Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Cultures of the Pacific: Selected Readings

Harding, Thomas G. and Ben J. Wallace, eds. · 1970

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, The Free Press, 1970. Eighth Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Eighth Printing of a fine and influential reader in Pacific studies. Contributions by Roy A. Rappaport, Andrew Sharp, George W. Grace, Robert C. Suggs, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marshall D....

Governor in New Guinea

Hahl, Albert; Peter G. Sack and Dymphna Clark, eds. · 1980

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Australian National University, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine, edited reworking, translated into English from the original German of Albert Hahl's memoir of being a Governor in German New Guinea. Sturdy, attractive...

Rape and Social Identity, N.R. I. Discussion Paper Number 100

Hukula, Fione · 2005

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Gunea, National Research Institute, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bright-red card-stock wraps, bright and clean, unmarked interior but for previous owner's penned inscription. From the personal library of a noted Papua...

Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity--a Study of Ritualized Homosexual Behavior

Herdt, Gilbert H. · 1981

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, McGraw-Hill , 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in two-tone, green linen cloth over boards, black cloth-backed, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. From th...

Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii

Kimura, Yukiko · 1988

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawaii Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present, a fine work of ethnohistory about the relations between immigrant Japanese men, women and families i...

Etoro Social Structure: A Study in Structural

Kelly, Raymond C. · 1977

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic ethnography set in the Papua New Guinea highlands, based on field research accomplished during a fifteen-month stay on the Great Papuan Plateau from April, 196...

Etoro Social Structure: A Study in Structural

Kelly, Raymond C. · 1977

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic ethnography set in the Papua New Guinea highlands, based on field research accomplished during a fifteen-month stay on the Great Papuan Plateau from April, 196...

Place and People: An Ecology of a New Guinean Community

Clarke, William C. · 1971

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic ethnography in the manner of the ecological anthropological studies of highland New Guinea, being of the Maring, a culture of then only 154 people, studied ...

Place and People: An Ecology of a New Guinean Community

Clarke, William C. · 1971

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic ethnography in the manner of the ecological anthropological studies of highland New Guinea, being of the Maring, a culture of then only 154 people, studied ...

Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea

Dinnen, Sinclair · 2001

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another find contribution to the Pacific Islands Monograph series, being #17. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound in gray cloth and with sharp and distinct gi...

Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea

Dinnen, Sinclair · 2001

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another find contribution to the Pacific Islands Monograph series, being #17. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound in gray cloth and with sharp and distinct gi...

Arts in the '20s: Architecture and Decorative Arts in Europe

Papini, Roberto · 2005

$38.40 (€34.84 | £29.07 | ¥6,132)

London, Verbavolant, 2005. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Originally published in Italy in 1930 as __L'Arti d'Oggi__, this being a First Edition Thus, in English, that discourses upon the Bauhaus movement and the Art Deco and Modernist trends ...

Arts in the '20s: Architecture and Decorative Arts in Europe

Papini, Roberto · 2005

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,854)

London, United Kingdom, Verbavolant, 2005. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- an...

Cultural Alternatives & a Feminist Anthropology

Errington, Frederick and Deborah Gewertz · 1987

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic ethnography that reworks prior work by Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune (her second anthropologist husband) and argues for a rough-and-ready gender egalitarianism th...

The Sky People

Emery, John · 1988

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Soho Press, 1988. First U.S. 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. Stated First U.S. Edition. The author of ...

Capitalism, Primitive and Modern: Some Aspects of Tolai Economic Growth

Epstein, T. Scarlett · 1968

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic ethnography of a Papua New Guinean people (the Tolai of East New Britain) along the lines of a study both substantivist and formal economic anthropology....

Diplomas and Thatch Houses: Asserting Tradition in a Changing Micronesia

Flinn, Juliana · 1992

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the gray cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine, bright interior, with roughly 18 pp. of purpl...

Employment, Incomes and Migration in Papua New Guinea Towns

Garnaut, Ross, Michael Wright and Richard Curtain · 1977

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderately rubbed exterior, clean interor but for...

Malinowski Among the Magi: "the Natives of Mailu

Malinowski, Bronislaw; Michael W. Young, ed. · 1988

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Routledge, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine edited volume by a major ethnographer and historian of anthropology and biographer of both Malinowski and F.E. Williams. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible w...

Law and Order in the New Guinea Highlands: Encounters with Enga

Gordon, Robert and Mervyn Meggitt · 1985

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Hanover, New Hampshire, University of New England Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. From the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researc...