New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1940. 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. Bookplate of person to whom Tozzer inscribed the book on front pasted endpaper. Pages untrimmed. Pages moderately darkened from age. Moderately light overall wear cloth covers. Oversized.. First (Limited) 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. 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 CONDITION: A withdrawn ex-library set in excellent condition (appears to have never been used).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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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. Minor cover wear only. Sewn binding. Black remainder pen mark across bottom edge of book block.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. 16 x 23 cm. (more information)

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Silver Spring, MD: Lietuviu Tautosakos Leidykla (Lithuanian Folklore Publishers), 1978. Inscribed by author to his friend, Professor Felix Oinas (a well-known folklorist), on half-title page. xiii, 160 p. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. Text in Lithuanian with an English summary; table of contents in Lithuanian and English. CONTENTS: 1) Christmas customs and divinations. 2) Shrovetide. 3) Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter. 4) From St. George to Corpus Christi. 5). All Saints and All Souls' Day. CONDITION: Light overall handling wear.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 24 x 15 cm. (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. Good. 14 x 22 cm. (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. Ex-library copy with usual library markings (stamped "withdrawn"). Text free of all marks. Light fraying to top of spine. Some light water staining to front cover. Bump to top outside corners of boards. Overally, very light wear to 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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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. Side and bottom edges of oversized card covers are chipped. Nearly all pages unopened (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. Good. 17 x 24 cm. (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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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994 vii, 280 pp. Moderate highlighting throughout text with some pen underlining/marginalia. Sewn binding (no creasing along spine); light overall handling wear to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Acceptable. 26 x 20 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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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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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. Sewn binding. Light overall wear to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 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. Light bump to lower corner (mild creasing) of back cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. 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. Fine (Like New)/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. (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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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. 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. Very Good/No Jacket. 18 x 25 cm. (more information)

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Sandgate, England: Paul Norbury Publications/UNESCO, 1990. 123 pp. Editor's introduction, 2 texts translated into English from Gambian Mandika. The two narratives which comprise this book, "Mambi and the Crocodile" and "Mammadu and the Great Beast," are translations into English of Mandinka epic poems recorded during a live performance in The Gambia (West Africa) by Bakari Kamara in 1969. Kamara was a member of a very ancient Mandinka profession--that of a hunters' bard. Kamara accompanied himself on the traditional stringed instrument of the hunters' bard, the simbingo.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 15 x 23 cm. (more information)

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Oxford: Berg [Oxford International Publishers], 1995. xiv, 267 pp. Illustrations, bibliographies, index. A collection of eleven original essays by anthropologists. CONTENTS: Prologue: A woman looks back on the anthropology of women and feminist anthropology [Rosemary Firth]. 1) Introduction: Genderising anthropology in Southeast Asia [Wazir Jahan Karim]. 2) Bilateralism and gender in Southeast Asia [Wazir Jahan Karim]. 3) Gender at the margins of Southeast Asia [Otome Klein-Hutheesing]. 4) Modern Malay women and the message of the "veil" [Judith Nagata]. 5) Engendering disquiet: on kinship and gender in Bali [Mark Hobart]. 6) Buddhism, merit making and gender: the competition for salvation in Laos [Mayoury Ngaosyvathn]. 7) Vietnamese women and Confucianism: creating spaces from patriarchy [Stephen O'Harrow]. 8) Performance and gender in Javanese palace tradition [Felicia Hughes-Freeland]. 9) Redevining the "maybahay" or housewife: reflections on the nature of women's work in the Philippines [Jean Frances Illo]. 10) The significance of "eating": cooperation, support, and reputation in Kelantan Malay households [Ingrid Rudie]. 11) Rewriting gender and development anthropology in Southeast Asia [Penny Van Esterik]. CONDITION: Light overall handling wear and soiling. Small bump to middle of top edge of front board. Text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (as issued). 23 x 15 cm. (more information)

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. x, 186 pp. (plus a 16-page publications list supplement at end). Maps, notes, bibliography, index. Inscribed by author on first free endpaper. This is the first published--and highly regarded--account by a social anthropologist of the Southern Iteso of Kenya and Uganda, based on fieldwork conducted 1969-1971 in Busia District, Kenya. In particular, the author examines social change among the Iteso as they adapted to the imposition of colonial rule and their loss of political independence. CONTENTS: 1) Introduction. 2) The precolonial political system. 3) The emergence of neighbourhoods. 4) Changing patterns of kinship and descent. 5) Kinship terms and norms. 6) The developmental cycle in domestic groups. 7) Akudiet neighbourhood. 8) Conclusion. Inscribed by author to student anthropologist. Minor wear to extremities; light age toning to paper. Dustjacket shows moderately light overall wear.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. (more information)

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Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1972 25 pp. Contains approximately 350 references. CONDITION: An ex-library copy (call number and stamp on front cover; library stamp inside front cover; pocket inside rear cover). Text clean and neat. Stapled booklet. Light sunning/aging to card covers, with light handling wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 28 x 22 cm. (more information)

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xi, 204 pp. List of contributors, bibliographical references, index. CONTENTS: 1) Planning a research project [G.W. Lasker]. 2) Research designs and sampling strategies [C.G.N. Macie-Taylor]. 3) Biocultural studies of ethnic groups [B. Bogin]. 4) Migration [M.A. Little and P.W. Leslie]. 5) Collection of human population genetic data [D.F. Roberts]. 6) Nutritional studies in biological anthropology [S.J. Ulijaszek and S.S. Strickland]. 7) Historical demography and population structure [J.H. Mielke and A.C. Swedlund]. 8) Writing for publication [G.W. Lasker]. CONDITION: Minor overall shelf rubbing. Text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. (more information)

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 105 pp. Bibliography, index. Written by one of the twentieth-century's great anthropologists, this is an introduction to structuralism and its application in social anthropological analysis. CONDITION: Text clean and free of all marks, except for two lines of penned notes on pasted rear endpaper. Moderate overall wear to cloth-covered boards.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. (more information)

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Helsinki, Finland: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Finnish Literature Society), 1974. 205 pp. Plates, bibliographical notes. Text primarily in Finnish (with passages in Finnish). The bulk of this book is devoted to studies of Finnish laments. CONTENTS: Balto-Finnic lament poetry [Lauri Honko]. Lucky shoes or weeping shoes: structural analysis of Ingrian shoeing laments [Aili Nenola-Kallio]. The langauge of laments: the role of phonological and semantic features in word choice [Pentti Leino]. On the study of rhythm in storytelling [Juha Pentikainen]. Formula analysis as a method of classifying riddles [Annikki Kaivola-Bregenho]. Martti Haavio Bibliographie 1959-1974 [Rauni Puranen]. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Text clean and free of all marks. Former institutional stamp on title-page (else no other marks). Bump to top corner; moderate overall handling wear to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 25 x 18 cm. (more information)

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Kampala, Uganda: East African Institute of Social Research, 1962 vi, 51 pp. Plates, illustrations, footnotes, appendix, bibliography. CONDITION: Light water staining across bottom edge of book (staining visible primarily on the two plates, although there is some minor rippling to paper of all pages; text unaffected), else light overall handling wear. Minor chipping to top of spine. Sewn binding with stiff card covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. 25 x 15 cm. (more information)

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