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THE NAVAHO: Revised Edition.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1974). Revised edition of this classic work - a collaboration between an anthropologist and a medico-psychiatrist originally published in 1946. Revisions by Lucy H. Wales and Richard Kluckhohn; foreword by Lucy Wales Kluckhohn. Photographs, maps and diagrams. Index, bibliography. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-674606035.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (light reading crease.)
Book ID: 55524More details Price: $10.00 -
ARROW RELEASE DISTRIBUTIONS: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 23. Number 4.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1927. First edition - A monograph by this noted and early anthropologist, of interest because of the information it includes on the pull used by the Yahi of Northern California, information learned from Ishi, the last of his tribe, who spent the last 5 years of his life living at the Museum of Anthropology at UC San Francisco. Pages 283-296
Condition: Fine in gray stapled wrappers. Uncommon.
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GUNS AND RAIN: Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe
Edition: Trade paperback.
London & Berkeley, CA: James Currey & University of California Press, (1990.). 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. xix, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-520055896.
Condition: Near fine.
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P E D R O M A R T I N E Z : A M e x i c a n P e a s a n t a n d H i s F a m i l y .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1964.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Told in the words of 70 year old Pedro Martinez, an Aztec peasant who left his village to join Zapata, this is a classic study of the effects of the technological changes of the twentieth century on peasant-life everywhere. Both a n a n t h r o p o l o g i c a l s t u d y a n d a well-written and movng human document. Illustrated with full page drawings by Alberto Beltran. G l o s s a r y , s y n c h r o n i c r e c o r d a n d a p p e n d i x , xxvii, 507pp
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
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MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT AND RELIGION: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural.
Edition: Fourth Edition, a trade paperback.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, (1996.). A comprehensive anthology containing essays by many anthropologists include Claude Levi-Strauss, Peter Furst, Francis Huxley, Bronislaw Malinowski, Carl Sagan, Lawrence Wright and others. This edition includes nine new articles. Among the sections are those on shamans, on the religious use of drugs, and on ethnomedicine. Map, an extensive bibliography, glossary and index. Slightly oversized square format. 474 pp. ISBN: 1559346884.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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THE CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ: Autobiography of a Mexican Family.
Edition: Trade paperback. A Vintage Giant.
New York: Vintage Books, (1963.). A classic of anthropology and one which makes the plight of the hard-working poor vividly real. The entire book is told in the words of the Sanchez family, over a period of years, and their feelings, their lives, their hopes and their discouragements become agonizingly vivid. 499 pp. ISBN: 0-394-702808.
Condition: Good condition. (toning to the pages.)
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A STRANGER IN HER NATIVE LAND: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. First edition - The story of the foremost woman anthropologist in the US in the 19th century. 428 pgs including notes, bibliography and index.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (rem line.)
Book ID: 12992More details Price: $14.00 -
TRIBAL STUDIES IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: Volume I.
Edition: First edition.
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume One only - but each tribal section is complete in itself. As noted in the preface, they are the result of five years of collecting reports on fifty non-Muslim tribes in northern Nigeria. Includes significant information on traveling in the area, on the different languages, and the customs of the various tribes. This volume includes studies of The Bachama and Mbula, Bura and Pabir Tribes, the Bata speaking peoples, the Kilba and Margi of Adamawa, the Chamba, the Verre, the Mambila and others. Vocabulary at the end of each chapter. Illustrated with 60 photographic plates, folding map tipped in at rear. x, 582 pp.
Condition: Very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a a rather poor example of the uncommon dust jacket (dj is missing almost half of the spine)
Book ID: 83798More details Price: $120.00 -
THE GENTLE TASADAY: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. dj. Hardcover - Includes 64 pages of photographs. Index. 465 pages. ISBN: 0-15-134990-8.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
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DOUBLE DESCENT IN AN AFRICAN SOCIETY: The Afikpo Village-Group.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs, maps, charts. Glossary, bibliography, index. 284 pp.
Condition: Very good in green cloth (gift inscription on front endpaper, no dj.)
