Anthropology

Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. On the eve of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, peoples throughout the Andes brewed beer from corn and other grains, believing that this alcoholic beverage, called asua, was a gift from the gods, a drink possessing the power to mediate between the human and divine. Consuming asua to intoxication was a sacred tradition that humans and spirits shared, creating reciprocal joy and ties of mutual obligation. When Butler began research in Huaycopungo, Ecuador, in 1977, ceremonial drinking was causing hardship for these Quichua-speaking people. Then, in 1987, a devastating earthquake was interpreted as a message from God to end the ritual obligation to get drunk. 'Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation' examines how the defence of drinking and getting drunk ended abruptly as the people of Otavalo re-evaluated their traditional religious life and their relationship with the wider Ecuadorian society, and defended a renewed traditional indigenous culture with increasing pride. This account presents both the local people's views of their struggles and a more general analysis of the factors involved, and concludes with thoughts about how their culture will adapt in the future.452pp. . ISBN: 0826338143. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CUSTOMS FOLKLORE SOCIAL SCIENCE TRADITIONS ANTHROPOLOGY INCA ALCOHOL QUICHUA OTAVALO ECUADOR. more information

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Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2006. One of Alaska's premier ethnographers, Robert A. McKennan (1903-1982) spent the years between 1929 and 1933 in several remote Native villages where he documented Interior Athabaskan life in a series of books and journals. McKennan's journals are an extraordinary window onto Athabaskan culture before it was radically transformed by social changes following World War II. While McKennan's two major ethnographies - on the Tanana and the Gwich'in (Kutchin) - represent the scientific aspects of his work, his voluminous letters and journals form an equally significant part of anthropology's humanistic tradition. McKennan chronicles his day-to-day struggles to survive in the Alaska wilderness, giving readers a fascinating personal memoir of a dedicated researcher and sensitive observer. Historic photographs, maps and a bibliography of McKennan's publications honour his legacy and highlighting his lasting contributions to Alaska Native history and anthropology. 266pp.. ISBN: 155238201X. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SOCIAL SCIENCES SCIENCE ETHNOLOGY ALASKA FIELD NORTH AMERICA ANTHROPOLOGY. more information

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Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. The concepts of genre and ritual are central for the overall occupation with the relationship between the History of the Arts and the History of Christianity in Western Culture. In particular, these two concepts have important bearings for the research carried out at the Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals which has been established at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen through funding from the Danish National Research Foundation. The first of the annual conferences of the Centre was dedicated to the question of ritual and genre. The present volume was planned on the basis of this conference: a collection of 15 essays with a wide range of topics both in terms of chronology and subject matter. The individual essays have been written partly by scholars at the Centre, partly by colleagues from universities in Denmark, Norway , Sweden, Germany and the USA with which the Centre collaborates. The aims has been to publish a volume which in a facetted way sheds light on the complex relationship between the two broad and difficult terms, genre and ritual, within the cultural history of Europe.336pp.. ISBN: 8763502410. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RITES AND CEREMONIES GENRE RITUAL. more information

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Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. Hannah Arendt argued that the 'political' is best understood as a power relation between private and public realms, and that storytelling is a vital bridge between these realms -- a site where individualised passions and shared views are contested and recombined. In his new book, Michael Jackson explores and expands Arendt's ideas through a cross-cultural analysis of storytelling that includes Kuranko stories from Sierra Leone, Aboriginal stories of the stolen generation, stories recounted before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and stories of refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are and are not told, and exploring the various ways in which narrative re-workings of reality enable people to symbolically alter subject-object relations, Jackson shows how storytelling may restore to the intersubjective fields of self and other, self and state, self and cosmos, the conditions of viable sociality. The book concludes in a reflexive vein, exploring the interface between public discourse and private experience.320pp.. ISBN: 8772897376. Reprint. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WORLD. more information

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Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. This book offers students the first new synthesis in over thirty years of what race meant in colonial Spanish America and it raises important issues about caste, or how and why people knew their relative place in society. In order to examine the effect of notions of race and status applied to indigenous peoples the author compares the legal and social distinctions created by Spanish officials to separate colonisers from colonised in north-western Mexico and in Bolivia . Annotated and with lengthy bibliography, text contains some charts and b/w maps. 151pp.. ISBN: 0826318940. First Edition. Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CASTE INDIANS CENTRAL AMERICA HISTORY MEXICO SOCIAL CONDITIONS NORTH SOUTH RACE RELATIONS SPAIN COLONIES DISCOVERY EXPLORATION NATIVE AMERICAN AMERICAS WEST INDIES PORTUGAL SCIENCE ETHNOLOGY STUDIES DISCRIMINATION. more information

