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Title: Essays Presented to Henny Harald Hansen on her Eightieth Birthday, April 18, 1980
Description: København, Dansk Etnografisk Forening, 1980. orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, 455 pp. Weighs 1000 grams.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This is "Folk". Vol. 21/22, completely devoted to this festschrift. Contains 28 papers. Includes Examples of Ipiutak Art from Point Spencer, Alaska; Economic Activities of the Yakan: With Special Reference to the Part Taken by Women; The Big Fishes from Pachacamac, Peru; Social Reproduction: Towards an Understanding of Aboriginal Samoa; Wives & Co- wives in Marachi, Kenya; Women, Honour & Love: Some Aspects of ther Pashtun Women's Life in Eastern Afghanistan; The Vicious Circle: Spirit Possession as a Feminine Reaction to Inequality; Techniques Applied to Some Father Garments from the Tupinamba Indians, Brazil; Deference for the Elders & Control over the Younger among the Karne of Thailand; Marriage Systems of the Thakaalis & Related Groups of the Bodish Section of SIno- Tibetan Speaking Peoples; Highlanders & Government in North Thailand; etc.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology, Ethnography, , , , ,

Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS024277I