First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was researched in North-West Australia between 1935 and 1936 and was written by a woman who truly pioneered the study of gender in anthropology
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First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was researched in North-West Australia between 1935 and 1936 and was written by a woman who truly pioneered the study of gender in anthropology
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Add this copy of Aboriginal Woman: Sacred and Profane to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Routledge.
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Good. Printed paper wraps, octavo, 294pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has crease to spine, mild shelfwear to wrap, sticker to rear panel, binding tight, erasable pencil underlining and marginalia to front half of block, otherwise clean. No DJ.
Add this copy of Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane (Routledge Classic to cart. $103.78, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Routledge.
Add this copy of Aboriginal Woman, Sacred and Profane, to cart. $194.20, very good condition, Sold by Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Novato, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1939 by The Blakiston Company.
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Very good. No DJ. Lightly read. Previous owner name stamped on front free page. Previous owner was Burton Benedict (1923-2010), a professor emeritus of social anthropology at University of California, Berkeley and former director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Benedict conducted his early anthropological fieldwork in the Indian Ocean island territories of Mauritius and Seychelles. No other markings in book. Binding is tight. Shelf wear to covers.