Category: Anthropology

Oceania Journal (March 1992, Volume 62, No. 3)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New South Wales, Australia, The University of Sydney : 1992

Seller ID: 32469

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Southeast Asia issue edited by Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander. pp162-240. Measures 7x9.5 inches. Contributors include Sandra Pannell, Christine Helliwell, Rita Armstrong, and Jennifer Alexander.
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Time Before Morning: Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines

By: Allen, Louis A.

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Crowell : 1975

Seller ID: 28845

ISBN-13: 9780690004113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Tears and folds on dust jacket. Bump on edge. 167 illustrations in color and B/W. Topics include creation myths, natural forces, men and women, funeral myths, and more. Bibliography. Index. 304p.
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American Ethnologist (Volume 28, Number 1, February 2001)

By: American Ethnological Society

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: American Ethnological Society : 2001

Seller ID: 25885

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Worn cover. Includes "Paying a school fee is a father's duty" by Karen Sykes, "talking heads" by Anne Schiller, "Reciprocity and realpolitik" by Robert Albro, "Recovering from codependence in Japan" by Amy Borovoy, "Sorcery of Construction and socialist modernization" by Harry West, "Serious fun" by Hjorleifur Jonsson and "Mirgration and privatization of space and power in late socialist China" by Li Zhang. 264p.
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The Societies of Borneo. Explorations in the Theory of Cognatic Social Structure

By: Appell, G. N. (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: American Anthropological Association : 1976

Seller ID: 31899

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on front end page. Some bumps on cover. Map. Contributors include GN Appell, Eric S. Casino, Clifford A. Sather, Robert Harrison, HS Morris, and Victor T. King. Bibliography. 160p. Borneo is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. The idea of cognatic social structure refers to a social system in which ideally the ascription of statuses is based on kinship ties traced equally through both the maternal and paternal lines, or which allows for a choice to be made in affiliation between the mother's and father's kin.
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South Sea Folk: Handbook of Maori and Oceanic Ethnology (Aukland War Memorial Museum, 20th October, 1937)

By: Archey, Gilbert

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Auckland, NZ, Auckland War Memorial Museum : 1937

Seller ID: 31908

Binding: Paperback (Staplebound)

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Frayed spine. First edition. 59 p. plus 11 leaves of plates . Map. Two lain in photographs. Sections on the Maori, the Moriori, and Oceania (Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia). Measures 6x9.5 inches
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Offprint: Methodological Approaches to the Question of the Commons

By: Bardhan, Pranab; Ray, Isha

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Economic Development and Cultural Change : 2006

Seller ID: 33326

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked offprint from Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 54, Number 3, April 2006. pp656-676.

This article argues that the key barriers to interdisciplinary work between economists and anthropologists are differences of methodology and epistemology. This article is an effort to stimulate discussions that lead economists and anthropologists to reexamine the assumptions and modes of analysis that prevail within the disciplines and to open up new conversations in new directions.
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Oceania Journal (December 1990, Volume 61, Number 2)

By: Barker, John (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: The University of Sydney : 1990

Seller ID: 32793

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Age toning on cover. pp139-214p. Measures 7x9.5 inches.

Articles include "Encounter with Evil: Christianity and the Response to Sorcery Among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea" by John Barker; "Maring Clan-Clusters: Strategy Disposition and Interest" by Neil L. Maclean; "The Cultural Context of Aboriginal Suicide: Myths, Meanings, and Critical Analysis" by Joseph Reser; and "Are We All Blow-ins?: Review article by Tim Rowse.
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Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition

By: Bateson, Mary Catherine

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Random House : 2000

Seller ID: 31839

ISBN-13: 9780375501012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with clear mylar archival cover. 264p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. Bateson has come to believe that listening across generations is key to living creatively and to discovering the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange.
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Journal of American Folklore (Vol, 96, No 380, April-June, 1983)

By: Bauman, Richard (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The American Folklore Society : 1983

Seller ID: 13724

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Includes "Fair Young Ladies and Bonny Irish Boys: Pattern in Vernacular Poetics" by Debora Kodish, "The Parry-Lord Theory Meets Operational Structuralism" by Carol L. Edwards, "A Format and Method for Translating Songs" by Donald Bahr,"The Belle Isle Bridge Indicent: Legend Dialect and Semiotic System in the 1943 Detroit Race Riots" by Janet L. Langlois, "De Legendis Urbis: Modern Legends in Ancient Rome" by Bill Ellis. Reviews. pp. 131-255.
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Migration and the Orokaiva (Occasional Paper 3)

By: Baxter, Michael W. P.

