Search Results: American Indians from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Pleasantville, NY & Montreal: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red simulated leather board with brown simulated leather spine, gilt titles, gilt decoration of front board, 416 pp, color and b & w illustrations throughout, index. DJ tail of spine chipped, a number of tears to top edge (largest is about 1 inch); in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Fine/VG-. 28½ X 22 cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Series title: Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. Sewn in mostly orange pictorial wraps, black titles on white spine, vii, 87 pp, 1 f. b & w photo plate, bibliography. Probably a first printing, since publisher's name changed to Holt, Rinehart & Winston early in 1960. After spending nine months in a Palauan village on Babeldaob in 1947-8 and several shorter stays during the following decade, Barnett here attempts "to convey an understanding of Palauan society and culture by presenting the Palauan view of the world in terms of the author's understanding of how the Palauan sees and comprehends what goes on around him. The objective, then, has been to delineate a way of life as free from the anthropologist's conventionalized structuring of it as possible, in the hope of communicating what it means to live and die in a small village in Palau. Shipping weight… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Series title: Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. Sewn in mostly blue pictorial wraps, black titles on white spine, vii, 103 pp, 1 f. b & w photo plate, bibliography. Probably a first printing, since publisher's name changed to Holt, Rinehart & Winston early in 1960. According to a foreword by the series editors, "This is a lively book about a high-spirited but self-controlled people who had a complex, satisfying way of life before it was uprooted by the white man. With the help of the Cheyenne elders still living when he did his fieldwork, and through a masterly study of the survivng culture, Dr. Hoebel has made this way of life live again." Contents: ritual & tribal integration; social structure; subsistence & war; world view & the Cheyenne personality. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: One World (Ballantine Books/Random House), 2003 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. First Edition stated, but appears to be a book club edition. Dark grey boards, gilt titles on spine, xx, 428 pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Honoring the Medicine gathers an unparalleled abundance of information about every aspect of Native American medicine and a healing philosophy that connects each of us with the whole web of life...." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). BCE. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter straw-colored cloth, slightly darker paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, [vii], 311 pp, 4 ff b & w plates, notes, index. Top corners lightly bumped, else as new. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Frazier describes the life & culture of the Oglala Sioux on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. This is mingled with a lot of history of Indian relations with the European settlers, their descendants, and the U. S. government. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. American Ethnological Society Monograph No. 55 (Robert F. Spencer, Ed.) Full beige cloth with black titles, orange endpapers, xix, 146 pp, 2 ff b & w photo plates, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth wrinkled on rear cover (a manufacturing defect), otherwise fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This study was prepared as a Ph. D. thesis in 1933 but not published for another forty years. Contents: the Tlingit & their country; social organization; property; the annual cycle of production; organization of labor; trade; distribution & consumption of wealth. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. First published in 1938, this is the 3rd paperback printing. Perfect bound in pictorial card covers, black titles on pale green spine, xiv, 378 pp. Covers rubbed, else very good. Walter Dyk, wishing to learn about everyday life among the Navaho in the 19th century, found an old man willing to tell as much as he could remember about his early life. Left Handed, born in 1868, was interviewed by an interpreter, who translated his reminiscences into English. Dyk has rearranged these chronologically, edited to remove repetition, and provided some context in a foreword and a preface. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Later printing. Trade Paperback. G+/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burnt orange boards with mauve cloth spine, gilt titles & decoration on spine, gilt monogram & decoration on front board, [xii], 429, [1] pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Deals specifically with the 1985-6 relocation of about 10,000 Navajo and Hopi Indians on reservations in Arizona after a dispute over reservation boundaries was settled by an act of Congress. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.