Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Different Places, Different Voices: Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Momsen, Janet H. and Vivian Kinnaird, eds. · 1993

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

London, England, Routledge, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only three additional copies available on-line. Another fine contribution to the series, International Studies of Women and Place. Sterling condition soft...

Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange

Weiner, Annette B. · 1976

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An edge-cutting ethnography countering the orthodoxy of Bronislau Malinowsky's functionalist rendering of Trobriander culture (and no history). Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound ...

Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality

Ortner, Sherry B. and Harriet Whitehead · 1981

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by Harriet Whitehead, the junior author, being inscribed to the former owner. A perfectly serviceable reference copy from a professional scholar's library; nothing fancy, but ...

Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins

Young, Antonia · 2001

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Oxford, England, Berg, 2001. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Classic ethnography of Albanian "sworn virgins," by a not...

Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India

Nanda, Serena · 1999

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Belmont, California, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Classic ethnography of Hijra transsexuals of...

Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry

Schlegel, Alice, Barry, Herbert, III · 1991

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Free Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's inscription. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. A very fi...

Perceiving Women

Ardener, Shirley · 1975

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Malaby Press, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. A few underlines and marginal tick-marks, unobtrusive, red printed card stock wraps moderately worn but still brig...

Gender and Society in the New Guinea Highlands: An Anthropological Perspective on Antagonism Toward Women

Gelber, Marilyn G. · 1986

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Boulder & London, Westview Press, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An early, good, useful, relevant survey of "sexual antagonism" and "gender antagonism" and separation of the sexes in New Guinea Highlands cultures. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover...

Circulation in Population Movement: Substance and Concepts from the Melanesian Case

Chapman, Murray and R. Mansell Prothero, eds. · 1985

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, England, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little ...

Social Discord and Bodily Disorders

Keck, Verena · 2005

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Durham, North Carolina, Carolina Academic Press, 2005. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available on-line currently. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean inter...

Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject

Stella, Regis Tove · 2007

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Honolulu, Hawaii, Center For Pacific Islands Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, un...

Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea

Strathern, Andrew and Gabrielle Sturzenhofecker, eds. · 1994

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, specifically clean, minimal...

Expressive Genres and Historical Change : Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan

Strathern, Andrew and Pamela Stewart, eds. · 2019

$38.40 (€34.84 | £29.07 | ¥6,132)

New York, Routledge, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. But for previous owner's inscription inside front flap and ink-stamp opposite, a gift-quality condition copy of a fine ethnography by two acknowledged experts. Glossy pictorial covers, replete with b...

Australian Imperialism in the Pacific: The Expansionist Era 1820-1920

Thompson, Roger C. · 1980

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright in...

Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia

Malm, William P. · 1996

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1996. Third Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this state (Third Edition) and condition. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Scattered, unobtrusive penne...

Left Behind in the Village: Economic and Social Conditions in an Area of High Outmigration

Morauta, Louis · 1984

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the stable of publications put out by the I.A.S.E.R, Council, edited by Henry To Robert, Stephen Tag...

What Do We Do About Plantations

Walter, Michael · 1981

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the stable of publications put out by the I.A.S.E.R, Council, edited by Henry To Robert, Stephen Tag...

The Demography of Papua New Guinea

Skeldon, Ronald, ed. · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the stable of publications put out by the I.A.S.E.R, Council, edited by Henry To Robert, Stephen Tag...

Post-Independence Economic Development of Papua New Guinea

Dahanayake, P.A.S., ed. · 1982

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the stable of publications put out by the I.A.S.E.R, Council, edited by Henry To Robert, Stephen Tag...

National Education Strategy: Papua New Guinea Education Plan Review and Proposals

1979

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the stable of publications put out by the I.A.S.E.R> Council, edited by Henry To Robert, Stephen Tag...