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SINGING THE MASTER: The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the dual origins (old English and African) of the corn-shucking ceremony on antebellum plantations. Illustrated, extensive notes, appendix with original accounts of the ceremony, index. 342 pages. ISBN: 0-394-555910.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 18715More details Price: $30.00 -
FAMILIA: Migration and Adaptation In Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs. "Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family. Spanish, American, and English exploits paved the way for exchange between Baja and Alta California. Alvarez shows how cultural stability actually increased as migrants settled in new locations, bringing their common values and memories with them." Includes an appendix with the original Spanish field notes, notes, bibliography, index. xv. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-520053470.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76853More details Price: $25.00 -
RACES AND PEOPLE.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York & London: Abelard-Schuman, (1961, c 1955) dj. Hardcover - A clear analysis of what race is, and what it is not, written for older children. A rather hard to find early title by Asimov. Includes 26 illustrations by John Bradford and additional maps. Index. 189 pp.
Condition: Ex-school library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean, in a good dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 79270More details Price: $25.00 -
THE EVOLUTION OF MAN: A Series of Lectures Delivered before the Yale Chapter of the Sigme Xi during the Academic Year 1921-1922.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Hardcover - Includes lectures by Richard Swann Lull, Harry Burr Ferris, George Howard Parker, James Rowland Angell, Albert Galloway Keller, & Edwin Grant Conklin on the antiquity of man, the evolution of intelligence, societal evolution and more. Glossy frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Bibliography, index. x, 202 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (prev owner's name, tanning to pages), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 71163More details Price: $15.00 -
AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY: Ethnology
Edition: Trade paperback.
Homewood, IL Dorsey, 1975.
Condition: VG
Book ID: 10198More details Price: $8.50 -
PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Learning Along the Way.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (bookplate on front endpaper)
Book ID: 76312More details Price: $25.00 -
PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Learning Along the Way.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43046More details Price: $30.00 -
PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Learning Along the Way.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy, but with a remainder line).
Book ID: 43049More details Price: $15.00 -
THE KAGURU: A Matrilinear People of East Africa.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971.). A title in the 'Case Studies in Anthropology' series under the general editorship of George and Louise Spindler. Illustrated with photographs. Map, glossary, bibliography. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0767652.
Condition: Good in illustrated wrappers (some rubbing to the covers, marginal notations in pencil - erasable.)
Book ID: 30562More details Price: $15.00 -
HORSES, MUSICIANS, AND GODS: The Hausa Cult of Possession-Trance.
Edition: First US printing.
South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, (1983.). Hardcover first edition - Forewood by Willard Rhodes. Study of the Bori cult in Nigeria based on data collected in 1971 and 1973. Frontispiece, photographs, musical transcriptions, references, index. xiv, 290 pp. ISBN: 0-89789-0205.
Condition: Very good in purple cloth boards with gilt lettering.
Book ID: 54676More details Price: $30.00 -
SOCIAL CHANGE AT LARTEH, GHANA.
Edition: First printing.
Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1966. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the author "Ruth Brandwynne, Many thanks for all your help during the preparation of this book." A study of changing social institutions in a small rural Ghanian town, based on three years of research. A title in the Oxford Monographs on Social Anthropology series.Photographs, map, charts. Glossary, bibliography, index. xx, 294 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38895More details Price: $50.00 -
THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE IN NORTHERN CAMEROON.
Edition: First US printing.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study extending over a period of 25 years in northern Cameroon, a region of great cultural diversity, populated by the politically dominant Fulbe, the pastoral Mbororo, and farming groups like the Gbaya. Looks also at the conflicts between traditions and nationalism, and of the effects of organizations like the World Bank. Extensive notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-56098-6948.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 26430More details Price: $20.00 -
MANDAK REALITIES: Person and Power in Central New Ireland.
Edition: First printing.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Examines aspects of both the daily and ceremonial life of these people in Papua New Guinea. Charts, two maps, glossary, bibliography, index. xviii, 309 pp. ISBN: 0-813511437.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25276More details Price: $19.00 -
UNBOUND: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional bookmark laid in.
