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Anthropology

Paperback. Examines how "otherness" has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media, the contributors explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa. Editor(s): Hallam, Elizabeth; Street, Brian. Series: Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication. Num Pages: 320 pages, 66 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415202800
ISBN
9780415202800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.10

paperback. This tribe of South Dakota has met the challenge of living in the 20th century by expressing religion and beliefs in a cultural style that mixes tradition and Christian influence with western technology. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 7. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780030574382
ISBN
9780030574382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 90.86

Paperback. Provides a history of daily life on coffee plantations in central Nicaragua between 1870 and 1950 and uses that history to argue that the coffee boom impeded rather than expedited the country's transition to capitalism Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336747
ISBN
9780822336747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology in which she uses everyday items to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHMC; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361183
ISBN
9780822361183
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226469553
ISBN
9780226469553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.48

Paperback. Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece. 344 pages, 5 photographs, 1 map. As part of the agreement for Greece to join the European Union, the country had to undertake a massive psychiatric reform, moving patients out of custodial hospitals and returning them to the community to be treated as outpatients. This title shows how this played out at the edge of the nation, in the border region of Thrace. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHMP; JKS; MBNH. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 12. Weight: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351061
ISBN
9780822351061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.83

Hardback. As part of the agreement for Greece to join the EU, the country had to undertake a massive psychiatric reform, moving patients out of custodial hospitals and returning them to the community to be treated as outpatients. In this subtle ethnography, Elizabeth Davis shows how this played out at the edge of the nation, in the border region of Thrace. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHMP; JKS; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350934
ISBN
9780822350934
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.60

Hardback. Finding biopolitics unable to adequately reveal the mechanisms of power that govern contemporary life, Elizabeth A. Povinelli offers "geontopower" as a new theory of power that operates through the regulation of clear distinctions between life and nonlife. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; JHMC; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362111
ISBN
9780822362111
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.59

Paperback. A study of the Belyuen community of northern Australia, showing how it draws identity from deep connections between labour, language and the landscape. Povinelli's findings challenge Western notions of "productive labour" and long-standing ideas about the role of culture in subsistence economies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226676746
ISBN
9780226676746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Finding biopolitics unable to adequately reveal the mechanisms of power that govern contemporary life, Elizabeth A. Povinelli offers "geontopower" as a new theory of power that operates through the regulation of clear distinctions between life and nonlife. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; JHMC; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362333
ISBN
9780822362333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.63

Paperback. This study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; GTB; JHBD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618156
ISBN
9780748618156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.63

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBTB; JHM; JWD; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636412
ISBN
9780691636412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.58

Hardcover. This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study.. Num Pages: 268 pages, 20 ills, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JFCD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384076
ISBN
9781782384076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.92

Paperback. Ethnographic introduction to the social, economic and political factors that have contributed to tensions on the ground over US bases in South Korea Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; JHMC; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 288 x 21. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745336053
ISBN
9780745336053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.51

hardcover. Modernisation brought about market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power. This book compares the different intellectual atmospheres between the pre-republican and the republican periods, and identifies the roots of republican authoritarianism in the intellectual heritage of the earlier period. Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East. Num Pages: 22 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
22
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415341646
ISBN
9780415341646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.04

Paperback. Since our first primordial breath, wind has been a central theme of cultural thought. Wind in its different guises - from the 'natural phenomenon' of air in motion, to embodied 'life giving' experiences and deities and spirits - has contributed to the richness of human ideas and practices from ancient cultures to this very day. Series: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405178938
ISBN
9781405178938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.19

Hardcover. Editor(s): Gessat-Anstett, Elisabeth; Dreyfus, Jean-Marc. Series: Human Remains and Violence. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHMC; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719096501
ISBN
9780719096501
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; M. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 219 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226262284
ISBN
9780226262284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.82

Hardback. Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to "belong" in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life.. Editor(s): Hermann, Elfriede; Kempf, Wolfgang; Meijl, Toon Van. Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384151
ISBN
9781782384151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.56

Hardback. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York & Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York & Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 168 pages, 3 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; ASD; AVRJ; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782382560
ISBN
9781782382560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.45

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