Softcover. Lima, Librerias A. B. C., Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Softcover with light marginal wear to wraps. Bright photograph, Young Hiram Bingham in Front of Tent, to front wrap in bw. Full page, full color photographs throughout. Very clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Durham NC, Carolina Academic Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that has some fading to spine and edges. 443 pages, several maps. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Drawing on the scholarship of folklore, historiography, and literary anthropology, this study traces the evolution of one of China's most enduring and controversial madmen, the legendary southern poet Ch'u Yuan, whose suicide by drowning is still commemorated annually in the colourful Dragon Boat festival. Light pen underlining to several pages of Intoduction, small name on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Melbourne University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 140 pages. The reasons for rituals in different societies with accounts of the relevant customs in Papua New Guinea, the Solomons and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Previous owner's label on front fly leaf. Maps, charts.
Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1sr, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 306 pages, 190 photographs, 4 maps. Cloth cover. The only book-length study devoted to the photographic aspects of the work of the groundbreaking anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume links a series of photo-essays based on Trobriand institutions--and cultural themes. The photographs, all previously unpublished, were taken between 1915 and 1918.
Hardcover. London, Methuen and Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket, 296 pages. Russet cloth lettered in silver on spine. Illustrated with 2-color line frontispiece, 16 half-tone photographsic plates and 5 line illustrations in the text. An important and early anthropoliogical study of a little known phenomenon. The title is taken from the given name of a native New Guinean who started the cargo cult, circa 1935. Similar to other messianic movements, Burridge's first hand account is a scholarly examination of the religious, political, and economic aspects which make up the cult.
Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Mapping the Invisible: EU-Roma Gypsies takes the reader on a visual journey across Europe with a focus on its fastest-growing ethnic minority: the Roma. This publication is the result of a unique partnership called EU-ROMA formed by a group of architects, designers and artists wishing to raise awareness to the diversity and richness of the Roma people. The book shows us the EU-ROMA projects conducted together with the gypsy communities in Romania, Greece, Italy and the UK.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with sunning to spine, 237 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Herbert offers a fresh perspective on Melville's Typee by considering it in the context of his encounters with the natives (including being held captive for a time) in the Marquesan Islands. 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.
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. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 761 pages, charts/diagrams, map; Contents: Introduction: the distinctive features of matrilineal descent groups / David M. Schneider -- pt. I. Nine matrilineal kinship systems -- pt. II. Variation in matrilineal systems / Kathleen Gough -- pt. III. Matrilineal descent in cross-cultural perspective / David F. Aberle. Subjects: Matrilineal kinship. Matricentric families Traditional societies Social anthropology. Social history. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 348 pages, b&w illustrations. This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico's precolonial past. Typical histories of Mexico focus on the prosperity and accomplishments of Mesoamerica, located in the southern half of Mexico, due to the wealth of records about the glorious past of this region. Mesoamerica was only one of three cultural superareas of ancient Mexico, however, all interlinked by complex economic and social relationships. Tracing the large social transformations that took place from the earliest hunter-gatherer times to the Postclassic states, the authors describe the ties between the three superareas of ancient Mexico, which stretched from present-day Costa Rica to what is now the southwestern United States. According to the authors, these superareas-Mesoamerica, Aridamerica, and Oasisamerica - cannot be viewed as independent entities. Instead, they must be considered as a whole to understand the complex reality of Mexico's past.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Peabody Press Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages, a collection of b&w photos Rockefeller took on a five month excursion to record the tribes of New Guinea in 1961. INSCRIBED BY BUBRISKI on title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 257 pages, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, b&w illustrations. In precolonial Rwandan culture, the body and the organization of the universe were thought of in terms of the flow and blockage of fluids. Operating in a "gift economy," the king and ritual specialists regulated these fluids--milk, honey, rain, blood--thereby ensuring the health of the people and the fertility of their land and cattle. Today, much of same imagery suffuses popular healing, and many sicknesses are depicted as perturbations in the flow of bodily humors. However, not all healers adhere to the precolonial symbolic forms. Identifying a primary image schema in Rwandan popular concepts of the body and cosmology, Milk, Honey, and Money explains how specifically Rwandan forms have been affected by the culture's capitalist transformation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 586 pages. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 175). 10 b&w plates. Clean copy. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 136 pages, typed manuscript, double spaced. The section headings are: the universe: the mythical origins of men; the ghosts or spirits; how men obtained food and the necessities of life; sickness & death; geographical myths; hunting stories; stories of cunning; social relations of people; love stories. Mild cover wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Harrap, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Illustrated with 32 black & white photographs. Front flyleaf gone. Front hinge exposed at top 1" at gutter. Light wear to covers and dust jacket.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: The Progressive World Struggle of the Jews for Civil Equality, Exploring Unknown Corners of the Hermit Kingdom, Masters of Flight, A Hunter of Plants, The Land of Lambskins.
Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1919, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates Bright, clean volume.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Pages 403-492 plus ads. Original brown printed beige wrappers, spine with light wear, very good. This issue includes articles on The Call of the West by C. J. Blanchard (with 21 illustrations) [taken from an Address to the National Geographic Society, April 2, 1909], Camps and cruises of an Ornithologist by George Shiras (with 30 illustrations, In Beautiful Delecarlia by Lillian Gore 9with 13 illustrations), 3 other articles.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1928, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Fold-out illustration by N.C, Wyeth: "The Discoverer". 742 Clean, bright volume.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1929, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes fold-out painting by N.C. Wyeth: "The Age of Discovery". Articles on Arizona, Ecuador, Bolivia, Spain, Washington, D.C. and many more. Bright, clean volume.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1930, in a green pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Mexico's west coast; 3 articles on the conquest of Antarctica; Unmapped areas of China, Unexplored areas of the Philippines; Chateau country of France; Yugoslavia; Virgil's Aeneid and Roman Geography; Strange tribes in the Shan States of Burma; The Yukon trail of 1898; Viking life in the Faeroes; and much more. Clean, bright volume.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1921, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes two folding color maps: South America and the Islands of the Pacific. Also illustrated WWI insignia, 16 pages of Japanese scenes in color. Clean, bright volume.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - Dec. 1922, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes two supplemental fold-out maps: Africa and the World. Very good, Clean.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - July 1923, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Also includes a fold-out panorama of The Great Wall of China. 680 pages. Clean, bright volume.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1917, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume. The half year dominated by America's entrance into World War I. Articles by Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, America's Duty; Stand by the Soldier, by General John J. Pershing; President Wilson's Proclamation; Bind the Wounds of France, by Herbert Hoover; articles by the ambassadors of Britain and France; Russian Situation and its Significance to America and Russia's Democrats; War, Patriotism, and the Food Supply.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1917, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Fold-out sepa photo of "Babes in the Woods" torn along one fold. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: The Shattered Capitals of Central America, The Isle of Capri, Shantung-China's Holy Land, America's South Sea Sailors.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: The Rise of the New Arab Nation, The Land of the Stalking Death, Where Slav and Mongol Meet, Syria- The Land Link of History's Chain. Small chip to front cover.
Hardcover. Washington D. C, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1930, in a green hardcover cloth binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. 784 pages, 2 color maps. Numerous articles including: 'Seeking the Mountains of Mystery' by Joseph F. Rock; 'Among the Hill Tribes of Sumatra by W. Robert Moore; 'Hunting for Plants in the Canary Islands' by David Fairchild; and 'New Light on Ancient Ur' by M.E. L. Mallowan. Clean, bright volume.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 295 pages with index, "Here Clifford Geertz applies his well-known cultural analysis to the social organization of nineteenth-century Bali. He offers a vivid portrait of the symbols, myths, rituals, and ceremonies - in short, the drama - that essentially constituted the precolonial negara, the Balinese state." Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Kristen Pres, 2nd Ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages. b&w illustrations. The diaries of a Russian explorer who lived on the coast of Papua New Guinea for several years. He kept a diary translated here from the Russian by C.I. Sentinella with biographical and historical notes.
Softcover. AUS, New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 467 pages., illustrations, bibliography, index. Includes 6 pages of errata (bound-in). Clean copy
Softcover. Providence RI, Berg Publishers, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages. Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community. WITH A CARD SIGNED BY ALL 3 AUTHORS LAID IN.