Book ID: 24720More details Price: $15.00 -
SEEING WITH MUSIC: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Study of 3 blind Sierra Leone thumb piano musicians. Illustrated with black and white photographs. References, discography, index. ISBN: 0-295975253.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42662More details Price: $25.00 -
BOYHOOD RITUALS IN AN AFRICAN SOCIETY: An Interpretation.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An anthropological study of boyhood in a group of related Igbo villages in southeatern Nigeria." Illustrated with maps, figures and photographs. Bibliography, index. xxiv, 344 pp. Photographic endpapers. ISBN: 0-295-965754.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
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CULTURES AND SOCIETIES OF AFRICA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1960.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first systematic collection of important essays by many major contributors to the study of African anthropology, including Audrey Richards, Daryll Forde, Monica Wilson, R S Rattray, E Colson, Evans-Pritchard, Herskovits, etc. Among the specific papers are 'Witchcraft in Four African Societies' by S. F. Nadel; Negro Folklore by Herskovits, The Study of African Art by William Fagg, Jie Marriage by P. H. Gulliver; An African Morality by Godfrey Wilson; Rice, a Malagasy Tradition by Ralph Linton; The Bushmen of South West Africa by Fourie and many more. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 614 pages. `
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (bookplate, chipping to the dj at the ends of the spine.) Uncommon in the first edition, especially in this condition.
Book ID: 27700More details Price: $30.00 -
KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A wickedly funny vision of modern family life whose humor gets blacker with each succeeding page, Krippendorf's Tribe is the first novel of a writer with a rare gift for comedy." Basis for the movie starring Richard Dreyfuss. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-689116519.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55716More details Price: $18.00 -
THE OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Arno Press, 1972. dj. Facsimile reprint of a work originally published in 1913, by this reknowned anthropologist and folklorist, who is best known for her work among the American Indians. A title in the 'American Women: Images and Realities' series.
Condition: Women's center stamp on edge of text block and front endpaper, otherwise near fine in red cloth, no dustjacket, as issued.
Book ID: 15432More details Price: $30.00 -
ETHNOMEDIZIN UND SOZIALMEDIZIN IN TROPISCH-AFRIKA. / ETHNOMEDICINE AND SOCIAL MEDICINE IN TROPICAL AFRICA : BeitrŠge zur Ethnomedizin, Ethnobotanik und Ethnozoologie III / Contributions to Ethnomedicine, Ethnobotany and Ethnozoology III.
Edition: First printing.
Hamburg: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, 1973. First edition - Text is in German, English and French. The introductory essay by Ludwig Brandl - "A Short History of Ethnomedicine in Tropical Africa" - is in both English and German. Also includes essays on Les Plantes Magiques Senegalaise (in French) by Joseph Kerharo, The Fundamental Basis of African Traditional Medicine (in English) by Yaw Osei and much more. Bibliographies, photographs. 288 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed pale green wrappers.
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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.
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CLOTH THAT DOES NOT DIE: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The use and production of cloth in Bunu (Yoruba) society in central Nigeria from 1900 to the present, and the traditions associated with that cloth. The title refers to a Yoruba saying that 'Cloth only wears, it does not die." Illustrated with 8 full color photographic plates and many black and white photographs, as well as figures and maps. . Notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 269 p. ISBN: 0-295-973927.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
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THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF RELIGION (original: The Biology of Religion.)
