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Hopousia or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. D. Unwin
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1940.Unwin’s unfinished sequel to Sex and Culture (1934), published posthumously. “..a non-narrative Utopia where Sex is described as being made available through two forms of marriage: the monogamous alpha form entitles its adherents to accept responsibility for running the world; the polygamous beta form welcomes free love. Citizens can change from one marriage formula to the other. The rulers of the world are made free by this structure to focus on the maintenance of a sustainable state, where energy flows where needed, and returns. From this balance and restraint, Unwin argues, equity will flow, but his death before the book was finished abruptly truncated any summary argument. In his long introduction, Aldous Huxley recognizes this deficit while recognizing the importance of Unwin’s “formulation of the sexual and economic conditions of social energy.”” (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) BROMER B59.1.
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Drugs in Western Pacific Societies: Relations of Substance
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartLamont Lindstrom
Lanham: University Press of America, 1987.ASAO Monographs No. 11. Explores drug use within interpersonal relations in the Pacific.
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The Varieties of Ecstasy Experience: An Exploration of Person, Mind and Body in Sydney’s Club Culture
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartSean Leneghan
Saarbrucken: LAPLambert Academic Publishing, 2010.Ethnographic study of ecstasy users in the raving and club scenes of Sydney, Australia.
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Smoking Technology of the Aborigines of the Iroquois Area of New York State
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward S. Rutsch
Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. -
Baining Life and Lore
AU$70 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Hesse; Theo Aerts
: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1982. -
Iban Shamanism: An Analysis of the Ethnographic Literature
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPenelope Graham
Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1994.An occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. With a foreword by Derek Freeman.
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Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Bourguignon
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973.This copy with the stamps of Japanese anthropologists Takie and William Lebra, and the bookplate of tribal arts dealer Philip Goldman.
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Drugs, Rituals, and Altered States of Consciousness
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian M. Du Toit
Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1977.This book is the result of a 1975 symposium of the Society for Applied Anthology in Amsterdam. An exploration on the realm of drug use and its relationship to secular ritual. Exploring myths and rituals associated with hallucinogen and heroin use in various socio-cultural settings. Includes music-colour synesthesia and out-of-body experiences.
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Western Australian Ethnographic Papers
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Dugald Campbell; Peter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.“W. D. Campbell, an English geologist working in New Zealand and Australia undertook pioneering ethnographic work in the Eastern Goldfields, North West and Murchison. This collection is of rare and difficult to obtain papers that are little known to those interested in such material. The items on churingas and phallic objects are sure to ‘raise’ an interest in those so oriented.” (publisher’s blurb)
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On the Aborigines of Australia
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartAugustus Oldfield
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.“Oldfield was a botanical collector with a great interest in Aboriginals. This 1864 work with an extensive introduction by M.Helen Henderson is virtually unknown to anthropologists and is not known in most libraries. It describes the natives of the Port Gregory area at the mouth of the Murchison River in a detail that few others aspired to until the 1890s. Graphic descriptions of customs and incidents of life (and death).” (publisher’s blurb) Originally published in the Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. 3, 1865, pp. 215-298, here published for the first time with a lengthy introduction in a limited casebound edition of 250 numbered copies. This copy out of sequence.
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Among Wild Animals and People in Australia
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2012.Originally published in Swedish in 1915 as ‘Bland vilda djur och folk i Australien’. Here translated into English for the first time by Margareta Luotsinen and Kim Akerman. “From October 1910 to August 1911 biologist Erik Mjoberg and his seven man Swedish team travelled by bullock wagon through the West Kimberley collecting invertebrates, birds, mammals, and ethnographic research material. Their ten month journey took them from Derby, along the Fitzroy River upstream to Mount Anderson Station. Some members then went on to Noonkanbah, the St George Ranges and Fitzroy Crossing, while others went south to Mowla Bluff. After the return to Derby two members went to Sunday Island and then followed the stock route across the Leopold Ranges to Mount Barnett. Extensive collections were also made around Derby and Meda Station. Finally the expedition re-convened in Broome where side trips included a coastal trip by pearling lugger collecting marine specimens and another trip to Beagle Bay, collecting birds. Eric MjöbergÂ’s idiosyncratic text remained in the Swedish language until this long-awaited English translation. Now, for the first time, this unique perspective on biota and people is brought to a new generation of readers with an interest in Kimberley history and geography.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness
AU$135 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.Published in Swedish in 1918 as ‘Bland Stenaldersmanniskor i Queensland’s Vildmarker’, and now available for the first time in English translated by S. M. Fryer and edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritche. A magnificent book on Eric Mjoberg’s North Queensland anthropological and natural history collecting expedition. 31 plates. 226 captioned figures and 2 maps, showing rarely seen photographs of North Queensland Aboriginals, ethnographic items, tropical rainforests and their endemic animals.
