albert helser (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Minor shelf/age wear. Pages/boards clean.

Pictorial Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Oliver Whitwell Wilson (illustrator). Brown cloth with black letters and black and orange illustration. 223 pages; b/w illustrations. Content is 55 Bura folk tales. Two of the spine strip's corners are a little frayed. The pages are tanned. The back pastedown has some spots that are a little roughened. The top corner of the front FEP has a 1 1/2 in. line that is a little roughened and has a row of dented lines made by a pencil. Scans e-mailed upon request.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 223pp; b/w illustrations. Previous owner's name inked on front blank endpaper; contents clean and unmarked.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages; HC in publisher's decorative, pictorial cloth binding. 1st edition. Rust brown cloth with title lettering and borders stamped in black and an orange and black pictorial vignette to the cover board. Snug, bright and neat. Prior owner name neatly penciled to front endpage. Illustrated from woodcuts by Wilson; foreword by Boas. Bright and attractive; uncommon thus. VG++.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Oliver Whitwell Wilson (illustrator). 12mo. Orange cloth binding, no dust jacket. 223 p.p., [4] p.p. full page illustrations incl. frontis, with illustrations thorughout text. Light rubbing to extremities with a small pen mark on front board, and slightly bumped edges. A near fine copy and an interesting collection of African Folk Tales.

Hardcover. Zustand: FINE. 316 pp. 12mo, red cloth, black and cream stamped spine and front cover. B/W frontispiece + 9 photo plates. A few small damp splotches to spine, very clean and fresh otherwise with tight binding. First trade edition, based on the author's Columbia University thesis drawing on his experience at the rural Brethren Mission School in Garkida, Nigeria. A classic work in Anthropology. Scarce in trade, it was reprinted by the Negro Universities Press in 1969. OCLC 2519003. 'Mr. Helser's achievement here is unique in two respects. First, he has made a notable addition to the collected folk-lore of A?rica. On this task he has been engaged for over ten years transcribing and interpreting during this time some eight hundred folk stories of the Bura people illustrative of their mental processes and garnered wisdom. Measured by this standard alone, that is, as a collection of original folk-lore, the volume presented here would attract wide interest and attention. This rich collection of folk tales, however, is but the foundation for Mr. Helser's second achievement representing the real contribution of these pages. I refer in this to the 'meaningful experience curriculum' which he has evolved from this background and his own educational philosophy and technique. Nowhere, so far as I know, either in Africa or elsewhere, has a curriculum of this particular type ever been developed by a white man working among people of primitive culture. Some Europeans, it is true, have studied primitive life quite as thoroughly as Mr. Helser, and still others have mastered educational principles and techniques quite as well. But he alone among the world's workers in this field seems to have possessed the unique combination of talents and understanding necessary to make a curriculum of the 'meaningful' type developed here.' - Mabel Carney, from the introduction. [Missions / Colonialism / Africa / Sociology / Folk / Education / Church of the Brethren].

Hardback. A presentation of the folklore of the Bura Animists with a meaningful experience curriculum. 316pp 12 plates Fleming H. Revell, NY 1934. Very good copy of the 1st edition.