Price: $94.00 USD

Publisher: Department of Geography, University of Papua and New Guinea : 1973

Seller ID: 33626

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on cover. Sun faded cover. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. 158p. Measures 8x10.25 inches.

Slightly revised version of a thesis submitted for the degree in Geography at the University of Papua and New Guinea in January 1972.
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Journal of American Ethnic History: Summer 1999, Volume 18, Number 4

By: Bayor, Ronald H (editor)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Transaction Periodicals Consortium/Rutger's University : 1999

Seller ID: 12272

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Articles include "Class, Ethnicicity, and IRA Politics on the Blackfeet Reservation" by Paul C. Rosier, A Forum on Immigration History, Assessing the Field, "The Social History of Immigration to and Ethnicity in the US" by Jon Gjerde, "Race, Nation, and Culture in Recent Immigration Studies" by George J. Sanchez, and "Immigrants and Immigration Law: A State of the Field Assessment" by Erika Lee. Reviews, etc. 219p.
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Oceania Journal (September 1993, Volume 64, No 1)

By: Beckett, Jeremy (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: The University of Sydney : 1993

Seller ID: 32921

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Measures 7x10 inches. 96p.

Includes articles on The Triumph of Capitalism in East New Britain? A Contemporary Papua New Guinean Rhetoric of Motives by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz; Nobody Asked the Mother: Women and Maternity on Simbo, western Solomon Islands by Christine Dureau; Disrupted Death Ceremonies: Popular Culture and the Ethnoography of Bali by Carol Warren; and more.
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Strategies for Human Settlements: Habitat and Environment

By: Bell, Gwen (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: University Press of Hawaii : 1976

Seller ID: 26611

ISBN-13: 9780824804145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-library. Contributors include R. Buckminster Fuller, Erenst Weissman, Conrado Benitex, Geoffrey Stanford, Hermann Ruhle, and others. 172p. Illustrated.
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Anthropology Today (Vol 1, Number 1, February 1985)

By: Benthall, Jonathan (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) : 1985

Seller ID: 31844

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. Features images of Irian Jayans in Indonesia, British Ethnographic film, relief aid, Malinowski the Pole, the past in nation-building, and more. 32p.
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Anthropology Today (Vol 10, No. 3, June 1994)

By: Benthall, Jonathan (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) : 1994

Seller ID: 32606

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. Features genocide in Rwanda (Alex de Waal) the Greeks and anthropology William Robertson Smith, legal anthropology (Chris Fuller), and more. 28p. Measures 8.25x11.75 inches.
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Anthropology Today (Vol 3, 6 issues: February, April, June, August, October, December, 1987)

By: Benthall, Jonathan (editor)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) : 1987

Seller ID: 28193

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. 6 issues: February, April, June, August, October, December. Topics include Black American anthropology, sociobiology, Africa, Hindu healing temple, AIDS, Racism, Radcliffe-Brown in China, museums and auction houses, writing for newspapers, the elderly, Bhopal, Chernobyl, Socio-ecology, Mary Douglas, computers and ethnography, shamanism in Colombia, cultural politics, and more.
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Anthropology Today (Vol 4, Number 1, February 1988)

By: Benthall, Jonathan (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) : 1988

Seller ID: 30831

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. Features Lie-Detectors and poison oracles, Armageddon in New Guinea, Architecture (Lake Nyos Disaster, Race in South Africa, an interview with Maurice Bloch, and more. 28p.
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Anthropology Today (Vol 5, 6 issues: February, April, June, August, October, December, 1987)

By: Benthall, Jonathan (editor)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) : 1989

