Anthropology & Folklore

Cairo (al-Qahirah), Egypt: Published by "Mondiale Press" for the Center of Folklore, Ministry of Cultural and National Guidance (Wizarat al-Thaqafah wa-al-Irshad al-Qawmi), 1959 Set of 2 volumes (pub. April 1959 and April 1960). Each issue is approximately 100 pages with illustrations. Vol. 1 contains articles in English, French, and Arabic. Vol. 2 contains articles in Arabic only. Published under this title only during 1959-1960. CONDITION: Light to moderate overall rubbing to covers. Sewn bindings. Pages and covers lightly darkened due to age and exposure. Light to moderate chipping to ends of spine. Small inks stains to spine of Vol. 1. Former owner's name pencilled on front covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. more information

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New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1940 Title page notes "Limited Edition" (bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration). The book was dedicated to Alfred M. Tozzer (the teacher of nearly all of the contributors) and has been inscribed by him on the front free endpaper to an acquaintance. xxiii, 606 pp. Plates, one fold-out linguistic map, illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, index. This is a collection of 34 seminal scholarly articles on the anthropology and archaeology of Central American societies. CONDITION: Bookplate of person to whom Tozzer inscribed the book on front pasted endpaper. Page edges untrimmed. Pages moderately darkened from age. Moderately light overall wear cloth covers. Light sunning to spine.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 17 x 25 cm. more information

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Cairo (al-Qahirah), Egypt: Published by "Mondiale Press" for the Center of Folklore, Ministry of Cultural and National Guidance (Wizarat al-Thaqafah wa-al-Irshad al-Qawmi), 1959 Set of 2 volumes (pub. April 1959 and April 1960). Each issue is approximately 100 pages with illustrations. Vol. 1 contains articles in English, French, and Arabic. Vol. 2 contains articles in Arabic only. Published under this title only during 1959-1960. Light to moderate overall rubbing to covers. Sewn bindings. Pages and covers lightly darkened due to age and exposure. Minor chipping to ends of spine.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. more information

