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Paperback. Four leading thinkers confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JHM; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823251698
ISBN
9780823251698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Diasporic Homecomings provides a comparative, analytical overview of the major ethnic return migrant groups in Europe and East Asia through an in-depth, ethnographic account of their experiences. Editor(s): Tsuda, Takeyuki. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FP; JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804762762
ISBN
9780804762762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Since the late 1980's, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been 'return' migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. This book illuminates how cultural encounters caused by transnational migration can reinforce local ethnic identities and nationalist discourses. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSB; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 724.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231128384
ISBN
9780231128384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 166.82

Paperback. Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been 'return' migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. This book illuminates how cultural encounters caused by transnational migration can reinforce local ethnic identities and nationalist discourses. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSB; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231128391
ISBN
9780231128391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Hardback. Diasporic Homecomings provides a comparative, analytical overview of the major ethnic return migrant groups in Europe and East Asia through an in-depth, ethnographic account of their experiences. Editor(s): Tsuda, Takeyuki. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FP; JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762748
ISBN
9780804762748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.82

Paperback. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia - long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness - are low in some countries and not others? This book gives an account of the different experiences living with serious psychotic disorder in the U.S., India, Africa, and South East Asia. Editor(s): Luhrmann, T. M.; Marrow, Jocelyn. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black and white. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520291096
ISBN
9780520291096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Hardback. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia - long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness - are low in some countries and not others? This book gives an account of the different experiences living with serious psychotic disorder in the U.S., India, Africa, and South East Asia. Editor(s): Luhrmann, T. M.; Marrow, Jocelyn. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black and white. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520291089
ISBN
9780520291089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.87
€ 54.08

Hardcover. This reader brings together a selection of writings on peasant and labour movements; women and students youth movements; and ecological and environmental movements. It discusses contemporary social movements in India from the perspective of equity and security. Editor(s): Oommen, T. K. Series: Oxford in India Readings in Sociology & Social Anthropology. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFN; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198063285
ISBN
9780198063285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.02

Hardback. Cutting across social science and the humanities, this book develops the ontological implications of the thesis of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology: that all social order necessarily betrays conflicting underlying principles. It also mounts a study of the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism, as well as non-dualism. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845452247
ISBN
9781845452247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.34

Paperback. In a follow-up to their 1995 book Foundations of Social Inequality, the editors of this volume have compiled a new and comprehensive group of studies on the central questions of when and where hierarchy appears in human society, as well as how it operates. Editor(s): Price, T. Douglas; Feinman, Gary M. Series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. Num Pages: 298 pages, 46 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HD; HPS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2010th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461433033
ISBN
9781461433033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Chafer, T; Sackur, A. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349419005
ISBN
9781349419005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 124.23

Paperback. Editor(s): Bolden, T. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 351.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2008th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312296087
ISBN
9780312296087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.51

Paperback. Examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. This book challenges that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. Editor(s): Csordas, Thomas J. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524. Essays on Religion and Globalization. 352 pages. Editor(s): Csordas, Thomas J. Examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. This book challenges that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRA; JHMC. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257429
ISBN
9780520257429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. An international collection of ethnographic essays exploring the anthropology of the Anthropocene Editor(s): Eriksen, Thomas Hylland; Schober, Elisabeth. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 214 x 20. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745399126
ISBN
9780745399126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.32

Hardcover. This text shows how different collective identities in Latin America shape the access to, and participation in, the public domain. Collective identities were previously thought to be primordial components that would not survive the modern world, but now theorists think of them as a modern creation. Editor(s): Roniger, Luis; Sznajder, Mario. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JFC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781898723776
ISBN
9781898723776
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.19

Paperback. Illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. This book shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 map. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFC; JHM; JPFK; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691095103
ISBN
9780691095103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.54

Paperback. Brings to the analysis of American kinship a theoretical perspective that attends to the historically situated, symbolic processes through which people interpret and thereby transform their kinship relations. Num Pages: 300 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Stanford University Press Stanford
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720175
ISBN
9780804720175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Hardback. Memoirs of Wenner-Gren Foundation anthropological conferences by the former president of the foundation. Series: Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBT; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759102392
ISBN
9780759102392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.09

Paperback. Traces the theoretical development of anthropology through the lives of the well-known figures who have influenced its historical trajectory. Editor(s): Silverman, Sydel. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759104600
ISBN
9780759104600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.32

Hardback. Traces the theoretical development of anthropology through the lives of the well-known figures who have influenced its historical trajectory. Editor(s): Silverman, Sydel. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759104594
ISBN
9780759104594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.60

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