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The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand […]
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Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAnselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger is a work of cultural history that situates the art works of one of the most important contemporary painters in relation to […]
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Reginald Bakeley – On Gnoming
$5.00 | Print, Used Items, Zine“On Gnoming”: Phooka editor Reginald Bakeley outlines the principles of hunting and cooking these small, malignant, and particularly tasty woodland creatures. A sidebar on defenses against trolls [...]
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C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1912, C. G. Jung wrote, “Should it happen that all traditions in the world were cut off with a single blow, the whole mythology and history of religion would […]
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Steven Mithen – After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-500…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items20,000 BC, the peak of the last ice age―the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, […]
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Hans Belting – The Invisible Masterpiece
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. By means of this metaphor borrowed from […]
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The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA pre-cursor to contemporary chemistry and physics, alchemy began as the pursuit of knowledge, initially in China as a search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt [...]
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Hillel Schwartz – Century’s End : An Orientation Manual fo…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA “Future Shock” for the turn of the century, Century’s End contains a rich trove of facts that will delight readers whose job it is to know what moods will […]
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Lucy R. Lippard – Mixed Blessings : New Art in a Multicultural A…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn America today there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural […]
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Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss […]
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Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In its breadth of vision and seriousness of purpose, the series leaves little room for complaint or cavil…An editorial program of real vision; series like this are what makes [...]
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Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“More than half a century of contact between the author and the Hopi people has resulted in an unusual opportunity for long informative talks with friends from the villages. These […]
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The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their [...]
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA survey of five centuries of writings on the world’s great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays [...]
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Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Cent…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRaiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the […]
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Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOriginally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful [...]
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Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Sensation! Show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah [...]
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Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and th…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTranshumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the “natural” limitations experienced by humanity through such developments as: [...]
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The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMarcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its [...]
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Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imagi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Merlin of Arthurian romances to Mircea Eliade’s academic researches, from Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan to the archetypal images of Carl Jung, the figure of the shaman has [...]
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Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance …
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsUsing the premise that languages and the alphabets that comprise them are metaphorical microcosms of our world, Nigel Pennick demonstrates how various alphabets function as a metaphysical [...]
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Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments o…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the [...]
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsObservations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding […]
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The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the present. The animal bride tale, the author argues, is an enduring expression […]
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Gregory & Mary Bateson – Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemolo…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAngels Fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us [...]
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Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMarcel Duchamp is often viewed as an “artist-engineer-scientist,” a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet [...]
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The Sublime (Documents Of Contemporary Art Series)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seemto eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics ofa contemporary sublime? If there is any [...]
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Louis Kaplan – The Strange Case Of William Mumler
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery. In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghosts—or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed [...]
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The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis collection brings together the essential writings of a master thinker whose work bridges philosophy, spirituality, and metaphysics. Through eloquent essays and reflections, it explores the [...]
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Marija Gimbutas – The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hi…
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA noted archaeologist demonstrates the existence of prehistoric goddess-worshipping, egalitarian, nonviolent cultures whose hidden heritage is just now being restored This book is in Good [...]
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Benjamin H. D. Buchloh – Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Es…
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSome critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a […]
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Susan Buck-Morss – The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and…
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWalter Benjamin’s magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades […]
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H.P Blavatsky – The Secret Doctrine Boxset
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContinuously in print for over 100 years, the SD remains today the most comprehensive sourcebook of the esoteric tradition, outlining the fundamental tenets of the “Secret Doctrine of the [...]
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La Plata Sextette – La Plata Swings Again
$28.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylSolid jazz influence Mambo/Cha-Cha Label: Seeco – CELP-437 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1960 VG+/VG. Nametag on sleeve. Some rubbing/discoloration. Upper seam starting to split.
GENRE: International, Latin -
Roger Colas – Canta De Agustin Lara
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylDeep & soulful tracks from the Haitian singer, formerly of Orchestre Septentrional Label: RID Records – RID-102 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Haiti Released: 1971 VG+/VG+. Light marks/sleevewear
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Felix Del Rosario Y Sus Magos Del Ritmo – Felix Del Rosario Y Sus Mag…
$110.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylScorching hot Latin jazz/mambo. Label: Montilla – FM-210 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1964 VG/VG+
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Al Zeppy – Al Zeppy En New York
$12.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylClassy Latin swing/pop from Zeppy & his large band. Label: United Artists Records – UAL 3583 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1967 VG+/VG+. Light marks, some sleeve […]
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Tabu Ley – Sacramento Avec Canta Nyboma [Rumba]
$10.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylAfrican rumba music. Label: Genidia – GEN 119 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: France Released: 1986 VG+/VG+
GENRE: African, International -
Kyle Gann – Robert Ashley (American Composers Series)
$30.00 | Book, PrintThis book explores the life and works of the pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley’s innovations began in the [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Mdou Moctar – Ilana: The Creator
$15.00 | CD, CDBlistering and hypnotic, ‘Ilana (The Creator)’ (2019) marked the beginning of a new chapter for Mdou Moctar. It is the Nigerien guitar hero’s first album recorded with a live rock [...]
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Mdou Moctar – Ilana: The Creator
$23.00 | LP, VinylBlistering and hypnotic, ‘Ilana (The Creator)’ (2019) marked the beginning of a new chapter for Mdou Moctar. It is the Nigerien guitar hero’s first album recorded with a live rock [...]
GENRE: African, International -
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom And The Modern World
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Harvard anthropologist Maybury-Lewis argues that the ancient wisdom, communal sharing and closeness to nature found in tribal societies hold survival lessons for our modern industrial [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello – The New Spirit Of Capitalis…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of [...]
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V/A – Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar
$27.00 | LP, VinylTsapiky music from Southwest Madagascar features wild ecstatic vocals, distorted electric guitars, rocket bass, and the amphetamine beat! Unlike anything else, this is THE high life music [...]
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Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Sonbonbela
$16.00 | CD, CDSublime Frequencies is honored to release the third Album from Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band. Sonbonbela was recorded in the beginning of 2022 in the Republic of Burkina Faso. […]
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V/A – Sound Storing Machines: The First 78rpm Records From Japan, 1903…
$16.00 | CD, CDThe first commercial recordings from Asia were made in Japan in 1903 by Fred Gaisberg, the legendary producer and recording engineer who traveled the world making recordings for the Gramophone [...]
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Adnan Othman – “Bershukor” A Retrospective Of Hits By A Ma…
$16.00 | CD, CDThe legendary Adnan Othman has long been a driving force in the Malaysian rock scene. As early as the 1960s his groundbreaking songs in the style known as Pop Yeh […]
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Erkin Koray – Meçhul: Singles & Rarities
$16.00 | CD, CDErkin Koray and Sublime Frequencies are pleased to present this collection of rare tracks and lesser-heard singles. All tracks were recorded and released in Turkey between 1970-1977 and culled [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International -
Abdou El Omari – Lost Tape: 1980
$16.00 | CD, CDAbdou El Omari was born in 1945 in Tafraout, south of Agadir — a village suspended between the pink granite peaks of the Anti-Atlas and the waves of the Atlantic. […]
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V/A – Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay
$20.00 | 2xLP, Used Items, VinylThe second in our series exploring the pan-American funk experience, Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay is a deep overview of Funky Nassau’s redheaded sister city, Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. [...]
GENRE: International