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Anthropology

Paperback. Offers an examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history - twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283749
ISBN
9780520283749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.28

Paperback. Drawing out the author's formulations of social organization, cultural evolution, and the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture, this theoretical work traces a vast expanse of history from the earliest forms of capitalism to the inner workings of contemporary democratic institutions. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc United States
Edition
Abridged ed
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781598741582
ISBN
9781598741582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.12

Paperback. Leslie White was one of the most important-and controversial-figures in American anthropology. This classic work, initially published in 1949, contains White's definitive statement on what he termed 'culturology.' Series: Ewp Foundations of Anthropology. Num Pages: 502 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 137 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Percheron Press United States
Number of pages
502
Condition
New
SKU
V9780975273821
ISBN
9780975273821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.99

Paperback. "The Smoking Book" is built on the foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFH1; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226773339
ISBN
9780226773339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.82

Hardback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360292
ISBN
9780822360292
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.89

Paperback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360605
ISBN
9780822360605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Explores the surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. Num Pages: 236 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277984
ISBN
9780520277984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. Explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277960
ISBN
9780520277960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.21

Hardback. Probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair. This book considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and for controversy. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 144 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBZ; JHMC; MNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231138383
ISBN
9780231138383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.21

Paperback. For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state's coast has remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. This book examines the cultural, social, and economic importance of abalone among the California Indian tribes. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 illustrations, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822342335
ISBN
9780822342335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, the author critiques the national ideology of ethnic homogeneity. He shows how Gueguence tells a story about the passing of time, the absurdity of authority, and the contradictions of coping with inheritances of the past. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFSC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press North Carolina
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322887
ISBN
9780822322887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Drawing on a wealth of original sources, this book explores the changing contours of the politics of race in the present social and political environment. This will appeal to students of British politics and society. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415085786
ISBN
9780415085786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 86.80

paperback. An exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. The author reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and taboos surrounding it, relate to universal and profound truths about the human animal and its deepest yearnings. Num Pages: 268 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226425689
ISBN
9780226425689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.87

Paperback. Focuses on large and problematic groups from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states. Series: Studies of World Migrations. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; HBJD1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072949
ISBN
9780252072949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. This is a major ethnography of unemployment and the first community-based book on contemporary unemployment in the United Kingdom. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JFFA; JHMP. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 55. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0003492
ISBN
9780521382397
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501707520
ISBN
9781501707520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.70

Paperback. Using cross-cultural, historical and ethnographic perspectives of anthropology to illuminate the the intrinsic connections of race, class and gender, this volume explores these issues in the arena of work, kinship and resistance. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSJ1; JFSL1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415912860
ISBN
9780415912860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.02

Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785330773
ISBN
9781785330773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.43

Paperback. Featuring several all-new chapters, revisions, and updates, the Second Edition of A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication presents an interdisciplinary collection of key readings that explore how interpersonal communication is socially and culturally mediated. Editor(s): Monaghan, Leila; Goodman, Jane E.; Robinson, Jennifer Meta. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: GTC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 24. Weight in Grams: 764.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444335316
ISBN
9781444335316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.32

paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Nordic Africa Institute
Condition
New
SKU
V9789171063861
ISBN
9789171063861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.51

Hardback. The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history of this region's migratory patterns. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; JFFN; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845457426
ISBN
9781845457426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.05

paperback. Presenting everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking, this book shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. It builds on the author's research in the famous Hindu pilgrimage town of Sringeri, Karnataka, in southwestern India. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231139212
ISBN
9780231139212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.62

Paperback. * A Demonstrates links between how culture is produced and consumed. A Covers wide range of examples found in popular culture. A Adopts a cross--disciplinary approach. A Includes both classic and contemporary essays as well as new articles written especially for this volume. . Editor(s): Harrington, Lee; Bielby, Denise. Series: Blackwell Readers in Sociology. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHM; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217107
ISBN
9780631217107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.62

Paperback. Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the heat of Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man. This ethnography of the Burning Man phenomenon explores why 'burners' come in vast numbers to transform a temporary gathering of strangers into an enduring community. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition, Includes DVD
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520260887
ISBN
9780520260887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

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