Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society

Lepowsky, Maria · 1993

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Columbia University Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. But for three dog-eared pages, a near-pristine copy (of a fine ethnography set in Papua New Guinea among the Vanatinai of a matrilineal, decentralized island culture. Sturdy, still ti...

Dream Travelers

Lohmann, Roger Ivar · 2003

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, England, Palgrave, 2003. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Contributions by Jane C. Goodale, Elfriede Hermann, Douglas Hollan, Ian Keen, Wolfgang Kempf, Waud Kracke, Sylvie Poirier, Joel Robbins, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern and Robert Tonkinson. Sterling...

Pacific Languages: An Introduction

Lynch, John · 1998

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1998. First 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. Stated First Edition, First Printing...

Dream Travelers

Lohmann, Roger Ivar · 2003

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Palgrave, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Contributions by Jane C. Goodale, Elfriede Hermann, Douglas Hollan, Ian Keen, Wolfgang Kempf, Waud Kracke, Sylvie Poirier, Joel Robbins, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern and Robert Tonkinson. Ster...

A Papuan Plutocracy: Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island

Liep, John · 2017

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Aarhus, Denmark, Aarhus University Press, 2017. . Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of glossy pictorial wraps, in gate-fold, bright, clean interior but with moderate penciled underlining. Still a perfectly readable, usa...

Kewa Tales

LeRoy, John · 1985

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Vancouver, British Columbia, University of British Columbia, 1985. . 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. An accessible, full-scale ethnogra...

Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and Hiv in the Trobriands

Lepani, Katherine · 2012

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. But for extensive penciled underlining (though still unobtrusive), a sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of illustrated covers; perfectly readable, usable c...

Les Fleurs Du Mal

Baudelaire, Charles · 1950

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

Paris, France, Editions Rombaldi, 1950. Nouvelle Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good, rock-solid copy of an important work, published first in the Second Edition of which this is a reprint, in 1861. Exemplar #3260 of 4000 printed, a new edition, and augmented w...

Isles of Solomon - a Tale of Missionary Adventure

Luxton, C.T.J. · 1956

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Auckland, New Zealand, Methodist Foreign Missionary Society of New Zealand, 1956. Second Reprinting. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated second Australian reprinting. A warm, engaging hagiography of John Francis Goldie, a missionary of no little religious fervor of a Me...

Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity

Lukere, Vicki and Margaret Jolly, eds. · 2002

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked, clean of interior. A brilliant survey of public health concerns in the insul...

Collected Curios: Missionary Tales from the South Seas

Lawson, Barbara · 1994

$33.60 (€30.48 | £25.43 | ¥5,365)

Montreal, Canada, McGill University Libraries, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Fontanus monograph series, published by McGill University Libraries, 1994, being the third volume in the series. Fine-looking, structurally ...

Fabricated World: An Interpretation of Kewa Tales

LeRoy, John · 1985

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Vancouver, British Columbia, University of British Columbia Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. B...

Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Inventory

Kroeber, A.L. · 1953

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press, 1953. 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. Massively heavy, oversized volume, bein...

Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon

Lutkehaus, Nancy · 2008

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Easily the best monograph-length biography of an American icon, student of "Papa" Franz Boas, as there is. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible...

Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary

Lipset, David · 1997

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine introduction to the Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and cle...

Day of Shining Red

Lewis, Gilbert · 1988

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series, Number 27. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complet...

Day of Shining Red

Lewis, Gilbert · 1988

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1988. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series, Number 27. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but co...

Michael J. Leahy: Explorations Into Highland New Guinea 1930-1935

Leahy, Michael J.; Douglas E. Jones, ed. · 1994

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, Crawford House Press, 1994. First 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. Glossy pictorial card-...

Myth & Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact

Lutz, John Sutton, ed. · 2007

$16.80 (€15.24 | £12.72 | ¥2,683)

Vancouver, British Columbia, University of British Columbia press, 2007. First 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. From the publis...

Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia

Lutkehaus, Nancy C. and Paul B. Roscoe, eds. · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Routledge, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, being with unfurled tips, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers, but with some highlighting here and there. From the personal library of a noted Papua N...