Seller ID: 28197

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Good

A few small marks. Illustrated. 6 issues: February, April, June, August, October, December. Topics include Robert and Lisa Sainsbury interview, Bangladesh Floods, Sir Edmund Leach, the environment, Islam, Radcliffe-Brown's hard hyphen, Soviet anthropology, Films, China (June 1989), New Guinea, Japanese funerals, Perestroika, Africa, and more.
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Anthropology Today (Vol 6, 5 issues: April, June, August, October, December, 1990)

By: Benthall, Jonathan (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) : 1990

Seller ID: 28182

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. 5 issues: April, June, August, October, December. Topics include Ernest Gellner on Perestroika, New Zealand Hill Farmers, Post-colonialism, Edward Said and Orientalism, Polish Nationalism, Primitive Art, Postmodernism and Archaeology, Youth Training, and more.
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Tlalocan: A Journal of Source Materials on the Native Cultures of Mexico (Vol V, 1968, Numero 4)

By: Bernal, Ignacio (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: La Casa de Tlaloc : 1968

Seller ID: 32630

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Text in English and Spanish. Vol V, 1968, Numero 4. pp289-377. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches.

Tlalocan is described in several Aztec codices as a paradise, ruled over by the rain deity Tlaloc and his consort Chalchiuhtlicue. Articles in ths issue include "The Codex of Cholula, Part II" by Bente Bittmann Simons, "Jan Cenizas in Chatino" by Kitty and Leslie Pride, La Relación de Ocozocoautla" by Carlos Navarette, and more.
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Tlalocan: A Journal of Source Materials on the Native Cultures of Mexico (Vol VI, 1970, Numero 1)

By: Bernal, Ignacio (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: La Casa de Tlaloc : 1970

Seller ID: 32629

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Sunned spine. Marker line on cover. Text in English and Spanish.Vol VI, 1970, Numero 1. pp97-192. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches.

Tlalocan is described in several Aztec codices as a paradise, ruled over by the rain deity Tlaloc and his consort Chalchiuhtlicue. Articles in ths issue include "El Señorío de Ocuituco" by Peter Gerhard, "Tlaxcalans in Guatemala" by William Sherman, "Hongos Alucinantes" by Luis Reyes G., and more.
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The Journal of the Polynesian Society (Volume 72, No. 2, June 1963)

By: Biggs, Bruce (editor)

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Wellington, NZ, The Polynesian Society : 1963

Seller ID: 32062

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Acceptable

A few marks in journal. Worn cover with tear at top spine, a small stain, and bumps. 8 black-and-white plates.

Articles on leadership in rotuma, vocabulary agreements in East Polynesia relationships, Maori agriculture in pre-Waitangi New Zealand, ceremonial masks, films on Polynesian culture, and more.

Contributors include Alan Howard, Kenneth P. Emory, R.P. Hargreaves, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, and more. pp65-176
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 43, July 1984, No 3)

By: Biggs, Robert D. (editor)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1984

Seller ID: 32968

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A few pencil marks in the books received section. Illustrated. pp169-262.

Articles topics include Brinkman on Mesopotamia; Donner on early Arabic inscriptions from Al-Hanakiyya; Ritner on a Uterine amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection; Killean on the development of Western grammars of Arabic; Zittler on the small shrine of Enlil at Nippur; Pardee on three Ugaritic tablet joins; and Whiting on a copper coin of Al-Muzaffar II Mahmud of Hamuh.
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The Paths of Culture: A General Ethnology

By: Birket-Smith, Kaj

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Madison and Milwaukee, The University of Wisconsin Press : 1965

Seller ID: 32278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. 64 black-and-white plates. Bibliography. Index. Chronological chart. 537p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.

Topics include Australian Aboriginal art, burial customs, intertribal relations, laws and ceremonies, marriage customs, material culture, myths, religion and magic, social structure, tools and weapons, and totemism.
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The Kukukuku of the Upper Watut

By: Blackwood, Beatrice

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford : 1978

Seller ID: 31738

ISBN-13: 9780902793132

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Edited by C. R. Hallpike from Beatrice Blackwood's published articles, unpublished field notes, with an Introduction. Index. Covers ecology, material culture, social organization, rites, cosmology, the origin of the name " Kukukuku" and more. Also, the circumstances of Miss Blackwood's field-work. Number 2 in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford series.

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Category: Anthropology