Search Results: Anthropology/Sociology from Lippincott Books

London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 608 pp. Hardcover. Numerous illustrations, photographs, and diagrams with notes, bibliography and index.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 169 pp with index, bibliography. Rust cloth with silver title on spine, pictorial endpapers. 16 color plates, 216 half-tones and line cuts. Dustjacket is not price-clipped, has edge wear and a white, scuffed line across the front. VG+/Good+

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. xvi, 377, [7] pp. Report of the 84th Dahlem Workshop, Berlin, March 14-19, 1999. With list of participants, subject index, and name index. Black cloth, spine title stamped in blue. Dustjacket has a little scuffing to rear panel. The goal of this workshop was to promote bounded rationality as the key to understanding how actual people make decisions without utilities and probabilities.

Austin, TX: University of Texas., 1995. Soft cover. Near Fine. xvi, 477, [1] pp. 41 works by Middle Eastern and western scholars about children, in many genres- scholarly articles , poetry, speeches, proverbs, interviews, short stories, folk tales, and lullabies. 4 chapter titles in table of contents are highlighted, else fine.

London: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 1999. First Softcover Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. xii, 263, [1] pp. Includes notes and index. Yellow highlighting on pages xi - 5 only, and previous owner's name on ffep.

Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine. x, 324 pp. Inscribed by, and with laid-in card from, one of the contributors to Sandy Ives. Four sticky tabs locating references to that contributor, otherwise fine. From the Library of Edward "Sandy" Ives, writer, singer, anthropologist, and authority on the folksongs and folklore of Maine and Maritime Canada. Ives was the founder and Director of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History and the editor of its annual publication, Northeast Folklore. See our Catalog "Ives, Edward" for more books from his collection.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982. Hardcover. GVG. x, 170 pp + 31 plates. Photography by Alexander Tsiaras. Black cloth, spine titles gilt. Bibliography, index. Light wear to covers, several corners crimped, not affecting text, previous owner's name on front pastedown. Each b&w photo is accompanied by fascinating text about burial ritual.

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. [viii], 440 pp. Gray cloth, spine title stamped in blue. P.o. name on ffep; would be Near Fine but for light highlighting.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. Near Fine. Second printing.  xxii, 522 pp.  4to.   Softcover.  With photographs of 24 masks - false faces and husk faces - in color, and numerous b&w photographs of masks, rattles, tree carvings, ceremonial rites. "A monument to Iroquois culture"....."the most definitive, comprehensive treatment of this important and thoroughly fascinating topic that we will ever see." Volume 178 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. Published in cooperation with the Museum of the American Indian. Near Fine.

Washington, D. C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Folio. xii, 598, [3] pp. Smithsonian Contributors to Anthropology, Number 19. With 5 figures and 5 foldout maps and 6 tables. Includes atlas, appendix and references. Laughlin's introduction explains his eliciting techniques including aerial survey maps to establish place names and a system to present ethnographical context for the vocabulary within each identified root. Inscribed to Charles Bell and his wife on the ffep: "For Danny and Charles, 'What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything and a spectacle at public solemnities, and it learns to skip, dance and kneel.' Bob" From the library of Charles Bell. Bell, a writer, poet and scholar, grew up in Greenville, Mississippi with Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land (1962), was praised by William Carlos Williams. His works include three volumes of poetry, two… Read More

Mountain View, Ca: Mayfield Pub Co, 2000. Trade Paperback. Fine. viii, 123 pp. Includes glossary, references and index. Warmly inscribed by each author to Sandy Ives. From the Library of Edward "Sandy" Ives, teacher, writer, singer, anthropologist, and authority on the folksongs and folklore of Maine and Maritime Canada, with his name on the ffep. See our Catalog "Ives, Edward" for more books from his collection. Fine

Garden City, New Jersey: Natural History Press, 1970. Hardcover. GVG/Good. xxi, 1017 pp with index. Tan cloth, corners bumped. Dustjacket has soiling, chipping, tears along edges.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Dissertation Information Service, 1992. Authorized Facsimile . Soft cover. Near Fine. xv, 783 pp. Reprint of Johnson's 1980 UCLA doctoral dissertation. Includes appendices, sources, and list of maps and plates. Johnson continued to do significant field work in the area and is considered a leading expert on the Sudan. A Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford; his 2003 book,The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars, is one of the best sources for understanding Darfur. Johnson was a member of the international Abyei Boundary Commission, an attempt to resolve the North-South conflict. Previous owner's name on ffeps . Part I only has some yellow highlighting in the first three chapters, else fine. Part 2 is fine. 2 volumes as a set: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1998. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 254 pp. Includes glossary, suggestions for further reading and index

Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co, 1974. Paper Wrappers. Very Good+. [vi], 56 pp. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association. Vol. III, No. I. Jan.-Mar., 1916. Blue paper wrappers lightly sunned.

Hamburg: Hans Christians Verlag, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 200 pp. Map, tables, list of documents. Text is in German. Light wear to edges, otherwise clean & tight. With laid-in letter on 'Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hmburg' letterhead.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Fifth Impression . Hardcover. GVG. xvi, 960 pp with index. Blue cloth, spine titles gilt. Spine lightly sunned, small tears at edges, light thumb soiling, slightly musty. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

New York: Guilford Press, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. xvi, 256 pp. With appendices, references, indices; charts and tables. Ink line on fore-edge (not a remainder mark) otherwise clean & tight. Crease to corner of dustjacket.

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1915. Paper Wrappers. GVG. 8vo. Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey. Museum Bulletin No. 16. Anthropological Series, No. 6. June 15, 1915. [ii], 52 pp. Lightly soiled, slight water-staining on rear panel.

Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. xxii, 310 pp. Includes appendix, notes, bibliography, character list, and index. A study of the recently popularized ritual of mizuko kuyo: a ritual atonement for abortion, which has become commercialized by religious entrepreneurs. Hardacre found a deep current of mysogyny and sexism running through these rites. Previous owner's name on ffep.