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Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible ethnography focused on the village-level beliefs and attitudes about health and healing in rural Greece in the early '60s. Folklore, models of sickness and recovery, qualitative research-based. Assisted by local interlocutors, Ammeera and Sophie Kallifatidou. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, lightly soiled cloth over boards, printed blue lettering to spine. From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa City, Iowa, 99 years old, nearly blind, but still working, in this case on a new translation and with annotations, of Herodotus, his favorite historian. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [3], 2-269 pp. plus a tipped-in Note of Errata.Member,… Read More

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965. [ix] 269p., original cloth.

Stanford CA: Stanford U.Press, 1965 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Ed... A comprehensive survey of village beliefs and attitudes about health and healing, and the folklore associated with sickness and recovery, based on meticulous field work. Assissted by Anna Ammeera and Sophie Kallifatidou. 269p. bibliography.index.