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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. First Edition. The Hague & Paris / Chicago: Mouton / Aldine, 1976. This is the HARDCOVER 1976 FIRST edition. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny but only Good dust jacket. The jacket has chips and tears at the edges that have been neatly reinforced with clear tape on the jacket's blank side. Previous owner's name [David E. Young] on the front free endpaper. From the library of Prof. David E. Young? [Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Department of Anthropology] with his occasional margin lining and brief notes. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered/decorated in bright white. From the dust jacket: "The papers in the present volume all relate to Africa and East Asia and were solicited by the editor." Contents: An introductory commentary / by Meyer Fortes -- Good and bad ancestors / by William H. Newell -- Who are the "ancestors" in Japan? : a 1963 census of memorial tablets / by Robert J. Smith -- A structural analysis of Japanese ancestral rites and beliefs / by Herman Ooms -- Optional cult group affiliation among the Puyuma and Miyako islanders ; A note on ancestor worship in "cognatic" societies / by Toichi Mabuchi -- "Family religion" in Japan : Ie and its religious faith ; Recent trends in studies of ancestor worship in Japan / by Choshu Takeda -- Ancestor worship in Japan : facts and history / by Takashi Maeda -- Ancestors and nobility in ancient Japan / by Richard J. Miller -- DoÌzoku and ancestor worship in Japan / by Shoji Yonemura -- The malevolent ancestor : ancestral influence in a Japanese religious sect / by Karen Kerner -- Ancestral influence on the suffering of descendents in a Japanese cult / by Takie Sugiyama Lebra -- A note on the enshrinement of ancestral tablets at Zamami Island, Okinawa / by Makio Matsuzono -- Ancestral memorialism : a comparison of Jews and Japanese / by Howard Wimberley and Joel Savishinsky -- Characteristic features of Ewe ancestor worship / by D.K. Fiawoo -- Ancestorcide! : are African ancestors dead? / by Victor C. Uchendu -- Youth as elders and infants as ancestors : the complementarity of alternate generations, both living and dead, in Tiriki, Kenya and Irigwe, Nigeria / by Walter H. Sangree -- Ancestors, geomancy, and mediums in Taiwan / by G. Seaman -- Prophylactic medicine and kin units among Yao ancestor worshipers / by Douglas Miles -- Chinese geomancy and ancestor worship : a further discussion / by Yih-yuan Li -- Aspects of ancestor worship in northern Taiwan / by Arthur P. Wolf -- Ancestors proper and peripheral / by Sung-hsing Wang -- The ancestors at home : domestic worship in a land-poor Taiwanese village / by C. Stevan Harrell. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo, xv, 403pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 368 pages. 10.25x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited, Numbered and Signed Edition. 15 volumes, #408 limited to 612 copies signed by many of the artists, the editor and the publisher. Cloth is mildly rubbed, stained, backstrip sunned, The pages were apparently unopened, but were badly opened as there are many pages with tears. The books have the previous owner's signature, Edwin Reynolds, 1905 in every volume; the ink bleeds through to the back page. Bindings are solid. Charles Dudley Warner, West, Travel, Americana, Frank T. Merrill, E.H. Garrett, C.D. Weldon, Frederick Dielman, Dan C. Beard, Alice Barber Stephens, B. William Clinedinst, Peter Newell, Seymour M. Stone, P. Allan Gilbert, W. Granville Smith, Louise Roger (illustratore). By Artists, Editor and Publish.…