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Comissao Pro-Yanomami;Survival International (France)
Yanomami: L'esprit De La Foret
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 204 pages. Pictorial covers. Text in French; many color and b&w photographs. Book for the exhibition presented at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, 14 May through 12 October, 2003. Slight scuffing and edge wear to cover.
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Goldberg, Vicki;Good, Kenneth
Faces of the Rainforest: The Yanomami
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 144 pages. Full red cloth cover. Many b&w photos.
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Malm, Thomas
Shell Age Economics: Marine Gathering in the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia
430 pages, b&w photos, book shows light wear to covers only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Inscribed on half-title page. Table of contents available as photo. 12 chapters in three parts: Where the lagoon is not lonely: rediscovering a forgotten aspect of Polynesian culture, As tide goes by: the anthropology of the Tonan land and seascape, and Coral gardens and their "science": the ethnobiological aspects of marine gathering. Bibliography, 26 item list of tables, 75 item list of figures.
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Robie, David
Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific
233 pages. Previous owner's name. Coffee stain to back cover and edges of last pages. Interior pages clean and readable.
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Jackson, James S. Et al (eds.)
Researching Black Communities: A Methodological Guide
Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect.
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Gillette, Maris Boyd
Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 279 pages. Slight edge wear.
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Salamon, Sonya
Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland
Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. 245 pages, charts, b&w photos. No marking of any kind to text/interior.
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Fabian, Johannes
Anthropology With an Attitude: Critical Essays
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 256 pages.
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Robben, Antonius C.G.M ; Sluka Jeffrey A. (eds)
Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Book appears nearly new from the outside with the slightest of corner wear but several pages of the text have been highlighted.
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Morrow, Ken
The Doukhobor People: a Tribute to Good Citizens
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, barcode cut out on title page, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 144 pages with b&w photos, maps. Chapters include Origin of the Doukhobor social movement, False warnings, Important Doukhobor history, Emigration and settlement of Doukhobors from Russia, The integration of Doukhobors into Canadian society, Contributions of Doukhobors to Canada and to the world, Present and future of Doukhobors. Signed on title page by the author. First Edition.
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Moore, Henrietta L.; Sanders, Todd
Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 656 pages.
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Scholl, S.;White, Sylvia
Music and the Culture of Man
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Book has been re-bound into very heavy, thick, strong hardback boards in plain mustard buckram. Binding is (very) solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book shows light use only with unbumped corners, light shelf wear/edge wear only, straight, solid spine and binding with occasional marginalia and underlining in pencil. In business for 20 years we provide excellent customer service and ship with appropriate packing material to assure your purchase arrives undamaged.
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Fahrni, Magda
Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction (Studies in Gender and History)
Book shows mild curling of front cover corners only; straight, solid binding, text, interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. In business for 21 years, we provide excellent and responsive customer service and ship in padded packing material to ensure you purchase arrives undamaged.
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Pankhurst, Richard; University of Addis Ababa
A Social History of Ethiopia: The Northern and Central Highlands from Early Medieval Times to the Rise of Emperor Tewodros II
Book shows slight wear to cover edges only; two pages a wrinkled at the top, otherwise book is clean with a straight, solid binding, text/interior is free of marking of any kind. 371 pages.
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Lenoir, Timothy; Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
Problems of Form
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 248 pages. Slight edge wear to cover.
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Wade Davis
Light at the Edge of the World : A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 179 pages. Many color photos.
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Rollings-Magnusson, Sandra
Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders: The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 177 pages.
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Conn, Richard
Native American Art in the Denver Art Museum
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 351 pages. Full brown cloth boards. Large format: 8 7/8"w x 11 3/4"h. Five hundred plates, 100 in full color, trace the flowering of many cultures--their kinships and rivalries, traditions and innovations, extravagances and austerities.
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RYAN, Marianne (ed)
The Art of Ancient Mexico
Covers show light shelf wear, chip at lower front corner. Binding is solid and text/ interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. From an exhibition held at The Hayward Gallery, London17 September - 6 December, 1992. 309 pages, a comprehensive text, lavishly illustrated with a great many large, full page, full color plates of individual sculptures, mostly in ceramic and stone.
