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Anthropology

Paperback. Conversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices. Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Num Pages: 368 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359630
ISBN
9780822359630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. This book examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims-residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an-uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government's official paradigm for development. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746854
ISBN
9780804746854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Hardback. An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345305
ISBN
9780822345305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345459
ISBN
9780822345459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

paperback. What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? This book draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHB; JHMC; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436. Clean copy with minor warping to covers and pages. Remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0021703
ISBN
9780520282315
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Music and dance play a central role in the 'healing arts' of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. This title shows how the sounds and gestures of music and dance acquire a potency that can transform thoughts, emotions, and bodies. Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. Num Pages: 278 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMM; JFSL9; JHM; MMZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520082816
ISBN
9780520082816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.65

Hardback. Reveals the complex imperial dynamics of Russian physical anthropology and contributes an important comparative perspective from which to understand the emergence of racial science Translator(s): Mogilner, Marina. Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 504 pages, 38 photographs, 4 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 43. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803239784
ISBN
9780803239784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.91

paperback. Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. This book treats the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. Series: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology. Num Pages: 437 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520072022
ISBN
9780520072022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 246 x 27. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
HAU
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780986132537
ISBN
9780986132537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.11

Paperback. A highly provocative and original volume that examines the issues, themes, and difficulties emerging out of the new anthropological concern with history. Num Pages: 428 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; HBAH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231079211
ISBN
9780231079211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.00
€ 36.23

Paperback. Anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. This ethnographic, historical and cultural study examines marginalized events, sites and cultural practices in Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226388335
ISBN
9780226388335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252063268
ISBN
9780252063268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

paperback. From antiquity to the Enlightenment, monstrous children were attributed to the power of the mother's imagination to distort the act of procreation. How this idea reappeared transformed in the Romantic period is explored in this study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 halftones, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780674586499
ISBN
9780674586499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.10

Hardback. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. Num Pages: index. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 1HFJZ; HBJH; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571819451
ISBN
9781571819451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Sandberg, Marie; Bendix, Regina F. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 247 x 170 x 10. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763541152
ISBN
9788763541152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. Editor(s): Sandberg, Marie; Bendix, Regina F. Num Pages: 93 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP. Dimension: 247 x 171 x 9. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763542388
ISBN
9788763542388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.36

Hardback. This book belongs to a long tradition of thought on Native identity. However, in a more or less explicit manner, it intends to break away from other studies in the field. Instead of viewing identity in reference to a phantasmagorical past, it aims at setting up the framework within which identity can express and project itself into the future. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSL9; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761806844
ISBN
9780761806844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.10

Paperback. This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18. BIC Classification: HD; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745620152
ISBN
9780745620152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.16

Paperback. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the megalithic necropolis of Petit- Chasseur in Sion (Valais, Switzerland), an international conference was organised from the 27th to the 29th of October 2011 in Sion. This book constitutes the conference proceedings. Editor(s): Besse, Marie. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrated throughout in black and white. BIC Classification: 1DFH; HDDA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 298 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Archaeopress United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784910242
ISBN
9781784910242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.39

Paperback. Argues that the most promising new model for democracy is found in grassroots movements against capitalist globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JHM; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745329253
ISBN
9780745329253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.73

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