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Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State University, 1975. A nearly complete set of volumes 1-14 (1975-1988; only "Vol. 9, part 2" from 1983 is missing from the collection) containing many interesting articles and short monographs primarily on topics in Midwestern (USA) folk culture. Approximately 1,300 pages total. Bound in three books in durable gray buckram cloth; original card covers of individual issues have been preserved. Special combined issues (parts 1/2) were published in years 1979, 1980, and 1984. Beginning with Vol. 13 (1987), the name of the journal was changed to "Midwestern Folklore." CONDITION: A withdrawn ex-library set in excellent condition (appears to have never been used). Only one internal library stamp on the cover of the very first bound issue in each book, else journal issues are free of all library stamps/marks. Text is clean and free of all marks. Binder's rear free endpaper has been removed from each of the three books. "Discard" stamps on rear endpapers of books and edges of bookblocks. Spines stamped with name of journal and years included (no call numbers). Cloth shows minor overall shelving soil and minor rubbing, but no other signs of wear. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Austin: Encino Press, 1976 xi, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 40 Index. Contents: Shuffler, R. H. And that's how some folklore is born.--Nichols, O. M. Jack Ruby.--Marcus, S. Neiman-Marcus lore from the inside.--Carpenter, A. Cobras at K-Mart.--Duncan, R. J. Chain letters.--Byrd, J. W. A bumper crop of modern epigrams.--Hudson, J. The sissy test.--Dykes, L. L. The ghost and tiny Alice.--McCullen, J. T. From the halls of justice.--Russell, R. L. The folklore of marijuana.--Nye, H. Texas tea and rainy day woman.--Lee, J. W. Bury my heart at wounded 'neck.--McDonald, A. P. You gotcha ears on?--Martin, W. C. Preparing the fatted calf.--Mansfield, D. Rodeo cowboy 1976.--Doyle, C. C. As the hearse goes by.--Abernethy, F. E. Give the world a smile each day.--Lomax, J. F. Zydeco--must live on!--Logsdon, G. Western swing.--Malone, B. C. Growing up with Texas country music.--Reid, J. Postscript: the improbable rise of redneck rock.--Alexander, S. G. Backwoods beer busts. NF condition in dustjacket with slight chipping and a short closed tear.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 New. xix, 199 pp. Glossary, maps, footnotes, color plates, appendices, bibliography, index. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this original study presents a scholarly study of elite Muslim women in Pukhtun (Pushtun) society within the framework of "gham-khadi" (funeral-marriage) ceremonies.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv, 253 pp. Illustrations, maps, footnotes, appendix, bibliography, index. An ethnographic study of an Evenki reindeer-herding collective facing economic and ecological challenges in the Taymyr Peninsula of Siberia. CONDITION: Minor overall shelf rubbing to card covers.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Petrozavodsk: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo Karelo-Finskoi SSR, 1941. Scarce. 250 p. Footnotes, extensive bibliography ("part 1": pp. 199-246), index, errata slip inserted. In Russian. This volume appears to be the only one published in this series on Karelo-Finnish folklore. CONTENTS: Byliny v Karelo-Finskoi SSR [A.M. Astakhova]. Russkie istoricheskie pesni [A.N. Lozanova]. Russkie skazki v Karelo-Finskoi SSR [N.P. Andreev]. Plachi i skazy [G.S. Vilogradov]. Pesennaia lirika Karelo-Finskoi SSR [N.P. Kolpakova]. Starinnyi svadebnyi obriad [N.P. Kolpakova]. Krest'ianskii pudozhskii repertuar poslovits [M.A. Rybnikova]. Materialy k bibliografii po fol'kloru K-FSSR: knizhnaia i zhurnal'naia literatura, chast I [S.S. SHleimovich]. CONDITION: Text is complete and free of all marks. Overall wear and soiling to cloth covers; minor fraying to top corners of spine and to very small area (approx. 0.8 cm) along edge of front cover. Rear free end-paper missing. Front cloth cover has very light circular stain. Paper browned (poor publication quality).. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket (as issued). 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore, 1993 Only published in paperback. 240 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, list of authors. These scholarly essays present contemporary perspectives in the study of folklore and traditional cultures in Nordic societies. Papers include: 1) Nordic frontiers: An introduction. 2) Folklore, modernity, and postmodernism: A theoretical overview. 3) Folklore and cultural identity. 4) Folklore and the genderized world: Or twelve points from a feminist perspective. 5) Rethinking visual representation: Notes on the folklorist and photographer Nils Keyland. 6) The ethnography of speaking and religious communication: A case study of a spontaneous sermon in Finland. 7) Some questions concerning mentalities, ethnomethodology, and rhetorics in the folkloristic study of community. 8) Narratives of artefacts. 9) Scheme theory and the study of contextual elements in narrative analysis. 10) Intertextuality, rhetorics, and the interpretation of oral poetry: The case of archived orality. 11) Studying oral epics. Folklore and mass media. 12) The cultural grammar of nation-building: The nationalization of nationalism. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Black remainder pen mark across bottom edge of book block, else like new.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 16 x 23 cm. more information

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Los Angeles, Ca: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Exhibition catalog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191). VG+ condition. Softcover. Previous owner's name writ small on copyright page. OVERSIZED.. Paperback. Very Good. more information

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Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1996 xvi, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-176) and index.. Cloth. Near Fine. more information

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Silver Spring, MD: Lietuviu Tautosakos Leidykla (Lithuanian Folklore Publishers), 1979. Number 227 of a limited edition of 300 copies. Inscribed by author to his friend, Professor Felix Oinas (a well-known folklorist), on half-title page. 172 p. Illustrations, bibliographies. Text in Lithuanian and German; some English; table of contents in English and Lithuanian. CONTENTS: Part 1: Childhood (a list of 933 customs in Lithuanian). Part 2: Marriage (consists of a reprinted German article, with an English summary, by author entitled, "Litauische Hochzeitsbräuche," followed by a brief article in English entitled "Ancient wedding customs"). Supplement: A bibliography of printed works by Jonas Balys, 1926-1979. CONDITION: Light overall handling wear.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 24 x 15 cm. more information

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London: Tavistock Publications, 1968 ix, 142 pp. Notes, references, list of contributors. CONTENTS: Introduction (Max Gluckman and Fred Eggan). 1) Decisions by consensus in councils and committees: With special reference to village and local government in India (F. G. Bailey). 2) Factions: A comparative Analysis (Ralph W. Nicholas). 3) The political structure of African kingdoms: An exploratory model (Peter C. Lloyd). 4) A critique of the typology of states and political systems (Aidan Southall). Light overall rubbing to covers.. Paperback Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 14 x 22 cm. more information

