Manning Frank E Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 140 p. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN 9780820303710, 0820303712 ; OCLC 1493724 ; LCCN 74021905 LC GN2 .S9243 no. 9 GN470 ; Dewey 301.2/1 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers in library binding ; ex-lib ; Contents: Introduction: the study of beliefs and behavior / Carole E. Hill -- Ideology as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- The prophecy and the law: symbolism and social action in seventh-day adventism / Frank E. Manning -- The case of the healthy hindu / Michael V Angrosino -- Ritual as communication and potency: An Ndembu case study / Victor W Turner -- Weberian, Southern Baptist, and Indonesian Muslim conceptions of belief and action / James L. Peacock -- Vomiting for purity: Ritual emesis in aboriginal southeastern United State / Charles Hudson -- Ethnometaphysics of Iroquois ritual / Elizabeth Tooker -- Belief in the context of rapid change: an Eastern Cree example / Richard J Ppreston -- Belief system, millenary expectations and behavior / Felicitas D. Goodman -- The contributors ; VG. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 356 pages. Notes and index. "Demands that Canadian popular culture be accorded its proper status." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; CANADA CIVILIZATION SOCIAL CONDITIONS HISTORY GENERAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY The Beaver Bites Back? : American Popular Culture in Canada.

12 illustrations in full color by Frank E. Schoonover, Manning DeV. Lee, Charles Hargens and Richard H. Rogers. (illustrator). Second printing. Indians, cowboys, bad men, traders, homesteaders, scouts, trappers, soldiers, pioneers and gold-seekers march in an almost endless procession across the pages of this book. Their stories have been told by the men who knew them best - Bret Harte, Mark Twain, "Buffalo Bill", Hamlin Garland, George Bird Grinnell, and many others. There are many stories; Cowboy ballads, poems, biographical sketches and articles of a practical nature. Over 500 pp. brimming with vivid action and glorious adventure, and dealing with the most glamorous period in America's history. A tight, clean, beautiful copy. Only a little evidence of damp stain that may have affected the jacket and cover in the bottom right front corner. Looks like a few small white marks on cover and is not even visible on the jacket. Very good dust jacket with one inch and a half closed tear on back panel. Thick 4to. 9-3/4 x 7-3/4. Pictorial brown cloth stamped in gold orange and sky blue. Beautiful, pictorial endpapers printed in orange and brown.