Magic, Faith, and Healing by Kiev, Ari (Editor) - 1974

Free Press, 1974-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. . Cover and edges show heavy shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

New York: Free Press, 1974. Reprint of 1964 Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. ..explores the beliefs, rituals, and symbols in such diverse cultures as the aborigines of Western Australia, the Sea Dayaks (Iban) of Borneo, the Mescalero Apache of North America, and the Yoruba of Nigeria. Some of the customs may seem shocking, but the insights they provide into our own practices cannot be ignored!"475 pgs; 5 1/4 x 8 1/4

Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. 475pp. Purple cloth hardback, DJ VG with a couple tiny tears along edges,index, chapter notes, Nineteen reorts of psychiatry studies, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Free Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Slight shelfwear to cover. A tight, unmarked copy. "The basic manual for the modern medicine man (sic)..." -- The Nation..

Free Press, January 1964. Unknown. Very Good/Good. Previous Owners name inside front cover

Tight, square spine has some sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Light shelf-wear, including some bumped corners and gentle edge-wear. Another stunning Ellen Raskin cover to this sensationally marketed collection of ethnographic essays exploring folk healing modalities, viewed through a cross-disciplinary anthropological/psychological lens—or what editor Kiev terms 'transcultural psychiatry'. Contributions include Orhan M. Ozturk's 'Folk Treatment of Mental Illness in Turkey', Jozef Ph. Hez's 'The Changing Social Role of the Yemenite Mori', and Catherine H. Berndt''s 'The Role of Native Doctors in Aboriginal Australia'. Features an intro by Jerome D. Frank, known for his mid-1930s soda cracker experiment (an inspiration for the infamous Milgram experiment several decades later), in which participants were fed unappetizing cookies by researchers playing varyingly authoritarian roles, with subjects' reactions often dependent on the levels of obedience they felt expected of them. 475 pp.

Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. Hardcover. Very good, clean and sound condition w/o dust jacket. 475pp.

The Free Press, 1974. Paperback. Acceptable. 1974. First Edition Thus. 475 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. First page cut out. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Sticker residue to front cover. Water staining to top edges of both covers.

NY: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Printing. Soiling and staining to jacket, now in protective mylar, owner name on fly, few pages of underlining in last chapter of book. 475pp..

Jason Aronson, Inc, 1977-07-07. Paperback. New.