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New York: W. Morrow, 1984 242 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography: p. 235-237. VG+ (previous owner's name to ffep) in NF dustjacket.. First American Printing.. Hard Cover. more information

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Chicago, Illinois: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1990 x, 253 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. NF condition (softcover). Soft Cover. more information

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Kristiania (Oslo), Norway: A. W. Brogger, 1924 pp. 41-119 (an original offprint from Kristiania Etnografiske Museums Skrifter, vol. 3, part 2). Bibliographical footnotes. Texts in Santali with facing English translations. Following the editor's introduction, this work contains ten fascinating "stories of Santals married to people of the netherworld" that were collected under the direction of Reverend Bodding, the well-known Norwegian missionary and ethnographer of the Santal tribal community in northeastern India. CONDITION: Pages unopened (uncut); paper moderately age-toned. Paper covers brittle and chipped along edges. OVERSIZED.. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 30 x 24 cm. more information

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New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1998 xix, 275 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275).. Soft Cover. Near Fine. more information

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Wellington: Maori Purposes Fund Board; [distributed by] Whitcombe and Tombs, 1970 551 p. illus., 24 plates. 26 cm. Bibliography: p. [539]-544. Top edge a trifle dusty, fore-edge with some spotting. Still a VG copy. Dustjacket slightly worn.. Reprint of 2d ed. of 1950. Cloth. Very Good/Good. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963 Maps (1 fold-out), plates, 1 fold-out chart, footnotes appendix, index. An anthropological study of political institutions among the Mandari people of the southern Sudan. CONDITION: Ex-library copy with usual library markings (stamped "withdrawn"). Text free of all marks. Light overall wear to cloth covers. Small erratum slip bound in.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 15 x 23 cm. more information

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Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1973 xiv, 443 pp. + plates. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. An anthropological study of the cattle-herding Mandari of the Southern Sudan based on fieldwork conducted in the 1950s. In particular, the author analyzes the cognitive processes and their manifestations in traditional Mandari religious thought, action, and healing. Ex-library copy (stamped "withdrawn;" call number sticker on spine, pocket, barcode, library marks). Text free of all marks. Small bumps to corners of boards. Light overall wear to boards and paper.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 15 x 23 cm. more information

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Berkeley, CA: University of Califonia Press, 2007 xvii, 307 pp. Maps, illustrations, endnotes, glossary, bibliography, index. An interdisciplinary study of peasant discourses and practices among the Dharala peasants of Gujarat during the 19th and 20th centuries. CONDITION: As new except for an "Examination copy" stamp on the bottom of the book block.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 x, 377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Other Contributor: Seyfarth, Robert M. Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-359) and index. As new condition in like dustjacket.. Cloth. more information

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Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1951 Each article is paginated separately (1-57; 1-55; 1-119). This is the second part (of 2 parts) of Vol. II. Contents include the following three papers: #5) "On the sources of the Asmundarsaga kappabana" (by E. F. Halvorsen). The "Asmundarsaga kappabana" saga has been of particular interest to medievalist scholars because it is a Norse version of the Hildebrand legend. This article provides a comparative study with other fornaldarsagas. #6) "Studies in the Gisla saga" (by Anne Holtsmark). This saga has been important in discussions regarding the origins and nature of Icelandic sagas. The aim of this article is "to lay bare the different strata in the tradition of the Surdoelir family in Norway" before its emigration to Iceland on the basis of the first three chapters of the Gisla saga. #7) "Studies towards a theory of sociological transformations" (by Sverre Holm). This article provides a general methodological and conceptual study of the anthropological concept of "type" in relation to "structure." The objective of the discussions is to formulate a preliminary theory of social transformation. CONDITION: Side and bottom edges of oversized card covers are lightly chipped. Nearly all pages unopened (i.e., uncut, except at beginning of papers 5 and 7) and untrimmed. Sewn binding, with one crease down center of spine. Light overall wear and soiling to card covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 17 x 24 cm. more information

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Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992 xi, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 257-264.. First Paperback Edition Duke University. Paperback. Like New. more information

