Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Manners and Customs
New York: Philosophical Library, Inc, 1967. J. de Vries. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Anthrolopology
The Historical Demography of Pre-modern Japan
Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 2001. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. Historical demography is the study of patterns and changes in a society's population before the collection of data through modern censuses. For Japan, data on family size and structure, fertility and infant mortality, marriage patterns, urban and rural..... More
The Historical Demography of Pre-modern Japan
Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 2001. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. With promotional band on dust jacket. Historical demography is the study of patterns and changes in a society's population before the collection of data through modern censuses. For Japan, data on family size and structure, fertility and infant..... More
Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World
London: William Collins, 2017. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Five hundred years ago a stubborn German monk challenged the Pope with a radical vision of what Christianity could be. The revolution he set in motion toppled governments, upended social norms and transformed millions of people’s understanding of their relationship..... More
Mammals and their Extinct Relatives: A Guide to the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1994. Softcover. This guide provides information about each of the 230 specimens on display in the halls of the Lila Acheson Wallace wing at the American Museum of Natural History. More
The Nayars Today
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback. The Nayars of Kerala, south-west India, unusually trace descent through the female line and, in the past, had a marriage system in which women were allowed several husbands simultaneously. This system has brought the Nayars continuing fame in anthropological circles..... More
Seeds, Spades, Hearths and Herds: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1972. Second Edition, Third Printing. Paperback. Some of the author premises regarding domestication of animals and foodstuffs: agriculture did not originate from a shortage of food; domestication is found in areas of marked diversity in plants or animals; primitive cultivators could not establish themselves in..... More
Mediaeval Feudalism
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1971. Fourteenth Printing. Paperback. Carl Stephenson (1886–1954) at the time of his death was regarded as one of America's foremost medieval scholars. He was a student of Charles Gross and Charles Homer Haskins at Harvard University (graduated 1914), later studied with Henri Pirenne at..... More
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. This edition is published in conjunction with the exhibition Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization organized by the Albuquerque Museum. More
Durable Inequality
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members..... More
Manchu Archival Materials
Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing, Co., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Collection of essays by Professor Ch'en Chieh-hsien of National Taiwan University concerning the study of Ch'ing archival material. More
Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views of China
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Rare. This book brings together ninety extracts of Western non-fiction about China, many of which have been out of print for centuries. Authors include Marco Polo, Adam Smith, Somerset Maugham, Pearl Buck, and Sheryl WuDunn. Topics covered include female infanticide, secular..... More
Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1978. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. Contents include standards and rules for marriage during Han times; divorce under traditional Chinese law; family property in traditional China; results of field investigation on ancestral sacrifice in Manchuria; partition of family property in villages in southern Taiwan..... More
Return to Laughter
New York: Anchor Books Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. Paperback. More
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
New York: Vintage Books, 1979. Paperback. French historians, drawing on their subject’s traditional close links with geography, got increasingly interested in the middle years ofMontaillou the twentieth century in how historical events related to their physical context. One of the leading exponents of this approach was Fernand Braudel, who produced..... More
Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power..... More
Peasants
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1966. First Edition, Sixteenth Printing. Softcover. Part of the Foundations of Modern Anthropology Series. This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant's relation to markets and non-peasant..... More
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
New York: The Free Press, 2010. Hardcover. More
Civilization and Capitalism: The Structures of Everyday Life (Volume I)
London: Collins/Fontana Press, 1981. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Kirkus (Jan. 1, 1981): The Braudel craze set off in 1972 by the English translation of his great work The Mediterranean has abated a bit, but it is likely to flourish again with the appearance in English of his..... More
The Identity of France, Volume II: People and Production
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990. First U.S. Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Braudel's last and most personal book was L'Identité de la France (The Identity of France), which was unfinished at the time of his death in 1985. Unlike many of Braudel's other books, he made no secret of his..... More
Village in Vietnam
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition (presumed), Sixth Printing. Hardcover. From the jacket blurb: The product of a long observation in the field (the research was sponsored by the Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group), this is the first full treatment of Vietnamese culture to be published..... More
Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations, Vol. III (A Twentieth Century Fund Study)
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1968. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
The Chinese Family and its Ritual Behavior
Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academica Sinica, 1985. Hardcover. An anthropological study of family life, composition and rituals in Taiwan. More
Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang Through the Song is a study of emerging kinship structures in a central coastal Fujian province from the 9th..... More
The Pyramids of Egypt
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980. J.C. Rose (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. More
