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| Mead, Margaret: Rap on Race
Book Number: 26839
M Joseph 19 July, 1971 8vo hardcover 256pp. good, stamp on fep. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Rap on Race Mead Margaret
Price: $15.00 |
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| Nance, John: Gentle Tasaday: Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest
Book Number: 32145
London Gollancz 1975 8vo hardcover 465pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Gentle Tasaday Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest Nance John
Price: $28.00 |
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| Goodall, Vanne Morris: The quest for man
Book Number: 35980
London Phaidon 1975 4to hardcover 240pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Nonfiction Social Sciences Anthropology The quest for man Goodall Vanne Morris
Price: $15.00 |
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| Lenars, Charles: Ritual and Seduction: The Human Body as Art
Book Number: 37042
New English Library 1980 4to hardcover 192pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Ritual and Seduction The Human Body as Art Lenars Charles
Price: $60.00 |
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| Walker, Alice: Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
Book Number: 39069
New York Harcourt 1993 8vo hardcover 373pp, b/w illus. very good, remainder mark on bottom edge / very good d/w.
Keywords: General Warrior Marks Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women Walker Alice
Price: $18.00 |
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| Cox, Oliver Cromwell: Caste, Class, & Race: a Study in Social Dynamics
Book Number: 41237
Modern Reader Paperbacks 1970 8vo. softcover. 624pp. index. very good.
Keywords: Caste Class Race Social Dynamics anthropology
Price: $22.00 |
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| Shipman, Pat: The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugine Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right
Book Number: 44679
Simon & Schuster January 11, 2001 8vo hardcover 515pp very good in same d/w. remainder mark to page bottoms. Eugene Dubois (1858-1940) was devoted to the ideas of Charles Darwin. He was also profoundly ambitious, seeking not only to establish incontrovertible proof of human evolution from some apelike ancestor--and thus reinforce Darwin's theories--but also to earn a place for himself at the head of modern scholarship.
Keywords: science evolution The Man Who Found the Missing Link Eugine Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right Shipman Pat
Price: $22.00 |
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| Daniel, E. Valentine: Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way
Book Number: 48535
University of California Press 1987 8vo softcover 320pp index. fine. Fluid Signs is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging and innovative theoretical analysis, Daniel argues that symbolic anthropologists have yet to appreciate the multifaceted function of the sign and its role in the creation of culture. This provocative study underscores the need for Western intellectual traditions in general and anthropology in particular to deepen its discourse with South Asian cultural and religious thought. From the Inside Flapn"Daniel is brilliant, and this work is the product of all his powers of imagination and expression. He is also a flawless scholar: bilingual, so that his translations are accurate; gifted, so that they are charming; well-read, so that his discussions are set in the full context of previous scholarship; and very, very funny, so that his depictions of the quandaries of his informants, as well as himself, are a joy to read."--Wendy O'Flaherty
Keywords: Fluid Signs Being a Person the Tamil Way Daniel E Valentine
Price: $22.00 |
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| Abercrombie, Thomas A.: Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People
Book Number: 48628
University of Wisconsin Press 1998 8vo softcover 603pp index. b/w illus. very good+. A major theoretical, ethnographic, and historical contribution to Andean studies.
Keywords: inca Ethnography History Andean People
Price: $22.00 |
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| Coronato, Rocco: Jonson Versus Bakhtin: Carnival and the Grotesque
Book Number: 48648
Editions Rodopi B.V. 2003 8vo softcover 267pp. index. near fine. Ben Jonson has often been accused of needless erudition and of a morose refusal to join in the festive spirit. Further aggravation has come from the application of Bakhtin's theory of carnival, especially in its posthumous form as a political allegory portraying the clash of high and low cultures. In an attempt to turn the tables on this tradition, Jonson Versus Bakhtin goes back to the sources, arguing that Jonson's theatre allows for an original interpretation of the grotesque as a formal culture of antithesis and opposition that includes carnival. A robust observer of popular myths of festive liberation by way of a uniquely compendious adaptation of his sources, Jonson's grotesque uncannily delves deep into the Renaissance theory of the coincidence of opposites as a way of envisaging virtue and other concepts of the mind, rather than serving up a pompous application of moral precepts or offering a political arena for ritual transgression. While richly based on an appropriate repertory of underlying sources, Jonson Versus Bakhtin steers away from any tiresome reference hunting mania, appealing to a broader audience interested in re-appraising Ben Jonson's genius for richly contrastive imagery, as well as re-considering the relevance of Bakhtin's theory to Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and to the Renaissance culture of the grotesque.
Keywords: bards and minstrels ben jonson elizabethan and jacobean drama masterclass theater nonfiction Jonson Versus Bakhtin Carnival and the Grotesque Coronato Rocco
Price: $45.00 |
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