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Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1985 xii, 296 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. A modern classic. CONDITION: Occasional underlining/marginalia on 13 pages only. Light water rippling (no staining) to margins of 5 pages. Moderate overall cover wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Acceptable. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2001. xiv, 263 pp. Map, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. An ethnohistorical analysis of the forces threatening the Náyari (Cora) society of northwestern Mexico and the role of indigenous ceremonialism in legitimating political authority. CONTENTS: 1) Introduction. 2) People, land, and livelihood in Santa Teresa. 3) "On top of the earth": the symbolism of descent-group mitote ceremonies in Santa Teresa. 4) The politics of Tereseño ceremonialism in historical perspective (Part 1). 5) The symbolism of community-level ceremonies and festivals. 6) The politics of Tereseño ceremonialism in historical perspective (Part 2). 7) Conclusion. CONDITION: Minor overall handling wear to book. Dustjacket shows light overall shelf rubbing.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984 xi, 320 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [303]-312. VG condition (scattered marginal notes and underlining through first 40 pages). First Paperback Printing 1987. Paperback. more information

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Cambridge, Mass: Peabody Museum, 1970 2 parts in 1 volume. : ill. ; 28 cm. Series: Harvard University. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Russian translation series ; v.5, no.1. VG condition. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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Helsinki, Finland / Bloomington, IN: Academia Scientiarum Fennica / Indiana University Press, 1995 Like new. 401 pp. Endnotes, bibliography. A collection of twenty essays by a prominent academic folklorist. CONDITION: Very minor handling; virtually as new.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 17 cm. more information

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Waltham, MA: African Studies Association, Brandeis University, 1972 iii, 69 pp. Indexes. Includes 501 numbered entries, most annotated. CONDITION: Stapled booklet. Light overall wear; text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 17 cm. more information

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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993 xliv, 430 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Previously published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987. Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-418) and index.. Paperback. Like New. more information

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Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1965 xi, 481 p. : ill., maps, music ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographies. Decorative yellow cloth. A VG copy in like dustjacket. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997 x, 514 pp. Text in French with an 8-page English summary. Cet essai, hors du temps, hors des modes, cherche concilier la recherche la plus srieuse et des questions plus marginales, confrontant sociologues, juristes, historiens du droit sur un theme associant la douleur, connue de tous, a un art, le droit qui entend regir le tout et attribuer a chacun son droit. L'luvrage est subdivise en trois parties: Definir la douler; Utiliser la douleur; Reparer la douler. Loose errata sheet included. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Minor handling only.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 15 x 22 cm. more information

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Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2003. 317 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Text in Spanish. Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis about homeless women in Granada. Light wear to front covers, else like new. Sewn binding.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Plus. 21 x 15 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995 xvi, 235 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Both living oral traditions and texts with roots in oral tradition share a context in which the speaker performs for an audience, either real or implied. The author argues that the methods and strategies of traditional oral expression--of "the singer of tales"--persist into the realm of texts. This study dissolves the perceived barrier between "oral" and "written," creating a composite theory from oral-formulaic theory and the ethnography of speaking and ethnopoetics. CONDITION: Light bump to lower corner (mild creasing) of back cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16 x 24 cm. more information

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New York: Berghahn Books, 2002 xxiv, 220 pp. Illustrations, maps, chapter endnotes, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. Based on eighteen months of ethnographic field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international assistance on migrant communities. The author explores the ways in which Tibetan exiles in Nepal negotiate their norms and values as they interact with the many international organizations that assist them, and comes to the conclusion that, as beneficial as aid agency assistance often is, it also complicates the Tibetans' efforts to define themselves as a community. CONTENTS: 1) Swiss assistance and self-sufficiency. 2) Containing Communism: The U.S. and a Tibetan democracy. 3) Friends of Tibet: variations on a theme of liberal humanism. 4) Weapons of weak states. 5) Middlemen and moral authority. 6) Conflict and consciousness.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970 xviii, 233 p. illus., maps. 24 cm. Glossary. References. Index. NF condition in VG+ dustjacket with 2 closed tears.. First Edition. Cloth. more information

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Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2002 xiii, 293 pp. Map, illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. A scholarly study of how the Mpiemu people of the Central African Republic understand environmental change. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in very good overall condition. Text clean and neat; light overall handling/shelf wear. Library marks to title-page; call number and barcode labels; stamped "withdrawn." No dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 17 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997 As new in near fine dustjacket. This lovely, beautifully-written book on folk art (especially, ceramics) in Bangladesh has been out-of-print for several years. Heavily illustrated. 511 pp. Color plates, B&W illustrations, map, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, index. CONDITION: Minor shelf rubbing only to dustjacket. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 25 x 19 cm. more information

