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in-12, 331 pp., 20 planches en noir, 28 planches en couleurs, index, cartonnage editeur avec jaquette illustree plastifiee. Tres bel exemplaire. [CA-13] Plus de 500 espèces illustrées et décrites, avec tous les renseignements sur leur identification, caractère, dimensions, habitations, nids et oeufs.
128pp. + added: 2 loose folding maps in rear pocket, 23cm., text in German, Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlanguing der Doktorwürde genehmigt von der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn), softcover with few small defects, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, C113101
325p. Thirty-two illustrations by the author. Tall 8vo. Original full decorated cloth binding. First Edition. A tight copy. Hardbound. Good. NH 1 x2
Gutes Exemplar; der farb. illustr. Einband stw. leicht berieben. - Englisch. - ... 37 maps and 5 tables document the dissemination histories of individual associations and 139 photographs illustrate their performances. The appendices consist of a bibliography, a glossary and an index. The study is based on research in the late 1980s, on fifteen months of field research in 130 localities in the Cross River region between 1998 and 2001, and a short trip in 2008 as well as on research in colonial and mission archives and specialized libraries ... PURCHASING CULTURE investigates the emergence of complex purchasable associations in the Cross River region of southwest Cameroon and southeast Nigeria. These associations emerged in the context of the growing transatlantic trade and were disseminated from the direction of the Atlantic coast to the hinterland. They diffused (and still continue to diffuse) transethnically across the region, ignoring linguistic and national boundaries, and forming translocal networks of owners of the same institutions. The study documents the histories of cult associations and their dissemination by purchase and sale which includes the transfer of immaterial property rights. This mode of dissemination differs substantially from that of secret societies in the West. ... With its central focus on the purchase of cult associations, the study explores the transaction of rights in the ownership of the institutions and their performances. The purchase includes the acquisition of rights in ownership, performance, secret sign languages, and knowledge of the associations' functioning. Owners of associations have developed a local form of a copyright system with which they protect their performances. Associations form a substantial part of conferring prestige on individual members in the Cross River cultures up until the present time. They function prominently in present day debates among the people in the villages as well as the migrants in towns. The study contributes to the regional history of small scale societies and their pre-colonial organization of trade in West and Central 'Africa, to theories of associations and of the diffusion of culture; and to the role of intellectual property in the context of globalization. ... (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Cult Agencies and Temporary Problem Solving - Witchcraft Societies and Slave Trade - The Emergence of Aggressive Cult Agencies - Doing Business with Ajom - Trade, Cult Agencies, and the Cultural Knowledge of the Slaves - Dissemination Histories and the Singularization of Cult Agencies - Global Imports and Changes in the Perception of Cult Agencies - Women's Associations - Woman Power: Ekpa Between Ritual Dance, Association, and Cult Agency - The Second Half of the Growling Fish: Musem.be, Belaw, Njom Ekpa - The Cultivation of Beauty and Performance - The Development of Women's Dances as Cultural Resource - Societies Within Societies - Intravillage Power Relations and Dance Associations - The Village Council, Its Organs of Government, and the Power of Law-making - Societies Subordinate to Ekpe - The Dance Associations - Intra- and Intervillage Competition - Purchase, Intellectual Property, and the Value of Associations - The Purchase - Price and Payment - Moral Economy and the Goods Paid - The Associations' Value in Relation to Exchange Spheres - The Acquisition: Rights in Knowledge, Secrets, and Intangible Property - Risking Imitation and Claiming Intangible Property - A Copyright in the Cross River Region? - Dissemination as Strategy - Modes of Dissemination - Diffusion of Associations and Geographical Direction - Acquiring an Association from a Particular Village - Strategies of Dissemination: Restricted Sale and Singularization - Multiplicity of Owners-Shared Ownership - Genealogies of Fame: Inventors, Founders, and Chiefs of Associations - Associations as Investment: Agency, Performance, and Competition - The Associational Economy - Social Status and Symbols of Achievement - Wealth, Ambivalence, and the Powers of Personalities and Performers - Associations' Performances at Festivities - Performances as Bricolage and the Self-Referentiality of the Associations' Masks - Purchased Traditions, Identity of Associations, and Changes over Time and Space - (u.v.a.m.) ISBN 9781592218301
Roma, 1947, ottobre 19, La Tribuna Illustrata, fasc. di 8 pag. con num. ill. e due tav. a colori.
