Resultados de búsqueda: Anthropology, Sociology, womens/mens issues from Lawrence Jones

London: British Museum Press., 1998. 160pp, index, bibliography, num bw ills. Or card covers. As new. Shows there is nothing modern about the psychadelic experience and that our culture's attitudes to altered states of consciousness are highly anomolous. "Tales of Neolithic cavemen going graffiti mad on opium, urine drinking Siberian mushroom eaters slaughtering psilocybin soaked reindeer and Zoroastrian religions heroes tripping on psychoactive mang make present day rock'n'rollers look thoroughly timid".. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. Large 8vo.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. xv, 389pp, notes, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. A look at violence in America, reflected in the experiences of one black family, the Boskets, from the days of slavery to the 1990s.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Alice Springs: Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, 1988. VOLUME 1 ONLY (OF 2). xliv, 248pp, bibliography, tables. Or card covers. Very slight edge wear and a few tiny spots to edges. Disturbed behaviour such as aggression, alcoholism, crime and psychological problems among central Australian Aboriginal communities.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. xviii, 260pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Or card covers. Light edge wear. The actresses, singers, artists, journalists, publishers, baronesses and benefactresses who eschewed convention in New York City's Greenwich Village and Harlem in the early part of the 20th century.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Hamilton, NZ: CCS Inc, 1974. viii, 200 pages, bibliographies, five appendices, addenda: Australasia life styles, index. Prev owner's name by the upper edge of the front paste-down. White cloth boards in dust-jacket. A limited edition of 50 copies printed at Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, June 1974. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author discusses alternative life styles: nuclear families, extended families, communes, group marriage and the marriage of the future.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Papermac, 1995. 618pp, index, notes/references, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or card covers. Slight edge wear and small bump to rear cover. Covers the interaction between Europeans and the native poeples of Amazonia up to 1940 with the creation of the Indian Protection Scheme and its illusion of a new era of tolerance of its native peoples.. First UK Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. 296pp, index,m glossary, bibliography, bw ills. Or cloth backed boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Recounts the experiences and observations of an anthropologist who spent a year living with the Mekranoti Indians of Brazil.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

San Francisco: Mercury House, 1994. 169 pages. There are specks of charcoal on the endpapers, on the cloth and on the inside of the jacket. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket.The authors 'chart the history and wonders of the Amazon region and report their own experience of it, their work is a fervent plea to end the genocide of Amazonian people that continues today' [1990s].. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: W W Norton, 2005. 215pp, 8pp color plates, b/w illustrations, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket which has a crease by the upper corner of the front panel and a short tear at the spine head. The author explores the story of American society's evolving relationship with Grant Wood's 1930 painting American Gothic. The image was first seen as a critique of Midwestern Puritanism; during the Depression it came to represent endurance in hard times; and later it evolved into parody.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Whill and Wang, 1993. xv, 304pp, appendix, bibliographical essay, index. Papered boards in dust-jacket which has a taped repair on the front panel by the spine head and flaps taped to the book's paste-downs. The broad chronological perspective begins with the colonial years and ranges through emancipation and the aftermath of the Civil War, exploring the ways in which slavery evolved and changed over two and a half centuries. The author takes a broad geographical perspective as well, putting American slavery in the context of slavery elsewhere.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. xiv, 247pp, index, bibliography, notes, few bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. A few tiny spots of foxing to page edges. WWII was the first war in which all Indians were considered citizens and therefore eligible for the draft. As a result of this and other war efforts 65000 Indians left the reservations. Indian lands were also affected by wartime demands. Focusing on the period 1941-47 the author explains why termination and tribal self-determination were logical resuults of the Indians' World War II experiences.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xiv, 300pp, index, references, notes, bw ills. Or card covers. Slightest of edge wear to covers. Based on interviews with more than 150 Amish entrepreneurs, the authors track the rise an impact of micro-enterprises in Lancaster's Amish settlement ove two decades. The authors explain why when the majority of new American businesses fail, virtually all Amish busineses succeed.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crescent Books, 1991. 157pp, num col ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Some slight shelf wear. A portrait of the customs, life ways, and history of the Amish, Old Order mennonites and Hutterites known collectively as the Plain People. Beyond the images of horse and buggy and plain clothing lies a rich and complex way of life. Shows the Plain people at work on their farms, and in their shops building furniture without electric power tool. It follows the patterns of everyday family life as mothers endeavour to keep up with farm and family. One room schools, barn raisings, quilting bees, and the canning of vegetables from the garden are all part of the Plain people experience presented in these pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1985. 120pp, notes, num bw ills. Or pictorial card covers. Slight edge wear to covers, spine a little faded, light toning to inside of covers. American Century Series. . Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company., 1930. xv, 391pp; index, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or blue cloth, lacking jacket. Date stamp on ffep, very slight edge-wear. A general history of American Indian race. Specifically deals with Pueblo indians, with traditions, folk tales, religious beliefs, ceremonies, dances, decorative arts, basketry, textiles and pottery.. Apparent First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 303pp, 16pp b/w plates, notes, index. Papered boards in jacket. The skeleton known as Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996 near Kennewick, Washington and was revealed, by radiocarbon dating, to be approximately 9,500 years old. Ancient Encounters is an exploration of the origins of our ancient ancestors -- and a critical examination of the controversy over who owns the past.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

Farnborough: Saxon House, 1974. 232pp, 8pp colour plates, b/w ills throughout, bibliography, index, pictorial endpapers. Prelims and endpages foxed. Or black boards in price-clipped and edge-worn jacket. The author describes primitive Spanish civilisation, the world of the Iberians.. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

San Diego: The Union Tribune Publishing Company, 1966. 208pp, index, bibliography, maps, num bw & col ills. Or blue cloth. A Copley Book comissioned by James Copley. Slight rubbing to cloth. An examination of ancient man in the American far West with particular attention to the San Dieguito people, including their presence in Baja. Good section on stone weapons and tools.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to.

London: Oracle, 1996. xvi, 429pp, index, bw ills. Or card covers. Light toning to page edges. Reprinted from the original edition of 1894. Record of an epic journey made only 3 years after the end of the American Civil WAr to visit the pre-Columbian monuments of Northern and Central America. Covers the major archaeological sites from the huge prehistoric earthworks of Ohio to the hidden Aztec temples of Mexicio, with visits to the lands of the Shoshone, Sioux, Pawnee, the Dakotas among many others.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Harry N Abrams, Inc, in Association with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1985. 239pp, illustrated throughout in color and b/w, timeline for Woodlands region sites, full page map, bibliography, index. Illustrated card cover. Following the Introduction, the catalogue covers The late Archaic Period, The Woodland Period, the Mississippian Period, and Continuities of Imagery and Symbolism in the Art of the Woodlands.. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Photographs By Dirk Baker. 4to.