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Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., 1970 343 p. ports. 24 cm. Contents: Kapluna daughter, by J. Briggs.--Exploring American Indian communities in depth, by L. Thompson.--Odyssey of encounter, by P. Golde.--From anguish to exultation, by L. Nader.--A woman anthropologist in Brazil, by R. Landes.--Field work in Rwanda, 1959-1960, by H. Codere.--In a world of women: field work in a Yoruba community, by G. Marshall.--Field work in a Greek village, by E. Friedl.--Studies in an Indian town, by C. DuBois.--On ambivalence and the field, by H. H. Weidman.--Field work in five cultures, by A. Fischer.--Field work in the Pacific Islands, 1925-1967, by M. Mead.--Selected bibliography (p. 333-335) VG condition (slight edge wear to boards in dustjacket with moderate wear and chipping.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. more information

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Seattle, Washington: Univ of Washington Pr, 1995 xvi, 269 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., map, music ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-264) and index. NF condition (softcover). Soft Cover. more information

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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990 xii, 242, [1] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-235) and index. NF condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Like New. more information

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Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005 xxiv, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-265) and index. "The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous Movement is the first ethnography of the Russian North to focus on post-Soviet relations of domination between an indigenous minority and a nonindigenous majority in an urban setting. As Patty Gray investigates indigenous attempts in Chukotka to overcome this domination, she develops an anthropological approach to social movements that captures the "in-between" that is more than everyday resistance, but less than a full-blown movement. In the process, this book explores the post-Soviet transition as it occurred in the part of Russia that is America's closest Eurasian neighbor: Chukotka nearly touches Alaska across the Bering Strait." Slight bumping to lower board tips.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. xix, 200 pp. Chronology, illustrations, maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. A finalist for the 2003 Herskovits Award. Examines how the colonial encounter reshaped landscapes of meaning and memory in Ghana. The author reconstructs a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical environment of the 19th-century Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana and brings history and memory into contemporary context. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, early European accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual meanings associated with particular bodies of water, burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body itself to change in favor of more scientific and regulatory views. Anlo responses to these colonial ideas involved considerable resistance, and, over time, the Anlo began to attribute selective, varied, and often contradictory meanings to the body and the spaces they inhabited. Despite these multiple meanings, Greene shows that the Anlo were successful in forging a consensus on how to manage their identity, environment, and community.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket. 25 x 16 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1990 20 pp. 6 leaves of charts, bibliography.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008 xii, 247 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973 xii, 193 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. A collection of 12 seminal articles dealing with Southwestern prehistory and early Europeans in the American Southwest originally written between 1880 and 1938. Ex-library copy with usual library markings (stamped "withdrawn"). Small bumps to edges of boards, else very good with minimal wear.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16 x 24 cm. more information

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New York: Berghahn Books, 2007 xiv, 208 pp. Map, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. An anthropological study of fishing and environmental knowledge in the village of Chamakkala, Kerala. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in excellent condition (library marks to title-page; call number and barcode stickers; stamped "withdrawn"). Text clean and neat. Minor rubbing to covers only. No dustjacket, as issued.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1977 xii, 266 pp. Illustrations, appendix, translator's notes, glossary of place names, bibliography, index. This is the somewhat condensed, translated English text of a book apparently ghostwritten in 1884 by Adrian Woldt and based on an account (also published in 1884) of Johan Adrian Jacobsen's ethnological voyage to the Northwest Coast in 1881-1883 to collect examples of the material culture of the Northwest Coast Native Americans. CONDITION: An ex-library copy (stamped "withdrawn;" contains usual library markings such as call number sticker on spine, pocket, due date slip, library marks). Text free of all marks. Some soiling to front board, else only very light overall wear to cloth covers. Hinges somewhat loose from handling.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 18 x 25 cm. more information

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Austin, TX: African and Afro-American Research Institute, University of Texas, 1974 23 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical endnotes. Preface by Ulla Schild. Translated into English from German. A personal exploration of the legacy of Leo Frobenius (1873-1938). CONDITION: In stapled card covers. As new.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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