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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co Inc., U.S.A.
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good/No Jacket. Used Previous owner's name on the inside front cover. Slight wear to the surface of the cover and some annotations on the inside back cover. Pages clean, bright and tight. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Waveland Press
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780881330847ISBN:0881330841
Description: Good. 0881330841. Some highlighted passages. Mostly smooth spine with one horizontal crease. Corner clipped on front end paper.; 1.2 x 8.4 x 5.5 Inches; 527 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton, New York
Date Published: 1950
Description: Good in Poor jacket. Ex-Library. 6 1/2 x 9 3/4. Hardcover. DJ is real ratty and hardly deserves keeping but that will be your decision. 525 pages. Bookplate on ffep. "Library Discard" stamped on ffep but I am unable to locate any other indication of have\ing been anywhere near a library. (Anthropology-white/brown letters) read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc., Prospect Heights, IL, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780881330847ISBN:0881330841
Description: Near Fine. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" 527 Pages Indexed. Preface by Sir James G. Fraser is dated 1922. Inked price on first title page and store stamp inside back cover. There are 15 pages in chapter 2 and 13 pages in chapter 3 with instances of yellow highlighting. No other marks or stamps to this tight square book. Originally published in 1922 and reissued in 1961 by E.P. Dutton. This is a 1984 trade paperback release. Includes 66 illustrations. During the First World War Malinowski was in Australia and ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Waveland Press., Prospect Heights, IL.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780881330847ISBN:0881330841
Description: Good. Ink underlining, marginalia, light soil, o/w good. 5 maps, 65 b/w photos. Malinowski's classic investigation of the Kula trading system of the Trobriands. 527pp. Index. Reprint. read more
Edition: Later Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, Illinois
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780881330847ISBN:0881330841
Description: Very Good- 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" 527 pages, 22 chapters, index, maps, 66 illustrations in black and white and 5 maps, numerrous foot notes, very informative sorce of information. Very mild wear to the edge of book. inscription marked out on the front end paper. Pages are clean, binding is tight. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Waveland Press
Date Published: 1984-03
ISBN-13:9780881330847ISBN:0881330841
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" An account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagos of Melanesian New Guinea (Studies in economics and political science). Robert Mond Expedition to New Guinea 1914-1918. Preface by Sir James Frazer, who explains why this book is much more than a brilliant piece of ethnographic research. It stresses the transcendent importance of magic in the daily life of the islanders. 5 maps, 66 illustrations. Account of savage life describing inter-tribal relations ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Read Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781406752564ISBN:1406752568
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
Date Published: 1953)
Description: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. Fourth Impression; 8vo; pp. xxxii, 527; numerous b/w illustrations, index; rebound in blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, new endpapers, ex-library stamps throughout, a good copy. Ex-library copy. To gather information the author lived and immersed himself with the Trobriand Islanders and was able to provide a unique view and interpretation of their lives in text and the remarkable photographs. ... read more
"ethnography is very rich and the introduction is an important description of the way ethnography was (attempted to be) done for much of the twentieth century."
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