176p. + Plus photographs and a map. Penciled ownership of Miss Shearer. Insert pamphlet "A Personal Word To Group Leaders" by Bertha Conde. Published by National Board Young Women's Christian Assoc, New York: 1918. 8vo. Original full green printed wraps, slight tear without loss. Nice copy. AFRICA/1
Gutes Exemplar; Rücken verblaßt; Einband stw. berieben; Seiten minimal nachgedunkelt; minimale Bleistift-Anstreichungen (Ex. aus der Bibliothek von Dr. H. J. Koloß; vormals Völkerkunde-Museum Berlin). - EA. - In Frakturschrift. - Vorwort von Leonore Wulff. - Gulla Pfeffer (geboren als Auguste Melida Johanna Kellermann 20. November 1897 in Berlin; gestorben 9. Februar 1967 in London) war eine deutsche Ethnologin. ... Ende der 1920er Jahre machte sie eine Schiffsreise nach Kamerun und lernte bei der Rückfahrt den Afrikanisten Diedrich Westermann kennen, der sie in der Folgezeit ermutigte, eine Forschungsreise nach Kamerun anzugehen, und der den Kontakt zur britischen Mandatsverwaltung herstellte. Pfeffer erlernte in Berlin ein wenig Hausa und informierte sich am Berliner Völkerkundemuseum über das Anlegen ethnographischer Sammlungen. … Pfeffer unternahm 1927/28 ihre erste Expedition nach Kamerun und in das nordöstliche Nigeria. Ihre Sammelergebnisse und die Fotografien verkaufte sie an das Berliner Museum, sie schrieb Zeitungsartikel und das Buch Die weiße Mah. 1929 reiste sie mit dem Kameramann Friedrich Dalsheim und der Fotografin Lotte Errell nach Togo zu den Ewe, wo ein Film über das Leben von der Zivilisation unberührter Eingeborener entstehen sollte. Dalsheim fertigte aus dem Material den Film Menschen im Busch. Der Plan, die Expedition zu den Fulbe in Nigeria fortzusetzen, scheiterte, als Pfeffer an Kinderlähmung erkrankte und nach Berlin zurückkehren musste. Sie benötigte die nächsten zwei Jahre zur Rekonvaleszenz. Pfeffer studierte in dieser Zeit an der Berliner Universität Völkerkunde unter anderem bei Westermann, bei Richard Thurnwald und Fritz Krause. Auf ihrer dritten Reise (1932 bis 1934) wurde sie von dem südafrikanischen Journalisten John Carlin begleitet, der 1937 einen Reisebericht mit ihren Fotografien veröffentlichte. Sie mussten zunächst acht Monate in Lagos auf ihre Forschungsgenehmigung warten und gingen dann in die französische Kolonie Kamerun nach Lompta in der Region Adamaoua. Hier sammelte sie das Material für ihre Dissertation, mit der sie 1936 an der Berliner Universität promoviert wurde. … (wiki) // ... Und heute morgen habe ich sofort Abanda ins Dorf hinuntergeschickt, um ein Pferd aufzutreiben. Abanda ist der Messenger, eine Art Kurier, den mir der District-Officer zugewiesen hat. Er soll für alles sorgen: Träger beschaffen, Dolmetscher spielen usw. ... Er ist alt und gerissen und kauft mich genau so für dumm wie Assu. Diese, meine jetzige Cookboy-Perle ist vorderhand noch ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln. ... Ich liebe afrikanische Märkte ... Auf dem Markte kann man sich bis ins kleinste über alles orientieren. Die Eingeborenen kommen von weit her mit ihren Waren ... Es kribbelte nur so von Menschen. An einer Ecke saßen würdige Männer und verkauften Palmöl in wunderschönen kleinen Kalabassen. ... Die Weiber hatten große Toilette gemacht. Viele waren von oben bis unten mit rotem Puder bedeckt, zerstoßene und zerriebene Camwood-Rinde, andere hatten phantastische Frisuren aus Lehmklümpchen, die aussahen wie ein Hahnenkamm ... Ihr nackter Körper war über und über mit Schmucknarben bedeckt, und sie hatten kleine Holzstäbchen in der Unterlippe. Am Eingang zum Marktplatz stand ein Häuptling mit seinem Gefolge. ... (Seite 18/19)
Milano, Feltrinelli, 1968, 16mo (cm. 18 x 11) brossura, pp. 77.
xxi + 213pp., 30cm., text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (University of Göteborg), softcover (small trace of removed label), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, C112137
Christian Bourgois, 1997, 524 p., broché, bon état..
