New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. . 2nd printing. Includes 64 pages of photographs. Index. 465 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket. HC -

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, (1992.) . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Includes papers on native African domesticity, how it was affected by contact with colonizers and race, sex and genders roles - a sampling of topics is harem life in Kano, Nigeria by Beverly B. Mack, colonial and missionary education in Uganda from 1900-1945 by Nakanyike B. Musisi, working women and child care in Zambia and more. Each essay is followed by notes and a bibliography. Index. 315 pp. Fine in glossy photographic covers. 1st ed -

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986. . First printing. Examines aspects of both the daily and ceremonial life of these people in Papua New Guinea. Charts, two maps, glossary, bibliography, index. xviii, 309 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. HC 1st ed -

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A completely revised and updated version of the 1983 book, 'The Biology of Religion.' Reveals how religions in all parts of the world meets the needs of ordinary people - includes discussion of such topics as sex in and out of marriage, circumsion, sickness, faith, divorce and widowhood, birth and childhood, and the challenges of modernity. Map, illustrations, notes, index. 322 pp. Fine (a new copy)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1933. . First edition. Includes articles in anthropology, geography, economics, mathematics, language and literature, geology and mineralogy. Among the papers included are those on the victory dance of the Dakota Indians, a long paper called 'Tecumsah's Illusions', an article on Noah's Ark, comparison of two cities in Brazil (Bello Horizonte and Ouro Preto), population studies, stratigraphy of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, a biography of the 18th century French scholar Lenglet du Fresnoy, advances in Polar exploration in Greenland and more. Illustrated by photographs, drawings and maps, including one fold out map in color, other fold-outs in black and white. Water damage to lower edge affecting appearance of covers, and causing crinkling to the lower margins of the textblock - does not affect the text, and the book is a tight and very readable copy with much of interest. HC 1st ed -

Homewood, IL Dorsey, 1975. . Trade paperback. VG

New York: Pantheon, 1992. . First printing. A look at the dual origins (old English and African) of the corn-shucking ceremony on antebellum plantations. Illustrated, extensive notes, appendix with original accounts of the ceremony, index. 342 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.) HC 1st ed -

Davis: University of California Library, 1975. . First printing. Chapbook No. 3. An uncommon monograph by this scholar and editor of 'The American Anthropoligist.' In this discussion of how children learn language, he expresses his disagreement with the theories of Noam Chomsky. Bibliography. 20 pages in stiff stapled wrappers. Near fine. 1st ed -

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968. . First printing. Illustrated with photographs, maps, charts. Glossary, bibliography, index. 284 pp. Very good in green cloth (gift inscription on front endpaper, no dj.) HC 1st ed -