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.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Sraus and Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 650 pages, b&w illustrations. A rare study of the Nabataeans, whose kingdom included that archaeological wonder of the world:, Petra. Name on front fly leaf, dj spine with fading.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N Potter, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dr Michael Wood, cofounder of Kenya's Flying Doctor Service, brings a beautiful and troubled land into sharpe focus in his written account of forty years in Africa. More than 90 brilliant full-color photographs provide a vivid scenic background to this absorbing memoir. Flying from his base in nairobi to tribal lands of the Maasai, the Muslim villages on he coast, and the Ethiopian highlands, Wood established hospitals and conducted clinics, responding to medical emergencies throughout the area. He came to know the land and its peoples intimately. 223 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. Sydney AU, Pacific Publications, 1st, 1968, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, black cloth covers, gilt titles on spine, b&w illustrations. Covers worn, tattered dust jacket. Australian George Wilfred Lambert Townsend (1896-1962) spent twenty-five years in New Guinea during which he battled head-hunters on the Sepik River, battled the Rabaul bureaucracy and finally the Japanese. There is some marking and highlighting to the text. A reading copy of a scarce title concerning Australia's administrative rule in New Guinea.

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. Tucson AZ, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 339 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the people and customs of Tonga, based on the ethnographic observations of European visitors before the period of intensive Christian missionary activity. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages. Although he is referred to as a "genius" more often than any other scholar of his period, Edward Sapir has received no full-scale biography since his death in 1939. At long last, Regna Darnell provides a comprehensive assessment of the life, ideas, and wide-ranging interests of this remarkable man. Sapir, the foremost linguist and anthropologist of his generation, contributed substantially to the professionalization of linguistics as an independent discipline. He was the first to apply comparative Indo-European methods to the study of American Indian languages, on which he conducted extensive fieldwork. His theoretical work on the relationship of the individual personality to culture remains fundamental to culture theory in anthropology, as does his insistence on the symbolic nature of culture and the importance of culture as understood by its members, in their own words.Sapir became the first professional anthropologist in Canada and teacher of a whole generation of linguists and anthropologists at Chicago and Yale. Holding to a humanistic view of anthropology (his own work included poetry and literary criticism), he was the most articulate spokesman for the interdisciplinary social science of the late 1920s and 1930s. In both linguistics and anthropology Sapir is a revered master whose ideas continue to inspire discussion and research. A sixteen-volume Collected Works is now in progress. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust dacket with minor wear, unclipped. Durkheim was a turn of the century French sociologist who argued that society is largely responsible for shaping an individual's moral values. He was largely critical of laissez-faire capitalism, arguing that society needed to be morally reconstructed. Lukes' comprehensive biography tells the story of Durkheim's life: how he responded to his critics, and how he tried to make his way in the academic world of pre-WWI Europe. Lukes examines Durkheim's work in its historical context, and offers a critical examination of it as well. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Melbourne AU, Melbourne University Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes. Volume 1: A-K, 588 pages. Volume 2: L-Z, pages 589-1231. Volume 3; Index, 83 pages, plus a fold-out map in a folder at the back. Green cloth with gilt titles on spine and decoration on upper cover. All volumes with numerous illustrations and maps, the indispensable reference work on New Guinea. NOTE: Vol. 2 has text block separated from binding but all pages present in VG condition.

Hardcover. NY, Cooper Square Publishers, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 373 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out map. A reprint of a title originally published in 1939, this release is updated by Ralph Piddington with recent studies. Nine Chapters: Warfare in Central Polynesia, Kava in Samoa and Tonga, Kava in other Polynesian Islands, The Arioi, Sex Courtship and Infanticide, Stability and Change in Polynesian Culture, The Origins of Polynesian Culture, Polynesia and Melanesia, and Past and Present in Polynesia. Plus Appendix Assam Parallels. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Place de Victoires, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 599 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This vivid photo-essay on the great adventure of discovery and exploration 1860-1930 is drawn from the collection of The Royal Geographical Society in London. It begins with Stanley and Livingstone in Africa and proceeds through Asia and Oceania, the Americas, and the Middle East. The work of twenty-three intrepid photographers are included.

Hardcover. Williamsburg VA, College of William & Mary, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 528 pages, b&w illustrations. The collected papers in this book describe human sexuality and gender among a small sample of societies on the island of Borneo. Expressions of human sexuality vary widely among the 200 autonymic societies, which range in population from a few hundred persons to three-quarters of a million. Some are quite open about the subject, others circumspect and discreet. The present work contains studies of eight societies, with references to others. It does not deal with Chinese and Malays, who with others will be the subjects of future monographs on the same topic. Clean copy.

Cambridge UK, Polity Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear. This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and balanced assessment of, the theoretical and practical issues raised by the development of a feminist anthropology. Clean 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.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages. Color plates throughout. Five essays by contributors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Canberra/London, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies/Gerald Duckworth and Co., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 486 pages with illustrations in b&w and color. From Papers presented to a symposium at the 1974 meeting of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. A look at the art works of Aboriginal Australia from the past & present, as seen in the context of the art of prehistoric Europe. An attempt at an ethnographic juxtaposition of prehistoric art. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 474 pages, b&w illustrations. Fascinating study of the Gebusi people of PNG, who have one of the highest homicide rates in the world, because the execute suspected sorcerers. Despite this, the Gebusi are known for being good company. PNG is one of the most fascinating places on our planet, and this is one piece of the mosaic. First 25 pages with highlighting, pencil marking. Rest of the book is clean.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. With the '1' in a full number line. The definitive biography of this noted anthropologist, with an excellent bibliography. 360 pages, b&w illustrations. No markings.

