Used & Out-of-Print Social Sciences Books - pg. 7 including Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: Essays of a Social Criticby: Kirk, Russell

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 339 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive cloth with gilt lettering on spine faded. 278 pages. Titchener's last statement of his 'structuralist' theoretical position, edited by his Cornell colleague H.P.Weld (who provides a 4 page Preface). A comprehensive book written by Edward Bradford Titchener, a prominent psychologist of the early 20th century. The book is a prologue to Titchener's larger work, Systematic Psychology, and lays out the philosophical foundations of psychology as a science. Titchener begins by defining psychology as the study of conscious experience, and argues that it is a natural science that should be studied using introspection. He outlines the basic principles of introspection and the methods used to study mental processes, including perception, attention, memory, and thought. The book also covers the philosophical underpinnings of psychology, including the relationship between mind and body, free will and determinism, and the nature of causality. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Arlington Heights, IL, AHM Publishing, 4th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a study in cultural ecology involving the adaptive processes and relations of four groups: Plains Cree, cattle ranchers, wheat farmers, and Hutterites of southwestern Saskatchewan over a sixty year period.... Bennett has aptly demonstrated the falsity of the belief that anthropologists can learn nothing from a study of their own culture. The book merits reading by all those who are interested in ecology, economic anthropology, and culture change and is a significant addition to the relatively meager amount of anthropological information on Western culture. Sunning to covers. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Includes appendixes, glossary of Ojibwa terms, key to abbreviated sources, notes & bibliography. Ojibwa cultural use and drum construction. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. The urban Indian as viewed by an Indian caseworker. After an historical introduction, chapters compare the status of Indians in American towns and cities with those remaining on the reservations. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on the front fly leaf. Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? shakes the Eurocentric foundations of our ideas about love in the far-flung corners of the world, showing that we've been looking for love in all the wrong places. Social observers from the West, the authors contend, have projected their own rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures to which such a formula simply doesn't apply. The contributors find expressions of love almost everywhere they look, from the Inuit woman who went hunting and sealing with her husband because she could not bear to be apart from him for even an hour, to a Moroccan youth who reportedly said to his lover, "If I do not see you for just half a day I go crazy". The contributors to Romantic Passion look beyond each society's "official" institutions in their search for expressions of love. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge. Challenging conventional understandings of "prostitution" and "sex work," Holly Wardlow contextualizes the actions and intentions of passenger women in a rich analysis of kinship, bridewealth, marriage, and exchange, revealing the ways in which these robust social institutions are transformed by an encompassing capitalist economy. Many passenger women assert that they have been treated "olsem maket" (like market goods) by their husbands and natal kin, and they respond by fleeing home and defiantly appropriating their sexuality for their own purposes. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages. Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lazaro Cardenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacan. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary. The Cardenistas, inspired by revolutionary ideas of equality and modernity, were oblivious to the peasants' spirituality and determined to transform them. A series of dramatic conflicts forced Cardenas to develop a government that embodied some of the peasants' complex culture. Clean copy

Softcover. Minneapolis MN, University Of Minnesota Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages. Collins looked at the role of African American women in the feminist movement. Here she focuses on the prejudices they face. Collins discusses the culture of silence in which African American women are seen but not heard, making them outsiders within their own race. She notes that their accomplishments are often ignored, especially when the women transcend expectations. She points to Mary McLeod Bethune, whose role in FDR's administration is often overlooked, and Angela Davis, who found that her Civil Rights work boiled down to her Afro hairdo. Collins discusses the need for African American women to avoid being segmented into areas the present culture finds acceptable. Clean copy.

Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 321 pages. Culture Builders deals primarily with the ways in which ideas about the good and proper life were anchored in the trivialities and routines of everyday life in Sweden, in the sharing of a meal, in holiday-making, and in the upbringing of children. The authors describe how the attitudes of the bourgeoisie toward time and time-keeping set them apart from the peasantry. Uses and perceptions of naturals increasingly divided the classes. For peasants, nature consisted of natural resources to be used. Fr the bourgeoisie, nature had only non-productive connotations. Another change was the growing importance of home over the community. Life became a romantic ideal, not an economic necessity. For the first time, parents became self-conscious about how to raise their children. Clean copy.

