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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$5,500.00 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$10,000.00 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 Schuster died suddenly of cancer, leaving the material unpublished.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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Exploring the Garden of Delights: Essays in Bosch’s Paintings and the Medieval Mental Culture
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnna Birgitta Rooth
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1992.Study of Bosch, medieval mentalities, and culture imagination. FF Communications No. 251 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The New Comparative Method: Structural and Symbolic Analysis of the Allomotifs of Snow White
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Swann Jones
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1990.Structural and symbolic analysis of Snow White variants, tracing recurrent allomotifs and their comparative folkloric significance. FF Communications No. 247 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Cognitive Systems and Culture Models of Illness
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMatti Kamppinen
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1989.Examination of cultural perceptions of illness, linking cognitive frameworks, folk beliefs, and traditional healing practices. FF Communications No. 244 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
AU$2,000.00 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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The Riddle of the Sphinx, or Human Origins
AU$150.00 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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From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan J. Napier
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. -
Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. S. Eades; Tom Gill; Harumi Befu
Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2000. -
Precarious Japan
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnne Allison
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. -
Ethnological Notes and Phallic Rites of the Aboriginal Tribes of Western and South Australia
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. H. Matthews
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.