This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. 324p., ill., 23 cm. Hardcover with dust jacket-full black cloth over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine and a wraparound red stripe stamped on boards that highlights "California". Sewn binding. xvi + 324 pages, with illustrations (maps, tables, B&W plates), Appendix of Family Composition of Villages, index, and end notes that include extensive bibliographic citations. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. CONDITION: Book FINE, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked, save for former owner's name on ffep; DJ VERY GOOD, light edgewear and chipping to head and tail of spine; not clipped, protected in a clear archival (Mylar) cover. This is not a former library book and is in excellent condition. CONTENT: The author spent several months in Okinawa in 1951-1952 working under the auspices of the Scientific Investigations in the Ryukyu Islands (SIRI) program. This book documents his comparison of four villages, each representing a different phase of Okinawan culture and economy, and each relatively free from American influence-Matsuda village in the north (forest), Hanishiro village in the south (agriculture), Ninatogawa village on the southern seacoast (fishing), and the nearby Magamo village (stone cutting). Glacken's focus was the effects of the native cultures upon the natural environment, but his observations were wide-ranging and he recorded the geography and cultural history, dwellings, commerce and financing, family system and family life from infancy to old age, community life, religion and environment, and social change in his study villages. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.