Paperback. London/Berkeley, James Curry/University of California, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Focuses on the events in one key "operational zone" in the Zambezi valley in the struggle for Zimbabwe between 1966-1980. Preface by Maurice Block. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. Bibliography, index.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. 986 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps (some fold-out) and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. This is Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143; 818 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Goverment Printing Office, 1st, 1950, Hardccover, olive green cloth with gilt title on spine. 715 pages, Illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, portraits, tables, maps, fold-in maps & color map in rear pocket. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. Small ownership sticker inside front cover, otherwise clean, tight 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.

Softcover. North Slope Borough, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of an Inupiat village on Alaska's North Slope and how the people live off their surroundings. Whaling, caribou hunting, fox trapping, seal and walrus hunting and other methods of subsistence are covered. Maps, b&w photos. Crease to rear cover, clean copy.

Hardcover. Honolulu HI, The Institute for Polynesian Studies , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, about 15 pages with light pencil marking.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 259 pages, b&w illustrations. The homestead field method of farming. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Wellington NZ, The Polynesian Society, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, 203 pages. With maps, tables and folding chart, a further study of Tikopia, looking at the traditional tales of island creation, miraculous feats and of struggles for land and power, and how much the traditions are still part of island culture.

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. An photo essay of the intimate details of daily life among primitive Indians of the Brazilian jungle. Tall yellow boards, 32 pages text, 127 b&w photos, 16 color plates. Minimal shelf wear,small chip to top of dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. New York, Other Press LLC, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. Nearly 500 full color and black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with light fading & small tear to spine edge. Clean, unmarked and bright copy.

Barre, MA, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, photographs by Curtis. Introduction and commentary by Don D. Fowler. One hundred and eighteen superb representative photographs have been selected from Curtis's monumental work and reproduced in this book by The Meriden Gravure Company. Don Fowler describes Curtis the photographer and ethnographer, and the Indian groups depicted, commenting on the unique cultural characteristics of each tribe.

Chicago, University of Chicago , 6th pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, b&w illustrations. The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.

Softcover. Anchorage, Alaska Anthropological Association , 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 225 pages, b&w illustrations. An historical study of whaling in the northern Alaskan communities. Mild shelf wear.

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. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 page. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A unique linsight into life in Brazil's infamous favelas. A honest portrayal of the 'other side' of Brazil's society.Portrays a world that came to prominence with the hit film City of God. Combining thought-provoking text and hard-hitting, stunning photography, Inside the Favelas provides a compelling commentary on the life in Brazil's shanty townsIncludes a foreword by The Honorable Sergio Cabral Filho, Govenor of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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.

Softcover. Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, Sridevi Printers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages plus 10 b&w plates. Extracts from the journal of Spilberger (1568-1620), one of the first outsiders to set foot in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1602. Translated fom the Dutch by K.D. Paranavitana. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. Canberra AU, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, b&w illustrations. The author became interested in Karo Araua when she heard for the first time the 'Song about Karo', the poem in traditional form in which he was the hero. Most writings about Papua New Guinea deal with the successful people who managed the colonial encounter. Karo, hanged in Port Moresby in 1938, was not successful, but his name lives on among his own people. Clean copy.

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colorful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time. This landmark volume explores Kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India and the west. During these performances heroes, heroines, gods and demons tell their stories of traditional Indian epics. The four Kathakali plays included in this anthology, translated from actual performances into English are:* The Flower of Good Fortune* The Killing of Kirmmira* The Progeny of Krishna* King Rugmamgada's LawEach play has an introduction and detailed commentary and is illustrated by stunning photographs taken during performances. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oslo University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. A first-hand account of the changing social structures of the Aborigines based on accounts from the tribe members.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st pbk, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 447 pages. A scholarly study of South Indian society, particularly the political order, as seen in literary images in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit texts. The king must endergo experiences of exile, masquerade, and possession by a clownlike anti-self, all these transformations being integral components of his role.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 393 pages. Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists-most with extended experience inside Afghanistan-examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women's empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan's women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future. Review copy stamp on top edge otherwise like new.

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. 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.

Hardcover. New York, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005-07-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover. Portraits of life in Benin from the 1960's and 70's. A collection of never-before-seen photographs made in West Africa whose discovery opens a new chapter in the history of African and world photography. 136 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005-07-06, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover. Portraits of life in Benin from the 1960's and 70's. A collection of never-before-seen photographs made in West Africa whose discovery opens a new chapter in the history of African and world photography. 136 pages.

Softcover. University Press of Colorado, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme. Name on front fly leaf other wise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Appleton and Company, 1st Edition, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. Volume 1: 558 pages. Volume 2: 562 pages. Both volumes: B/w frontispiece. Dark red cover boards, black design on front covers, gilt title on spines. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. Tanning to edges and pages from age. Spines straight. Binding good. Biography of Charles Darwin, including correspondence, edited by his son, Francis Darwin. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

London, Athlone Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 151 pages. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Clean otherwise.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 350 pages. Introduction + 10 essays. Specific societies noted incl Traditional China & India, Buddhist Village in North-East Thailand, Kerala, Islamic Learning in Western Sudan, Northern Ghana, Somali Nomads, Madagascar, Melanesia, Pre-Industrial England. Bibliography & Index. Clean copy.