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A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe by: Warner, W. Lloyd

A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe
by: Warner, W. Lloyd

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.

Record # 380322

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A Descent into African Psychiatry (SIGNED COPY)by: De Jong, Joop T. V. M.

A Descent into African Psychiatry (SIGNED COPY)
by: De Jong, Joop T. V. M.

Softcover. Amsterdam, Royal Tropical Institute, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages. SIGNED by Joop T.V.M. de Jong on title-page. The author worked for several years as a psychiatrist in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. De Jong discusses the attitudes of the local culture and methods of healing.

Record # 380356

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A Glimpse At Guatemala, And Some Notes On The Monuments Of Central America. With Maps, Plans, Photographs, other Illustrations and a new Introduction by James C. Andrewsby:

A Glimpse At Guatemala, And Some Notes On The Monuments Of Central America. With Maps, Plans, Photographs, other Illustrations and a new Introduction by James C. Andrews
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Hardcover. Indianapolis, Flo Silver Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with gilt stamping. 289 pages, b&w illustrations. A quality reprint of the 1899 edition published in London. A travel book as well as an archaeological study of the area. No map laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 385742

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A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar by: Feeley-Harnik, Gillian

A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar
by: Feeley-Harnik, Gillian

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine, A Green Estate traces the effect of French domination through the colonial period and into the years after official Malagasy independence in 1960. The book reveals how the people of northwest Madagascar have reasserted their ownership of the land and reclaimed their heritage through a ritual reburial of a king who died at the height of the colonial era...by analyzing the long dialogue between the French & the Malagasy over monarchy, gender, death, land, work and taxes, French rule, she shows,resulted in the imposition of provincial centers of government and commerce that diverted attention and labor from agricultural villages and religious centers. 36 plates, maps.

Record # 378960

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A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahulby: J. Peter White; James F. O'Connell

A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul
by: J. Peter White; James F. O'Connell

NY/Sydney AU, Academic Press , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with silver and gilt stamping, 286 pages. Numerous tables, maps, plans and illustrations (some from photographs, others by Margrit Koettig). Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 381521

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Affecting Presence, The: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropologyby: Armstrong, Robert Plant

Affecting Presence, The: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology
by: Armstrong, Robert Plant

Hardcover. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 Pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. EX-LIB with usual markings, stamps. Card residue on rear fly leaf. Tight copy.

Record # 750334

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Africa Dances: A Book about West African Negroesby: Gorer, Geoffrey

Africa Dances: A Book about West African Negroes
by: Gorer, Geoffrey

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 337 pages, Index. Black & white photographic illustrations. Cream cloth with red & black illustration and lettering. The exciting story of the author's travels by car with Paris Benga, the famous Negro dancer, on a tour which zigzagged through the French colonies, the French and British mandates, and the Gold Coast to study the native dances in the districts most remote from civilization. This is also a study of the government and religion, the sex-life and marriage ritual, habits and customs, and the emotional and mental character of these West African Negroes. Mild stain to corners of front cover, not affecting the interior. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 387879

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African Artby: Schmalenbach, Werner

African Art
by: Schmalenbach, Werner

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Yoseloff, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 175 pages. Hardcover. 131 Illustrations, 16 color plates. Top corner bump, causing a light crease to pages at upper corner. Otherwise very good, clean. Dust jacket with light edge wear, chipping, mild soil.

Record # 30644

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After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951by: Stocking Jr., George W.

After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951
by: Stocking Jr., George W.

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.

Record # 380349

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

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

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

Record # 378629

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Aluanda: A Look at Afro-Brazilian Cultsby: Frances O'Gorman

Aluanda: A Look at Afro-Brazilian Cults
by: Frances O'Gorman

Softcover. Rio de Janeiro, Liberia Francisco Alves, 1st, 1977, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 108 pages. Scholarly book on African-Brazilian religious cults in South America and Mexico. Clean copy

Record # 382068

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Alur Society. A Study in Processes and Types of Dominationby: Southall, Aidan W.

Alur Society. A Study in Processes and Types of Domination
by: Southall, Aidan W.

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.