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Thor Heyerdahl; Christopher Ralling
Kon-Tiki Man : An Illustrated Biography of Thor Heyerdahl
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 335 pages. Many color photos and illustrations.
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Hoffman, Walter James
The graphic art of the Eskimos: Based upon the collections in the National Museum
Book shows very light scuffing to blue cloth covers; gilt lettering on covers and spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, woodgrain endpapers, a great many b&w photos, eight fold-out pages, all in excellent condition. Covers are heavy, library-style dark blue cloth, very strong and solid, nearly new. Very clean book. 968 pages. Rare in this edition. First Edition / First Printing of facsimile reprint, limited to 500 copies.
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Goldschmidt, Walter Rochs
The Human Career: The Self in the Symbolic World
Book is in excellent condition in every respect with very light scuffing of covers only. Spine is solid and square, binding is tight, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 287 pages. We are an actual bookstore of 20 years that treats its stock like books, not widgets. All shipments are packed individually in protective wrapping.
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Gallagher, John
Geisha: A Unique World of Tradition, Elegance and Art
Book show tiny nicks to the corner of the pictorial boards; otherwise as new in excellent condition in every respect with a straight spine, square, solid binding, text/interior is clean, neat and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear only, no tears, not price clipped. 'Rises above many of its competitors, thanks to its ambitious scope.The book's photos and illustrations are frequently stunning.Gallagher's writing style is straightforward and articulate, with so much intelligence and grace, it's difficult not to be charmed.'--'Publishers Weekly' Take a fascinating peek into the geisha's world of tradition and ritual with the help of a most unique book. Four see-through vellum sections, of four layers each, begin with a 'naked' geisha; they show, stage by stage, how her distinctive costume and make-up are assembled. You'll view the subtle changes of appearance through the round of seasonal events, and the elaborate array of equipment in the geisha's wardrobe, as well as everything she needs to do her demanding jobs. Equally revealing is the incredibly detailed information about the women's training, lives, and history. 256 pages in large, oversize format.
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Oliver, Douglas L.
Polynesia: In Early Historic Times
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 305 pages.
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Malotki, Ekkehart
Hopitutuwutsi =: Hopi tales : a bilingual collection of Hopi Indian stories
Spine is faded and half-title page has and embossed stamp from the previous owner but otherwise book is in excellent condition and shows no wear at all, very very clean, tight and straight. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 213pp, b&w text figures, oblong large octavo.
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Freedman, Carl
The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture
Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 203 pages.
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Palmer, Debbie; Perrin, Dave
Keep Sweet: Children of Polygamy
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 394 pages. Slight edge wear to cover.
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Neat, Timothy
The Summer Walkers: Travelling People and Pearl-Fishers in the Highlands of Scotland
Book is in excellent condition, as new, creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 230 pages with a great many b&w photos.
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Smith, Edwin W.; Dale, Andrew Murray
The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia Volume I
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 423 pages. Faded spine on dust jacket. Volume I only.
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Scott, George Ryley
Curious Customs of Sex and Marriage: An Inquiry Relating to All Races and Nations from Antiquity to the Present Day
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 312 pages.
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Katz, Michael B.
The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include: The people of a Canadian city, 1851 -52, The structure of inequality, 1851 and 1861, Transiency and social mobility, The entrepreneurial class, Growing up in the nineteenth century: family, household and youth. 381 pages.
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Malossi, Giannino
Volare: The Icon of Italy in Global Pop Culture
Book is in excellent condition with lightly bumped lower corners as only flaw, otherwise as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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Raine, James Watt
Saddlebag Folk: The Way of Life in the Kentucky Mountains
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 64 pages. 6"w x 9 1/4"h. Full green cloth boards with yellow illustration and title. Stories and black and white photos of the hill people of Kentucky in the 1940's. Part of "The Way of Life" series of books.
