Robin Ridington 1939 (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xv+301 pages with frontispiece, photographs and index. Royal octvo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's aqua cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This work describes an anthropologist's experience with the subarctic Beaver Indians, the Dunne-za. Robing Ridington, a scholar who has spent nearly twenty-five years with the Dunne-za, describes movements in the life of their community, revealing the dynamics of change and stability among them as well as the ideas and assumptions that sustain them. Condition: Remainder mark at heal end papers. Jacket spine lightly sunned else a near fine copy in like jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1152-1160 pages with cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 70, number 6 complete issue. First edition. The paper describes political process among the Beaver Indians of northeastern British Columbia, and analyzes the medicine fight as a style of discourse that defines the roles assumed in Beaver competition for the validation of supernatural power. It suggests that the medicine fight is related to the ecological imperatives that make success in hunting unpredictable and relatively infrequent: conditions opting for a projection of causation onto others rather than acceptance of guilt. It concludes that complementary theories of explanation are held by members of the same society and that the theory an individual will use is dependent on the needs of the political role he is playing. The roles played are in turn determined by an individual's success or failure relative to others; and success or failure is unpredictable and subject to chance. Condition: Spine and edges sunned, light edge wear, corners bumped, rubbed and creased else very good.