Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Women and the Invention of American Anthropology

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich · 1999

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Prospect Heights, Illinois, Waveland Press, 1999. 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. A few penned tick-marks here and the...

Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989-1994

Filer, Colin, ed. · 1999

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Canberra, Australia / Canberra, Australia / Boroko, Asia Pacific Press, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, The Australian National University / Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University / ...

Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire

Driver, Felix and Luciana Martins, eds. · 2005

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2005. 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. Previous owner's inscription, neat...

Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea

Herdt, Gilbert, ed. · 1982

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Gilbert Herdt edited a classic reader in gender studies in Papua New Guinea, and with an Introduction by Roger Keesing. Chapters on male rituals of manhood and male i...

Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins

Young, Antonia · 2001

$14.40 (€13.06 | £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...

Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak Witness to the World: An Intellectual Biography

Waddell, Eric · 2008

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2008. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Another sterling contribution to the Pacific Islands Monograph Series, published in 2008, penned by the noted insular Pacific scholar. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, ti...

Duffie, Mary Kay

Through the Eye of the Needle: a Maori Elder remembers · 2001

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Harcourt, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highli...

The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers

Schieffelin, Edward L. · 1976

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Slight ink-stamp to first free endpaper, some penned underlining up front, dissipating, a few penned marginal ...

Aging and Its Transformations: Moving Toward Death in Pacific Societies

Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts, eds. · 1992

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University Of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and due homage to insular Pacific studies given over to aging and the treatment of the elderly. Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts have edited this A...

Single Mothers and the State's Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam

Phinney, Harriet M. · 2022

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2022. 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 publisher's blurb, "...

From Inside the Women's House: Enga Women's Lives and Traditions

Kyakas, Alome and Polly Wiessner · 1992

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Buranda, Queensland, Australia, Robert Brown & Associates, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. ...

Women in Anthropology: Autobiographical Narratives and Social History

Cattell, Maria G. and Marjorie M. Schweitzer, eds. · 2006

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Routledge, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, being warmly inscribed to the former owner, herself an influential woman anthropologist. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals,...

Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies

Keck, Verena · 1998

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Berg Publishers, 1998. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Explorations in Anthropology. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for previous owner's inscription ...

Pacific Sea-Shells

Tinker, Spencer Wilkie · 1974

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Rutland, Vermont, Charles E Tuttle Co, 1974. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Thirteenth Printing, 1974, of the 1959 First Edition. Bound handsomely in blue paper-covered boards with white backstrip and blue lettering. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered....

The Making of Asmat Art: Indigenous Art in a World Perspective

Stanley, Nick · 2013

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

Canyon Pyon, England, Sean Kingston Publishing, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Apparently unread, spine still crackles, virtually new, glossy pictorial covers, and replete with black-and-white and full-color plates galore. From the personal library of...

Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century

Howe, K.R., Robert C. Kiste, and Brij V. Lal, eds. · 1994

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Glossy pictorial covers, two previous owner inscriptions up-front, light marginal notations t...

Circulation in Third World Countries

Prothero, R. Mansell and Murray Chapman · 1985

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of an extremely influential work of political-economy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in black cloth over boards, previous owner's i...

Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Mandang District, New Guinea

Lawrence, Peter · 1971

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 1971. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a stated 1971 reprint of the classic 1964 edition. Rubbed edges, slight forward cock to ...

Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

Tan, Amy · 2017

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Ecco, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible writer's memoir. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. A memoir on h...