Luomala Katherine (11 results)

Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. 78 pages. Paperback. Texts in English. Mild wear to the covers, with some light bends and faint soiling and handling to the otherwise white covers. Else, the binding is tight, the interior clean and free of markings. Bound in stiff illustrated paper covers. Photographic illustrations in both black and white and color. Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus. First Edition. hardcover in dust jacket., dj has several dust-spots on spine and only the slightest evidence of handling. some dust-spotting to top edge. corner of front free endpaper has a small stamp of the number, 97. no other flaws, clean, no writing or text markings, tight binding and hinges.; carries no isbn.; viii-342pp., 46 b/w maps, plans, photos. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Paperback. Condition: VG. Paperback in Very Good condition. . 4to 11" to 13" tall. 115 pages. Previous owner name on front cover. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Book has modest scuffing to cover, a mild crease running length of spine (near hinge), small stains to cover, mild rubbing to edges of cover, mild rubbing to corners of cover, modest rubbing to corners of spine, a mild crease running length of back cover (near hinge), a small crease to top corner og back cover, mild toning to edgeblock, faint inscription to front cover, and mild annotating to various pages throughout. otherwise book is in good condition with bright pages and a slid binding. *Photos available upon request.…

Paper. Condition: Good Only. Narrative Change in the European Tradition of the Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Ballad, more. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Condition notes: 384-499 numbered pp +1; PB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight; a.e. sunned, cocked. Cover: gray wraps, red titles front/spine; moderate edge/shelfwear, head/tail torn, stains front/back, messy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd printing. 342p. Photos, Fine/Fine Copy. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Western Museum Laboratories, 1938. Front cover flap very barely soiled, edges/corners very lightly rubbed/bumped, otherwise intact; binding tight; edges and interior intact and very clean; due to the weight of this item, additional shipping charges may apply. Soft Cover. Very Good.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oceanic, American Indian, and African Myths of Snaring the Sun by Katherine Luomala, published in 1940. A comparative folkloric study examining the widespread mythic motif of capturing or restraining the sun across Oceanic, Native American, and African traditions. Luomala analyzes narratives in which cultural heroes or trickster figures ensnare the sun using nets, ropes, snares, or other devices, interpreting the symbolism of these acts within the broader religious and cosmological frameworks of the societies in which they appear. The work explores the sun as a life-giving yet potentially destructive force, and considers how myths of its capture reflect concerns with time, order, agriculture, and human agency in relation to nature. Concise yet scholarly, this 58-page study of mythology and folklore. Lecture booklet format. Softcover with light shelfwear; previous owner's name on cover.…

First edition. Quarto. vii, 115 pp. Printed on rectos only. Includes and extensive bibliography. Publisher's cloth tape spine over printed brown wrappers. Bump to top corner else a lovely copy of a remarkably scarce book.Katharine Luomala (1907 ? 1992) was an American anthropologist known for her studies of comparative mythology in Oceania. Born in Cloquet, Minnesota and educated at the University of California, Berkeley, Luomala began her anthropological studies there by working with the Navajo people in the 1930s, chronicling their changing lives. She earned her AB in 1931, MA in 1933, and PhD in 1936. In her introduction she states that she wrote this at the specific behest of the National Park Service.[Together with]LINK, Martin A. [editor]. Navajo: A Century f Progress, 1869-1969. Window Rock [AZ]: published by the Tribe, 1948.First trade edition. Quarto. 107, [3] pp. With photographic illustrations on nearly every page. Publisher's turquoise cloth with black and gilt cover and spine lettering, black endpapers, original glassine stamped in a web pattern (two tears to front). An excellent copy.…

dj. Japanese American incarceration study published in 1970, based on a War Relocation Authority report prepared by four anthropologists who had served within the federal camp system during World War II. Edward H. Spicer worked at Poston and later directed the WRA Community Analysis Section; Katherine Luomala served at Gila River, Asael T. Hansen at Heart Mountain, and Marvin K. Opler at Tule Lake. Completed in 1946, the final report documents the forced removal of Japanese Americans, the formation of communities within the camps, and the administrative dismantling of the centers, while tracing how relations between incarcerated people and WRA administrators changed over time and shaped political, social, and psychological life. Spicer, Edward H.; Asael T. Hansen; Katherine Luomala; and Marvin K. Opler. Impounded People: Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970. First Edition, Second printing. Octavo, 342 pages, illustrated, bound in orange cloth with original dust jacket designed by Erwin Acuntius. Ownership inscription reading "E. Shaw" on the front free endpaper. The volume opens with Spicer's retrospective introduction to the relocation centers and reproduces the authors' wartime study in four principal sections: "Moving In," "Being Sorted," "Settling Down," and "Getting Out." Chapters address WRA policy, evacuation, work and wages, rumor, schools, community organization, registration, segregation, staff and evacuee relations, resettlement, and the closing of the camps. The text includes photographs of removal, barracks, schools, councils, work, protest, military enlistment, family life, and cemetery rites, followed by an annotated bibliography of the Community Analysis Section and a bibliography of publications concerning the relocation centers. The original report was completed in Washington during the final months of the WRA and reflects the agency's effort to explain the social consequences of policies it had administered. Its authors describe scapegoating and racial hostility, but they also write from positions embedded within the institutional structure that confined the communities under study. The resulting text preserves the language of federal administration beside detailed observations of7/23/2026 housing, labor, education, rumor, political division, resistance, and adaptation. Published more than two decades after the camps closed, the book returned an internal government analysis to public circulation as Japanese American organizations, historians, and former incarcerees were pressing the wartime record into renewed national debate. Dust jacket with tearing, rubbing, and edge wear; cloth binding sound and bright; scattered tonal variation and spotting to the text block; ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. Overall good condition. A government authored account of Japanese American incarceration written by anthropologists who observed the relocation centers from within the War Relocation Authority. …

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, reproduced from typescript. 239pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with manuscript title to spine, light toning, soiling and wear. One of the final publications of the War Relocation Authority, the governmental agency responsible for overseeing the mass incarceration of Japanese people in America during World War II. Written by four cultural anthropologists, this explores the damaging psychological and social effects internment had on the population, from evacuation to establishment in the artificial West Coast communities, to the lifting of the exclusion orders. While reprinted by the University of Arizona Press in 1969, original copies are scarce.…