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155–173 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLI Number 2 complete issue. First edition. The article explores the Iraqw people's forms of identity and personhood, and how ideas of personhood have changed since the precolonial era. The Iraqw are a Cushitic ethnic group who live in northern Tanzania, and are thought… Read more about this item

1-26 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLI Number 1 complete issue. First edition. This article explores the popularized history of a state-peasant conservation alliance in southern Mexico. Following poststructural calls, it treats this history as a locally constructed "regime of nature," a story that condenses and attempts to direct the… Read more about this item

291-308 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XL Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Starting from a discussion of theoritical approaches to conversion to Christianity, this article discusses the mission of the Protestant Moravian Church among the Nyakyusa of southwestern Tanzania. It shows that the missionaries' success did not depend on… Read more about this item

251-269 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XL Number 3 complete issue. First edition. British missionaries went to Papua New Guinea in order to create a new moral body: a Christian character that would fit into Great Britain's colonial world. Education by missionaries became, in an interpretation paralleling the theories of… Read more about this item

217-223 pages with map and bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XXX Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Professor Lepowky's areas of interest include Cultural anthropology, gender, historical anthropology, environmental anthropology, exchange, ritual, medical/nutritional, psychological anthropology, history of anthropology; Oceania, New Guinea, Native California, California and the American West. Condition: Light edge wear with… Read more about this item

79-92 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XL Number 2 complete issue. First edition. Monte Verde, Costa Rica, has recently become a popular tourist destination among North American, European, and Costa Rican ecotourists desiring to experience rain and cloud forests. The resplendent quetzal, a migratory bird with colorful plumage and mythical… Read more about this item

13--27 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XL Number 1 complete issue. First edition. In the colonial period, the Igbo found themselves between a rock and a hard place with regard to the practice of twin killing. Animal-like multiple births (UMU EJIME) was an abomination (NSO ANI) against the earth deity… Read more about this item

305-334 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XXXIX Number 4 complete issue. First edition. This selection introduces three frameworks for comparing beliefs about disease and the treatment of illness. Garro applies the frameworks to two case studies and demonstrates some strengths and weaknesses of each. Her analysis focuses on the general… Read more about this item

133-148 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XXXIX Number 2 complete issue. First edition. Like other crafters catering to tourists and international ethnic art markets, Zapotec weavers have become more closely tied to international capital and to increasingly flexible and dispersed schemes of production. Some Zapotec families have responded to such… Read more about this item

39-54 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XXXIX Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Evangelical Christianity is Mexico's fastest-growing religious movement, with about ten million adherents today. Most belong to Protestant denominations introduced from the United States (e.g., Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists), but perhaps as many as 800,000 are members of… Read more about this item

225-242 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XXXIX Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Economic anthropologists studying craft commercialization have typically focused on changes in work organization associated with new international commodity chains linking artisans, development organizations, wholesalers, and store owners. Few researchers, however, have carefully examined the product differentiation… Read more about this item

18 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIII Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Unmarried Israeli-Palestinian women are normatively expected to remain virgins and social juniors, yet in practice their handling of their sexuality, and by extension their femininity, produces a range of social personas. While some indeed remain submissive… Read more about this item

185-191 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIII Number 2 complete issue. First edition. This essay discusses a traditional model of the maternal nurturing of newborn babies in the Shoshoni tradition from a native-language perspective. It examines the 30-day period of confinement called nagotooh(gahni), which was viewed as a symbolic extension… Read more about this item

271-289 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIII Number 3 complete issue. First edition. The proliferation of small groups within American Protestantism, in particular those devoted to Bible study, raises questions about the collective construction of meaning in congregational life. Using discourse as an analytical tool, this article explores the meaning… Read more about this item

291-313 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIII Number 4 complete issue. First edition. This article compares the distinctive uses of wealth items among Grand Valley Dani, Western Dani, and Me, the largest ethnic groups in West Papua. The time period covered is primarily from first contact with Europeans to… Read more about this item

35-47 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIV Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Among the Duna people of Papua New Guinea, ideas about the dead and the living are intertwined through cosmological perceptions of, and ritual interactions with, the landscape. Nowadays the winds of change coming into the Duna area… Read more about this item

189-206 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIV Number 2 complete issue. First edition. Before contact with the West, the Asabano of Papua New Guinea treated human remains differently depending on the type of relationship survivors planned to have with the deceased. Traditional methods included corpse exposure with curation or disposal… Read more about this item

xvii+269 pages with maps, figures, plates, tables, charts facsimiles, appendix, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black label to spine in silver lettering in original pictorial jacket. Civilization of American Indian Series First edition. The Mixtec Indians of northwestern Oaxaca, Mexico, recorded much of their history in picture manuscripts and… Read more about this item

227-241 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIV Number 3 complete issue. First edition. In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions… Read more about this item

382 pages with folding maps, tables, illustrations and plates. Octavo (9" x 6 1/2") bound in half leather with five raised spine bands with gilt lettering to spine with original wrappers bound in. From the library of Van Kemper. Serie Cientifica 1. First edition. Villa Hidalgo Yalalag is a village in Oaxaca, Mexico and the municipal seat of Villa Hidalgo Municipality.… Read more about this item