elements of the masks, the dance costumes, the dances, the origin myths, related myths, and only kind-of-sort-of related myths. Clean copy.

Record # 382723

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A New Deal by: Stuart Chase
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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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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by: Jacob A. Riis
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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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The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N. by: Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N.
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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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The Miami Indians of Indiana: A Persistent People, 1654-1994 by: Stewart Rafert
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The Miami Indians of Indiana: A Persistent People, 1654-1994
by: Stewart Rafert

Softcover. Indiana Historical Society, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 358 pages, 2 maps, b/w photos, appendices, notes, important dates, bibliography, index. Explores the history and culture of the Miami Indians, who have fought for many years to gain tribal status from the U.S. government. Clean copy.

Record # 383044

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Manners and Social Usages. New and Enlarged Edition Revised By the Author by: Mrs. John Sherwood
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Manners and Social Usages. New and Enlarged Edition Revised By the Author
by: Mrs. John Sherwood

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, Revised Ed., 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board, as well as decorative silver gilt towards top of front board. Gilt edge to top of edge block. 487 pages plus publisher's ads. An attractive copy of this popular soup-to-nuts etiquette manual., first published in 1884. This is the enlarged, revised edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383478

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Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption by: Trenka, Jane Jeong & Julia Chinyere Oparah & Sun Yung Shin
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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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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by: Dinerstein, Joel
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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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Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings by: Baudrillard, Jean; Poster, Mark (Edited with an Introduction by)

Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
by: Baudrillard, Jean; Poster, Mark (Edited with an Introduction by)

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 230 pages. Jean Baudrillard is one of the most topical and controversial theorists in France today. He has played a major role in the development of critical social theory and cultural sociology, and his writings are currently at the center of the 'post-modernism' debate. This volume makes his most important work widely available in English for the first time. It includes selections from the entire range of his writings, from his early work on advertising and commodity culture to his most recent writings on simulation and desire. Throughout the selections Baudrillard stresses the ways in which our lives are embedded in a world if images which have no clear reference and which are reproduced by the new mechanisms of cultural production in contemporary societies. Clean copy.

Record # 383949

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Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique by: Jaclyn Geller
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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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Women's Lives, Men's Laws by: MacKinnon, Catharine A.
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Women's Lives, Men's Laws
by: MacKinnon, Catharine A.

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

Record # 384102

Price: $45.00
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Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Macdonald, Cameron Lynne
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Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Macdonald, Cameron Lynne

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Based on in-depth interviews with professional women and childcare providers- immigrant and American-born nannies as well as European au pairs-Shadow Mothers locates the roots of individual skirmishes between mothers and their childcare providers in broader cultural and social tensions. Macdonald argues that these conflicts arise from unrealistic ideals about mothering and inflexible career paths and work schedules, as well as from the devaluation of paid care work. Mild crease to cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 384284

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The Standardization of Error (SIGNED COPY) by: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
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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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The Enduring Ghetto; Sources and Readings by: Goldfield D. R.; Lane J. B.
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The Enduring Ghetto; Sources and Readings
by: Goldfield D. R.; Lane J. B.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st pbk., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 258 pages. A study of various black, chicano, Chinese and other ethnic neighborhoods in various American cities. (Circa 1973) Clean copy.

Record # 385003

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Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration by: Jacoby, Tamar
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Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
by: Jacoby, Tamar

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sixty years after the 1963 March on Washington, blacks and whites are still trying to achieve Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historic dream of racial inclusion. What ever happened to integration? What happened to the vision of a single, shared community in which both blacks and whites would feel they belong? Barriers have fallen; prejudice is abating. Blacks have made astonishing progress in many areas. Yet if anything, King's vision seems more remote than ever, and most Americans, black and white, remain divided by anger and mistrust. In Someone Else's House, Tamar Jacoby asks what happened to the King dream, calling the nation back to its most hopeful and promising ideal of race relations. Moving beyond the stale blame game of left and right, Jacoby uses history to show what's worked and what hasn't. Her story of the unfinished struggle for integration leads through the volatile worlds of New York in the 1960s, the center of liberal idealism about race; Detroit in the 1970s, under the city's first black mayor, Coleman Young; and Atlanta in the 1980s and 1990s, ruled by a coalition of white businessmen and black politicians. Clean copy.

Record # 385014

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Soviet Economists of the Twenties: Names to Be Remembered by: Jasny, Naum
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Soviet Economists of the Twenties: Names to Be Remembered
by: Jasny, Naum

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to edge, 218 pages with index. An account of the mainly Menshevik economists of the USSR early years, who were heavily prosecuted in the Stalinist 1930s for economic failures. The Soviet emigre academic author explains and attempts to exonerate those discredited experts.

Record # 385055

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Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting by: Kincaid, James
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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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Black Anger by: Sachs, Wulf
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Black Anger
by: Sachs, Wulf

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Hardcover, green cloth with black lettering. Frontis portrait. This text is an expansion of the author's 1937 article Black Hamlet : the mind of an African Negro revealed by psychoanalysis. "This is the true story of John Chavafambira. It is a unique, never-before-written account of a native African medicine man, his life experiences and inner conflicts, etched against the background of two worlds-- white and black -- in collision. It is an amazing study of seemingly irreconcilable elements, laid in South Africa where the clash of color is most violent". Clean copy but mild musty odor.

Record # 385514

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Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook by: Harris John F. and Stephen K. Stearns
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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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Harvest of the Sea: Coastal Subsistence in Modern Wainright. A Report for the North Slope Borough's Coastal Management Program. by: Richard K. Nelson
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Harvest of the Sea: Coastal Subsistence in Modern Wainright. A Report for the North Slope Borough's Coastal Management Program.
by: Richard K. Nelson

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

Record # 385757

Price: $28.00
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Cycles of the Sun Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization by: Malmstrom, Vincent H.
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Cycles of the Sun Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization
by: Malmstrom, Vincent H.

