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Anthropology

Paperback. Original essays on the profound cultural impact of tourism in societies ranging form the American southwest to Tonga to Alaska to Iran. Editor(s): Smith, Valene L. Num Pages: 352 pages, 33 illus. BIC Classification: JHM; KNSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812212808
ISBN
9780812212808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.99

Hardcover. Migration of Rich Immigrants addresses flows of emigrants who establish themselves in other countries temporarily or permanently, in favorable economic conditions. Vailati and Rial explore these migratory paths and analyze how gender, class, age, sexual orientation and ethnicity influence these processes. Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137510761
ISBN
9781137510761
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.21

Paperback. Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies such as tattooing, piercing and scarification. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293116
ISBN
9780312293116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 94.60

Based upon historical and archival research, as well as the author's fieldwork in indigenous communities, this work analyzes value from the perspective of the Napo Runa people of the Amazonian Ecuador. It views that Napo Runa personifies value by transforming things into people through a process of subordinating them to human relationships. Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 photographs; 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072550
ISBN
9780252072550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.56

Hardcover. Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world, and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education.. Editor(s): Eickelkamp, Ute. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFSL9; JFSP1; JFSP2; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857450821
ISBN
9780857450821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.56

paperback. Series: Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSB; HB; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 3. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Germany
Edition
2000th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531073651
ISBN
9783531073651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.71

Paperback. Gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork resumes in anthropology. In its twelve essays, this book covers encounters with transvestites in Oman, childbirth in Bhutan, poverty in Cairo, and honor killings in Scandinavia, with visits to several other locales. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226924472
ISBN
9780226924472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.00
€ 31.48

Paperback. Living in a poor neighbourhood of Cairo, Umm Ali has raised eight children with almost no help from her husband or the Egyptian government. This book draws on the author's firsthand experience of Umm Ali's life to create an intimate portrait of Cairo's back streets and the people who live there. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226898353
ISBN
9780226898353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 34.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QSP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226896809
ISBN
9780226896809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 34.31

Paperback. Many immigrants in Europe find marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this book, the author shows how an excessive respect for "their culture" has been part of the problem. Culture has become a concept of race, sustaining ethnic identity politics that subvert human rights. Num Pages: 280 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226896854
ISBN
9780226896854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.85

Num Pages: 240 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1FMT; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Ithaca
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801472848
ISBN
9780801472848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Bringing together scholarly insights and research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica Milner Davis bridges the differences between humor in Japan and the West and examines the spectrum of Japanese humor, from ancient traditions and surviving rituals of laughter to the norms of joke-telling in conversation in Japan and America. Editor(s): Davis, Jessica Milner. Series: Humor in Life & Letters S. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814331651
ISBN
9780814331651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.03

Hardcover. This book, based on extensive historical research and anthropological fieldwork in contemporary Jerusalem, details the multiple ways in which space, identity, and alterity are experienced, produced and contested by the habitants of this conflicted urban center. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPG; 3JMG; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633488
ISBN
9780815633488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.25

Paperback. Argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labour and the capitalist world system. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLC; 1KLS; HBAH; JHBL; JHM; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299136840
ISBN
9780299136840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.78

Hardcover. Editor(s): Weiss, Kathryn E. Num Pages: 211 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607418603
ISBN
9781607418603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.16
€ 70.70

Paperback. Editor(s): David, Bruno; Barker, Bryce; McNiven, Ian J. Num Pages: 384 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; HD; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780855754990
ISBN
9780855754990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me , this book features John Howard Griffin's later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin's ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wings Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916727826
ISBN
9780916727826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.49

Paperback. Provides compelling examples of applied research in cultural anthropology. This title offers ten readings that refer to contemporary social issues such as religious belief, work and family, social class, food production, relationships, consumerism, the effects of climate change on culture, and globalization. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations map. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Edition
9th Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780078117039
ISBN
9780078117039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.77

Paperback. A collection of essays, which considers the meaning and nature of life history narrative in India. Editor(s): Arnold, David; Blackburn, Stuart. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; HBTB; HBTD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253217271
ISBN
9780253217271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.14

Paperback. Considers the work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and new areas of postmodernist culture which have developed over the years, especially in law, music, dance, spatial theory, ethnography, ecology, and the new technologies. Num Pages: 340 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631200529
ISBN
9780631200529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.96

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