Search Results: Anthropology from Godley Books

London: Verso, 1996. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 301pp. The lived experience of people from the ever-expanding cities of South Asia including Bangkok, Bombay, Dhaka, Manila, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh and Kuala Lumpur. The stories have uncanny echoes of life in Britain in the early industrial and urban era.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 9.25 x 6 inches.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Previous owner's small neat label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to edges and traces of storage. 570pp. A major study from the 16th century onwards in which ninety-five leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety of issues including regional migration patterns.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good. 10 x 7.5 inches.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Inscription from the author on front end paper. No other marks to contents. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 425pp. This study traces debate about environmental degradation in successive eras of South African history and offers a reinterpretation of South Africa's economic development, and of aspects of the Cape colonial and South African states.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1987. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bumping to spine ends, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with fading to spine and signs of storage. 302pp. A study highlighting the emergence of white capitalist farming and the destruction of black rural enterprise in early industrial South Africa.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8.75 x 5.5 inches.

Cape Town: David Philip, 1993. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean very slightly tanned pages in a tight binding with bright slightly rubbed boards. 152pp. The author documents the life of the hostel dwellers of Cape Town, for whom a bed is literally a home for both themselves and their families. Well illustrated.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Roger Meintjes. 9.75 x 6.5 inches.

Johannesburg: SA Institute of Race Relations, 1980. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with browned unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 110pp. A description of the first phase of apartheid, the forced resettlement of black South Africans away from their traditional homelands. The study includes the ideological motivation behind this. Mostly in English but some sections in Afrikans. Very scarce in the UK.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slight tanning mainly to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with fading to spine, minor creasing to upper edge and traces of storage. 321pp. This study covers four African cases of share contracts, in Ghana, Sudan, Lesotho and Senegambia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good. 9.25 x 6.25 inches.

Cape Town: Maskew Miller Ltd, 1980. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, minor creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. Thirteen page bibliography plus 285pp. A detailed survey of land rights in the newly created country within South Africa of Bophuthatswana.. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 7.5 x 5.25 inches.

London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Creasing to lower rear corner, none to front cover or to slightly arched spine. A clean very tight copy with slightly dusty rear board, minor tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 266pp. Detailed discussion of the past and present relations of the British, Afrikaners, Africans, coloureds and Asians who inhabit the Republic of South Africa.. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8 x 5.25 inches.

Durham, North Carolina USA: Duke University Press, 2001. Inscribed by author on title page. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 377pp. The story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century and focusing on collaborative approaches rather than the activity of individual researchers.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 9 x 6 inches.

London: Portobello Books Ltd, 2008. Book and jacket in as new condition. 576pp. The author provides a journalist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change to produce one of the most compelling and revealing accounts of modern sub-Saharan Africa yet. Scarce in hardback form.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to some corners and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased, very slightly yellowed with traces of storage. 178pp. An analytical history of a segment of United States urban society which establishes the connection between events in Chinatown and wider processes. A scarce book. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8.25 x 5.5 inches.

London: BBC, 2000. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 216pp. Very well illustrated book which accompanied the BBC TV series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 11 x 8.75 inches.

Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1985. No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 310pp. This book provides innovative approaches to the person-environment relationship not often found in conventional environmental and human research. It will be of significant value to the environmental disciplines and professions, as well as to scholars and lay people who seek a new way to understand and improve people's relationship with the natural and built environments.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 9.75 x 6.5 inches.

London: Macmillan Press, 1977. No inscriptions or marks to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with bright very firm red cloth boards with a number of small marks and no bumping to corners. Page edges very slightly browned. Dust jacket not price clipped with a piece missing from front and a smaller piece from top of spine. 308pp. This is a comprehensive account of all the aboriginal tribes of the Indian sub-continent. For ease of presentation they are divided into five separate groups depending on geographical region. Firstly is given a prehistory of India followed by the origin of the aboriginal tribes and the tribes are then described in detail. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. 8.75 x 5.75 inches.