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

Record # 385850

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

Softcover. Canberra AU, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, b&w illustrations. The author became interested in Karo Araua when she heard for the first time the 'Song about Karo', the poem in traditional form in which he was the hero. Most writings about Papua New Guinea deal with the successful people who managed the colonial encounter. Karo, hanged in Port Moresby in 1938, was not successful, but his name lives on among his own people. Clean copy.

Record # 385976

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

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

Record # 386016

Price: $12.00
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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by: Saul, John Ralston
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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

Price: $12.00
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Microstructure of the Foreign-Exchange Market, The: A Selective Survey of the Literature by: Lucio Sarno, Mark P. Taylor
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Microstructure of the Foreign-Exchange Market, The: A Selective Survey of the Literature
by: Lucio Sarno, Mark P. Taylor

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

Record # 386110

Price: $18.00
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Dieties and Dolphins: The Story of the Nabataeans by: Glueck, Nelson
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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

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire by: Frank, Katherine
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G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
by: Frank, Katherine

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insiders account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club regulars. Given that all of the clubs where she worked prohibited physical contact between the exotic dancers and their customers, in G-Strings and Sympathy Frank asks what-if not sex or even touching-the repeat customers were purchasing from the clubs and from the dancers. She finds that the clubs provide an intermediate space-not work, not home-where men can enjoyably experience their bodies and selves through conversation, fantasy, and ritualized voyeurism. At the same time, she shows how the dynamics of male pleasure and privilege in strip clubs are intertwined with ideas about what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Franks ethnography draws on her work as an exotic dancer in five clubs, as well as on her interviews with over thirty regular customers-middle-class men in their late-twenties to mid-fifties. Clean copy.

Record # 387382

Price: $18.00
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The Appeal of Fascism: A Study of Intellectuals and Fascism 1919-1945 by: Hamilton, Alastair
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The Appeal of Fascism: A Study of Intellectuals and Fascism 1919-1945
by: Hamilton, Alastair

Hardcover. NY, MacMillan Company, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 312 pages. Includes footnotes, bibliography, and index. Foreword by Stephen Spender. A narrative study of the troubling phenomenon why many European intellectuals and artists were drawn to and embraced Fascism during the period between the world wars. This conundrum may find expression today. Clean copy.

Record # 387402

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I by: Levi-Strauss, Claude
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The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I
by: Levi-Strauss, Claude

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with a sunned spine. This is the first of a series of volumes in which the famous French anthropologist attempts to reduce some of the basic myths of the South American Indians to a comprehensible psychological pattern. 387 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Clean copy.

Record # 387649

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Reflections On Fieldwork In Morocco by: 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

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan by: Crapanzano, Vincent
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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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Happiness For Husbands and Wives by: Shryock, Harold
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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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

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

Softcover. New Tradition Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages. Exploring subjects such as exhibitionism, repression, and oral sex, this guide is a must-read for anyone seeking a more fulfilling, less inhibited sex life. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387877

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Self Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches by: Irvin G. Wyllie
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Self Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches
by: Irvin G. Wyllie

Softcover. NY, The Free Press, 1st pbk, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages. With scholarly detachment, clarity, and taste the author presents a history and analysis of American ideals of success. Clean copy.

Record # 396284

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

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

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

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

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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Race and Civilization by: Frederick Hertz
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Race and Civilization
by: Frederick Hertz

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

Record # 396613

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

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

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Inside The Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World by: The Project on Disney
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Inside The Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World
by: The Project on Disney

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 5th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 250 pages, b&w illustrations. This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World's architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney characters and themes. This book takes the reader on an alternative ride through "the happiest place on earth" while asking "What makes this forty-three-square-mile theme park the quintessential embodiment of American leisure?" Turning away from the programmed entertainment that Disney presents, the authors take a peek behind the scenes of everyday experience at Disney World. In their consideration of the park as both private corporate enterprise and public urban environment, the authors focus on questions concerning the production and consumption of leisure. Featuring over fifty photographs and interviews with workers that strip "cast members" of their cartoon costumes, this captivating work illustrates the high-pressure dynamics of the typical family vacation as well as a tour of Disney World that looks beyond the controlled facade of themed attractions. Clean copy.

Record # 397285

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by: Paul Ricoeur
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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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

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

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

Record # 397818

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Measuring the Flow of Time: The Works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941 by: Ford, James A., Foreword: Willey, Gordon R./ Editor: Lyman, R. Lee/ Editor: O'Brien, Professor Mi
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Measuring the Flow of Time: The Works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941
by: Ford, James A., Foreword: Willey, Gordon R./ Editor: Lyman, R. Lee/ Editor: O'Brien, Professor Mi

Softcover. Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This collection of Ford's works focuses on the development of ceramic chronology-a key tool in Americanist archaeology. When James Ford began archaeological fieldwork in 1927, scholars divided time simply into prehistory and history. Though certainly influenced by his colleagues, Ford devoted his life to establishing a chronology for prehistory based on ceramic types, and today he deserves credit for bringing chronological order to the vast archaeological record of the Mississippi Valley. This book collects Ford's seminal writings showing the importance of pottery styles in dating sites, population movements, and cultures. These works defined the development of ceramic chronology that culminated in the major volume Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947, which Ford wrote with Philip Phillips and James B. Griffin. In addition to Ford's early writings, the collection includes articles written with Griffin and Gordon Willey, as well as other key papers by Henry Collins and Fred Kniffen. Clean copy in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 397837

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

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

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

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 


  

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