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Paperback. In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in Native North America. This book presents an ethnographic account of the history and consequences of Seminole gaming. It describes casino operations, chronicles the everyday life and history of the Seminole Tribe, and shares the insights of individual Seminoles. Num Pages: 304 pages, 36 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; JFSL9; JHMC; KNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342274
ISBN
9780822342274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Paperback. Visual Culture: The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this Reader puts the study of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage. Editor(s): Evans, Jessica; Hall, Stuart. Series: Published in Association with the Open University. Num Pages: 512 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; CFG; JFD; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 35. Weight in Grams: 876.
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761962489
ISBN
9780761962489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.67

Paperback. Explores "child circulation," informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. This title demonstrates that such an understanding of the practice is simplistic and misleading. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFSP1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822341970
ISBN
9780822341970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.04

Paperback. In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of the extreme social conflict and environmental degradation brought on by commercial gold mining. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 296 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360117
ISBN
9780822360117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.14

Hardback. Many animals build shelters, but only humans build homes. This title recounts the cultural development of the human imperative to maintain domestic dwellings. It shows how our houses allow us to physically adapt to the environment and conceptually order the cosmos, and explains how we fabricate dwellings and, in the process, construct our lives. Num Pages: 288 pages, 27 b/w photographs, 9 line illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: HD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524. 288 pages, Illustrations. Many animals build shelters, but only humans build homes. This title recounts the cultural development of the human imperative to maintain domestic dwellings. It shows how our houses allow us to physically adapt to the environment and conceptually order the cosmos, and explains how we fabricate dwellings and, in the process, construct our lives. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HD; JHM. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 23. Weight: 524.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272217
ISBN
9780520272217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.66

Hardcover. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745679174
ISBN
9780745679174
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.28

Paperback. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745679181
ISBN
9780745679181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.02

Paperback. A title, in which, the author sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141032955
ISBN
9780141032955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves? This title presents a meditation on the variety of human responses to birds. Num Pages: 384 pages, 8 color illus. 32 halftones. 25 line illus. BIC Classification: BM; JHBS; JHMC; PSVW6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691154282
ISBN
9780691154282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.35

Hardback. Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Editor(s): MacClancy, Jeremy. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHM; JPP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334023
ISBN
9781785334023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.48

Hardcover. In this volume, practitioners from across anthropological disciplines - social and biological anthropology and primatology - come together to question and compare the ethical regulation of fieldwork, what is common to their practices, and what is distinctive to each discipline. Editor(s): MacClancy, Jeremy; Fuentes, Agustin. Series: Studies of the BioSocial Society. Num Pages: 228 pages, 10 figs & tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: GPS; HPQ; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857459626
ISBN
9780857459626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.06

Paperback. This articulate and authoritative survey of both the popular and academic trends in anthropology demonstrates the broad relevance of anthropological knowledge and argues for a more inclusive conception of the discipline that engages the public imagination. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 12. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118475508
ISBN
9781118475508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.75

Paperback. Series: Culture, Place, and Nature. Num Pages: 19 black & white illustrations, 4 maps, 19 illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JHMC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295995298
ISBN
9780295995298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.31

Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 629.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479846429
ISBN
9781479846429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.55

hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526105288
ISBN
9781526105288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.72

Hardcover. Drawing on field research in Malta, Sicily, and among Italian emigrants in Canada, this book explores the social influence of the Mediterranean climate and the legacy of ethnic and religious conflict from the past five decades. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 ills & 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1QRM; JFFN; JHMC; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857458445
ISBN
9780857458445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.85

Hardcover. Steiner's (1909-52) classic study Taboo and three other essays, on superstition, enslavement and the early Hebrew lineage system, and Chagga law and truth comprise the first of two volumes collecting the work of the Prague-born social and cultural anthropologist who ended his brief career at Oxford. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: Bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BG; JFC; JFSR1; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571817112
ISBN
9781571817112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.02

Paperback. Jens Rydstrom explores the history of homosexuality and bestiality in Sweden to consider why these sexual practices have been so closely linked in virtually all Western Societies. Based on diaries, medical records and court reports, this work reveals the changing notion of deviant behaviour. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 6 figures, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1DNS; HBJD; JFSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226732572
ISBN
9780226732572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.29

Paperback. Reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish model should be viewed as a success story or a cautionary tale. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JFSR2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated edition with a New Afterword
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691161921
ISBN
9780691161921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. This volume is an interdisciplinary guide to the Treaties of the Six Nations and their league. It provides a description of the earliest recorded treaties and an alphabetical list of persons involved in Iroquois treaty making. Editor(s): Jennings, Francis; et al. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5 maps, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHM; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815626503
ISBN
9780815626503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.40

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