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Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
by Sumner, William Graham
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G-/No dj
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ginn & Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Olive green cloth with black-stamped titles, frontispiece, vii, 692 pp, bibliography, index. No date, but after Sumner's death in 1910, according to the second preface. Copyright date 1906. Spine faded & browned, extremities rubbed, corners bumped and small repaired snag to cloth at top corner of front board, paper clean but browned and somewhat brittle, with a small closed tears (of a few mm) at edges of a few leaves, some pages unopened; a very solid and readable copy. Sumner discusses the strength of the long-established customs of a society in determining the actions of its members. He draws his conclusions from observations of many different societies, both historical and modern, and includes the details of copious examples. A few chapter headings: The Struggle for Existence; Labor, Wealth; Slavery; Abortion, Infanticide, Killing the Old; Uncleanness and the Evil Eye; The Mores can make Anything Right and prevent Condemnation of Anything; Sacral Harlotry, Child Sacrifice. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Reprint. . G-/No dj. 22 X 15½ cm.
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- Twin City Antiquarian Books
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- SSCU00001
- Title
- Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
- Author
- Sumner, William Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G-
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Ginn & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sociology Customs Ethology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sociology;
- Size
- 22 X 15½ cm
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