Book ID: 68886More details Price: $40.00 -
SORCERERS' VILLAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Little Brown & Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - A journey into the jungles of the Ivory Coast in search of a secret school of magicians and witch doctors. Illustrated with photographs by Ruth and Hassoldt Davis. 334 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good dustjacket with sunning on the spine, some rubbing and other wear.
Book ID: 34967More details Price: $30.00 -
SHADOWS IN THE SUN: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Lone Pine Publishing (1992). First edition - The author, a Harvard ethnobotanist, writes with empathy and understanding and personal experience about indigenous tribes from the tropics to the Arctic circle. Included are chapters on shamanic healing, the plants of the gods - and on the end of the wild. Photographs. 156 pp. ISBN: 1551050269.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 56933More details Price: $45.00 -
BULLS, BULLFIGHTING, AND SPANISH IDENTITIES.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1999). A study of symbolism around bulls and bullfighting which is used to examine the broader anthropological issues of identity and nationhood. Discusses in some detail three regional feistas focused on the bull in different areas of the country - Bilbao, Sevilla and Pamplona. Illustrated. Notes, literature cited, index. xii 245 pp. ISBN: 0-816516529.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (faint remainder line)
Book ID: 75430More details Price: $17.50 -
ETHNOMEDICAL SYSTEMS IN AFRICA: Patterns of Traditional Medicine in Rural and Urban Kenya.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Guilford Press, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the survival, adaptation and utilization of traditional medical systems in a rapidly modernizing country and suggests that a collaboration between traditional and Western biomedicine would advance the goals of community health. Photographs, references, index. xxi, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-89862-7796.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53820More details Price: $50.00 -
BLINDNESS IN THE KAWAMBWA DISTRICT, NORTHERN RHODESIA / AFRICAN MEDICINE IN THE MANKOYA DISTRICT, NORTHERN RHODESIA.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Lusaka: The Rhodes- Livingstone Institute, 1959. First edition - Rhodes- Livingstone Communication No. 15. Introduction by R. J. Apthorpe. In addition to the two articles cited in the title, this also includes a list of the botanical and vernacular names for the plants used in Nkoya medicine. Typescript pages. Map. vii, 77 pp.
Condition: Very good in original blue printed wrappers with blue cloth spine. Uncommon.
Book ID: 54673More details Price: $35.00 -
BWITI: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
Edition: First edition.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1982.). Hardcover first edition - Bwiti is a spiritual discipline of the Fang people of Gabon and Cameroon - "it is a religion that seeks to recapture the totality of the old way of life." (p 9.) Bwiti practitioners use the psychedelic, dissociative root bark of the Tabernanthe iboga plant (or eboga), specially cultivated for the religion, to promote spiritual growth. Illustrated with 66 photographs and numerous figures and drawings by Renate Lellep Fernandez. Glossary. Notes. Extensive Bibliography and index. xxiv, 731 pp. ISBN: 0-691093903.
Condition: Very good in red cloth (some scattered underlining, front hinge starting), no dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardcover edition.
Book ID: 54782More details Price: $175.00 -
THE HEARTLAND CHRONICLES.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1995). Hardcover first edition - From the foreword: This is a tale of Indians and whites living together in a small Iowa community. It is also about an anthropologist returning to his home town, and how he got inside Iowa's tiny but old Mesquaki Indian culture just at the moment that the tribe's civil rights struggle and its new casino changed all the old relationships, as these tribal people - with their noble traditions - came into modernity. A title in the Series in Contemporary Ethnography. References, index. ix, 228 pp. ISBN: 0-812233263.
Condition: Fine in gray cloth (a new copy.) No dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 76765More details Price: $25.00 -
KINAALADA: A Study of the Navaho Girl's Puberty Ceremony.
Edition: First printing.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first complete, detailed account of the Navaho girls' puberty ritual, one of the most commonly performed but least examined elements of the Blessing Way complex,. Includes the Navoho text and translations and sheet music of 75 of the songs sung at the ritual. Based on the author's own experiences, and published accounts and on notes by other students. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, charts. Appendices, bibliography, index. xiii, [ 437 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust+ jacket (some minor edgewear to the dj, chip at bottom of dj spine.)
Book ID: 43067More details Price: $40.00 -
CUSTOM AND CONFLICT IN AFRICA.
