anthropology

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What motivates us to reread literary works? How is our pleasure, interpretation, involvement, and evaluation different when we read a literary work and when we reread it? This fascinating book by Matei Calinescu is the first to focus on the implications of rereading for critical understanding. Drawing on literary theory, cultural anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and previous theories of reading, Calinescu describes the dynamics of rereading and explores the sometimes complementary, sometimes sharply conflicting relationships between reading and rereading. Calinescu analyzes fictional works by Borges, Nabokov, Proust, Robbe-Grillet, and Henry James, among others, explaining how reading texts is related both to symbolic play or make-believe and to games with rules. He reviews the history of reading in modern times, discussing, for example, how the Reformation led to rereadings of Scripture and how the proliferation of books during the Enlightenment led to a shift from "intensive reading" to "extensive reading." Calinescu looks at the distinctions between reading and rereading from the perspectives of the age, situation, and gender of the individual reader. He discusses the problems raised by secret or oblique languages and codes - devised to evade censors, communicate with a select audience of "secret sharers," or play games of hide-and-seek with the reader - and shows that they naturally lead to rereading a text. Calinescu argues persuasively that an understanding of rereading is useful in formulating both analytic strategies of practical criticism and a poetics of reading. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt lettering on spine, pages. Black and white photos and one map. Includes footnotes, geographical note, list of local people, 2 appendices and index. "Shows how one backward village became a revolutionary bastion in the ten years after the revolution in the late 1940s." A ten years' history of one Chinese village, covering the period immediately before the setting up of the Chinese People's Republic, and based on village records and the authors' personal experiences living with the farmers.Owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, dust jacket with light fading to spine, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. In this book, Gabriel Herman offers a new interpretation of Greek xenia, a term traditionally rendered as 'guest-friendship'. Drawing on contemporary literary sources and inscriptions as well as anthropology, sociology, and comparative evidence from other times, he shows that xenia was a bond of fictitious kinship akin to godparenthood, rather than a tie of hospitality or ordinary 'friendship'. Starting off from this proposition, he develops a dynamic model of the formation of elite relationships and values. He explores the concepts of obligation and loyalty, gift and bribe, treason and patriotism, and places the Greek city within a new context of power relations. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 238 pages, b&w photography by Alex Harris. New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures ? Hispanic and Anglo ? meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor ? shovel and axe, irony and humor ? he shows them how to survive, even flourish, in their isolated village. A remarkable look at modern life in the mountains, River of Traps also magically evokes the now-vanished world in which Romero tended flocks on frontier ranges and absorbed the values of a society untouched by cash or Anglo America. His memories and wisdom, shared without sentimentality, permeate this absorbing story of three men and the place that forever shaped their lives. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Luella Cole Lowie. Illustrated with 24 b/w photographs. Chronological biography, bibliography. Lowie wrote this book to document ethnographic study in the early 20th century; to put his own professional life on record; to stress methods of field work and their application under very different circumstances.

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.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the red front fly leaf. With penetrating insight Combs-Schilling illuminates the remarkable survival of one of the world's oldest monarchies, still ruling after 1200 years. The author unravels the paradox of this ancient yet progressive institution that has weathered invasion, economic collapse, and colonial assault. The pillars of stability for which political analysts typically search -- military strength, bureaucratic control, and commercial prosperity -- have often been absent in Morocco, sometimes for centuries. How then has the monarchy stood firm? In this remarkable book, Combs-Schilling argues that the answer is to be found in the distinctive forms of ritual practice developed during times of great crises. Unique among Islamic governments, the Moroccan monarchy became cnetral to the popular celebrations of the most sacred rituals of Islam, cloaking itself in their sanctity. Combs-Schilling breaks new ground in thinking about ritual. The author explores the consequences of the replication and reinforcement of Morocco's national ceremonies in villages and homes and the metaphorical equivalence thereby built. The author outlines how ritual metaphors simultaneously fuse the monarchy with the hallowed prophets of Islam and the mundane structures of family life.

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

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.

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. 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. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Contains some black & white photos of the Sebei people. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling. No markings.

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

Hardcover. Rome , Compagnia Edizioni Internazionali, Reprint , 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. Hardcover. Numerous full color illustrations. Illustrated flyleaves and endpapers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on frontispiece. Gray and white dust jacket with full color illustration on the front. Light edgewear and foxing on top edge.

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

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Edition, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. 24 b/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece with tissue guard and 6 maps (fold out). Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded) and front cover, some moisture damage to front cover, bump to bottom right corner of board. Tanning to pages and edges, pages otherwise unmarked.

Hardcover. Berne, Kummerly + Frey, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This fascinating book concerning the history of the Sinai Peninsula is 239 pages in length, with 51 text figures, and numerous fine (unnumbered) color plates. Housed in plain gray cardboard slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Saint Paul MN, West Publishing Group, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth pictorial covers, faded spine. The life histories of 6 Korean shaman women who share in common the social ascription of outcast status. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 188 pages. 141 color and black and white photographs by Milton Rogovin, Tony Maine, Ron Kelley, the essayists, and Yemeni workers. "What did the American astronauts find when the first landed on the moon?" "Yemenis, looking for work." High wages and easy work - these are the myths that lure Yemeni workers abroad, and especially to the United States, which has seen generations of migrant laborers. But the realities of migrant labor are something else. In Sojourners and Settlers, leading scholars of history, anthropology, folklore, sociology, and political science have joined with photographers and critics to present an interdisciplinary look at the phenomenon of labor migration. They reveal drastically changing rural and urban environments in Yemen, and in the United States, strenuous work weeks, bleak farm work camp conditions, plant shut downs, culture shock, and cautious assimilation. Under Friedlander's editorship, these reports of the ordinary events of Yemeni workers' lives become studies in courage, persistence, and dignity. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 346 pages. In Status and Culture, W. David Marx weaves together the wisdom from history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cultural theory, literary theory, art history, media studies, and neuroscience to demonstrate exactly how individual status seeking creates our cultural ecosystem. Marx examines three fundamental questions: Why do individuals cluster around arbitrary behaviors and take deep meaning from them? How do distinct styles, conventions, and sensibilities emerge? Why do we change behaviors over time and why do some behaviors stick around? The answers then provide new perspectives for understanding the seeming "weightlessness" of internet culture. Clean 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. Monterey CA, privately printed, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pictorial covers, 189 pages. Fully illustrated with numerous b/w halftones. INSCRIBED BY ROLL to fellow anthropologist Professor William Mitchell of the University of Vermont. Clean copy.