Like People you See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papaun Societies
by Schieffelin, Edward L (1938- ) and Robert Crittenden
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0804716625
- ISBN 13
- 9780804716628
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xviii+325 pages with maps, plates, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 14") bound in original publisher's aqua cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Contribution by Bryant Allen and Stephen Frankel, Paul Sillitoe and Lisette Josephides and Marc Schiltz. First editon. This work is at once a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of one of the final modern day experiences of first-culture contact, a classic example of historical geography and an extraordinary tale of exploration, imperialist arrogance, bloodshed, suffering, courage and near disaster. Condition. A near fine copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS003577
- Title
- Like People you See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papaun Societies
- Author
- Schieffelin, Edward L (1938- ) and Robert Crittenden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0804716625
- ISBN 13
- 9780804716628
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford, CA
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- PAPAU
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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