Record # 380337

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Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Societyby: Miriam Kahn

Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society
by: Miriam Kahn

London, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages, b&w maps, diagrams. The Wamira people of Papua New Guinea display what outsiders would describe as an obsession with food. Who owns how many pigs, how much taro grows in whose garden, and who contributes what food at a feast, are all questions uppermost in their thoughts. Wamirans account for this preoccupation by saying that they suffer from perpetual "famine." They explain this by means of an elaborate and colorful myth about Tamodukorokoro, a monster who would have brought them abundant food, but whom, in typical Wamiran style of fearing what they desire, they chased away. In this carefully crafted and beautifully evocative book, Dr. Kahn, who lived with the Wamira people for two and a half years, argues that Wamirans' "famine" has in fact little to do with the belly. For Wamirans, concepts of food and hunger are cultural constructs. Dr. Kahn writes with a degree of nuance that takes the reader beyond academic analyses into the experience of the ethnographer and the daily lives of the people with whom she resided. Clean copy.

Record # 380690

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Among the Ibos Of Nigeria: An account of the curious & interesting habits, customs & beliefs of a little known African peopleby: G.T. Basden

Among the Ibos Of Nigeria: An account of the curious & interesting habits, customs & beliefs of a little known African people
by: G.T. Basden

Hardcover. London, Frank Cass and Company, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 321 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1921, an account of the curious & interesting habits, customs & beliefs of a little known African people by one who has for many years lived amongst them on close & intimate terms as a missionary in the early 1900s. Clean copy.

Record # 379397

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An Apache Life-Way. The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indiansby: Opler, Morris Edward

An Apache Life-Way. The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians
by: Opler, Morris Edward

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth, faded gilt lettering on spine, 500 pages. Photographs, bibliography and index.

Record # 384112

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An Introduction to Chinese Secret Societies in Malayaby: Leon Comber

An Introduction to Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya
by: Leon Comber

Softcover. Singapore, Donald Moore, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 77 pages plus six plates in rear. A background to the Chinese secret societies, or triads, including the history, rituals, disciplinary code, secret signs and language. Smallink name on cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 378362

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Ancient Polynesian Societyby: Irving Goldman

Ancient Polynesian Society
by: Irving Goldman

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 625 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Contents: Principles of Status; The Maori of New Zealand; Manihiki-Rakahanga; Tongareva; Magaia; Easter Island; The Marquesas; Mangareva; The Society Islands; The Hawaiian Islands; The Samoan Islands; Tongs; Uvea; Futuna; The Tokelaus; Tikopia; Pukpuka; Niue; Ontong Java; The Status Lineage; Principles of Kinship; The Economics of Status; The Rituals of Status; Status and Evolution. Owner's name inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 381719

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Ancient Society Or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilizationby: Morgan, Lewis Henry

Ancient Society Or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilization
by: Morgan, Lewis Henry

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 569 pages. Two decades after Darwin, intellectuals were writing about the evolution of everything. In England Edward Taylor focused on material culture such as fire making, cooking, or tool making. In America, Lewis Henry Morgan, concentrated on social evolution combined with subsistence techniques. His thinking was influenced by his Iroquois neighbors in New York. Like many others he posited three stages of evolution: savagery, barbarism and civilization, but he refined the three periods with three subperiods. In Lower savagery, for example, he saw humans subsisting on fruits and roots in tropical climes, using gesture language and marrying siblings in a consanguine family. Middle savagery saw fish subsistence, monosyllabic language, and marriage of cousins. Bows and arrows appeared in Upper Savagery along with syllabic language, clans, and tribal organization. Obviously Morgan was speculating on most of the developments, but he had found arguments for his positions from the reports of explorers and missionaries around the world. As a result, Morgan inspired an era of inquisitive thought that led to the development of American anthropology. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 380319

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Archaeology of the Solomon Islandsby: Walter, Richard/ Sheppard, Peter

Archaeology of the Solomon Islands
by: Walter, Richard/ Sheppard, Peter

Softcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 194 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Archaeology of the Solomon Islands presents the outcome of twenty years' research in the Solomon Islands undertaken jointly by Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard, both leaders in the field of Pacific archaeology. At the time of first European encounter, the peoples of Melanesia exhibited some of the greatest diversity in language, sociopolitical organization and culture expression of any region on earth. This extraordinary diversity attracted scholars and resulted in coastal Melanesia becoming the birthplace of modern anthropology, and yet the area remains one of the least well-documented regions of the Pacific in archaeological terms. This synthesis of Solomon Island archaeology draws together all the research that has taken place in the field over the past fifty years. It uses a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological approach and considers the work of archaeologists, environmental scientists, anthropologists, and historians. At the same time, this volume highlights the results of the authors' own considerable field research. Bump to top rear corner. Clean copy.

