Black Hamlet
by Sachs, Wulf
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Co,, 1947. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. The true story of an African medicine man as he leaves his home to practice his medicine in the city. Wulf Sachs was born in Russia and trained at the Psychoneurological Institute in St. Petersburg. A citizen of South Africa who resided in Johannesburg, he was a practicing psychoanalyst and the author of many books on psychiatry and literary criticism. Classic account of a two and half year psychoanalysis of a South African witch doctor. This book was earlier published with the title Black Anger. Derived from a review posted on-line: Black Hamlet is at the same time a case study in psychoanalytic therapy, the report of a scientific investigation, a political polemic, a collection of ethnographic observations, and the biography of a common man whose remarkable features would otherwise have been overlooked. Clean copy. Record # 380857
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 380857
- Title
- Black Hamlet
- Author
- Sachs, Wulf
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co,
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Social Sciences, Anthropology, , .
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Leaves
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...