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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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| Gazaway, R.: Longest Mile. A vivid chronicle of life in a Appalachian hollow
Book Number: 27678
Penguin USA (P) 1 May, 1974 8vo softcover 348pp. very good.
Keywords: Longest Mile Gazaway life in a Appalachian hollow united states america ohio social history sociology anthropology
Price: $12.00 |
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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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| Brain, Robert: The Decorated Body
Book Number: 36259
United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1979, 192 pp includes index and reading list. Very good copy in same d/w, with small tear to top rear of spine. All through history people have felt the need to paint, tattoo, scar, mutilate, deform and reshape their bodies. This book describes the main techniques of body art and their forms and meaning are compared and contrasted with practices in different countries. B/W and colour photos throughout. Text is clean and unmarked.
Keywords: social anthropology, paint, tattoo, scar, mutilate, deform and reshape their bodies, branding, Body Art, Tribal Marks,
Price: $22.00 |
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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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| The Findhorn Community - Foreword by William Irwin Thompson: The Findhorn Garden - Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation.
Book Number: 39118
Harper and Row for the Lindisfarne Association. 1975 Square sm. 4to. Black cloth in price clipped d/w with wear to extremes and top and bottom of spine. Bookshop stamp on ffl bottom corner, light foxing to page ends otherwise good. Since its founding 14 years ago, the Findhorn Community, in Scotland, has been visited and written about by curious scientists, horticulturists, and tourists. This is the first time the story has been told, written and photographed by the community itself. The history and development of the site from a caravan park sitting on sand and gravel into a garden flourishing with over 128 varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs. The transformation and the philosophy which sustains the community are told in the words of the community's founders and present-day members. The garden is depicted in over 150 b&w photo's.
Keywords: Findhorn Community, Community Living, communes, organic food, self sufficiency
Price: $22.00 |
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| Evans-Pritchard, E E, and Gillies, Eva (Editor): Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande.
Book Number: 39666
Oxford Paperbacks 1976 8vo. Softcover. 265pp. Very good. Index. Contents includes Witchcraft is an organic and hereditary phenomenon, The Notion of Witchcraft explains unfortunate events, Sufferes from Misfortune seek witches among their enemies, Are Witches conscious agents? Witch-doctors, Training of a novice in the art of a witch-doctor, The Place of witch-doctors in Zande Society, The Poison Oracle in Daily Life, Problems Arising from Consultation of the Poison Oracle, Other Zande Oracles, Magic and medicines, An Association for the Practice of Magic, Witchcraft Oracles and Magic in the Situation of Death, and Four Appendix.
Keywords: Witchcraft is an organic and hereditary phenomenon, The Notion of Witchcraft explains unfortunate events, Sufferes from Misfortune seek witches among their enemies, Are Witches conscious agents? Witch-doctors, Training of a novice in the art of a witch-do
Price: $25.00 |
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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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