Used & Out-of-Print Social Sciences Books - pg. 2 including THE MELANESIANS - Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-lore by: Codrington, R. H.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. In a lightly worn dust jacket with tape repairs. B&w illustrations, folding map in rear. R. H. Codrington (1830-1922), was an Anglican priest who made the first systematic study of Melanesian society and culture. Described in his obituary in the journal Nature as 'the apostle of Melanesia', his work is still regarded as an ethnographic classic. First published in 1891. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, UMI Research Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and red, 355 pages. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Some light pencil markings to about 20 pages.

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.

Hardcover. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph. Study of the Waropen tribe, the only coastal tribe in Northern New Guinea which at that time still remained pagan, under the instructions of the Netherlands Bible Society at Amsterdam. The manuscript was finished in 1942 but only published in 1947 in Dutch. An English translation was commissioned by the Editorial Board of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde after the untimely death of the author in 1955. Illustrated with many b/w photographs and drawings, one folding map in-text and one at rear.

Softcover. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 113 pages, + 4 plates + folding map + folding genealogical chart. Page dimensions: 335 x 209 mm. "At the end of every festival, there is a period lasting usually until after the fourth night following it, when no one not already in the village is allowed to enter it." Covers worn, chipped, crease to top third of pages where it was once folded. Previous owner's name on cover.

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.

Hardcover. London, The Athlone Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 94 pages, bibliography. Previous owner's name otherwise a clean copy, no dust jacket.

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.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 452 pages, b&w illustrations. Some mild dust soiling, no markings.

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

Hardcover. London, The Athlone Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, orange cloth covers, 287 pages. Anthropological essays by the author based on his 30 years of field work in Ghana. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth, 157 pages. Essays by Esther N. Goody, Grace Harris, Jean La Fontaine, Marguerite S. Robinson. Book review laid-in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The first English translation of a classic 20th century French ethnography. Do Kamo focuses on the Canaque people of New Caledonia. Translated by Basia Miller Gulati. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2004, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 356 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Provides an exhaustive, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship or Shakti. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. She traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism and other forms of religion. McDaniel also discusses how Shakti practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. In this engaging tale, Honda Katsuichi reconstructs the life of an Ainu woman living on the northern island of Japan over five hundred years ago. Harukor's story, created from surviving oral accounts of Ainu life and culture as well as extensive scholarly research, is set in the centuries before the mainland Japanese nearly destroyed the way of life depicted here. In the first person, the fictional Harukor tells us of her childhood, her adolescence, and her motherhood, drawing on tales and songs performed by her grandmother and other bards. She describes festivals, weddings, childbirth and midwifery, traditional healing methods, battles, and funerals in detail. Her story is followed by the adventures of her oldest son, Pasekur, which end by foreshadowing an early Ainu rebellion against Japanese encroachment.

Hardcover. NY, Jason Aronson, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Donald Woods Winnicott (1896 - 1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 343 pages. This is an anthropological study of boyhood in a group of related Igbo villages called Afikpo, in souteastern Nigeria. About half of the book is taken up with the description and analysis of adolescent initiation rites, providing a close and detailed view of rituals that for the most part have only been touched upon in literature. The work makes use of psychoanalytic theory, with a logic that is grounded in data, blended with traditional cultural anthropological analysis. Ottenberg's understanding of the dynamics of the symbols and their unstated meanings contributes to the study of ritual process in any society. The data on ritual initiation alo0ne make this a major contribution to African ethnography, and Ottenberg's descriptive material on male secrecy and related gender distinctions provides a background fora more general understanding of West African secret societies.

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 309 pages, b&w illustrations. A remarkable work of ethnobotany and folkloric medicine by a Vermont based folklorist working in the West Indies. From the flap: "Charles divulged to Beck more than isolated cures or preventatives: he imparted a well developed psycho-medical system that was an integral part of his culture." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford/NY, Berg, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, glossy boards, 601 pages. This book explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years' research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their rainforest environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a carefully negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony between the sexes. Pencil marking to 10 pages otherwise clean.

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 293 pages. B&w illustrations. A pioneering study that captures the mood, life and color of exorcist rituals. Attention is given to culture underling Sinhalese beliefs when demons intrude in their social world. Mild wear to covers, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Sydney AU, University of Sydney, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 164 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Wellington NZ, Polynesian Society, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 170 pages. Originally published in 1978 as a series of articles in The Journal of the Polynesian Society. Wrappers rubbed, internally very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY/London, Routledge, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 283 pages, b&w illustrations. " Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behavior and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, THE FUTURE OF RITUAL asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. It is richly illustrated with over 50 photos of pereformances and public events." Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's green wrappers lettered in white, 305 pages. Two pages with light marking (241-242). Otherwise a clean, bright copy. This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea will be of interest not only to general and comparative linguists and to typologists, but also to sociolinguists and anthropologists for the information it provides on the social dynamics of language content.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings. In this collection of original essays by anthropologists concerned with the relationship of language and emotion, it is argued that the key focus to the study of emotion might be the politics of social life rather than the psychology of the individual. Through close studies of talk about emotion and emotional discourses in social contexts from poetry and song to therapeutic narratives, scholars who have worked in India, Fiji, the United States, Egypt, Senegal and the Solomon Islands show how emotion is tied to politics of everyday interaction. Their arguments and cross-cultural findings will intrigue and provoke anyone who has thought about the relationship between emotion, language and social life. The book will be of special interest to those who find the boundaries between cultural, psychological and linguistic anthropology, sociology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and social psychology too confining. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt stamping, 291 pages. Gift exchange plays a crucial role in the social and political organization of Mendi in Papua New Guinea. This book reveals how considerable light can be shed on Mendi society, particularly on its political economy, by examining both the well-known ceremonial exchange festivals and the hitherto relatively little-studied everyday gift-giving practices. The author shows that the latter are crucial for understanding inter-group politics, the process of leadership, male-female relationships and the status of women, and the production, distribution and circulation of wealth. Currently the only book available on this society, the work offers an unusual combination of a social structural analysis with a study of local history and change. It is also of interest for its integration of the study of gift exchange and politics with the study of gender roles and relationships. Clean, bright copy.

