Culbert T. Patrick
The Classic Maya Collapse
Univ. New Mexico. Very Good. 1973. Paperback. 0826307248 . 549 pages . Univ. New Mexico paperback
书商的参考编号 : 52741 ???????? : 0826307248 9780826307248
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Keesing Roger M.
Kwaio Religion The Living And The Dead In A Solomon Island Society
Columbia Univ. Fair. 1982. Paperback. 023105341x . Page wrinkling/water stains--first dozen pages. ; 257 pages . Columbia Univ. paperback
书商的参考编号 : 44389 ???????? : 023105341x 9780231053419
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Fere Charles Samson
Scientific And Esoteric Studies Of Sexual Degeneration In Mankind And In Animals
Anthropological. Good. 1932. Hardcover. Cover wear soiling. Limited: 1734/2000 copies. ; 325 pages . Anthropological hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 42107
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De Poncins Gontran
Kabloona: a White Man Alone in the Arctic Among the Eskimos
Reynal & Hitchcock. Good. 1941. Hardcover. Some cover stains and sunning. ; 339 pages . Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 42490
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Weingrod Alex
Reluctant Pioneers: Village Development In Israel
Cornell University. Good. 1966. Hardcover. 0804616868 . Exlibrary usual markings. Front free endpaper removed. Some cover wear. ; 213 pages . Cornell University hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 43933 ???????? : 0804616868 9780804616867
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Chattopadhyaya D. P
Individuals And Worlds Essays In Anthropological Rationalism
Oxford. Good. 1976. Hardcover. Exlibrary usual markings. Front free endpaper removed. ; 227 pages . Oxford hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 43656
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Hilger Sister M. Inez
Araucanian Child Life And Its Cultural Background
Smithsonian Institution. Very Good. 1957. Hardcover. Exlibrary usual markings. ; 439 pages . Smithsonian Institution hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 40210
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Press Irwin
Tradition And Adaptation: Life In A Modern Yucatan Maya Village
Greenwood. Good. 1975. Hardcover. 0837179548 . Red underlining. ; 224 pages . Greenwood hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 39414 ???????? : 0837179548 9780837179544
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Lutz Jessie G. & Salah El Shakhs Eds.
Tradition and Modernity: The Role of Traditionalism in the Modernization Process
University Press Of America. 1982. Paperback. 0819123277 . 8.5x5.5" vi227 pp. VG clean uncreased spine. . University Press Of America paperback
书商的参考编号 : 8964 ???????? : 0819123277 9780819123275
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Adams Richard N.
A Community In The Andes Problems And Progress In The Muquiyauyo
Univ. Washington. Good. 1968. Hardcover. Exlibrary usual markings. Some cover wear. ; 251 pages . Univ. Washington hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 36975
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Ronald Spores 1931
The Mixtec Kings and Their People
xvii269 pages with maps figures plates tables charts facsimiles appendix bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black label to spine in silver lettering in original pictorial jacket. Civilization of American Indian Series First edition. The Mixtec Indians of northwestern Oaxaca Mexico recorded much of their history in picture manuscripts and were among the greatest of the pre-Columbian artists. They created exquisite works of ceramic gold wood carved bone delicate sculpture in stone and the finest painting of their time. While Mixtec goods and cultural influences were spreading widely over prehispanic Mesoamerica the Mixtecs were developing a way of life that gives them a special place in New World cultures. Condition: Jacket corners and spine ends rubbed front head edge closed tear with creases hinges and fold over edges rubbed else a very good copy in like jacket. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS007026
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Lodrick Deryck O.
Sacred Cows Sacred Places: Origins And Survivals Of Animal Homes In India
Univ. California. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0520041097 . 307 pages . Univ. California hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 37543 ???????? : 0520041097 9780520041097
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Steward Julian H.
Contemporary Change In Traditional Societies 3 volume set.