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Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society , 2003. This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo and northern Karelia in eastern Finland. At that time, these were completely agricultural regions on the periphery of the kingdom of Sweden. Indeed the majority of the population still got their living from burn-beating agriculture. The analysis of homicide there reveals characteristics that were exceptional by Western European standards: the large proportion of premeditated homicides (murders) and those within the family is more reminiscent of modern cities in the West than of a pre-modern rural society. However, there also existed some archaic forms of Western crime there. Most of the homicides within the family were killings of brothers or brothers-in law, connected with the family structure (the extended family) that prevailed in the region. This study uses case analysis to explore the causes for the increase in both familial homicide and murder in the area. One of the explanatory factors that is dealt with is the interaction between the faltering penal practice that then existed and the increase in certain types of homicide. Despite the fact that it focuses on a particular region, the study and the questions it poses have both international and current relevance. This work builds a bridge between research into legal history and the sociologically oriented study of the history of criminality.Crease mark to top right corner front cover.217pp. . ISBN: 9517464746. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HOMICIDE CONTROL EASTERN FINLAND SWEDISH RULE 18TH CENTURY FAMILIAL CRIME CRIMINALITY. more information

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Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. This book documents and critically analyzes the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, the author argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement's success - not only did it allow eugenicists to identify the people with superior and inferior hereditary traits, but it helped publicize and lend scientific authority to eugenicists' racial theories.The author further argues for a strong connection between the racial-type photographs that eugenicists created and the photographic images produced by nineteenth-century anthropologists and prison authorities, and that the photographic works of contemporary liberal anthropologists played a significant role in the Eugenics Movement's downfall.Besides adding to our knowledge of photography's crucial role in helping to authorize and implement some of the most controversial social policies of modern times, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of racism. Most accounts of eugenics have been written by history of science scholars, with an emphasis on the history of science and medicine. In contrast, "Picture Imperfect" looks at eugenics from the standpoint of its most significant cultural data - racial-type photography, investigating the techniques, media forms, and styles of photography used by eugenicists, and relating these to their racial theories and their social policies and goals.Indeed, the visual archive was crucially constitutive of eugenic racial science because it helped make many of its concepts appear both intuitive as well as scientifically legitimate. Discussion of the history of the eugenics movement encompasses a wide narrative, including Nazi history, US politics, criminology and prison studies, and propaganda.286pp. . ISBN: 9781845192396. First Edition. Cloth/Laminated Boards. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. EUGENICS PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY 19TH 20TH CENTURY. more information

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1983. Professor Oxnard reviews,the conventional relationships of the primates as seen from centuries of anatomical study and decades of biomolecular investigation.Text illustrated throughout by drawings and charts and includes a full reference section.D/J faded on spine and slightly on covers,remains of small price label on front d/j.336pp.. ISBN: 9622091040. D/J in Protective Wrapper. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. PRIMATES ANATOMY SCIENCE ZOOLOGY SEE ALSO HUMAN. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2001. When Winona's parents brought her from Los Angeles to White Earth Reservation in Minnesota to experience powwows and see her grandparents' home, she began to understand who she was. Overcoming the discouragement of teachers and hostility from white classmates, Winona became outspoken at an early age about the disproportionate difficulties faced by Native Americans, including large-scale pollution of reservation lands. This tireless fighter's vision of justice catches the imagination showing readers the positive impact of one person's determination to change her world. . ISBN: 1558612602. First Edition. Cloth/Laminated Boards. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INDIANS NORTH AMERICA CIVIL RIGHTS JUVENILE LITERATURE WOMEN BIOGRAPHY NONFICTION PEOPLE PLACES UNITED STATES NATIVE AMERICAN GIRLS SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDIES. more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1942. Slight fading to spine,previous owner's dedication on ffep.283pp.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FESTIVALS ANTHROPOLOGY HISTORY. more information

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Niagara Falls, NY, U.S.A.: Mosaic Press, 2000. An explosive and timely topic! This book explore the various aspects of violence from historical, cultural, literary and personal perspectives. Whiteson argues that what sex was to the nineteenth century, violence is to the 20th century -- a fact of existence but banished to a netherworld. 149pp.. ISBN: 0889627177. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIOLENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY GENERAL. more information

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