Record # 381652

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Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazonby: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazon
by: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution/Bureau of American Ethnology, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. 664 pages plus 112 b&w plates in rear. Extensive folding maps, plates. text illustrations. The mounds of Marajo & other sites. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 167. Clean copy.

Record # 381656

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Artificial Curiosities: Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R. N.by: Kaeppler, Adrienne L.

Artificial Curiosities: Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R. N.
by: Kaeppler, Adrienne L.

Softcover. Honolulu, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with mild shelf wear, 293 pages., 622 figs. including color plates. This publication presents the objects collected by Cook that were exhibited at the Museum. A truly dazzling catalogue that has scores of photographs of extraordinary, seldom seen objects (from the Bishop Museum's collection and on loan from the most important museum and private collections in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.), with full data for each object that appears in the photographs.

Record # 378641

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Arts of the South Pacific, Theby: Guiart, Jean

Arts of the South Pacific, The
by: Guiart, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Golden Press, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 462 pages. Hardcover. The fourth volume of the series 'The Arts of Mankind' edited by Andre Malraux and Georges Salles. Light foxing to preliminary pages, front and rear. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. A massive volume on the highlights of Oceanic art. Part One reviews material conditions of Oceanian life, the social & religious systems, etc. Part Two is a Gazetteer of Styles with Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia & Polynesia grouped stylistically. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611529

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

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

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

Record # 380850

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Balinese Character. A Photographic Analysis. Special Publications of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume II by: Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson

Balinese Character. A Photographic Analysis. Special Publications of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume II
by: Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson

Hardcover. NY, New York Academy of Sciences, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated light beige cloth covers, 277 pages. A classic work on Bali, profusely illustrated with field photographs by Bateson, Margaret Mead's husband. The 100 b&w plates were taken 1936 to 1937. A pioneering work in which the two celebrated anthropologists, with the assistance of Belo, Mershon, McPhee, Spies, Goris and others, analyse the character of the Balinese through their expressions and interactions, demonstrated in a series of photographs. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 378711

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

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

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Belief Magic and Anomie: Essays in Psychosocial Anthropologyby: Parsons, Anne

Belief Magic and Anomie: Essays in Psychosocial Anthropology
by: Parsons, Anne

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.

Record # 380305

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Black Hamletby: Sachs, Wulf

Black Hamlet
by: Sachs, Wulf

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co,, reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. The true story of an African medicine man as he leaves his home to practice his medicine in the city. Wulf Sachs was born in Russia and trained at the Psychoneurological Institute in St. Petersburg. A citizen of South Africa who resided in Johannesburg, he was a practicing psychoanalyst and the author of many books on psychiatry and literary criticism. Classic account of a two and half year psychoanalysis of a South African witch doctor. This book was earlier published with the title Black Anger. Derived from a review posted on-line: Black Hamlet is at the same time a case study in psychoanalytic therapy, the report of a scientific investigation, a political polemic, a collection of ethnographic observations, and the biography of a common man whose remarkable features would otherwise have been overlooked. Clean copy.

Record # 380857

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Black Rainbow: Legends of the Incas and Myths of Ancient Peru by: Bierhorst, John (edited and translated by)

Black Rainbow: Legends of the Incas and Myths of Ancient Peru
by: Bierhorst, John (edited and translated by)

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages. Anthology of 20 stories gathered from 16th Century chronicles of missionaries. Illustrated by Bierhorst, Jane Byers. Clean copy. Dust jacket price-clipped.

Record # 371860

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Blood of the Monster the Nez Perce Coyote Cycle by: Walker Deward E. and Daniel N. Matthews

Blood of the Monster the Nez Perce Coyote Cycle
by: Walker Deward E. and Daniel N. Matthews

Hardcover. Glendo, Wyoming , High Plains Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 244 pages. An incorrigible trickster, a clever thief, a rogue, sometimes a magnanimous hero, often a vengeful loser, but always a survivor, Coyote is the most complex character in the Nez Perce cycle of traditional myths. An anthropological analysis of Coyote's social relations with the other characters reveals how the myths, while entertaining stories, also impart traditional cultural values, proper social relations, and other practical information. Coyote's actions are often humorous, with consequences that account for many of the blessings and hardships of the Nez Perce experience. These translations from the native language are the most reliable and the most comprehensive available. Supplemented by myths from Archie Phinney and Herbert Spinden, Deward Walker's collection provides insights into the world and the myths of the Nez Perce Indians.