Univ. Illinois. Very Good. 1970. Hardcover. Exlibrary usual markings. 3 volume set. ; 519 pages . Univ. Illinois hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 29232
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Nag Moni
Population And Social Organization
Mouton. Very Good. 1975. Hardcover. 9027975892 . Exlibrary usual markings. Sunned cover. ; 367 pages . Mouton hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 24495 ???????? : 9027975892 9789027975898
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Smith M. Estellie
Those Who Live From The Sea: A Study In Maritime Anthropology
West. Near Fine. 1977. Hardcover. 0829901396 . 276 pages . West hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 9693 ???????? : 0829901396 9780829901399
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Carroll Vern
Adoption In Eastern Oceania
Univ. Hawaii. Very Good. 1970. Hardcover. 0870221108 . Exlibrary usual markings. ; 422 pages . Univ. Hawaii hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 19549 ???????? : 0870221108 9780870221101
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Hiatt L. R.
Anthropology In Oceania: Essays Presented To Ian Hogbin
Chandler. Near Fine. 1971. Hardcover. 0207122385 . 290 pages . Chandler hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 9556 ???????? : 0207122385 9780207122385
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Galdston Iago
Medicine And Anthropology
International Universities. Very Good. 1959. Hardcover. 0836921186 . 165 pages . International Universities hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 12707 ???????? : 0836921186 9780836921182
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Savishinsky Joel S.
The Trail Of The Hare: Life And Stress In An Arctic Community
Gordon and Breach. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. 0677041403 . 255 pages . Gordon and Breach hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 9485 ???????? : 0677041403 9780677041407
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Hill Jonathan D.
History Power And Identity
Univ. Iowa. Very Good. 1996. Hardcover. 0877455473 . 277 pages . Univ. Iowa hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 17621 ???????? : 0877455473 9780877455479
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Fitzhugh William W.
Inua: Spirit World Of The Bering Sea Eskimo
Smithsonian Institution. Very Good. 1982. Paperback. 0874744296 . 295 pages . Smithsonian Institution paperback
书商的参考编号 : 11113 ???????? : 0874744296 9780874744293
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John Stands in Timber 1884 1967 and Margot Liberty
Cheyenne Memories
New Haven: Yale University Press 1967 xi350 pages with illustrations 2 maps bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" issued in beige buckram with red lettering to spine and pictorial to front cover. With the assistance of Robert M Utley. Maps by Dorothy de Fontaine. Yale Western Americana Series number 17. 1st edition. Beginning with legendary times and extending to the first years of the reservation Cheyenne Memories presents a unique effort by an American Indian to collect and preserve the history of his people. The late John Stands In Timber a member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe was borne in 1884 a few years after his grandfather was killed in the Custer massacre. The recounting of Cheyenne traditions formed an important part of his life from early childhood and upon his return from school in 1905 he became the self-elected keeper of the oral literature of his people working out every old-timer who could contribute personal memories to the Cheyenne lore. In 1956 when he met Margot Liberty the began a collaboration which lasted over a decade and resulted in this unusual folk history. Many old stories are retold here from fresh vantage points and much material is presented for the first time all of it based on a longtime inside view that can never be duplicated. Condition: Previous owner's label on front paste down corners bumped. Jacket corners and spine ends lightly chipped some closed tears else a very good copy in like jacket. . First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Royal octavo. Yale University Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS004029
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Mary Lee Stearns
Haida Culture in Custody: the Messot Band
xiii322 pages figures maps plates epilogue bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. This book is a study of continuity and change in a Northwest Coast fishing community which has been formally incorporated into Canadian society and is administered under the Indian Act. Condition: Jacket light edge wear else a near fine copy in like jacket. University of Washington Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS000812 ???????? : 0295957638 9780295957630
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Raymond William Stedman
Shadows of the Indian Stereotypes in American Culture
xix281 pages with illustrations figures reproductions bibliography and index. Small quarto 10 1/4" x 7 1/2" bound in original publisher's brownish bards with gilt lettering in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Indian of popular culture has never existed anywhere-except in imagination. Nonetheless these illusory Indians are so authentic to most Americans that no alternate images are acceptable. Even in recent decades when increased awareness to the sensitivities of minority groups has become more prevalent the Indian has not benefited as much as might be excepted. Raymond Stedman examines the emergence of this figure from the first contact with white men when Indian was viewed as a "curiosity" through various incarnations. Condition: Jacket spine heal and corners rubbed else a near fine copy in like jacket. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS000196 ???????? : 0806118229 9780806118222
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Latourette Kenneth Scott
THE CHINESE THIRD EDITION REVISED. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE Their History and Culture
New York: The Macmillan Company. Good with no dust jacket; Few penciled notes on pastedowns few penciled . marks underlinings on pages. No DJ. Previous owner name front end page. . . Fold out map. Overweight oversized 3 lbs. B207. 1950. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 847 pages . The Macmillan Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 33167
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Gregory E. and Williams A.
