Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2003. Map, colour and black and white photographic plates and illustrations, ix + 292pp, notes, glossary, references, index, prior owner's inscription half title page, spine and adjacent covers little sunned, a very good paperback copy. "Hard Bargaining in Sumatra is an artfully written and penetrating..... More
Crows Nest. Allen & Unwin. 2002. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xxvi + 234pp, notes, bibliography, index, very good hardback in dustjacket. "The dead are potent and omnipresent in modern Indonesia. Presidents and peasants alike meditate before sacred graves to exploit the power they confer, and mediums do good..... More
Leiden. Kitlv Press. 1998. First Edition. xi + 504pp, indices, bibliography, notes, a very good paperback copy. The Parthayana is a kakawin written in Bali in the early eighteenth century. It relates the physical and spiritual journey of the Pandawa hero, Arjuna, as he undertakes a period of exile lasting..... More
Armonk. M. E. Sharpe. 2004. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 357pp, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, a very good paperback copy. "In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled..... More
New York. Harper Torchbooks. Reprint. 1961. Volume I: Black and white photographic illustrations, xxxvi + 348pp, remainder marks lower edge. Volume II: Black and white line illustrations, 349-654pp, large closed tear upper cover repaired with tape. Both volumes: Indices, prior owner's name front free endpaper, paperback covers a little worn..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1980. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, vii + 372pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket shelf worn and sunned with some loss, otherwise a good hardback copy. Indonesia east of Bali is perhaps the least known of all major cultural areas of Southeast Asia. Yet the..... More
Canberra. Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. 1996. Maps, viii + 336pp, index, 25 x 17.5cm. A prior owner's name neatly inked on title page, paperback covers worn and creased with closed tear on upper cover, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item..... More
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1975. Maps, plan, xiii + 213pp, appendices, index, notes, prior owner's name half title page, inked notes initial 23 pages, spine slightly sunned, covers little worn, a sound secondhand paperback copy. Classic examination of Balinese kinship and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic..... More
Göttingen. Universitätsverlag Göttingen. 2013. First Edition. Colour photographic illustrations, 240pp, paperback copy in very good condition. "A number of UN conventions and declarations (on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the World Heritage Conventions) can be understood as instruments of..... More
New York. Columbia University Press. 1994. Map, black and white illustrations, xiii + 276pp, index, references, notes, glossary, signature half-title, two small marks fore edge, paperback cover extremities lightly worn, still a good copy. "Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich..... More
New York. Columbia University Press. 1994. First Edition. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 276pp, index, references, notes, glossary, a very good secondhand copy. "Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates..... More
Osaka. National Museum of Ethnology. 1980. Figures, tables, black and white photographic plates, vii + 529pp, paperback, small quarto. Senri Ethnological Studies No. 7. This volume is a descriptive ethnography of the Galela people of Northeastern Halmahera, Indonesia. It presents the results of fieldwork conducted by members of the research..... More
Washington. Smithsonian Institution. 1943. Maps including 1 folding, black and white photographic plates, 66pp, original wrappers, tiny tear foot of spine. When referring to this item please quote stockid 55200. More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2006. Maps, black and white photographic and line illustrations, xii + 225 pages, index, neat pencilled notes throughout text, dustjacket spine sunned, a good hardback copy. Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have..... More
Princeton. Princeton University. 1991. Maps, xvi + 183pp, index, notes, appendices, prior owner's pencilled note half title page, covers little shelf worn, a very good paperback copy. "For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor by generations of farmers, the engineered..... More
Prague. National Museum. 2010. Maps, colour and black and white photographic and line illustrations, 119pp, bibliography, prior owner's inscription front free endpaper, a few neat annotations in ink title page, a good paperback copy. 29.7 x 21cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179875. More
Darwin. Charles Darwin University Press. 2004. Black and white illustrations, vii + 145pp, bibliography, appendices, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 161813. More
Durham, North Carolina. Duke University Press. 2000. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 354pp, notes, bibliography, index, a very good paperback copy. "The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer's study is the fraught..... More
United States. Duke University Press. 2000. Maps, 15 black and white photographic illustrations, 354pp, notes, bibliography, index, remainder mark lower edge, a very good paperback copy. "The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer's study is..... More