Anthropology and Sociology Used Books - Here are the latest additions to the Anthropology and Sociology category of the Mary Ward Used Books catalogue http://www.marywardbooks.com/categories/35.html Collins, 1961: first edition: hardcover in dust jacket: 192 pages: black and white photographic illustrations: maps to endpapers. Synopsis: an account and analysis of events concerning the construction of the Kariba dam, and the reaction by and effects upon the 35,000 Tonga tribesman whose homes were consequently flooded. Condition: dust jacket upper edge damaged and repaired: price corner removed: blue cloth hardcover and contents very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW0012531.html Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976: paperback: 184 pages including index. Contents: Chapters entitled:-The abandoned road. The great utopia. Individualism and collectivism. The inevitabilities of planning. Democracy and planning. Planning and the rule of law. Economic control and totalitarianism. Who?. Whom?. Security and freedom. Why the worst get on top. The end of truth. The socialist roots of Nazism. The totalitarians in our midst. Material conditions and ideal ends. The prospects of international order. Conclusions. Bibliographical note. Index. Condition: cover slightly creased: overall clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/071008485%204.html George Harrap, 1961: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: 159 pages including index: Black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: A 1960's survey of the place of crafts in technologically advanced Western countries; covering the definition of craftsmanship , the dilemma of craftsmanship, craft education with children and adolescents, the training of craft teachers, the small workshop, rural industries, technical education, crafts and industry, the industrial consultant and designer, important work done by craftsmen , and the problems involved in the preservation of traditional crafts in the modern world. Condition: back of dust jacket slightly stained: endpapers foxed: overall clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw0012461.html Macmillan 2003: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: 365 pages including index: Black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The life, letters, and diary entries of Hannah Cullwick, maid-of-all-work in Kilburn, London, (1863), and her husband-to-be , Arthur Mumby, Victorian gentleman, barrister and poet. The daily diaries, and letters constitute a record of Victorian life; and reveal a story of deep and lasting love between two individuals who breached the rigid barriers of the Victorian Social system Condition very clean and good overall. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/033378071X.html Published by Century Ltd. in 1993 234 page exploration of what shows in the human face. Good condition Back of cover slightly creased. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0712657509.html 288 pages http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw00113.html Michael Joseph/Rainbird : first edition, hardcover in dust jacket: 192 pages: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: An authentic account of the work of the Russian Secret Police with a detailed analysis of the past and present structure of the KGB, and a wealth of stories and case histories. Illustrated with more than 60 photographs illustrating life within the USSR under the KGB. Comments: very clean and good overall . http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0030624584.html Batsford 1986: first edition paperback: 192 pages including index: black and white illustrations, maps, and diagrams. Synopsis: A detailed report of the excavation of the Danebury Hillfort at the completion of its 18th year : a comprehensive story of a research programme in search of a prehistoric people. Contents: List of illustrations. Preface. Hillforts: progress towards an understanding. The Danebury project takes shape. Man and landscape in Wessex. The Fort builders: the sequence established. Defence and warfare. The settlement: its people and their houses. Daily bread: the farming regime. Crafts, exchange and luxury. The social order. The end of Danebury. Aftermath: fairs and rabbits. Books to read. Index. Condition: cover edges slightly curled: ownership sticker: overall very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0713409991.html very clean and good overall http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/B000YG7NFU.html Oxford University Press, October 1937 reprint of the December 1933 first edition: Brown cloth hardcover: approximately 6 x 9 inches tall: 279 pages plus index. Synopsis : A collection of short biographical studies of progressive and important women of the early 20th-century . Contents. Introduction. One. The poets: Mrs Hemans . Caroline Southey. Two. The Annual lists. L.E.L. . Caroline Norton. Three. Voyagers to India: Moria Jewsbury. Mrs Elwood. Emma Roberts. Emily Eden. Four. Critics of America: Frances Trollope. Harriet Martineau. Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley. Five. The Philanthropists: Elizabeth Fry. Harriet Martineau. Angela Burdett -Coutts. Six. The Salons. Lady Holland. Lady Blessington. Lady Ashburton. Condition: cover heavily discoloured: upper spine edge worn : two small slits to spine/ front cover edge : bookseller's small label to front end paper :1944 ownership inscription to front end paper : good quality, hand cut pages: contents very clean and good: overall acceptable and collectable. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw0012344444.html Allen and Unwin 1919: dark blue hard back 185 pages.1919 edition. Condition: cover with discoloured areas to front and back ; end papers aged and foxed; contents very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0766138178.html 1991 reprint: slight creasing to lower corner: overall very clean and good: immediate availability http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0567291774.html Cambridge University Press 1946: Green cloth hardcover: no dust jacket: 279 pages: fold-in map . Contents:- Foreword. Part one: The Background. Chapter 1. Racial elements in India: The diversity of India's population. Chapter 2. Southern India. The forest tribes- Telugu and Tamil; Malabar; Coorg; the Nilgiris; the Decan. Chapter 3. Western, Central and Eastern India : the West Coast; Maharashtra; the tribes of Central India and Chota Nagpur; or Orissa; Assam; Benegal. Chapter 4. Northern India: Upper India; Rajputana; the Punjab; Sind; the mountains of the North West. The significance of diversity. Part two: Caste. Chapter 5. Its Structure . The construction of caste as an endogamous unit of society: subcaste, hypergamy, exogamous divisions; Varna: castes of the right and left-hand. Chapter 6. Its Strictures. The avoidance of pollution through water, food or contact; use of temples; birth and death taboos; marriage rules; clothing and ornaments; language; houses; inheritance; travel. Chapter 7. Its Sanctions. Caste a social unit- respective provinces of social and religious authority; control by secular rulers; by religious authorities; by the caste council. The territorial limits, jurisdiction, procedure, and punishments of caste councils. Chapter 8. Its Functions. The functions of caste in their social, economic, political and religious aspects from the points of view of the individual member; from that of the caste as a whole. Caste as a stabiliser; as an organism; its religious sanction; its drawbacks, political, economic and social. The genetic function of caste. Part Three. Origins. Chapter 9. Analogous institutions everywhere. Plural societies; compulsory functions; social hypergamy; ritual occupations; hereditary occupations; stratified society in ancient Egypt; and in Burma. Chapter 10. The traditional origin and its implications. The four varna ; castes of mix origin, anuloma and pratiloma ; matrilineal survivals; Mediterranean cults; devadasi; basavi, murli ; casts of the Right and Left-hand. Chapter 11. Other theories; factors in the emergence of caste. Caste as an artificial creation; as originating in occupation; in class distinctions; in colour; caste as originating in family worship, in race and hypergamy, in guild and in tribe , in ritual; caste as originating in primitive beliefs in magic, mana, totemism, and in the fear of pollution. Effects of geographical and political divisions on caste, of the doctrine of karma ; marginal survival of primitive conditions; life matter ; mana ; taboo. Chapter 12. Conclusions. Part four. Appendices. A, The position of the exterior castes. B, Hinduism in its relation to primitive religions in India. Part Five. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Condition: rippling to front cover: ownership inscription: overall very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/B0007IW8V4.html Picador 1978; paperback; 639 pages; clean and very good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0330253018.html