Record # 371862

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Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesiaby: Michael Lambek/Andrew Strathern (Ed.)

Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia
by: Michael Lambek/Andrew Strathern (Ed.)

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 298 pages. This book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, understood in terms of what anthropologists call embodiment. These concepts are applied to questions ranging from the meanings of spirit possession, to the logics of witchcraft and kinship relations, the use of rituals in healing, and even the impact of capitalism. Questioning common assumptions about the huge differences among these discrete areas, the contributions document surprising continuities. Clean copy.

Record # 381887

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Boyhood Rituals in an African Society: An Interpretationby: Simon Ottenberg

Boyhood Rituals in an African Society: An Interpretation
by: Simon Ottenberg

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.

Record # 379219

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Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea (Explorations in Anthropology)by: Juillerat, Bernard (Nora Scott, transl.)

Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea (Explorations in Anthropology)
by: Juillerat, Bernard (Nora Scott, transl.)

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.

Record # 379668

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Chinese Family and Marriage in Singaporeby: Freedman, Maurice

Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore
by: Freedman, Maurice

Softcover. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff orange paper wrappers. 249 pages. An interesting and comprehensive exploration of Chinese families in Singapore. Maurice Freedman (1920-1975) was a British scholar who was one of the world's leading experts on Chinese anthropology. Includes chapters on 'The Social Background', 'The Household', 'The Kinship System', and many more. Frontispiece photograph of a Chinese Mass Wedding. There are also an appendix of tables, another on Chinese characters for Hokkien words used in the text and an index. Clean copy.

Record # 378405

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Chopi Musicians: Their Music, Poetry, and Instrumentsby: Tracey, Hugh

Chopi Musicians: Their Music, Poetry, and Instruments
by: Tracey, Hugh

Hardcover. London, Oxford for the International African Institute,, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, orange cloth boards with gilt titles, in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 180 pages. Index, folding map and chart; 22 plates and diagrams. An account of the Chopi of Portuguese East Africa whose xylophone orchestras have long been celebrated throughout the continent. He tells how the instruments are made and played and analyses their compositions. Front blank leaf gone with minor wear at gutter. Otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 374692

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Clowning As Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacificby: Mitchell, William E. (Ed.)

Clowning As Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific
by: Mitchell, William E. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Pittsburgh PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 227 pages. Contents : "Dance when I die!": context and role in the clowning of Murik women / Kathleen Barlow -- Exaggeration and reversal: clowning among the Lusi-Kalai / David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts -- Clowning with food: mortuary humor and social reproduction among the north Mekeo / Mark S. Mosko -- Reflections of an anthropologist who mistook her husband for a yam: female comedy on Tubetube / Martha McIntyre -- Horrific humor and festal farce: carnival clowning in Wape society / William E. Mitchell -- When she reigns supreme: clowning and culture in Rotuman weddings / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Where the spirits laugh last: comic theater in Samoa / Caroline Sinavaiana. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 380301

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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Raceby: Robert JC Young

Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
by: Robert JC Young

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages. "Colonial Desire is a controversial study that breaks new ground in analysing how concepts of culture get formed, and how racialized assumptions continue to pervade them." In this study, the author argues that today's theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the 19th century. Clean copy.

Record # 374263

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

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

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

Record # 380327

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Communal Rituals of the Nyakyusaby: Monica Wilson

Communal Rituals of the Nyakyusa
by: Monica Wilson

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.

Record # 380336

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Contexts and Levels: Anthropological Essays on Hierarchyby: Barnes, R.H., Daniel De Coppet, R.J. Parkin [Editors]

Contexts and Levels: Anthropological Essays on Hierarchy
by: Barnes, R.H., Daniel De Coppet, R.J. Parkin [Editors]

Softcover. Oxford UK, JASO, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 219 pages. Journal of the Anthropological Society Occasional Papers No. 4. Clean copy.