Edition: 4th printing.
London: Basil Blackwell , (1963.) dj. Hardcover - Six anthropological lectures on the ways in which quarrels are handled by African societies based upon their customs, including witchcraft, conflicting allegiances, morals, rituals and beliefs. Reading list. ix,173 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name.)
Book ID: 48419More details Price: $25.00 -
WAYS OF KNOWING: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Dene Tha
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Good overall - underlining on a few pages, stains to bottom edge of textblock.
Book ID: 48415More details Price: $15.00 -
THE PYTHON KILLER: Stories of Nzema Life.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Twenty stories of life, beliefs and customs of the Nzema tribe of southern Ghana in Western Africa. The Nzema inhabit the forests and lagoons along the Atlantic coast, and Grottanelli was the only anthropologist to live among them - as he did intermittently over a period of more than 30 years. Map, phototgraphs, an appendix on "Witchcraft as an Allegory," notes, glossary, index. xi, 223 pp. ISBN: 0-226310051.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36713More details Price: $28.00 -
THE PYTHON KILLER: Stories of Nzema Life.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, (1988). Hardcover first edition - Twenty stories of life, beliefs and customs of the Nzema tribe of southern Ghana in Western Africa. The Nzema inhabit the forests and lagoons along the Atlantic coast, and Grottanelli was the only anthropologist to live among them - as he did intermittently over a period of more than 30 years. Map, phototgraphs, an appendix on "Witchcraft as an Allegory," notes, glossary, index. xi, 223 pp. ISBN: 0-226310051.
Condition: Very near fine in brown cloth, lacking the dust jacket (synopsis from front flap is pasted inside the front cover.)
Book ID: 54589More details Price: $17.50 -
WEST OF THE THIRTIES: Discoveries Among the Navajo and Hopi.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - "From 1933 to 1937, the great American anthropologist Edward T. Hall lived and worked on reservations in the Southwest, a frontier where four cultures - Navajo, Hopi, Hispanic, and Anglo - clashed. Re-creating that stark and haunting landscape, Hall pieces together a firsthand account of two proud worlds - the frugal, Pueblo-dwelling Hopi with their isolated villages high on the mesa tops and their deeply felt religious faith and the Navajos, whose rhythm and ceremonious forms of respect Hall learned as he worked with them." Maps and photographs. Selected Readings. Index. xxx, 187 pp plus final double page map. ISBN: 0-385424213.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79586More details Price: $17.50 -
FIVE HUNDRED SCORPIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1987. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel by this award-winning Southern author - "With remarkable skill, Hearon takes a contemporary story of a man who leaves his wife to 'find himself,' invests it with specificity and distinctiveness, and slowly segues into the heightened realm of metaphor and myth. Discontented with his wife Peg, whom he considers volatile and foolishly enthusiastic, Charlottesville lawyer Paul Sinclair suddenly decamps to join an anthropological expedition to the small Mexican town of Tepoztlan, near Cuernavaca. Enflamed by idealism and infatuated with one of the women on the project, Paul only gradually becomes aware that he has been duped as to the purpose of the study," (PW) 306 pp. ISBN: 0-689115849.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73527More details Price: $16.50 -
ISHI'S TALE OF LIZARD.
Edition: Large trade paperback.
Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books. (c 1992.). Ishi, the last of the Yahi tribe of California, came out of the wilderness in 1911, The stories he told of his people were written in Yahi by anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapir, and this is a translation of fragments of one of the these tales, illustrated with colorful collages by Susan Roth. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 1891771325.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 50531More details Price: $10.00 -
MUNTU: an Outline of the New African Culture
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Grove Press, (1961.). A pathbreaking study; using concepts such as 'muntu' (man or humanity), voodoo (the embodiment of the gods), rumba (the meaning of dance), nommo (the word) ntu (african philosophy). Also includes descriptions of Voodoo and ‡–ingos ceremonies in Haiti and Cuba and a discussion of the blues music. Illustrated. Notes, bibliography, an index of names, a subject index and a two page map. Translated from the German by Marjorie Greene. 267 pp.
Condition: Good only (prev owner's name, underlining.)
Book ID: 52791More details Price: $9.00