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. A completely revised and updated version of the 1983 book, 'The Biology of Religion.' Reveals how religions in all parts of the world meets the needs of ordinary people - includes discussion of such topics as sex in and out of marriage, circumsion, sickness, faith, divorce and widowhood, birth and childhood, and the challenges of modernity. Map, illustrations, notes, index. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5069749.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
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SHARING THE SAME BOWL: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Bloomington: University of Michigan Press, (1990). "A groundbreaking theoretical exploration of the relationship between class formation and gender based on intensive study of the recent historical experience of Ghanaian market women." Photographs, charts and graphs. Prologue, blbiography, index. xv, 299 pp. ISBN: 0-472064444.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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ESSENTIAL SUBSTANCES: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International, (1994.). First edition - Originally published in the UK under the title 'The Alchemy of Culture' this is a look at the uses and abuses of mind-altering drugs through history, from opium in the stone age to crack on our city streets. Includes a look at the traditional mind-altering substances - like magic mushrooms in Siberia, tobacco and peyote in the Americas, qat in Africa, and betel in Southeast Asia - to the psychoactive plants of medieval witchcraft, hallucinogens like LSD and marijuana, and stimulants like coffee, tea, and cocoa, and why some are considered culturally acceptable, others are forbidden. Foreword by William Emboden Illustrated with line drawings, notes, bibliography index .ix,195. 36 t
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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IRON TECHNOLOGY IN EAST AFRICA: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Bloomington & Oxford: Indiana University Press & James Currey, (1997.). First edition - A comprehensive look at iron technology in East Africa from ancient times to the present, the result of more than 20 years of research. Includes an account of the reenactment of traditional iron smelting by the elders of the Haya people in northwestern Tanzania. Illustrated with many photographs, maps, charts and drawings. Glossary, extensive bibliography and index. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-253211093.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
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HAVASUPAI LEGENDS: AReligion and Mythology of the Indians of the Grand Canyon
Edition: First printing.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, (2001.). Written in consultation with some of the last shamans of the Havasupai Indians, who lived for centuries untouched by modern life in Cataract Canyon, a branch of the Grand Canyon, this book details their religious beliefs, customs and healing practices. xxi,123 pp plus bibliography. ISBN: 0-87480-4469.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
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INTER-RACIAL PROBLEMS: Papers from the First Universal Races Congress held in London in 1911.
Edition: First thus.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a new 16 pp. introduction by Herbert Aptheker. Attended by 1000 people from 50 countries, the purpose of this Congress was "to discuss, in the light of science and the modern conscience, the general relations subsisting between the peoples of the West and those of the East, between the so-called white and so-called coloured peoples." Also discussed was the position of women in society, the nature of imperialism, and the prospects for world peace. Reprint of the 1911 edition, including papers by Felix Adler, Israel Zangwill, Alfred Caldecott, W. E. B. DuBois ('The Negro Race in the United States of America'), Edwin D. Mead, and many others. Appendix, bibliography, index. [16 pp], xlvi, 485 pp. ISBN: 0-806502177.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket with some rubbing, light edgewear and creasing to back cover.
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KRANKHEITEN UND KRANKENBEHANDLUNG BEI DEN CHIMBU IM ZENTRALEN HOCHLAND VON NEU-GUINEA: BeitrŠge zur Ethnomedizin, Ethnobotanik und Ethnozoologie II / Contributions to Ethnomedicine, Ethnobotany and Ethnozoology II.
Edition: First printing.
Hamburg: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, 1973. First edition - Diseases and treatment of the sick among the Chimbu in the central highlands of New Guinea. While most of the text is in German (with occasional quotes in English), there is a 3 page English summary. References, photographs, index. 289 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed pale green wrappers.
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HAVASUPAI HABITAT: A.F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Study of the Havasupai Indians, who lived for centuries untouched by modern life in Cataract Canyon, a branch of the Grand Canyon, conducted by anthropologist A. F. Whiting in the 1940's. Foreword by Robert C. Euler. Photographs, bibliography, index. xxi, 288 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-08666.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to flap of dj.)
Book ID: 51022More details Price: $35.00 -
CLASS, KINSHIP, AND POWER IN AN ECUADORIAN TOWN: The Negroes of San Lorenzo.
Edition: First edition
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - This study of the changing social structure of the northwest Ecuadorian port town San Lorenzo is the first full scale study of Negro social organization, on the west coast of South Amearica. Illustrated with maps, graphs and charts and photographs.Glossary, references, index. vii, 328 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59825More details Price: $25.00 -
ELOQUENCE IN TROUBLE: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Edition: First edition.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - "The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology." A title in the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. Photographs, list of key characters, notes, references, index and glossary. xix, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-195106873.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in light tan boards with silver lettering, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 72781More details Price: $25.00