Category: Anthropology / Sociology

To square with Genesis: Casual statements and shamanic ideas in Waya?pi?

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press : 1989

Seller ID: 147204

ISBN-13: 9780852246191

Condition: Very Good

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 has a small coffee stain at bottom corner, shows light shelf wear, no tears.
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The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400 --1600

By: Campbell, Mary Baine

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press : 1991

Seller ID: 146521

ISBN-13: 9780801499333

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition with 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. 285 pages, maps, b&w illustrations.
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Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture

By: Cantwell, Robert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press : 1993

Seller ID: 152217

ISBN-13: 9780807844243

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 324 pages. "Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences, traditions, and practices to ourselves and then manifest them to others. Ethnomimesis is an element of ordinary social communication, but springing out of it, too, is that extraordinary summoning up that produces our literature, our art, and our music."
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"Peaks of Yemen I Summon": Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe

By: Caton, Steven C.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press : 1990

Seller ID: 142056

ISBN-13: 9780520067660

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark blue cloth boards. Previous owner's name has been whited out on front endpaper. Edge wear to dust jacket. 350 pages.
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Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest

By: Chait, Sandra M.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: University of Washington Press : 2011

Seller ID: 149505

ISBN-13: 9780295992853

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. 298 pages
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Rogues, Rascals, and Scalawags Too: More Ne'er-Do-Wells Through the Ages

By: Christy, Jim

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Anvil : 2015

Seller ID: 142528

ISBN-13: 9781772140170

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. 191 pages with b&w photos. "Table of Malcontents" includes Andre Malraux, Victor Lustig, Mata Hari, Constantine Rafinesque, Jack Donovan, Suizanne Valadon, Edward james, Charles Waterton,
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The Stone Age Cultures of Northern Rhodesia: With Particular Reference to the Cultural and Climatic Succession in the Upper Zambezi Valley and Its Tributaries

By: Clark, J. Desmond

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Negro Universities Press : 1970

Seller ID: 105089

ISBN-13: 9780837145952

Binding: Oversize Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library book with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. Contents: General Introduction; Part I: Geology by Dr. F. Dixey - Introduction, Physiography, Geology; Part II: Archaelogy - Stratigraphy and the Cultural Succession, Description of Cultures, Rate of Retrocession of the Zambezi through the Batoka Gorge, Correlations; Bibliography; Appendixes: Addendum: J.D. Clark; Fossil Fauna: H.B.S. Cooke; Human Remains: L.H. Wells; Kalhari Sand: Geoffrey Bond.
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Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures

By: Cockburn, Aiden; Cockburn, Eve (eds.)

Price: $24.95

Publisher: N Y., Cambridge University Press : 1984

Seller ID: 113751

ISBN-13: 9780521230209

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 243 pages. Many photos and illustrations.
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Yanomami: L'esprit De La Foret

By: Comissao Pro-Yanomami;Survival International (France)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: France, Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporain /Actes Sud : 2003

Seller ID: 127791

ISBN-13: 9782742742660

Binding: Oversize Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 204 pages. Pictorial covers. Text in French; many color and b&w photographs. Book for the exhibition presented at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, 14 May through 12 October, 2003. Slight scuffing and edge wear to cover.
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African Royal Court Art

By: Coquet, Michele

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press : 1998

Seller ID: 154267

ISBN-13: 9780226115757

Binding: Oversize Hardback

Condition: Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark purple cloth boards. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 182 pages. Many photos.
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Mating, Marriage, and the Status of Women

By: Corin, James

Price: $45.00

Publisher: N Y., Walter Scott Publishing Co. : 1976

Seller ID: 117249

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Re-print of a 1910 publication. Previous owner's name inside. Full red cloth boards.
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Indian Art of Mexico and Central America

By: Covarrubias, Miguel

Price: $35.50

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopt : 1957

Seller ID: 151994

Binding: Oversize Hardback

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition, large hardback, quarter-bound white with embossed gilt design and black with gilt & silver at edge. 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 edge wear, fading at spine, scuffing. Illustrated by the author wtih 12 pages in full color & 149 line drawings & with album of 64 pages of photos. 360 pages.
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Archaeology and Coastal Dynamics of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

By: Crowell, Aron L ; Daniel H. Mann

Price: $68.50

Publisher: National Park Servie, Alaska Region : 1998

Seller ID: 143082

Binding: Oversize 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: Geology and natural history (Geology, Geomorphology, Vegetation, Fauna, Paleoenvironments) Geological and paleoenvironmental investigations, Culture and archaeology of trhe outer Kenai coast, Piecing together the history of the outer Kenai coast, Archaeological results of the 1993 survey, Cultural materials,( Houses, cashe or cooking pits, Cobble features, Culturally modified trees, Artifacts) A predicti...
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Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, And Social Imagination

By: Cruikshank, Julie

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Univ of British Columbia Pr : 2005

Seller ID: 118749

ISBN-13: 9780774811866

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 312 pages.
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Games of the Orient: Korea, China, Japan

By: Culin, Stewart

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Rutland, Vermont, Charles E Tuttle : 1958

Seller ID: 152198

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Dark purple cloth boards with silver spinning top design. Liquid stain to cover and light liquid damage to bottom of first few pages. Previous owner's name label inside. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Small tears to edge worn dust jacket. 178 pages. Many b&w illustrations. Stated First Printing. "Mr. Culin does not content himself with merely graphic and charming descriptions of the play and playthings of the Far East, but delves much deeper into the combined ethnological, cultural, and religious sources from which they spring."
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Vancouver's Society of Italians Volume III

By: Culos, Raymond

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Cusmano : 2006

Seller ID: 120871

ISBN-13: 9780973058161

Binding: Oversize Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 196 pages.
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Visions of a Vanishing Race

By: Curtis, Edward Sheriff; Graybill, Florence Curtis; Boesen, Victor

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Edison, NJ, Promontory Press : 1994

Seller ID: 154131

ISBN-13: 9780883940891

Binding: Oversize Hardback

Condition: Near Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to dust jacket. 10"w x 13 1/4"h. 112 pages of text, plus 95 full-page sepia toned photos.
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The Mythic World of the Zuni

By: Cushing, Frank Hamilton; edited by Barton Wright

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press : 1992

Seller ID: 154599

ISBN-13: 9780826313874

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 168 pages.
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Pancasila and the Search for Identity and Modernity in Indonesian Society: a Cultural and Ethical Analysis

By: Darmaputera, Eka

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Leiden, N.Y., Kobenhavn, E.J. Brill : 1988

Seller ID: 150123

ISBN-13: 9789004084223

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Book shows 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. 254 pages, contents include: Three cultural layers: Indigenous, Indic, Islamic, Three religio-cultural types: Abangan, Santri, Priyayi, Three sources of values: Wayang mythologies, Slametan ritual, Ethic of unity, balance and harmony, Pancasila, historical development, In Indonesian society, etc.
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Early Man in Washington

By: Daugherty, Richard D.

Price: $11.86

Publisher: State of Washington : 1959

Seller ID: 119474

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

An excellent copy in nearly new condition with no marking of any kind to the text/interior, clean, creaseless covers and spine with sharp corners. Very light shelfwear is the only indication of use. 66 pages, b&w photos, maps.
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