Ruth m underhill (69 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Ruth M. Underhill (1883?1984) was one of the twentieth century's legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. After decades of trying to escape her Victorian roots, Underhill took on a new adventure at the age of forty-six, when she entered Columbia University as a doctoral student of anthropology. Celebrated now as one of America's pioneering anthropologists, Underhill reveals her life's journey in frank, tender, unvarnished revelations that form the basis of An Anthropologist's Arrival. This memoir, edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash, is based on unpublished archives, including an unfinished autobiography and interviews conducted prior to her death, held by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. In brutally honest words, Underhill describes her uneven passage through life, beginning with a searing portrait of the Victorian restraints on women and her struggle to break free from her Quaker family's privileged but tightly laced control. Tenderly and with humour she describes her transformation from a struggling ""sweet girl"" to wife and then divorcée. Professionally she became a welfare worker, a novelist, a frustrated bureaucrat at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a professor at the University of Denver, and finally an anthropologist of distinction. Her witty memoir reveals the creativity and tenacity that pushed the bounds of ethnography, particularly through her focus on the lives of women, for whom she served as a role model, entering a working retirement that lasted until she was nearly 101 years old. No quotation serves to express Ruth Underhill's adventurous view better than a line from her own poetry: ""Life is not paid for. Life is lived. Now come.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. like new softcover edition.

1979. North America, Native Americans. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 98p. Good paperback.

1972/1984. Native Americans, North America. University of Chicago Press. 301p., very good paperback, older cover design (reddish brown with eagle.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus. Published by Waveland Press, Inc., 1979. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. Previous owner name on Half title page. Covers have shelf wear.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. fmc2%262D.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. No jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 301 pages. Light wear, pages toned; a sound binding; very good otherwise. The dust jacket is present but creased, discolored and worn; missing the rear flap. Illustrated. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Native American; Inventory No: 199592. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Presented with protective clear book jacket cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. dj. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth, dj., 8vo, 299 pp, 24 b/w plates, 2 maps. Dj. has minor shelf wear. Pencil notes on rfep. Text is very clean and tight. Near fine.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Arizona Press, 1997. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xvi, 288 pp, black and white photographs, 2 maps, an excellent copy in a dust wrapper with slight fading to the spine. Sixth printing (revised) of the first edition of 1956.

1976, North America, William Gannon, 155 p., very good paperback.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Third Printing. Hardback in Very Good+ condition, Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 300 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. Revised edition. 4th Printing. (History, Native Americans, Southwest US) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1941. North America, Native Americans. Sherman Pamphlet Number 2, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs.73p. very good paperback.

hft. Zustand: Very Good. ngt fläckig.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint. Tall octavo. 301pp. Illustrated in black and white. Small sticker on front pastedown, a couple of leaves with a bit of faint creasing (a binding error), trifle worn, near fine lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition. First Edition, no additional printings; 8vo, yellow cloth; vg (stain spot to very bottom edge of front board; spine ends bumped; edges toned; gift inscription on ffep) in good+ dj (price-clipped; edges worn, torn, and chipped; spine ends heavily chipped; chip to middle of spine; spine faded). 223 pp. incl. index. Arminta Neal (illustrator).…

Zustand: New. In English.

1948/1966. Native Americans, North America. Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, Volume XIII and XIV, University of Washington Press. 62p and 48p., very good boards, no jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1948. Native Americans, North America. Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, Volume XIII and XIV, Augustin Publishers, 62 p and 48 p., very good cloth, no jacket.4/23.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1965 first edition. North America, Native Americans. University of Chicago Press. Very good white cloth with extensive pencil notations (George Stocking?? U of Chicago). Well worn dust jacket with back flap free but present. 301p.(not on access, window).…

Original wraps. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 73pp illustrated. Insect damage to covers otherwise a very good copy in tan printed wraps.