The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture Tapa dura - 1981

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary, 1981. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Foreword by Einar Haugen. 182 pages, b/w photos, text-figures, notes, bibliography, index, textured end-papers. Or brown cloth boards, silver spine titles. The Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and their people from the time of the Vikings to the 1980s.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 081227783X . Hardcover with dustjacket, no significant flaws to this clean, attractive copy and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "composed of a series of studies of aspects of Faroese life, language and folkways," illustrated throughout and includes a bibliography ; ; 182 pages .

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, green with brown print; DJ has light edgewear, toning to spine, peripheral toning, light creasing; Boards in brown cloth, slight wear to spine caps and warping, else clean and strong; Text block has spotting to edges, else clean and tight; xxii, 182 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1353938. FP New Rockville Stock.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. xxii, 182p., b/w illus., dj (Symbol and culture).

Philadelphia / Jerusalem: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. "Scattered in the North Atlantic 300 miles off Iceland and 400 miles off Norway lies an archipelago-- the Faroe Islands. At present, (of 1981) an internally self-governing dependency of Denmark, the Faroes have kept their culture alive in part by elaborating certain elements of that culture as badges of self-consciousness. 'The Ring of Dancers' is composed of af a series of studies of aspects of Faroese life, language, and folkways. The Faroes are introduced as the Faroese themselves conceive them-- as islands both joined and separated by the waterways round about them. The archipelago is visualized in terms of such waterways as fjords, the points of the compass, 'home' villages, and natural and political districts. The authors also discuss Faroese society as the Faroese conceived it around 1890, by an analysis of a then popular folktale about the Ashlad. Placed in its social… Leer más

Hbk 204pp some unfading to dj and one small closed tear, now in protective sleeve,otherwise internally an unread copy, excellent clean tight unmarked as new.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Fine Hardcover and Near Very Good Dust Jacket of Pennsylvania,, 1981. First American Edition. 8vo . Excellent study into the culture, language, whale hunts of this Norse island of ancient Pictish ancestry. Illustrated by b/w Illus. of folk life around a hearth. Stories, dance seafaring. Dust jacket one cover chip about an inch at bottom of cover and sun fading. NOT a library copy.

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1981-03-01. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1.