Category: Anthropology / Sociology

Pueblo Mothers and Children: Essays by Elsie Clews Parsons, 1915-1924

By: Parsons, Elsie Clews

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Ancient City Press : 1991

Seller ID: 144089

ISBN-13: 9780941270656

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Large b&w photos, 141 pages, maps. Contens include: zuni conception and pregnancy beliefs, Zuni la'mana, Nativity myth at Laguna and Zuni, Increase by magic: a Zuni pattern, Hipi mothers and children, Tewa mothers and children.
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The hippie ghetto: The natural history of a subculture (Case studies in cultural anthropology)

By: Partridge, William L.

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston : 1973

Seller ID: 149532

ISBN-13: 9780030910814

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Book shows light wear to covers, top of spine has a tear, some edge wear. Binding is solid and square, though splitting in the middle (see photo), text/interior is clean and free of marking to the text. 88 pages with occasional b&w photos including one, representative of the book's somewhat hard to fathom seriousness with the caption " Some of the common ritual items include a water pipe, and ounce of marijuana and cigarette papers": depicting a coffee table with a cheap radio alarm-clock and the mentioned items. The text may have moved into camp.
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On the Subject of "Java"

By: Pemberton, John

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Ithaca, Cornell University Press : 1994

Seller ID: 145151

ISBN-13: 9780801499630

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 334 pages.
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The Donut: A Canadian History

By: Penfold, Steve

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 2008

Seller ID: 121383

ISBN-13: 9780802097972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Bright orange cover with slightly scuffed black lettering. Date stamped on bottom page ends. Slight sticker residue on cover. 256 pages. "For the historian, there are no banal things." Contents: Introduction: History from the Bottomless Cup; Faith, Efficiency, and the Modern Donut: Inventing a Mass Commodity, 1920-1960; "Our New Palce of Donut Pleasure": The Donut Shop and Consumer Culture, 1961-1976; "He Must Give Up Certain Things": Franchising and the Making of the Donut Shop, 1960-1980; Expansion and Transformation: Colonizing the C...
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Popular Narratives and Ethnic Identity: Literature and Community in die Abendschule

By: Peterson, Brent O

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press : 1991

Seller ID: 142770

ISBN-13: 9780801425486

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full light blue cloth boards. 274 pages.
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City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900 - 1931

By: Piccato, Pablo

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : 2001

Seller ID: 143259

ISBN-13: 9780822327479

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Book is brand new and in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 365 pages.
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Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry

By: Pinsky, Robert

Price: $45.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 2002

Seller ID: 152340

ISBN-13: 9780691096179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition with black boards, 1/4 cloth maroon covers with gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, wrapped in clear protective wrapper. 96 pages.
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Blood from a Stone

By: Pokotylo, David L

Price: $25.95

Publisher: UBC Museum of Anthropology : 1983

Seller ID: 148835

ISBN-13: 9780888651037

Binding: Staple Bound

Condition: Fine

booklet is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 15 pages with b&w photos, map. Sections include: Lithic raw materials, Principles of stoneworking, Manufacture of chipped stone tools, Pecking frinding and polishing, Determining prehistoric stone tool uses, Prehistoric craftsmanship, etc. references.
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Mystic Spiral, The: Journey of the Soul

By: Purce, Jull

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : 1974

Seller ID: 151996

ISBN-13: 9780500810057

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 174 illustrations, 32 in color. Contents include: Flow, form and symbol, Evolutionary spiral, Breathing cosmos, Life spiral, Two eternities, Microcosmic imitation of cosmic rhythms, Vortex sphere and the tree of life, Spirals within the body, Labyrinth and dance, etc.
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

By: Qiart. A;ossa

Price: $5.25

Publisher: Ecco : 2018

Seller ID: 143824

ISBN-13: 9780062412256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Brand new book is in excellent condition in every respect. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is Fine also.
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Saddlebag Folk: The Way of Life in the Kentucky Mountains

By: Raine, James Watt

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Evanstion, Illinois, Row, Peterson and Co. : 1942

Seller ID: 140237

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 64 pages. 6"w x 9 1/4"h. Full green cloth boards with yellow illustration and title. Stories and black and white photos of the hill people of Kentucky in the 1940's. Part of "The Way of Life" series of books.
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The Men from the Boys: Rites of Passage in Male America

By: Raphael, Ray

Price: $22.75

Publisher: University of Nebraska : 1988

Seller ID: 152305

ISBN-13: 9780803238886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slight signs of shelf wear only, no tears. now wrapped in a clear protective cover. 228 pages.Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Book is a series of interviews investigating rituals of male passage to manhood.
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Justice and Reconciliation: After the Violence

By: Rigby, Andrew

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers : 2001

Seller ID: 143776

ISBN-13: 9781555879860

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition; as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. " A well-constructed and elegantly written book. Rigby brings together the experiences of peoples in South America, in Europe, and in South Africa who have searched for justice and reconciliation following years of violence and criminal acts in the name of the state."
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Shaka Zulu: The Ruse of the Zulu Empire

By: Ritter, E. A.

Price: $54.95

Publisher: New American Library / Mentor : 1973

Seller ID: 152067

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of edge wear only, creaseless covers, appears unread. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 407 pages, back cover: " Beginning with a nucleus of five hundred warriors and a hundred square miles of territory, he wen on to unify the warring tribes of the Zulus through dazzling force of arms and brilliant diplomacy. Murdered at the height of his power, he left behind an empire of over a hundred thousand square miles, a harem of twelve hun...
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Marriage Among the Trio:a Principle of Social Organisation: A Principle of Social Organisation

By: Riviere, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon P. : 1969

Seller ID: 124480

ISBN-13: 9780198231516

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 353 pages.
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Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

By: Robben, Antonius C.G.M ; Sluka Jeffrey A. (eds)

Price: $11.02

Publisher: Blackwell : 2010

Seller ID: 131367

ISBN-13: 9781405125925

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Book appears nearly new from the outside with the slightest of corner wear but several pages of the text have been highlighted.
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Chan Kom: A Maya Village

By: Robert Redfield; Alfonso Villa Rojas

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc : 1989

Seller ID: 143551

ISBN-13: 9780881334883

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Book is in excellent condition; binding seems a little brittle from age, but book shows little wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Part of Waveland Press Case Studies series, a detailed anthropogical study with maps, tables, songs, b&w photos. 236 pages.
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Making of the English Village, The: A Study in Historical Geography

By: Roberts, Brian K.

Price: $32.95

Publisher: Longman : 1987

Seller ID: 153666

ISBN-13: 9780582301436

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include: Anatomy of the village, Row plans, Archaeology of villages, Composite village plans, Dominants and details, with a great many maps of all kinds. Book "shows how (Village) plans can be dissected, analysed and dated, demonstrates the presence of important regional contrasts, examines the processes creating, altering and destroying plays through time..." Copyright 2011 Pistil Books
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Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific

By: Robie, David

Price: $28.95

Publisher: B. Williams Books : 1992

Seller ID: 128043

ISBN-13: 9780908912148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

233 pages. Previous owner's name. Coffee stain to back cover and edges of last pages. Interior pages clean and readable.
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Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation & Residential School

By: Rogers, Shelagh; DeGagne, Mike; Dewar, Jonathan

Price: $13.12

Publisher: Aboriginal Healing Foundation : 2012

Seller ID: 136012

ISBN-13: 9780988127425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Very nice, clean book with light scuffing to covers only. No creasing in covers or spine, sharp corners, straight, tight spine, no marking of any kind to text/interior. Small chip at upper spine, price on back inked out. 249 pages, many b&w photos, illustrations.
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