Record # 380866

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Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Powerby: Helms, Mary W.

Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power
by: Helms, Mary W.

Softcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, 287 pages. Light fading to spine. In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to objects that either are produced by skilled artisans and/or come from 'afar.' She argues that fine artisanship and long-distance trade, both of which are more available to powerful elites than to ordinary people, are means of creating or acquiring tangible objects that embody intangible powers and energies from the cosmological realms of gods, ancestors, or heroes. Clean copy.

Record # 380486

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Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea by:  Douglas Newton

Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea
by: Douglas Newton

Softcover. NY, Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,112 pages. Original color illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Outline guide to the objects used in upper Sepik River rituals and the context in which they are employed. Based on author's field trips to the region in 1964, 1965, and mainly 1967. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings throughout.

Record # 380527

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Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugarby: Fernando Ortiz; Translator Harriet de Onis

Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar
by: Fernando Ortiz; Translator Harriet de Onis

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages plus index. Though written over fifty years ago, Cuban Counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of Latin American and Caribbean intellectual history. Treating tobacco and sugar both as agricultural commodities and as social characters in a historical process, he examines changes in their roles as the result of transculturation. Clean copy. Spine faded.

Record # 378631

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Cultural Aspects of Infant Undernutrition Among the Lujere People of Papua New Guinea: A Nursing Perspectiveby: Gillam, Elizabeth Alice

Cultural Aspects of Infant Undernutrition Among the Lujere People of Papua New Guinea: A Nursing Perspective
by: Gillam, Elizabeth Alice

Hardcover. self-published, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a self-published field study, bound in green cloth covers with gilt title on front, 276 pages printed on one side only, includes maps, charts and many color photos pasted onto the pages. A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Sciences at Massey University in New Zealand. the author was a missionary nurse in various provinces of Papua New Guinea from 1962 until 1972. She later returned in 1980 to research this study. A unique item.

Record # 378406

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Customary Law in Papua New Guinea: A Melanesian View by: Scaglion, Richard (editor)

Customary Law in Papua New Guinea: A Melanesian View
by: Scaglion, Richard (editor)

Softcover. Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages, bibliography, index. Mild fade to part of cover wrapper, otherwise clean.

Record # 378363

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

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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Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmologyby: Telban, Borut

Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmology
by: Telban, Borut

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press , reprint, 2004, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. Dancing Through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit things, rituals, and dances. 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Light pencil marking to several pages, bumping to cover fore-edge.

Record # 381643

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Day of Shining Red: An Essay on Understanding Ritual by: Lewis, Gilbert

Day of Shining Red: An Essay on Understanding Ritual
by: Lewis, Gilbert

UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 233 pages. Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people involved have not given a good enough reason for these customs. The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond those offered by the people themselves runs through this book. The book focuses on the various interpretations that have been offered by anthropologists of ritual and symbolism. It offers a critical discussion of theories in this field in general, identifying their strengths and weaknesses when applied to the particular case of puberty rituals in a West Sepik village in Papua New Guinea. It then goes on to suggest an alternative approach, which draws on aesthetic as well as anthropological theory, and pays particular attention to the emotional and aesthetic experiences of people as they perform the rites. Pencil marking to about 25 pages, name on inside front cover.

Record # 381173

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Death, Property and the Ancestors: a Study of the Mortuary Customs of the Lodagaa of West Africaby: Jack Goody

Death, Property and the Ancestors: a Study of the Mortuary Customs of the Lodagaa of West Africa
by: Jack Goody

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.

Record # 378693

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

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

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

Record # 378661

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Devi: The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Artby: Dehejia, Vidya (Editor)

Devi: The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art
by: Dehejia, Vidya (Editor)

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Prestel, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Large oversized book. Devi, the Great Goddess of India is beautiful, beneficent, terrifying, all-powerful, and glorious. Ubiquitous in India's social and spiritual fabric, she has, over the millennia, been painted, sculpted, carved, and wrought from silver and bronze in a myriad of shapes and forms. Devi: The Great Goddess brings together one hundred and twenty of these diverse examples of Devi and a group of distinguished essayists who explore facets of Devi worship and tradition, including ritual, architecture, literature, history and contemporary issues such as feminism and gender politics. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 460375

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