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Degh, Linda
Folktales and Society: Story-Telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community (A Midland Book)
Book is in excellent condition, new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Chapters include: History of the Szeklers; Social and economic life in old Andrasfalva; Resettlement procedures (1883 - 1941); Settlers of Kakasd. Part II: Survey of the results oin folktale research to the present; The tale occasions; The tale material: the narrative body of Kakasd; The storytellers; Mrs. Zsuzsanna Palko; Gyorgy Andrasfalvi, Mrs. Anna Sebestyen and Marton Laszlo; with afterword, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. 453 pages.
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Jen, Gish
The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
A new, unread book in excellent condition.
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West, Mark D.
Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 279 pages.
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Gridley, Marion E.
Indians of Yesterday
Illustrated paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine. Fraying and edge wear to cover. Previous owner's name inside. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Map endpapers. 64 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout of symbols, sketches and decorations by Lone Wolf. Six full-page color illustrations. Large format: 10"w x 12 1/8"h.
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Young, Nora
The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us
Book is in excellent condition, new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is new. Inscribed by author on title page.
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Bernstein, Deborah
Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine (Suny Series in Israeli Studies)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear. 278 pages.
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Jones, Michael Owen; (ed.) Jaut, Judith, E. ; Hernandez, Jo Farb; Bard, Marjorie; Howell, Benita J. ; Hufford, David J. ; Congdon, Kristin G. ; Dettmer, Elke; Belanus, Betty J. ; Shuldiner, David; Samuelson, Sue; Wells, Patricia Atkinson.
Putting Folklore To Use (PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY NEW SERIES)
Book is in excellent condition, as new, very nice in grey cloth covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 264 pages in three parts with authors listed above.
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Bausinger, Hermann
Folk Culture in a World of Technology
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full red cloth boards. 187 pages. 6 1/8"w x 9 1/2"h. Slight wear to dust jacket.
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A. W. Reed
Maori Carving
Book is in excellent condition with barely discernable wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no notable blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 23 page staple bound book with color covers, b&w drawings and photos providing an intro to the subject. Sections include Wood carving in Polynesia, The evolution of Maori carving, Wood carvers and their tools, The human figure, Spirals, Carved houses, Hei-Tiki.
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Christy, Jim
Rogues, Rascals, and Scalawags Too: More Ne'er-Do-Wells Through the Ages
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 191 pages with b&w photos. "Table of Malcontents" includes Andre Malraux, Victor Lustig, Mata Hari, Constantine Rafinesque, Jack Donovan, Suizanne Valadon, Edward james, Charles Waterton,
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Tettoni, Luca Invernizzi; Edric Ong
Sarawak Style
Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Oblong format with orange cloth covers, white titles. 224 pages, heavily illustrated with 350 photos investigating a myriad collection of aspects of Sarawak style. Sections include Peolple, heritage and culture, The art of Sarawak, The architectural dimension : traditions, foreign influences and modern contemporary style, Sarawak portraits in bleack and white, Architectural notebook. A huge number of photos full color, sometimes two page layouts of art, jewlery, cloth, clothing, sculpture, basketry, knives, costume, ceremony, religion, dance, beadwork, tattooing, etc. Large section on architectural detail, including elevations, sections and floorplans of a Bidayuh longhouse and headhouse, an Iban longhourse, an Orang Ulu longhouse, a Melanau Rumah Tinggi , a Malay house, a Chinese farmhouse,
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Gardner, Robert; Eliot Weinberger
Human Documents: Eight Photographers [Michael Rockefeller, Robert Gardner, Adelaide de Menil, Kevin Bubriski, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb]
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. Oblong format: 11" w x 9 1/4"h. 128 pages.
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Leon Kreitzman
The 24 Hour Society
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 176 pages. A look at how society is "open" and working more and more on a 24 hr. basis.
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Peterson, Brent O
Popular Narratives and Ethnic Identity: Literature and Community in die Abendschule
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full light blue cloth boards. 274 pages.
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Francis, Daniel
Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 192 pages. Sticker residue on front cover.
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Hamilton, Marilyn
Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's inscription on title page.
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Fyfe, Nicholas & Judith Kenny (eds.)
The Urban Geography Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for some highlighting over four pages only.
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