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Aboriginal Ethnographica
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Sutherland Davidson
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.Reproduces the majority of DavidsonÂ’s Australian ethnographic papers from 1933 to 1953 in facsimile. Topics covered include Aboriginal Axes, Spears, Clubs, Canoes, Baskets, Boomerangs, Petroglyphs, Key Designs, Waningas, Churingas, Fire, Footwear and Death.
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Aboriginal Sign Language
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the chapter ‘The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language’ and 9 related plates from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Ethno-Pornography: Male and Female Aboriginal Initiation and Customs
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the ethno-pornography chapter and plate from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRonald M. Berndt
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952. -
Language and Society: Anthropological Issues
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam C. McCormack; Stephen A. Wurm
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
Approaches to Language: Anthropological Issues
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam C. McCormack; Stephen A. Wurm
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1978. -
Concepts for Communication and Development in Bilingual-Bicultural Communities
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartFlorencio Sanchez Camara; Felipe Ayala
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
The Performing Arts: Music and Dance
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn A. R. Blacking; Joann Keali’inohomoku
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
The Fabrics of Culture: The Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJustine M. Cordwell; Ronald A. Schwarz
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
Life in Southern Nigeria: The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Amaury Talbot
London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. -
Ashanti Proverbs (The Primitive Ethics of a Savage People)
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Sutherland Rattray
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1916.Translated from the Original with Grammatical and Anthropological Notes by R. Sutherland Rattray. With a Preface by Sir Hugh Clifford. This copy signed by the author to the front free endpaper.
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The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin: An Autobiography
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartVerrier Elwin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. -
Himalayan Anthropology
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJames F. Fisher
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1978. -
Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn T. Hitchcock; Rex L. Jones
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1976. -
Motifs of Life in Toba Batak Texts and Textiles
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartS. A. Niessen
Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1985. -
Akono’anga Maori / Cook Islands Culture
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRon Crocombe; Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe
Suva and Rarotonga: Institute of Pacific Studies, 2003. -
Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922-39
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartF. E. Williams; Michael W. Young; Julia Clark
Adelaide: Crawford House, 2001. -
Aida: Life and Ceremony of the Gogodala
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartA. L. Crawford
Bathurst: Robert Brown and Associates in association with The National Cultural Council of Papua New Guinea, 1981. -
Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartW. O. Oldman
London: W. O. Oldman, 1976.Limited Edition Facsimile of 130 catalogues of British ethnographic dealer William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949). One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy with the bookplate of tribal art dealer Philip Goldman.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Bangkok: SDI Publications, 1996.Originally published as An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress of Natives of the Pacific Islands. Second Edition expanded and edited by Bruce L. Miller with additional maps and portraits of Pacific Island natives. One of 999 unnumbered copies.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, Third Series: An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands.
AU$5,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Manchester: Lithographed by Palmer Howe & Co., 1898.Drawn and Described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. One of 175 numbered copies initialed by Edge-Partington and Heape. This copy with the 7 leaves of additional notes for all 3 parts.
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Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity
AU$10,000 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Schuster; Edmund Carpenter; Lorraine Spiess.
New York: Rock Foundation, 1986-88.Based on the Researches & Writings of Carl Schuster. Edited & Written by Edmund Carpenter. Assisted by Lorraine Spiess. A cornerstone of comparative anthropology, mythology, and art history. This monumental work draws on the vast ethnographic record assembled by American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969). Schuster died suddenly of cancer, leaving the material unpublished. Carpenter spent nearly two decades editing Schuster’s archive into this twelve-volume synthesis. The result is an epic survey of visual and mythic patterns: from Paleolithic Europe to the tribal societies of Oceania, the Americas, and Africa. Issued privately in a very small edition distributed directly to museums and researchers Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism is likely the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of traditional symbolism ever published.
