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Paperback. Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; JFSJ; JHBS; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348566
ISBN
9780822348566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Ethnographic analyses of emerging bioscientific enterprises in Asia, including genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Editor(s): Ong, Aihwa; Chen, Nancy N. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 335 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; KNDC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
335
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348092
ISBN
9780822348092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Examines how the presence of the United States as a colonial power in Southeast Asia was perceived by Americans, and how it influenced Southeast Asians and European imperial powers in the region. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348009
ISBN
9780822348009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. A major rethinking of Japanese imperialism in Asia using subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism to focus attention on the role of human life and labor in colonial expansion. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347613
ISBN
9780822347613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. An ethnography exploring the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1KBB; AVGR; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347606
ISBN
9780822347606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardback. An argument that the fantasy of an inscrutable East has functioned as a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Num Pages: 216 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347439
ISBN
9780822347439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.36

Paperback. Explores the cultural significance of the explosive growth of China s cities during the past three decades through interpretations of Chinese fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design. Num Pages: 376 pages, 53 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347286
ISBN
9780822347286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. An unconventional, evocative work of history and a series of moving reflections on memory, modernity, space, and time, all based on the author s interviews with elderly Indonesian intellectuals. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HBTB; HBTQ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822346975
ISBN
9780822346975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Hardback. President Barack Obama's mother, S Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist who specialized in social and economic development in Indonesia. This book reflects Dunham's commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; and her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem-solving. Editor(s): Dewey, Alice G.; Cooper, Nancy I. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 440 pages, 13 tables, 2 maps, 4 figures (tent.). BIC Classification: 1F; JHM; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 39. Weight in Grams: 902.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822346876
ISBN
9780822346876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.23

Paperback. A history of book production and consumption in Japan showing how the Tokyo-based publishing industry manufactured the very concept of modern Japanese literature. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 photos, 11 tables, 3 maps, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346722
ISBN
9780822346722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.48

Hardback. A leading proponent of knowledge exchanges within East Asia and of an international cultural studies insists that those on both sides of the imperial divide must assess the conduct, motives, and consequences of imperialism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346647
ISBN
9780822346647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Hardback. A history of book production and consumption in Japan showing how the Tokyo-based publishing industry manufactured the very concept of modern Japanese literature. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 photos, 11 tables, 3 maps, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822346609
ISBN
9780822346609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Paperback. The majority of undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - including a large population of Korean American students - come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. This book explores the tensions between liberal ideals and the particularities of race, family, and community in the contemporary university. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; GTB; JHM; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346159
ISBN
9780822346159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

Paperback. By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346081
ISBN
9780822346081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345909
ISBN
9780822345909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

Paperback. An argument that subaltern experiences that are devalued and overlooked in progressive late-twentieth-century Philippine literature have been essential to the social and economic changes wrought by globalization. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFC; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344469
ISBN
9780822344469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.92

Paperback. Claims that there is a cultural logic to Palestinian suicide bombings, and that these acts can neither be understood nor effectively countered without taking this into account. This title illuminates the Palestinians' perspective on the conflict with Israel and provides a model for ethnographers seeking to make sense of political violence. Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; JHMC; JPFN; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344391
ISBN
9780822344391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.45

Paperback. A work of film studies that traces how the traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan has been represented (or not represented) in Indian cinema from 1947 to the present. Num Pages: 384 pages, 63 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344117
ISBN
9780822344117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. An ethnographic exploration of how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JMC; JFFN; JFSR2; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344094
ISBN
9780822344094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

paperback. A look at how prominent Indian visual artists created modern art for the postcolonial nation in the years between India's independence in 1947 and 1980. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 224 pages, 27 illustrations (incl. 10 in color). BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 4369 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343752
ISBN
9780822343752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. An ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. It explores what the migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343042
ISBN
9780822343042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Paperback. Argues that through tourist practices - acts of cultural consumption, routes and imaginary voyages to neighboring Arab countries, and culinary desires - Israeli citizens negotiate Israel's place in the contemporary Middle East. This work analyzes the meanings that Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel have attached to tourist cultures. Num Pages: 232 pages, 23 b&w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; JHMC; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342731
ISBN
9780822342731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

paperback. An argument that contemporary India s market society, and its concepts of the market and the public, emerged from commercial laws implemented by the British between 1870 and 1930. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342687
ISBN
9780822342687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. An ethnographic exploration of identity politics in three of Bali s musical subcultures-reggae, punk, and death metal-during the 1990s. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJPR; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341154
ISBN
9780822341154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

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