361 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Deals with the events that led from Nigerian independence to the secession of Biafra in 1967. The authors describe many of these events in greater detail than other author's have done, with a wealth of documentation. Their's is the Biafran point of view - the exposition of which is an important object of the book... Ends with Col. Ojukwu's declaration of Biafran independence and does not attempt to deal with the war situation." - from dust jacket. Light wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Prior owner's name inside front board. Handwritten notes upon back endpaper. Occasional markings throughout contents. A sound clean copy. Book
xxix + 446pp., Doctoral dissertation in Theology at the "Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen" (2004), signed with handwritten dedication by the author, 25cm., softcover, text and interior are clean and bright, good condition, C105783
Gr.8°. 209 (1) S. Original Leinwand mit Rücken- und Deckeltitel. Einband berieben und etwas fleckig, am oberen Kapital ein wenig eingerissen, innen sehr sauber und ordentlich. Übertragen von Fritz von Bothmer. Mit Einleitung, Nachwort und einem Anhang.
fort vol. in-8°, 615 pages, tabl., notes, broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire [CA27/7][109B-18]
Maspero, 1971. In-8 broché de 615 pages. Bon état.
92 pages. Features: New Traditions from Nigeria - Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group; West African Popular Theatre; Readings in African Popular Culture; The Tervuren Museum - Masterpieces from Central Africa; African Art - An Aesthetic Inquiry; An Inside Story - African Art of Our Time; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Why our MPs fail us - a Q&A with Arthur Lower; Joe Clark Rallies his allies; Will and Patricia Steger charged in the Arctic; Ghanaians fleeing Nigeria; Zimbabwe - charge of the fifth brigade; Leo Rautins - young Canadian basketball star with dreams of the NBA; Gold fever strikes a moose pasture - Murray Pezim and Hemlo; Divided, Bell Prospers; Peter C. Newman discusses how Big Oil is sticking around; A Media Judgement on surrogate birth - The Stivers and Malahoff on The Phil Donahue Show; Wind-Skiing on water and ice; Bumpy birth for pay TV - demonstrators protest soft-core porn in Ottawa; Cover Story - Kate Nelligan's Broadway Triumph - nice photos; The bulk food fad - a sanitary concern?; David Cronenberg - a vivid obsession with sex and death - Videodrome. Average wear. Book
80 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
87 pages + viii pages of advertisements. Large fold-out map of Onitsha Province, Nigeria affixed inside back cover. Articles include: The Fourth Centenary of the Death of Vasco da Gama; Physiological Difficulties in the Ascent of Mount Everest; The People of the Aures Massif; Notes on the Ibo Country, Southern Nigeria; The Japanese Earthquake of 1 September 1923; The Mount Everest Film of 1924; Two Ancient Monuments in Southern Kurdistan (including two pages of black and white photographic plates); Memorial to Mungo Park and Richard Lander; Notes on the Ross Sea. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
Approximately 100 pages. Features: The Nevill-Soanes Copper Process; Gold Prospects in Nigeria; The Premier Mine Aerial Ropeway; Metals during 1921; Mesopotamia - A Review of its Geology and Petroleum Resources; and much more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Many pages of fascinating illustrated contemporary advertisements. Book
Approximately 100 pages. Features: A Reconnaissance in Turkestan and Southern Siberia; Native Tin Smelting in Nigeria; and much more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Many pages of fascinating illustrated contemporary advertisements. Book
Contents include: Manavilins - III; The Great Ship Swallower; Private Trading; Those Puzzling Star Names; Collections Lost at Sea; In Memoriam - the British Square Sailer; Speed Sound Signals - stoppage - Collision; Dramatised Versions - V. Hotkins' Code; Wanted - an Esprit de Corps of the Sea; The Good Old Days; The Marine Services of Nigeria - III; Ships of South Kensington; Swediish East India company; Watermen of the Thames - a company centenary; Leaves from a Longshore log; and more. Above-average wear. Spine leaning. Bit of writing atop front cover else unmarked. Worthy copy of this fascinating periodical. Book
Features include: The Donkey - A humble donkey co-operates to bring about the discomfiture of sundry Arab thieves; It Pays to Advertise - The Amazing result of the nefarious activities of a rascally 'wild-cat' company promoter and an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in Canada; Mr. Zaru - story from a ship; Into the Unknown - exploratino work in Tanganyika; Farm Life in South Africa - intended for aspiring British immigrants to South Africa; Through the Iron Curtain - an ambitious motor-cycle voyage through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Beyond the Barrier - Extraordinary incidents related by a famous stage magician, Jasper Maskelyne; A Matter of Boundaries - an amusing tale of a tribal land-dispute in Nigeria; The Little Gold Disc - A veteran seafarer's account of a remarkable experience on the China Coast; The Tiger That Thought; The Red Lacquer Pagoda; The Ship That Became a House; Guarding New Zealand's Forests - Illustrated in black and white. Chips from and tears to base of spine else average wear. Two inch opening at top of back cover. Magazine
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