Softcover. Novato CA, Chandler & Sharp, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages. This book is essential to understanding the Mead/Freeman controversy. Dr. Orans presents his argument and evidence clearly and precisely. Unlike Freeman, who claims that Mead was duped regarding Samoan sexual beliefs, attitudes and practices, Orans demonstrates that Mead understood Samoan restrictions on female sexuality. Stamp "Desk Copy" on inside covers otherwise clean, bright copy.

Softcover. University of Chicago Press, 1st pbk, 1999, Softcover, 327 pages. Few cultures have received as much attention in the study of erotic desire, sexuality, and gender as the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. Here, for the first time, is a collection of groundbreaking essays and a new introduction on the Sambia's sexual culture by the renowned anthropologist Gilbert Herdt. Over the course of 20 years, Herdt made 13 field trips to live with the Sambia in order to understand sexuality and ritual in the context of warfare and gender segregation. Herdt's essays examine Sambia fetish and fantasy, ritual nose-bleeding, the role of homoerotic insemination, the role of the father and mother in the process of identity formation, and the creation of a "third sex" in nature and culture. He also discusses the representation of homosexuality in cross-cultural literature on premodern societies, arguing that scholars have long viewed desires through the tropes of negative western models. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Softcover. New York University Press, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 262 pages. "An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo." Creolization--the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices-is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by European colonizers, as well as on African religious and healing traditions and the remnants of Amerindian practices, to fashion new systems of belief. Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions that have developed in the region. From Vodou, Santer a, Regla de Palo, the Abaku Secret Society, and Obeah to Quimbois and Espiritismo, the volume traces the historical-cultural origins of the major Creole religions, as well as the newer traditions such as Pocomania and Rastafarianism. Chapters devoted to specific traditions trace their history, their pantheons and major rituals, and their current-day expressions in the Caribbean and in the diaspora. The volume also provides a general historical background of the Caribbean region. Light shelf wear, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages. Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, road rage, and even the events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of many disciplines, this book seeks the common causes of these events in collective violence. In collective violence, social interaction immediately inflicts physical damage, involves at least two perpetrators of damage, and results in part from coordination among the persons who perform the damaging acts. Charles Tilly argues that collective violence is complicated, changeable, and unpredictable in some regards, yet also results from similar causes variously combined in different times and places. Pinpointing the causes, combinations, and settings helps to explain collective violence and also helps to identify the best ways to mitigate violence and create democracies with a minimum of damage to persons and property. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Son, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 316 pages. Examines masculine hostility toward women by drawing upon evidence in anthropology, myth, history, psychology and literature. From the weird taboos and rites of primitive societies to the disturbing prevalence of homosexuality today - here is an authoritative, enlightening, and fascinating chronicle of man's war against woman. Small stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages. B&W photos. The twentieth-century rise of the automobile collided head on with Victorian prescriptions for the proper role and place of women in society. Gender conventions cast women as too weak, dependent, and flighty to manage the fiery motored beast. Overcoming that stereotype was as difficult for women as gaining access to the vote, the professions, and education, yet their personal feats of driving in both war and peace demolished the gender barriers against their taking the road. After women proved once and for all that they could drive under the worst conditions in World War I, they adapted the automobile to their domestic roles in urban society during the 1920s. Written with flair and verve, this volume displays Scharff's erudition in social, cultural, gender, and technological history.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 438 pages. Reprint of original 1885 first edition. Brown cloth covers, pasted labels with titles to front cover and spine, b&w frontispiece of Mathus's portrait. Slight rubbing to covers, spine label lightly soiled, wear to spine top edge, previous owner's signature to front endpaper dated 1947, stiff binding, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Price blacked out. Minor stains on fore edge. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy. Growing Up Fast tells the life stories of Shayla, Jessica, Amy, Colleen, Liz, and Sheri--six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper first met in 1999 when they were enrolled at the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Less than a decade older than these teen parents, she was able to blend into the fabric of their lives and make a short documentary film about them. Over the course of the next four years she continued to earn their trust as they shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed post-industrial landscape of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume I: Appeal to the People, 388 pages. Volume II: The Growth of Parties, 404 pages. Volume III: The Stuff of Politics, 493 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, small stain on top edge of volume II, otherwise, all clean and tight.

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

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.

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

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.