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.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A collection of 15 essays. No markings.

Softcover. Berlin/NY, Mouton de Gruyter, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 266 pages. Edward Sapir (1884-1939), one of this century's leading figures in American anthropology and linguistics, planned to publish a major theoretical statement on culture and psychology. He developed his ideas in a course of lectures presented at Yale University in the 1930s, which attracted a wide audience from many social science disciplines. Unfortunately, he died before the book he had contracted to publish could be realized. Like de Saussure's (ours de Linguistique Generale before it, this work has been reconstructed from student notes, in this case twenty-two sets, as well as from Sapir's manuscript materials. Judith Irvine's meticulous reconstruction makes Sapir's compelling ideas - of surprisingly contemporary resonance - available for the first time. Clean, unmarked copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. In 1968, a conference was held to explore the ultimate question- Are the problems created by man's pursuit of his conscious purposes- problems that now threaten to destroy both the web of meaning in human life and the ecological web of this planet- actually within the competence of man to solve? 324 pages plus index. No markings, covers lightly splayed.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, Revised Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 618 pages, b&w illustrations. Features a vast amount of factual data bout the customs and rituals of the Murngin, the result of several years of study in the region. This new revised edition has 16 charts, a map of the tribes and clans, 17 photos and a glossary. Some light pencil marking in a few chapters.

Softcover. Canberra AU, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong, 160 pages. Details an Australian film made in 1976 and released in 1979. The traditional, extremely complex mortuary rites for a young child at an Aboriginal homeland settlement on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Foreword by Ian Dunlop. Previous owner's name opposite half-title page, otherwise clean.

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.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine. 368 pages, 4 pages of b&w photos. Although the Tiwi people of North Australia have been studied before, Goodale's approach adds a significant dimension--from the perspective of the Tiwi woman as she changes through her life course from birth to the rituals performed after her death. Especially interesting and detailed material is included on marriage arrangements and directions as well as important rites of passage, such as the annual initiation ceremony and the funeral ceremony. Goodale's descriptive record of her fieldwork among the Tiwi continues to be a lucid and valuable source of knowledge of this remote tribe. Previous owner's small sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightky worn and soiled dust jacket. 228 pages, b&w illustrations including several fold-out charts. Extends the study begun in her earlier 'Rituals Of Kinship Among The Nyakyusa' to include detailed accounts of traditions of origin, cosmology, and moral values. Contents: The Mythological Charter; The 'Divine Kings'; The Ritual of Chieftainship; Sacrifices at the Groves of Chiefs; Land & Power; Cleansing the Country; Rain-making & 'Sprinkling the Homesteads'; Kasitile the Priest; Medicines; Nyakyusa Cosmology; Pagan & Christian; Twenty Years' Change; Religion & Social Structure. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, W. Heffer & Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. 395 pages, b&w illustrations, charts. Alur Society became a classic for a number of reasons. Being much more than a descriptive account of an African society, it was the first intensive ethnography to adopt the ideas of Max Weber. It pioneered the idea that religion and ritual could be the basis of political action. It also showed how state systems could evolve not just on the basis of conquest but as a result of societies without kings inviting those with kings to govern them. Southall's theory of the segmentary state was adopted by many political anthropologists and political scientists, being applied not just to Africa but also to India and other parts of the world. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 407 pages. Chapters include: Myth and Ritual, Religion and Healing, Witchcraft and Sorcery, 20th Century Theories of Religion, The Science of Religion and others. Owner's small sticker inside front cover otherwise clean.

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.

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

Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 438 pages, mild waviness to pages. A collection of his most important essays, selected by Kroeber himself.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly worn dust jacket. Biography of the 19th century intellectual who was the American pioneer in anthropology. 184 pages, Mild soil to rear dj, no markings.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in gray wrappers, 244 pages, 20 full page photo plates on slick paper. 33 text figures. 1 map. Errata slip tipped in. Owner's small sticker on inside cover otherwise clean.

Softcover. Prospect Heights IL, Waveland Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 374 pages. A detailed anthropological study of the Mayan people of Tzo? ontahal made during four field sessions between 1957 and 1965.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with minor fade to top edge. 348 pages including index. Sir James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 1890, was the first work in English to understand the religion of classical antiquity in the context of primitive religion. Its dramatic impact on the history of ideas lasted well into the twentieth century, in its association of religious myths with the more primitive forms of ritual and magic generated by the 'savage mind', identified as a common misunderstanding of the scientific laws governing the natural world. This highly acclaimed biography is a comprehensive study of Frazer's life, the influences on his work, and its wide-ranging implications for modern anthropology, classics, cultural history and folklore. clean copy.

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

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 570 pages. A scholarly study of British anthropologists and their contributions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages including index.The polymathic Rivers was a pioneering neuroscientist, psychologist, and anthropologist who made substantial contributions to all these fields in the pre-WWI period. Interest in Rivers increased in recent years because he appears as a major and particularly sympathetic character in Pat Barker's outstanding trilogy of novels on WWI. Slobodin's book, which is the only effort at a biography of Rivers, deals mainly with his work as a pioneering ethnologist. Light foxing to rear dj panel, otherwise clean.