City Literacies: Learning To Read Across Generations and Cultures
Routledge 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item376grams ISBN:9780415191166 Routledge hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 8307850 ???????? : 0415191165 9780415191166
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Gullestad M.
Kitchen-Table Society
Universitetsforlaget 2001. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: Universitetsforlaget paperback
书商的参考编号 : 8355543
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Barley N.
The Innocent Anthropologist
Penguin Books 1986. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item250grams ISBN: Penguin Books hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 6232712
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Keesing RM. R. M.
Kin Groups and Social Structure
Holt Rinehart and Winston 1975. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN: Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 8351267
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Singh F.
Who's Who: Pujab Freedom Fighters Volume 1
Publication Bureau 2000. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1350grams ISBN:8173806322 Publication Bureau hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 8074048 ???????? : 8173806322 9788173806322
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Gullestad M.
Kitchen-Table Society
Universitetsforlaget 2001. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: Universitetsforlaget paperback
书商的参考编号 : 8355544
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Unknown
South Africa: Trade Marks & Names
John & Kernick 1984. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN: John & Kernick hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 8074197
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Williams P.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Manchester University Press 1999. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item350grams ISBN:9780719047312 Manchester University Press paperback
书商的参考编号 : 8074610 ???????? : 0719047315 9780719047312
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Gullestad M.
Kitchen-Table Society
Universitetsforlaget 2001. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN:8215001033 Universitetsforlaget paperback
书商的参考编号 : 8355542 ???????? : 8215001033 9788215001036
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Trevathan W; Et All.
Introduction to Physical Anthropology 2013-2014
Wadsworth Publishing 2014. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN:9781285062051 Wadsworth Publishing paperback
书商的参考编号 : 7798157 ???????? : 1285062051 9781285062051
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Unknown
The Constitution of the People's Republic of China
Foreign Languages Press 1978. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item200grams ISBN: Foreign Languages Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 8074824
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Smith AD. A. D.
Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights Brooklyn and Other Identities
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group 1993. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item250grams ISBN:9780385470148 Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group paperback
书商的参考编号 : 8073750 ???????? : 0385470142 9780385470148
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Keesing RM. R. M.
Kin Groups and Social Structure
Holt Rinehart and Winston 1975. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item550grams ISBN: Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 8351266
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Banton M.
Ethnic and Racial Consciousness
Longman 1999. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item500grams ISBN:9780582299115 Longman hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 8049207 ???????? : 058229911x 9780582299115
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Unknown
Seeding Solutions: Policy Options for Genetic Resources. People Plants and Patents Volume 1
International Development Research Centre 2000. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN:9780889369269 International Development Research Centre paperback
书商的参考编号 : 8074205 ???????? : 0889369267 9780889369269
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Casparis John & Edmund W. Vaz
Swiss Family Society and Youth Culture
E.J. Brill. 1979. Paperback. 9004060286 . 9.5x6.5" ix106 pp. Light scrapes on covers light spine creasing else VG clean. . E.J. Brill paperback
书商的参考编号 : 29357 ???????? : 9004060286 9789004060289
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Tamayo Rufino Arellanes 1899 1991
Arte Prehispanico de Mexico: Coleccion Rufino Tamayo
159 pages with over 150 photographs some in color and index. Folio 13 1/2" x 10 1/2" bound in cream cloth with black lettering to spine and front cover. Introduction by Ramon Xirau. First edition limited to 2000 copies. Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter who combined modern European painting styles with Mexican folk themes. Tamayo attended the School of Fine Arts in Mexico City from 1917 to 1921 but he was dissatisfied with the traditional art program and thereafter studied independently. He became head of the department of ethnographic drawing at the National Museum of Archaeology 1921–26 in Mexico City where he developed an interest in pre-Columbian art. Tamayo spent many years of his career in New York City first settling there from 1926 to 1928. He retained his ties to Mexico and returned there often but the modern art he encountered in New York—especially the paintings of European artists Pablo Picasso Georges Braque and Henri Matisse—profoundly influenced his work. Tamayo reacted against the epic proportions and political rhetoric of the paintings of the Mexican muralists who had dominated the country's art production since the Mexican Revolution. Instead he chose to address formal and aesthetic issues in easel paintings fusing European styles such as Cubism and Surrealism with subject matter that often involved Mexican culture. By the 1930s Tamayo had become a well-known figure in the Mexican art scene. He lived in New York again from 1936 to 1950. Tamayo exhibited his paintings at the Venice Biennale in 1950 and the success of his work there led to international recognition. After living in Paris from 1957 to 1964 Tamayo settled in Mexico. In 1974 he donated his large collection of pre-Columbian art to the city of Oaxaca founding the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art. In 1981 Tamayo and his wife donated to the people of Mexico their collection of international art which formed the basis for the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City.Condition:Corners gently bumped. Jacket with edge wear and small closed tears else a better than very good copy in a very good jacket. Ediciones Galeria de Arte Misrachi hardcover
书商的参考编号 : A0641
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DEMISE RURAL ECONOMY PB International Library of Anthropology Gudeman Gudeman
DEMISE RURAL ECONOMY PB International Library of Anthropology
Fair. Routledge and Keegan Paul 1978 trade softcover. Book's binding is tight. Cover shows slight edgewear. About a dozen pages have highlighting. paperback
书商的参考编号 : 1029T864678
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Swinton George 1917 2002
Sculpture of the Eskimo
255 pages with plates some in color maps charts tables bibliography and indices. Folio 12 3/4" x 10 1/4" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. First edition. Pamplet of Marie Kuunuaq Sculpture laid in. The photographs in this book constitute the most thorough visual record of Eskimo sculpture ever to be compiled presenting most of the important pieces and spanning all the phases from prehistory to the present. A magnificent pictorial chronicle and a sensitive appreciation of this highly individualistic art form this work does not set out to judge or analyze but to reveal the aesthetic experience and profound beauty of these finely crafted carvings and sculptures approaching them as works of art rather than as archaeological or anthropological phenomena. Condition: Jacket price clipped else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket. McClelland & Stewart hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS000459 ???????? : 0771083718 9780771083716
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Louis Robert Sullivan 1892a1925
The Frequency and Distribution of Some Anatomical Crania
203-258 pages with illustrations map and tables. Royal octavo 9 1/2" s 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's wrappers. Anthropological papers of the American Museum Natural History Volume XXII part V. First edition. <br />Condition: Previous owners' name on front wrapper edge wear still unread with pages to be cut else a very good copy. American Museum of Natural History paperback
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS007816
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Rennard Strickland 1940
Fire and the Spirits: Cherokee Law from Clan to Court
xx260 pages with 45 illustrations 5 maps bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/2" bound in original publisher's red with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Foreword by Neill H Alford Jr. The Civilization of the American Indian series number 133. First edition. The book traces the emergence of the Cherokee system of laws from the ancient spirit decrees to the fusion of tribal law ways and Anglo-American law. The Cherokees enacted their first written law in 1808 in Georgia. In succeeding years the leaders and tribal councils of the southeastern and Oklahoma groups wrote a constitution established courts and enacted laws that were in accored with the old tribal values but reflected an accommodated to the whites' legal system. Thanks to the great gift of Sequoyah-his syllabary-the Cherokees were well versed in their laws able to read and interpret them from a very early time. The system served the people well. It endured until 1898 when the federal government abolished the Cherokee tribal government. Condition: Dust jacket price clipped. A very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket. . First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good to Fine/Very Good to Fine. Royal octavo. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS007141 ???????? : 0806112271 9780806112275
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Swann Brian editor
On the Translation of Native American Literatures
xx478 pages with tables music score and index. Quarto 10 1/4" x 7 1/4" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. In this book twenty-three scholars in linguistics folklore English and anthropology-among them Dennis Tedlock John Bierhorst Dell Hymes Judith Berman Miguel Leon-Portilla and Louise M Burkhart-provide a working introduction to the history methods and problems of translating Native American literatures Reviewing early translations the contributors discuss the difficulties in working with oral literature and a vast diversity of languages. Other essays analyze translation of North Central and South American songs and stories from Boas's Kwakw'ala texts to Papago legalese and modern Yucatec-Mayan oral literature. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket. Smithsonian Institution Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS001726 ???????? : 1560980745 9781560980742
