William Shack (134 results)

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

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. x+325p., contributors bios, preface, introduction, essays, footnotes, conclusions, bibliography, index, very good first edition in original wraps.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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: Acceptable. Book is bent from improper storage. Contains some, or all, of the following: highlights, notes, and underlining. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.

Condition: acceptable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media.

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. 3 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. 3 Kg.

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.

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

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: Good. 1969. Reprinted. 222 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine, inside panels and edges.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-Library with front hinge cracked but holding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First edition. Very Good+. 78 b/w and 8 color photographs, all full or half-page. First edition of 2500 copies. Catalogue published to accompany an exhibition marking the centennial year of Malinowski's birth. Maps at front and rear pastedowns. Grey cloth with gilt titling on front. Covers show mild sunning and light rubbing. Very small, mild bump at upper right edge of first few pp.; very mild toning along bottom of pages; otherwise interior is clean, crisp, tight & bright, unmarked. 96 pp. Approx. 11.25" x 8.25". A very nice copy. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all other questions; glad to respond.

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.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. - Dustwrapper fairly rubbed and a little shelfworn with some slight marks and minor creasing to edges - Previous owners name to front free endpaper - Otherwise Clean bright tight book - xii/158 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xix, 191 pages : illustrations. Series: Music of the African diaspora ; 4.Publisher's quarter cloth over paper-covered boards fresh, corners sharp; contents as new. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. 520 grams.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book with stickers and/or stamps throughout.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:085302040X.