About this title: This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to stay with the family of Red-Point, a well-known Navajo singer, it was unusual for an ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780826317933ISBN:0826317936
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Bump to a fore corner; wraps are lightly soiled. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 287 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Book Very Good (Minor bumping of both ends of spine & general shelfware). No dust jacket-O. P. Deals primarily with Navajo sings and ceremonial chants. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780826317933ISBN:0826317936
Description: As New. 5" x 8" 287 Pages plus Index. Introduction by Louise Lamphere. This lively account of apioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the authro's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to stay with the family of Red Point, a well known Navajo singer, it was unusual for an anthropologist to live with a family and become intimately connected with women's ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Date Published: 1997-04-01
ISBN-13:9780826317933ISBN:0826317936
Description: Very Good. Privately owned softcover in nearly new condition except for light foxing at top edge of text block. Pages are neat, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread. read more
Edition: Reprint Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, NM
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good+ 8vo, 9 " tall. Hardcover, no DJ. First Rio Grande Press Edition. Modern intro by Robert McCoy & John Strachan of the Press. Red cloth, stamped gilt lettering, x + 287 + [4-Index] pages, map endsheets, b/w photos. Small stain on textblock forward edge; date written on flyleaf, bookplate; overall tight, clean, bright. read more
Description: Rio Grande Press. Glorieta, NM. 1968. Reprint of 1934 edition. Red hardcover. Illustrated. Endpaper maps. 287 pages plus index. Cover very lightly scuffed. Very good condition. No dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rio Grande press, Glorieta, c1934. 1968.
Description: VG cond for ex-lib. Bright red cloth w/ gilt. Stamp and pocket in back. Decorated endpapers showing reservations in Utah, New Mexico. No dj. Spider woman instructed the Navajo Woman how to weave on a loom which Spider Man told them how to make. This comes from Navajo legend and is an allegory. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MACMILLAN COMPANY
Date Published: 1934
ISBN-13:9781499587555ISBN:1499587554
Description: Very Good. 1934. Hardcover, No DJ. Tight binding. Name and hand written note on first page otherwise no writing of any kind. From California. read more
Edition: Second Printing, 1971.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rio Grande Press, Inc., Glorieta, New Mexico
Date Published: 1934
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in excellent condition. Offered from private book collection. x p., 2 l., 287 p. front., plates (1 double, col. ) 23 cm. Includes Plates, Map, Index. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Macmillan Co., N.Y.
Date Published: 1934
Description: Very Good. Poor Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xiv + 287pp. dust jacket has large pieces missing, including 2/3 of the spine section and the front foldover flap. A very good book with a poor dust jacket. read more
Edition: Fifth Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, NM
Date Published: 1981
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. xi, 292pp, index, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or pale orange cloth with title in metallic green and blue. Small scuff on front edge of spine, small thumb mark in margin of page 57. The author went to live with the Navajo of Arizona in the 1930s-most unusual for a single white woman at the time. Here she writes of her experiences and The People. Includes collecting herbs for dyes, their preparation, setting up the loom and the act of weaving the various patterns, many ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MacMillan Company
Date Published: 1934
Description: Larger Octovo hardcover in red cloth cover, with tight and strong spine/binding, pages clean and bright, none torn or marked, the cover has very slight shelfwear, spine very very slightly faded, toned spot on bottom edge, prev. owner name on insidefront pastedown, else VG, no dj. A solid copy. 287pp; all illustrations are present including the colored double-page sandpainting. Very nice copy........ read more
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