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Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Dell
Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1998. -
Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic as performed by Jumabay Bazarov
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Reichl
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2007.Edige is one of the most esteemed oral epics of the Karakalpaks, a Turkic-speaking people, who live on the mouth of the Amu Darya and the shores of the Aral Sea. Edige is a historical personage from the time of Timur at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. The singer, Jumabay Bazarov, was the last Karakalpak singer of heroic epics who stood in an entirely oral tradition. In this edition and translation an attempt has been made to capture as much of his oral performance as possible, including the singer’s dialect features and his musical style. FF Communications No. 289 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Collaborative Representations: Interpreting the Creation of a Sami Ethnography and a Seto Epic
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartKristin Kuutama
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2006.The focus of this book revolves around two manifestly representative texts from the early twentieth century: Johan Turi’s story of Sami experience Muitalus samiid birra and the Seto epic Peko performed by Anne Vabarna. The current analysis of the complex performative interaction between the culture bearer, his or her repertoire, and the culture researcher benefits from an interdisciplinary anthropological and folkloristic approach, informed by hybridity and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries in historicizing inquiries into cultural documentation and textual practices. FF Communications No. 289 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Holy Mountain: Studies on Upper Altay Oral Poetry
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLauri Harvilahti; Zoja S. Kazagaceva
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2003.The aim of this study is to achieve a synthesis in forming a new overall view of the stylistic-poetic and structural devices used to produce the archaic mythical and epic cultural tradition of the Upper Altay region. Attention is also being paid to the inherent ethnic nature of the Altaian ethnic groups, to cultural influences and to some extent their present cultural identity. FF Communications No. 282 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart Blackburn
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2001.Is fantasy the defining element in fairy tales? This question is the starting point for Stuart Blackburn’s study of Tamil oral tales. Having collected over 300 tales, 100 of which are translated in this book, he concludes that although fantasy, and humour, are present, at the core of the tales lies a moral vision in which wrongdoing, especially physical cruelty, is punished. Only the second full-length study of Indian tales from oral tradition, this book places the Tamil tradition in an international context, describes the telling sessions and includes tellers’ interpretations of some tales. FF Communications No. 278 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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A Motif-Index of Luis Rosado Vega’s Mayan Legends
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJim C. Tatum
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000.The Mayan Culture, long recognised as among the most advanced indigenous groups of Latin America, possesses a rich heritage of mythology and traditions still very apparent in the Yacatan Peninsula at the closing of the twentieth century. Although Mayan legends have been studied and published as early as 1844, there exists no extensive motif-index dealing with the topic. This work attempts to help fill that need by indexing the works of Yacatecan writer Luis Rosaldo Vega. FF Communications No. 271 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Cult and Conflict in Tropical Polynesia: A Study of Traditional Religion, Christianity and Nativistic Movements
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJukka Siikala
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1982.Ethnographic study of religious practices and intergroup tensions in tropical Polynesia, analysing ritual, belief, and social conflict. FF Communications No. 233 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMasatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
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Humane Policy; or Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Bannister
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1830.Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) was the first Attorney-General of New South Wales, though short-lived in the position due to constant clashing with other figures of the new colony, including over the mistreatment of the Aborigines. Though failing to find content in his work he is noted as being philanthropic and humane in his disposition with “a devotion to the welfare of children, convicts, and coloured inhabitants of the Empire” (ADB). Upon returning to England he authored numerous pamphlets on behalf of indigenous people in the colonies, and this, his longest work on the subject, largely devoted to South Africa, though with numerous references from his time in New South Wales. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Fairclough and the Aborigines Protection Society in manuscript at the crown of the title page.
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Pagan Innocence
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartK. F. Wong
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.Photobook of Sarawak’s indigenous peoples, the Dayak, taken in the late 1950s and published in London in 1960. 30 pages of text with an introduction by Malcolm MacDonald.
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The Riddle of the Sphinx, or Human Origins
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartGeza Roheim
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1934.Psychoanalytic anthropology by Hungarian Geza Roheim (1891-1953). Roheim and his wife lived on and around the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission in central Australia for nine months in 1929. The 9 pages of illustrations in this work being photographs from this time showing Aboriginal ceremony.
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The Alligator Rivers: Prehistory and Ecology in Western Arnhem Land
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartCarmel Schrire
Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1982. -
Working Men and Ganja: Marihuana Use in Rural Jamaica
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMelanie Creagan Dreher
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982.A study on the commerce and use of ganja (marijuana) in three rural labour farmer villages in Jamaica. The study highlights a debate on ganja between socioeconomic divisions; the upper and middle class condemn it, while the labouring class claim it is beneficial for well being and even enhancing productivity.
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Katu Folktales and Society
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartInstitute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.