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Anthropology

Paperback. This text provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. It examines topics such as role of melody in generating rhythm. Num Pages: 210 pages, 15 halftones, 14 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AVGH; JFSP1; JFSP2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226055114
ISBN
9780226055114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.48

Paperback. Editor(s): Bendix, John; Bendix, Regina F. Num Pages: 131 pages, b/w photos & tables. BIC Classification: 1D; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 169 x 8. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
131
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899855
ISBN
9788772899855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Bendix, Regina F.; Bendix, John. Num Pages: 131 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHMP; JKVC; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 169 x 8. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
131
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899879
ISBN
9788772899879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.42

Paperback. Series: SOAS Musicology Series. Num Pages: 246 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCA; AVA; AVGH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138205116
ISBN
9781138205116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.53

Paperback. Highly acclaimed in previous editions, this classic work by John Hostetler has been expanded and updated to reflect current research on Amish history and culture as well as the new concerns of Amish communities throughout North America. Num Pages: 448 pages, 91 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HRCC99; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
4th
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801844423
ISBN
9780801844423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.04

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHM; KJM; VFVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Deutscher Universit?tsverlag United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9783824441570
ISBN
9783824441570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.58

Paperback. This text collects published and unpublished work by one of today's most distinguished anthropologists. Johannes Fabian is widely known outside of his discipline because his work so often overcomes traditional scholarly boundaries to bring fresh insight to philosophy, history and cultural studies. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741439
ISBN
9780804741439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169264
ISBN
9780231169264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.88
€ 86.38

Paperback. The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. This work argues that virtual archives have the potential to shift the emphasis in ethnographic writing from the monograph to commentary. It provides a model of writing in the presence of a virtual archive. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
139
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342830
ISBN
9780822342830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Assesses the contemporary practice of anthropology and its emerging shape as a discipline across the globe. This title explores the place of linguistics in contemporary language-centered anthropology, and ponders how studies of material culture imbue objects with "otherness." Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340775
ISBN
9780822340775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.40

Paperback. This work is a critique of the notions that anthropologists are "here and now", their objects of study are "there and then" and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own. Num Pages: 205 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
205
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125772
ISBN
9780231125772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
With a New PostScript by the A ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169271
ISBN
9780231169271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Talk about Prayer is an experiment in writing ethnography, a commentary on a conversation with Mama Regine Tshitanda, the leader of a Charismatic prayer group (groupe de priere) in Lubumbashi (Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and members of her family in 1986. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFJZ; HRLF9; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 299.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137570154
ISBN
9781137570154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Hardcover. Num Pages: 414 pages, 3 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 864.
Publisher
Manohar Publishers and Distributors India
Number of pages
414
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9788173049187
ISBN
9788173049187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.36

Hardback. Editor(s): Quack, Johannes. Num Pages: 273 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JHB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319484747
ISBN
9783319484747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.73

Paperback. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 202 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114180
ISBN
9780230114180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardcover. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 201 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114173
ISBN
9780230114173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

Paperback. Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. This book explores the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam. Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFN; JHM; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824833152
ISBN
9780824833152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.04

Paperback. Editor(s): Rogge, Joerg. Num Pages: 260 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837617245
ISBN
9783837617245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, b/w photos, maps & tables. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 265 x 194 x 10. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763511742
ISBN
9788763511742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

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