Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. Book. 4to-over 9æ-12" tall. 382 pages, b/w illustrations. Name on front endpaper. Contents: Anthropology and the museum: cultures in conflict / Frank H. Talbot--Lineage organization in East China / Myron L. Cohen--The dozoku organization: rethinking Japanese kinship and social organization / Tsong-yuan Lin--A comparison of administration of the aboriginal populations in Taiwan (Japanese period), Malaysia and North America / Shuichi Nagata--Hopes, fears and excitement: the authority of a local festival / Stephan Feuchtwang--Big tree worship among Taiwan folk society / Chang-rue Yuan--The development and distribution of fishing gear in the Pacific: the typology and distribution of fishhooks in Polynesia / Yosihiko H. Sinoto--State evolution in the Ryukyus, A.D. 1200 to 1600 / Richard Pearson--Marine exploitation in prehistoric Taiwan / Cheng-hwa Tsang--Osan-ni Neolithic culture in Korea / Hyo-jai Im--Folk masquerading as birds / Hiroshi Kanaseki--Ethnocentricity and the ethnology museum / Helmuth Fuchs--Anthropology, history and the changing role of the museum / Ralph Appelbaum--Objects, people and identity: an interplay between past and present at the Australian Museum / Elizabeth Bonshek--The search for legitimacy: museums in Aotearoa, New Zealand-a Maori viewpoint / Arapata T. Hakiwai--Interpreting museum objects: an outline of theory / Susan M. Pearce--Material culture studies in museological perspective / Koun-min Hsu--Computer applications for the study of material culture: the data storage and retrieval system in the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan / Kazuko Matsuzawa--Taiwan collections at the Museum of Ethnography, Vienna / Walter Warthol--Appendix 1, Peinan excavation / Wen-hsun Sung.