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.
Hardcover. Canberra AU, Australian National University, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worndust jacket, 265 pages. A study of the Mount Hagen people of the New Guinea Highlands, with focus on the issue of social order and how it is kept in their society, which has no indigenous centralised authority. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Reprint of the 1928 edition. Concerning the indigenous peoples of Papua it covers the Taro primitive religious cult and the "garden culture" and magic of the Orokaiva. Dark-blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 231 pages includes index, glossary & fwd., + frontis. and 6 b&w illus, a diagram and a fold-out map at back. Francis Edgar Williams (9 February 1893 - 12 May 1943) was an Australian anthropologist who worked for the government of the Territory of Papua from 1922 to 1942. One of the few anthropologists of his time able to spend two continuous decades in the same location without having to regularly return to a metropolitan university or institution, he performed during those twenty years heavy field work, and published many books and articles. Several pages with light pencil marks in margins. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
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. 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. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 410 pages, b&w, color illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied--often as a participant-observer--the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. Describing their paintings and the complicated cultural issues they raise, Myers looks at how the paintings represent Aboriginal people and their culture and how their heritage is translated into exchangeable values. He tracks the way these paintings become high art as they move outward from indigenous communities through and among other social institutions--the world of dealers, museums, and critics.
Softcover. Chicago, HAU Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 303 pages, b&w illustrations. In his 1978 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, unpublished until now, Gilbert Lewis takes on essential problems for medical anthropology. Has there been progress in medicine? Consider what it was like to be ill in a Gnau village in the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea in 1968 and compare it with the experience of illness fifteen years later, after they gained independence. The changes involved some loss of self-reliance. Or consider Bregbo, a community in the Ivory Coast whose prophet offers healing through confession and, in some cases, long-term care in a therapeutic setting. What does this offer that psychiatric approaches to healing do not? Drawing on these and other cases, Lewis conveys the importance of the ethnographic comparison of medical beliefs in dynamic spaces of knowledge to do with illness, health, and healing, especially as these change over time and intersect with others.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering in a lightly worn dust jacket, 452 pages illustrated with 19 plates including frontispiece, figures in text maps and diagrams. Detailed anthropological study of a people of the far south-West of New Guinea, by the Government Anthropologist.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages. This is a rivetting chronicle by two visitors to a complex world rarely seen by outsiders: the vibrant daily lives of West African villagers, and the parellel, invisible realm of spirits that surround them. This beautifully written memoir recounts the deepening knowledge slowly acquired by Alma Gottlieb, a cultural anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived among the Beng, a previously unstudied people of Cote d'Ivoire. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Melbourne AU, F. W. Cheshire, reprint, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor, chipped and worn dust jacket, 252 pages, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, and two maps in the text. End-papers feature double-page maps of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, index. The author was a Patrol Officer in New Guinea and later became a member of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council. The book covers three periods: 1927-1937; 1938-1942; and 1942-1962. There is pencil underlining to many pages. Still an attractive copy of a fairly scarce book.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with paper label on spine, lettering faded. Introduction by Franz Boas. 291 pages including index. No date on title page, only date is 1934 on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1935. A bright, tight copy.
Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Seydou Keita was born in Bamako, Mali in 1921, then part of the colony of French Sudan and a bustling transportation hub on the route to Dakar. With a Kodak Brownie given to him by his uncle, Keita took up photography at the age of fourteen, going on to establish what would become Bamako's most successful portraiture enterprise of the 1950s and 60s. Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1949-1970 draws on an expanded archive to offer over 400 portraits, mostly unpublished, from the height of the photographer's productivity in downtown Bamako. Providing lushly patterned backdrops and props that now serve to date distinct periods in his career, the artist often styled his subjects but also encouraged their active participation, hanging sample portraits around the studio as inspiration. Migratory youth, government officials, shop owners and Bamako's cultural elite all make appearances here, and while Keita's photographs served as both family record and cultural status symbol for the clients who commissioned them, these images have become a lasting visual record of Mali at that time. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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.
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