Shack William A (146 results)

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp.xiv, 296 pages, a very good plus hardback, publisher's original blue cloth binding with gold gilt lettering and the Oxford logo to the spine. Absolute minimal evidence that this is an ex-library book [0198231938].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 296 pages, a very good hardback in a very good price-clipped dust-jacket [0198231938].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First printing. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block with remainder mark on bottom edge. Text is unmarked. Dj lightly worn & sunned with tiny puncture on back panel near spine in a mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. University of California Press 1979 8vo. 325 pages. green cloth boards. text block crisp. dust jacket in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Produced to accompany the exhibition. Grey cloth with gold titling, very good with no visible wear, small glue mark at front panel (looks like a production error). Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good with scuffing and light edgewear. Prior owner's name penciled at front paste down. Interior else clean, text bright and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This first edition is limited to 2500 copies. Except for a crease on the fep, the book is in near fine condition. The very good dust jacket has a small tear at the bottom of the front panel and edgewear at the spine ends. This is a real treasure and filled with photographs to illustrate the text. (home) Language: eng. …

Hardcover. Limited Edition. 95pp. Oblong quarto [21 cm x 29 cm] Gray cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the front cover. Map pastedowns. Very good. There is a barely perceptible moisture stain on the front cover. In a very good dust jacket, with rubbing and intermittent small closed and open tears in the edges. One of 2500 copies. Bronislaw Malinowski's description and functional analysis of the kula ceremony and trading complex, involving Trobriand Islanders and various people of New Guinea's Massim area, became one of the outstanding influences in forging modern social anthropology.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0198231938.…

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 325 p. Good. Cover shows mild wear. Clean pages. Slight smell of smoke. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. xii 296pp hardback, dark blue cloth gilt in wrapper, spine of wrapper faded, very good in afair wrapper.

Hardback. Condition: Good. During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the US and settled in Paris. This book looks at this cultural moment, one in which African American musicians could flee the racism of the United States to pursue their lives and art in the relatively free context of bohemian Europe.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Interior in great shape. No marks or writing. DJ has about 5 tiny tears at edges. ; B and w and color photos; 95 pages.

Condition: Bueno. : Este libro explora las actitudes y reacciones de los países africanos anfitriones hacia los migrantes y trabajadores extranjeros. Analiza teorías sociales, antecedentes históricos y actuales, y políticas económicas relacionadas con los extranjeros. Incluye estudios de caso de Ghana y Uganda, y examina conflictos entre extranjeros y ciudadanos, así como aspectos económicos y políticos. La obra incluye contribuciones de Herschelle Sullivan Challenor y fue patrocinada por el Joint Committee on African Studies de la Social Science Research Council y el American Council of Learned Societies. EAN: 9780520034587 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia Título: Strangers in African Societies Autor: William A. Shack| Elliott Percival Skinner Editorial: University of California Press Idioma: en Páginas: 325.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 325 pp; 24 cm. Notes; The essays were first presented at an interdisciplinary symposium sponsored by the Joint Committee on Africa of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, at the Smithsonian Conference Centre, Belmont, Maryland, 16-19 October 1974. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index. Contents; Simmel at a distance : on the history and systematics of the sociology of the stranger / Donald N. Levine -- Open systems and closed boundaries : the ritual process of stranger relations in new African states / William A. Shack -- Strangers in Africa : reflections on Nyakyusa, Nguni, and Sotho evidence / Monica Wilson -- Strangers as colonial intermediaries : the Dahomeyans in francophone Africa / Herschelle Sullivan Challenor -- The political economy of a stranger population : the Lebanese of Sierra Leone / Neil O. Leighton -- Strangers, nationals, and multinationals in contemporary Africa / Ruth Schachter Morgenthau -- Host reactions : aliens in Ghana / Margaret Peil -- From stranger to alien : the socio-political history of the Nigerian Yoruba in Ghana, 1900-1970 / Niara Sudarkasa -- Kinship and entrepreneurship among Yoruba in northern Ghana / Jeremy S. Eades -- The ideology of regionalism in Ghana / Enid Schildkrout -- White strangers and their religion in East Africa and Madagascar / Aidan Southall -- Village strangers in Buganda society / Christine Obbo -- "Goan" and "Asian" in Uganda : an analysis of racial identity and cultural categories / Jessica Kuper --Casualties of an underdeveloped class structure : the expulsion of Luo workers and Asian bourgeoisie from Uganda / Ali A. Mazrui. Subjects; Ethnicity Africa ; Congresses. Minorities. Ethnic relations. 1 Kg.…

Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 296 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Political leadership Africa. Tribal government Africa. Social change Political aspects Africa. Tribes Addresses, essays, lectures. Leadership Addresses, essays, lectures. Comparative government Addresses, essays, lectures. Ethnology Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg.…

Condition: acceptable. USED book in ACCEPTABLE condition. Cover and pages are in tact but may show creases, tears, water damage, handwriting, underlining, or highlighting. May be missing dust jacket. Supplemental items such as access codes and CDs not guaranteed.

Hardback. Condition: Good. During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the US and settled in Paris. This book looks at this cultural moment, one in which African American musicians could flee the racism of the United States to pursue their lives and art in the relatively free context of bohemian Europe.…

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

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 325 pp; 24 cm. Notes; The essays were first presented at an interdisciplinary symposium sponsored by the Joint Committee on Africa of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, at the Smithsonian Conference Centre, Belmont, Maryland, 16-19 October 1974. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index. Contents; Simmel at a distance : on the history and systematics of the sociology of the stranger / Donald N. Levine -- Open systems and closed boundaries : the ritual process of stranger relations in new African states / William A. Shack -- Strangers in Africa : reflections on Nyakyusa, Nguni, and Sotho evidence / Monica Wilson -- Strangers as colonial intermediaries : the Dahomeyans in francophone Africa / Herschelle Sullivan Challenor -- The political economy of a stranger population : the Lebanese of Sierra Leone / Neil O. Leighton -- Strangers, nationals, and multinationals in contemporary Africa / Ruth Schachter Morgenthau -- Host reactions : aliens in Ghana / Margaret Peil -- From stranger to alien : the socio-political history of the Nigerian Yoruba in Ghana, 1900-1970 / Niara Sudarkasa -- Kinship and entrepreneurship among Yoruba in northern Ghana / Jeremy S. Eades -- The ideology of regionalism in Ghana / Enid Schildkrout -- White strangers and their religion in East Africa and Madagascar / Aidan Southall -- Village strangers in Buganda society / Christine Obbo -- "Goan" and "Asian" in Uganda : an analysis of racial identity and cultural categories / Jessica Kuper --Casualties of an underdeveloped class structure : the expulsion of Luo workers and Asian bourgeoisie from Uganda / Ali A. Mazrui. Subjects; Ethnicity Africa ; Congresses. Minorities. Ethnic relations. 1 Kg.…

Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 296 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Political leadership Africa. Tribal government Africa. Social change Political aspects Africa. Tribes Addresses, essays, lectures. Leadership Addresses, essays, lectures. Comparative government Addresses, essays, lectures. Ethnology Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg.…