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William Graham Sumner 1840 1910 edited by Albert Galloway Keller and Maurice R Davie
Essays of William Graham Sumner
2 volumes. xix499 pages with frontispiece; viii534 pages with frontispiece bibliography and index. Octavo 9" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Edited with prefaces by Allbert Galloway Keller and Maurice R Davie. First edition. William Graham Sumner was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on American history economic history political theory sociology and anthropology. His popular essays gave him a wide audience for his laissez-faire: advocacy of free markets anti-imperialism and the gold standard. He was a president of American Sociological Association from 1908 to 1909. Born in Paterson New Jersey he graduated from Yale College in 1863 where he had been a member of Skull & Bones. Later he was appointed to the newly created Chair of Political and Social Science at Yale. As a sociologist his major accomplishments were developing the concepts of diffusion folkways and ethnocentrism. Sumner's work with folkways led him to conclude that attempts at government-mandated reform were useless. He was a staunch advocate of laissez-faire economics. Sumner was active in the intellectual promotion of free-trade classical liberalism and in his heyday and after there were Sumner Clubs here and there. He heavily criticized socialism/communism. One adversary he mentioned by name was Edward Bellamy whose national variant of socialism was set forth in Looking Backward 1888 and the sequel Equality. Like many classical liberals at the time including Edward Atkinson Moorfield Storey and Grover Cleveland Sumner opposed the Spanish American War and the subsequent U.S. effort to quell the insurgency in the Philippines. He was a vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League which had been formed after the war to oppose the annexation of territories. In his speech "The Conquest of the United States by Spain" he lambasted imperialism as a betrayal of the best traditions principles and interests of the American People and contrary to America's own founding as a state of equals where justice and law "were to reign in the midst of simplicity." According to Sumner imperialism would enthrone a new group of "plutocrats" or businesspeople who depended on government subsidies and contracts. In the 1870s Sumner was strongly influenced by the English evolutionary thinker Herbert Spencer; after 1885 or so Spencer's influence faded. Among Sumner's students were the anthropologist Albert Galloway Keller the economist Irving Fisher and the champion of an anthropological approach to economics Thorstein Bunde Veblen. Condition: A former library copy with the only library indication on the titles verso at the foot of the page else a very nice set. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/ . Octavo. Yale University Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS004967
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Stern Theodore 1917 2005
The Rubber Ball Games of the Americas
vii121 pages with frontispiece 7 maps and bibliography. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Monographs of the American Ethnological Society volume XVII. First edition.<br /><br />The Precolumbian ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the peoples of America. The sport had different versions in different places during the millennia and a modern version of the game ulama is still played in a few places by the local indigenous population. Pre-Columbian ballcourts have been found throughout Mesoamerica as far south as Nicaragua and possibly as far north as the U.S. state of Arizona. These ballcourts vary considerably in size but all have long narrow alleys with side-walls against which the balls could bounce. The rules of the ballgame are not known but judging from its descendant ulama they were probably similar to racquetball or volleyball where the aim is to keep the ball in play. The iconic stone ballcourt goals are a late addition to the game. In the most widespread version of the game the players struck the ball with their hips although some versions allowed the use of forearms rackets bats or handstones. The ball was made of solid rubber and weighed up to 4 kg 9 lbs or more and sizes differed greatly over time or according to the version played. The game had important ritual aspects and major formal ballgames were held as ritual events often featuring human sacrifice. The sport was also played casually for recreation by children and perhaps even women.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Points rubbed and bumped spine sunned and gilt dulled. A very good copy issued without jacket. J J Augustin Publisher hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS000745
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Yoshie Sugihara and David W Plath
Sensei and his People: The Building of a Japanese Commune
xviii187 pages with frontispiece map illustrations and plate. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6" bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket First edition. Spurned for heresy ostracized from their Japanese village Sensei and his people built themselves a community that has flourished and become famous. Their inspiring story is told by a remarkable woman who has been Sensei's follower and companion for forty years. Condition: Jacket corners and spine ends chipped with 1/2" loss to spine head edge wear with chipps and tears else a very good copy in a good to very good jacket. University of California Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS004561
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