Search Results: Anthropology from House of Our Own Books

London, England, U.K.: Bloomsbury, 2013. This is a collection of essays, originally delivered as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on Dress, Popular Culture, and Social Action in Africa at Northwestern University in 2009, and focused on dressed bodies and questions of agency and power; the essays are divided into four sections: Dressed Bodies and Power; Material Culture, Visual Recognition, and Display; Connecting Worlds through Dress; and Transcultured Bodies; includes many photographs and other illustrations (white pictorial cover with red, orange, yellow & black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. 6 3/4" X 9 1/2".

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. This is a very large two-volume boxed set of color photographs of African rituals, based on ten years of field work across East, West, and Southern Africa; the authors' intent was to create a visual exploration of the meaning and power of traditional rituals and ceremonies they had witnessed before they disappeared forever; the 43 ceremonies from 26 countries are divided into three sections: Birth & Initiation, Courtship & Marriage, and Royalty & Power; each section includes an introduction describing the ceremonies (black cloth with gold lettering on the spine & photo in gold frame on the front; each volume in nearly perfect condition except for previous owner's name on the front end paper; box has some shelf war; otherwise these are bright, clean tight volumes; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 14" X 10.5". Boxed Set.

Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1993. This is a collection of essays that explore the development of British anthropology in the period 1880 to 1920 when it involved not just the study of custom but also included archaeology, physical anthropology, and philology; they reveal how the emergence of new approaches of the 1920s and 1930s and the triumph of social anthropology involved a narrowing of the field (brown laminated pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy in nearly perfect condtion except for a small dent on the upper edge of the front cover; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007. This is the first comprehensive history of modern Australian social anthropology that examines the forces that shaped and framed the formation of a distinctive anthropological practice; it reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology as an academic discipline in Australia, which required anthropologists to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of indigenous life; it considers the ways that the new discipline controlled the development of knowledge about colonized peoples that could be used by colonial administrators to manage, control, and advance the indigenous population (black pictorial cover with photo on the front, spine has slight reading crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. This is a collection of papers by experts from four fields of anthropology, cultural, linguistic, biological,, and archaeological, that challenges the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life; it presents evidence to contest these theories and to provide an account of the complexity and variability of the human condition (black pictorial cover with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Berghahn Books, 2008. This is a political history of the emergence of social anthropology as an intellectual discipline in Britain between the 1930s and 1960s; it examines the role that institutions and resources of the British and Imperial state played in forstering the autonomy of the new social science; it tells the story of a community of scholars using state funds and patronage to advance a new theoretical and methodological paradigm, isolating themselves from a broader community of colonial administrators, amateur scholars, and museum curators (laminated pictorial covers; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). As New/No Jacket.

Houston, TX, U.S.A.: Rothko Chapel, 1988. This book examines the factors behind ethnic strife that is prevalent in the social and political life of many third world countries; the essays bring together and compare similar ethnic struggles in areas where postcolonial nation-states have been created or revived, principally Latin America and Oceania; forward by Stanley Tambiah and afterward by Benedict Anderson. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Rand McNally & Company, 1971. This book is a collection of original theoretical essays on various topics related to socialization, the process by which individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, and disposition that enable them to participate effectively in social interaction; following an introduction by the editor, the twenty-nine essays are divided into four sections: Theoretical Approaches to the Socialization Process, Content of Socialization, Stages of Socialization, Special Contexts of Socialization;1182 pages (tan textured cloth with gold lettering on front and spine; a bright, clean, tight copy; this is a very large, heavy volume that can only be shipped by domestic media mail without additonal shipping cost). First Edition. Fine/None.

Oxford, England, U.K.: Berg, 2004. This book contains the author's three lectures on Kinship and Social Organization delivered in 1913 at the London School of Economics and first published the following year, and his article The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Inquiry published in 1910 in The Sociological Review; also included are an introduction by Raymond Firth and two commentaries on Rivers and kinship by Firth and David M. Schneider (yellow & white laminated covers with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

Melbourne, Australia: Hyland House, 1997. This collection of letters sheds light on race, social conditions, and Aboriginal culture in central Australia and documents a crucial period in the history of anthropology; Gillen, the Station Master and Special Magistrate in Alice Springs, met Baldwin Spencer, Professor of Biology at the University of Melbourne, during the 1894 Horn Expedition to Central Australia; Gillen and Spencer collaborated on fieldwork to document the culture and beliefs of the Aboriginal people and published two classic works, The Native Tribes of Australia and The Northern Tribes of Central Australia, which influenced theories on the development of human society; introductory chapters place Gillen and Spencer in their historical and intellectual context; includes photographs (red cloth with gold lettering on spine, one corner slightly worn; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent… Read More

Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1966. Originally published in 1904, this is a facsimile edition (not print-on-demand) of a classic work of Australian anthropology, based on forty years of explorations of central Australia and investigations of the social organization, customs, and beliefs of the indigenous Australians (pictorial cover, pages very slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Facsimile.

London, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1967. First published in 1956, this is the third printing of the author's third and final volume on the Nuer, a Nilotic people who inhabit the Nile Valley of South Sudan, whose study he began with field work in 1930; includes photographs and other illustrations (black cloth with gold lettering on spine has very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Orlando, FL, U.S.A.: Academic Press, 1984. This book contains a selection of papers from the Third International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies held in Bad Homburg, Germany, in 1983; these papers combine archaeolgy, history, and ethnography to explore the relationship between prehistoric and living hunter gatherer societies; they look for both continuity in these societies through time and for the effects of changing degrees of contact with surrounding farmers, herders, traders, and settlers (gray cloth with silver lettering; tan pictorial dust jacket with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1998. In this book the authors explore the cultural and political implications of Africa's linguistic diversity (white pictorial covers with blue & orange lettering, photo of authors on the back; very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Originally published in 1912, this was the first major ethnographic account of the Sudan; it combines the local history of the province with the history of different ethnic groups and genealogies of the indigenous population; the author was the deputy inspector of Kordofan province from 1906 to 1912 and combined his administrative work with ethnographic research; includes photographs (yellow & blue pictorial cover with photo on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Reprint. Trade Paperback. As New.