Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. vi, 310 pp. Footnotes, bibliography. Translated from French into English. In this extraordinary book, the author probes society's conception of madness through a study of a small French community. Using a wide range of research techniques, including her own ethnographic observations, she focuses on a number of fundamental themes: the nature of identity, the relation of representation to action, and the notion of social memory. "One of the few truly im... (more information)

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Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press (Jain Publishing Company), 1999. ix, 439 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, index. The Mahavamsa is the epic tale of Sri Lanka's founding and early history. It is the least known of all the world's great chronicles, and much less familiar than its Subcontinent forebears, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The Mahavamsa or "Great Chronicle" was composed in Pali in the fifth century AD, and it describes the founding era of Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Its sweepin... (more information)

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Bloomington, IN: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1983. v, 183 pp. Illustrations. A collection of bi-weekly research presentations from the 1982-1983 academic year by members of the East Asian Studies Center. Most of the articles are edited from the oral record. CONTENTS: Chinese court architecture (Richard Chi). Management education: New initiatives in the PRC (Joseph Battat). Culture control systems and commitment: A study of work organizations in the United States and Japan (James Lincoln).... (more information)

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Bloomington, IN: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1983. v, 183 pp. Illustrations. A collection of bi-weekly research presentations from the 1982-1983 academic year by members of the East Asian Studies Center. Most of the articles are edited from the oral record. CONTENTS: Chinese court architecture (Richard Chi). Management education: New initiatives in the PRC (Joseph Battat). Culture control systems and commitment: A study of work organizations in the United States and Japan (James Lincoln).... (more information)

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New York: Athens Printing, 1971. 102 pp. Rare. Short tales in Greek. Only printed in paperback. Light overall wear to card covers; light creasing to lower corner of front cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 22 x 14 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 wome... (more information)

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Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975. vi, 222 pp. Footnotes, tables, map, bibliography. This scarce volume presents a case study of the social, economic, and legal issues associated with the cross-cultural migration of labor in Turkey and West Germany. CONTENTS: Labor migration: Aid to the West German Economy? [Gottfried E. Völker]. The legal status of foreign workers in the Federal Republic of West German [Fritz Franz]. Residential patterns and social integration of Turks in Cologne [John R. Clark]. Structural c... (more information)

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Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland Publishing Co, 1964. Rare; out-of-print. Set of 2 parts. PART 1: Texte (xxxvi, 142 pp.; one facsimile plate, catalog, bibliography, indexes). PART 2: Planches (470 plates). L'auteur se propose de décrire, au point de vue paléographique, l'ensemble des manuscrits datés en écriture latine conservés en Hollande, soit à la Bibliothèque Royale de La Haye, soit dans les bibliothèques universitaires, soit dans les autres ... (more information)

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Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1985. viii, 175 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. CONTENTS: Introduction. Geometry and the universe. The origins and development of medieval mythography: From Homer to Dante. The dimensions of the discarded image: Cosmography in the High Middle Ages. An iconography of noses: Directions in the history of a physical stereotype. The influence of alchemy on Newton. Biology and behavior--A modern example of paradigm conflict. The new science of information... (more information)

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Los Angeles, CA: Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 1976. ix, 81 pp. 31 black-and-white plates, bibliographical notes, appendix. In this scholarly, thematic work (out-of-print), the author examines the legacy of Skopas of Pharos (4th century BC), the reputed sculptor of a famous monumental sculptural group with a marine subject (referred to as a "marine thiasos") depicting Poseidon, Thetis, Achilles, Nereids and other marine creatures. Now destroyed and in fragments, the group app... (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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Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994. xix, 414 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, indexes. This book focuses on the interpretation of Malachi 2:10-16, which censures the lax marital practice of its contemporaries. In particular, the author investigates Malachi's identification of marriage as a "covenant" in response to recent scholarly challenges to this identification. Taking the issues raised by Malachi as his point of departure, the author examines the nature of ancient Near Eastern covenants and oaths (includi... (more information)

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. x, 281 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, index. This is the first scholarly study (now out-of-print) of African marriage relationships in Southern Rhodesia during the early twentieth century. It is a highly original and cogently argued history of sexuality and gender relations in colonial Africa. The author's analysis pays careful attention to methodological questions and fruitfully combines historical and anthropological approaches. The author examines the marriage relatio... (more information)

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Paris / Louvain: Desclee de Brouwer / Bibliotheque de l'Universite, 1943 [Series: Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie; 3e ser., fasc. 14] xl, 460 pp. + 14 plates. Bibliography, footnotes, illustrations, 3 appendices, errata, indices, plates. Main text in French; documents (in appendices) given in original Greek with parallel French translations. In this landmark study, Denissoff presents a study of the life and work of Saint Maxim the Greek, often called the "Enlightener of Russia," wit... (more information)

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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 u... (more information)

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Nairobi, Kenya: The Bible Society in East Africa, 1956. 837 pp. + 242 pp. This is a complete translation of the Bible into Kikamba, a Bantu language of the Kamba people in Kenya. The Rhoad translation, originally published in 1956, was the first (and still the only) complete translation of the Bible into Kikamba. This edition is undated and is probably a reprint. Black textured boards; edges of book block are red. Lower corner of front board is moderaely lightly bumped. Very light overall rubbing to covers.... (more information)

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New York: Springer Science, 2005 viii, 260 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references. Contains ten essays discuss theory and research about meaning in mathematics and mathematics education. CONDITION: Very minor rubbing to covers, else as new.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 25 x 16 cm. ... (more information)

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New York: Berg Publishers [Palgrave Macmillan], 2001. x, 250 pp. Illustrations, list of contributors, bibliographical notes, index. While conceptions of the "modern" have been intensively and fruitfully studied from a variety of perspectives in the context of continental European history, scholars of Britain have hardly addressed the history of the first industrial nation and the world's leading colonial power in this register, despite its enormous cultural influence. In examining British concepti... (more information)

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Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, 1992. xxix, 1,555 pp. Plates, endnote quotes in Devanagari script. This privately-printed (and difficult to obtain), massive historical study of western Rajasthan by the Director of Sadul Rajasthani Research Institute (Bikaner, Rajasthan) contains a wealth of information. Chapter titles: General Matters, Rathores, Bikaner State, Jodhpur State, and Bathis. Only Volume One has been published. Inscribed by the author to a friend on the front free endpaper. There is a closed 4-centime... (more information)

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Berkeley, CA: University of Califonia Press, 2001. xxi, 224 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical endnotes, index. In this book, the author provides a literary analysis of the autobiographical writings of three Muslim women involved in today's Islamic revival movement. Very minor handling wear only. Text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 23 x 16 cm. ... (more information)

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