Firth Raymond William 1901 2002 (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 374 pages with charts, figures, tables, plates and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Most Polynesians became Christians more than a century ago but Tikopia had a substantial pagan population until quite recent years. This book of essays describes rites and beliefs of a people who still maintained their traditional institutions remote from civilization. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of the noted economist T. H. Marshall with his signature. Series; Josiah Mason lectures ; 1947. Physical description; vii, [2], 257 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliographical footnotes. Contents; The meaning of social anthropology -- Structure and organization in a small community -- Social change in peasant communities -- The social framework of economic organization -- The social framework of primitive art -- Moral standards and social organization -- Religion in social reality. Subjects; Primitive societies. Society, Primitive. Sociology. Anthropology. Social structure. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of the noted economist T. H. Marshall with his signature. Series; Josiah Mason lectures ; 1947. Physical description; vii, [2], 257 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliographical footnotes. Contents; The meaning of social anthropology -- Structure and organization in a small community -- Social change in peasant communities -- The social framework of economic organization -- The social framework of primitive art -- Moral standards and social organization -- Religion in social reality. Subjects; Primitive societies. Society, Primitive. Sociology. Anthropology. Social structure. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. vii+257 pages with frontispiece, plates and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. From the library of Dr Donald Wocester. First American edition. An illuminating introduction to the methods and problems of social anthropology, this book draws on a wide range of illustrations, including Raymond Firth's own experiences in New Zealand, Malaya and the Solomon Islands. Donald E. Worcester (1915-2003) was an American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history. He was president of the Western History Association from 1974-1975. Worcester graduated from Bard College in 1939. He received an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. He then served in the US Naval Reserve in World War II. He received a PhD. from Berkeley in 1947. From 1947 until 1963 he was a professor at the University of Florida. He then was a professor at Texas Christian University and history department chair. From 1960 until 1965 he was managing editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. Worcester's view that history is made of complexities, not dualities, is seen as foundational for much of the understanding by later scholars of Southwest United States history. Condition: Wocester's name on front end paper and head page ends. Jacket spine ends and corners lightly chipped, spine sunned else very good in like jacket.…