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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. 8vo., xi+227 pages, illustrated with tables, charts. Name on fly leaf, minor sun fade along botoom edge from dust jacket shift, else a very good plus, clean, bright, tight copy - no shelf wear, in a very good spine sunned dust jacket chipped at the crown.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo..
Social and Cultural Dynamics. Complete in 4 Volumes. Volume 1: Fluctuation of Forms of Art; Vol 2: Fluctuation of Systems of Truth, Ethics, and Law; Vol 3: Fluctuation of Social Relationships, War, and Revolution; Vol 4: Basic Problems, Principle and Meth by Sorokin, Pitirim A.; Zimmerman, Carle C.; Galpin, Charles J. (Eds.) - 1937
by Sorokin, Pitirim A.; Zimmerman, Carle C.; Galpin, Charles J. (Eds.)
Social and Cultural Dynamics. Complete in 4 Volumes. Volume 1: Fluctuation of Forms of Art; Vol 2: Fluctuation of Systems of Truth, Ethics, and Law; Vol 3: Fluctuation of Social Relationships, War, and Revolution; Vol 4: Basic Problems, Principle and Meth
by Sorokin, Pitirim A.; Zimmerman, Carle C.; Galpin, Charles J. (Eds.)
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Shaykh and Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority among the El Shabana of Southern Iraq
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Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally
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NY: Routledge, 1997. SIGNED First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published NY: Routledge, 1996. 8vo., vi+275 pages. Inscribed by author Joan Mencher on fly leaf. A near fine copy.. Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo..
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Educated to Emigrate: The Social Organization of Saba
by Crane, Julia G.
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Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp, 1971. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp, 1971. First printing. 8vo., 269 pp., illus. b/w plates. Black cloth with gilt lettering and design. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket, which has a traceline of discoloration on the rear panel.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..
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New Methods for Old-Age Research
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Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. First Edition, first printing. Original edition, precedes the 1986 reprint. Printed wrappers. Published Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. 8vo., v+222 pp. Plain cream wrappers with front printed in brown. A near fine copy.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..
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Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: volumes 1 and 2 : Selections from the British Folklorists
by Dorson, Richard M. ed.
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1968. Two volume set. First editions. Hard covers in dust jackets. Published London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1968, first printings. 8vo., x+402; 403-751pp. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Both volumes fine in price-clipped, near fine dust jackets with edgewear. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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Shaykh and Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority among the El Shabana of Southern Iraq
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. 8vo., xi+227 pages, illustrated with tables, charts. Name on fly leaf, minor sun fade along botoom edge from dust jacket shift, else a very good plus, clean, bright, tight copy - no shelf wear, in a very good spine sunned dust jacket chipped at the crown.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo..
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Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally
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NY: Routledge, 1997. SIGNED First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published NY: Routledge, 1996. 8vo., vi+275 pages. Inscribed by author Joan Mencher on fly leaf. A near fine copy.. Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo..
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Educated to Emigrate: The Social Organization of Saba
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Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp, 1971. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp, 1971. First printing. 8vo., 269 pp., illus. b/w plates. Black cloth with gilt lettering and design. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket, which has a traceline of discoloration on the rear panel.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..
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New Methods for Old-Age Research
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Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. First Edition, first printing. Original edition, precedes the 1986 reprint. Printed wrappers. Published Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. 8vo., v+222 pp. Plain cream wrappers with front printed in brown. A near fine copy.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..
