Magic Witchcraft Curing by John Middleton (25 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Unmarked text. Pages bumped, yellowing. Moderate cover-wear. 1967. Paperback. (1h).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: VG Minus. 1st Edition. About very good minus - no markings, some light cover and edge wear. No outstanding negative faults.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. GOOD jacket yellowing with edge wear and rubbing, small chips and tears on edges. Boards have light edge wear, gift inscription on first page, pages beginning to yellow, otherwise interior is clean.

paperback. Condition: Good. General shelfwear to the cover and page edges.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Highlighting. Acceptable - This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. Oversized.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. x 346pp paperback, covers rubbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The book has some surface wear. The last page has some scuffing. The cover has some wear along the edges.

Paperback. 346pp. Very good plus condition with text clean and binding sound.

1ST edition. `VG/VG-. DJ SLIGHTLY YELLOWED WITH EDGEWEAR. THIS VOLUME OF AMERICAN MUSEUM SOURCEBOOKS IN ANTHROPOLOGY IS A COLLECTION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC REPORTS ON THE ROLE OF MAGIC ( WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY, DIVINATION, AND CURING) IN THE LIVES OF PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES. 346 PP.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. x 346pp paperback, ownership signatures to half-title, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition First Printing. Collection of 16 ethnographic essays on magical beliefs & behaviors, including those related to witchcraft, divination, curing & healing, & sorcery. In 346 pages with Index & Bibliography in rear, some illustrations. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1967, this hardcover has brown cloth over quarter black cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with very mild tanning to edges, but completely unmarked. Exterior shows very mild rubbing to extremities & corner bumping. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $8.95 price intact to front flap) is VG+: clean with slight chipping to both head & heel of spine; nicely covered in nonreflective mylar cover by previous owner. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Pacific time (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. Near fine.

Paperbacl. Condition: Very Good-. General wear, but clean and intact. ; American Museum Sourcebooks in Anthropology; 8vo; 346 pages.

Half-Cloth. Condition: Fine (-). Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (-). First Edition (stated). "Presents ethnographic accounts of magical beliefs and behavior. . ." 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. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 346 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, brown eps. Cover: brown boards, black backstrip, gilt titles spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems slightly worn. DJ: unclipped, brown, black titles to white front/spine blacks; v lt edge/shelfwear, edges and spine mildly sunned.…

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED2.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A bright, clean copy in excellent condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good ++. First Edition. These 346 pages gather together 16 essays on the subject(s) with approximately that number of writers. Three of the writers, for example, are : Asen Balikci, Scarlett Epstein, and David Tait. One of the pieces is called `Divination in Bunyoro, Uganda '. LEARN more about : Second Burial Rites, sufferer, sanctions, symtomatic dreams, clairvoyant, abortive cannibal feasts, ohgiwe, Mallegowda, and West Town. At least one article uses b/w diagrams to enhance text - mostly UNillustrated. Cond ; Paper wrapper is white with black lettering. Front cover illustration involves a mask and lightning. Wear points at two bottom corners. stain on half-title. No names nor marks. Tight in binding. Bright. Minimal soiling. Reading copy only ! Quote (p. 201) : " After the death of her husband, Arnapak, a shaman, moved with her sons among the Kagnermiut. where she wanted to marry again. The young man she had her eye on had no desire for her, presumably because of her age. Then Arnapak decided to take revenge by sending ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. B/W Diagrams (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This 346 page - INDEX at the back - volume opens with a world map showing the 14, mostly equitorial, tribes under discussion. Then the introduction notes the close border between religion and magic. LEARN more about : Konkomba society, jealousy, statuses, low productive technology, Cewa sorcery, Zande, Buye, coffee farms, judicial arbitration, Fincas, patron, irksome insanity, and Momostenango. UNillustrated but there is some tabular data. Cond : Paper wrapper is white. Brown trim, black lettering. Tight in binding. No marks in textblock. Lots of edge wear. Page edges toned or soiled. Very good reading copy. QUote (p. 31) : " Quesalid (for this is the name he received when he became a sorcerer) did not believe in the power of the sorcerers - or, more accurately, shamans, since this is a better term for their specific type of activity in ._._._. . ".…

gr 8°, Brosch., 346 S. - Buchrücken lichtgehellt und etwas berieben. Ordentliches Exemplar. Buch.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Enough surface and edge wear not to look new. American Museum Sourcebooks in Anthropology Q7. Fine interior, square solid binding. Book.