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Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: volumes 1 and 2 : Selections from the British Folklorists
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1968. Two volume set. First editions. Hard covers in dust jackets. Published London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1968, first printings. 8vo., x+402; 403-751pp. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Both volumes fine in price-clipped, near fine dust jackets with edgewear. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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The Racial Analysis of Human Populations in Relation to Their Ethnogenesis and Some Possibilities for Estimating Inter-Population Relationship on the Basis of Continuous Traits in Current Anthropology Volume 3, Number 1
by Andrzej Kazimierz Wierciski (1930-2003) and Tadeuz Bielicki
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51 volumes complete with diagrams, illustrations, plates, maps, figures, indexes. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in wrappers. Some reprints, most first editions.Current Anthropology, whose first issue was launched in 1959, is one of the discipline's oldest and most distinguished journals, and has been sponsored since its founding by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The journal was the first of its kind, championing an interdisciplinary approach alongside a commitment to international dialogue, while fostering a community of international scholars. It became known for its innovative format that combined major research papers with responses solicited from the field. The format, now known as the "CA treatment" was unique in its time and was copied by other journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences. While the journal has changed over the years, its original principles are still clearly present and can be traced back to the unique collaboration between the Foundation, led by Paul Fejos,and the…
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Peldanos en la Conciencia: Restros en la Plastica Prehispanica
by de la Fuente, Beatriz Ramírez (1929-2005)
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101 pages with frontispiece and pictorial title, 88 illustrations and 25 color plates. Square royal octavo (9 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black label to spine with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. Second printing Limited to 3000 copies. The author: "The faces depicted by Mesoamerican man are artistic expression of different peoples. Here I have wanted to look at them not only as objects of art, but also in the light of what they communicate about the human being in himself and in his relationship with him. world that has to be ordered around him ". Condition: Points rubbed. Jacket edge wear with chips, tears and creases else very good in like jacket.
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Society and Economy in Mexico
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xxii+163 pages with photographs, charts, tables, graphs and bibliographies. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Forward by Jeffrey Bortz. Statistical Abstract of Latin America Supplement Series, Supplement 10. First edition.Contents: the Six Ideological Phases of Mexico's "Permanent Revolution" since 1910 by James W Wilkie; The Development of Engineering Expertise for Social and Economic Modernization in Mexico since 1929 by David E Lorey; The Class Structure of Mexico, 1895-1980 by Stephanie Granato and Aida Mostkoff; Complexities of Measuring the Food Situation in Mexico: Supply versus Self-Sufficiency of Basic Grains, 1935-82 by James W Wilkie; The Dramatic Growth of Mexico's Economy and the Rise of Statist Government Budgetary Power, 1919-82 by James W Wilkie.Condition:Corners bumped else a better than very good copy.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
by Berrin, Kathleen (editor)
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London: Thames and Hudson, 1998 216 pages with plates, diagrams, maps, illustrations, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 1/4" x 9") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine decorative vignette to front cover. Preface by Isabel Larco de Alvarez-Calderon. Foreword by Harry S Parker. 1st edition. Contents: The Spirit of Rafael Larco Hoyle: An Introduction by Kathleen Berrin; Rafael Larco Hoyle (1901-1966) by Clifford Evans; Life and Afterlife in Pre-Hispanic Pru: Contextualizing the masterworks of the Museo of Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera by Richard L Burger; The Coastal Islands of Peru: Myths and Natural Resources by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco; Moche Art: Myth, History and Rite by Elizabeth P Benson; Deer Hunting and Combat: Parallel Activities in the Moche World by Christopher B Donnan; Andean Aesthetics by Esther Paztory; Catalogue of Objects by Elizabeth P Benson, Susan E Bergh, Richard L Burger, Heidi King and Joanne Pillsbury. Condition: Jacket price clipped, small chip at…
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The People Called Apache
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447 pages with maps, 16 color plates, over 300 black and white photographs, and over 200 drawings, bibliography and index. Folio (12 3/4" x 9 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark brown cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Drawings by Thomas Mails. First edition. They called themselves The People, but to nearly everyone else in their world they were known as The Enemy. And they earned the name in every respect. Seldom has any people fought harder for the preservation of their territory and their way of life. We know them today as the Apache, an ancient people who, in historic times, made a prolonged and desperate effort to drive the Spanish, the Mexicans and finally the Anglo-Americans out of their ancestral lands. Unsuccessful, they were placed in four reservations, on or near their original ranges in Arizona and New Mexico, some of the most ruggedly beautiful land in this country. There most of them still live, accepting the White ways yet keeping many of the old…
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"Ecstatic renovation!" : Street Art Celebrating Sierra Leone's 1992 Revolution
by Joseph A. Opala; Raymond Desouza George (forward)
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RARE! Freetown: Sierra Leone Adult Education Association, January 1994. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Interior pristine. Securely bound with two clean staples. Rubbing to covers. 39 pages.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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