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Anthropology
Paperback. Traces the shifting tides of New York's ethnic past, from its beginnings as a Dutch trading outpost onwards. This work explores the processes of cultural adaptation to life in New York, giving an account of immigrants new and old, and of the streets and neighborhoods they claimed and transformed. Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life. Num Pages: 353 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078795
- ISBN
- 9780231078795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.34
€ 46.34
Paperback. * Presents a highly original new way of thinking about modern societies and human relationships. * Written by a leading professor of Social Policy * Contains numerous first hand interviews and everyday examples. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHMC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633510
- ISBN
- 9780745633510
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Condition: New
€ 25.93
€ 25.93
Hardback. * Presents a highly original new way of thinking about modern societies and human relationships. * Written by a leading professor of Social Policy * Contains numerous first hand interviews and everyday examples. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHMC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633503
- ISBN
- 9780745633503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.01
€ 73.01
Paperback. Ethnomusicologizing contains writings on contemporary music and culture studies. In this work, Banfield instructs readers in the ways by which we may better appreciate and understand creative artistry and process, and their relation to history and its meaning. Series: African American Cultural Theory and Heritage. Num Pages: 446 pages, 81 black & white halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; JFCA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 446
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442229716
- ISBN
- 9781442229716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.24
€ 75.24
Paperback. The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220926
- ISBN
- 9780812220926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Considers what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war. This book also considers how information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself. Editor(s): Biehl, Joao; Good, Byron J.; Kleinman, Arthur. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 477 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: GPS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 918. Ethnographic Investigations. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. 477 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Biehl, Joao; Good, Byron J.; Kleinman, Arthur. Considers what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war. This book also considers how information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: GPS; JHMP. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 17. Weight: 664.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 477
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247932
- ISBN
- 9780520247932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. It is the home of the Sahariyas, classified as Rajasthan's only "primitive tribe." The author organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226194547
- ISBN
- 9780226194547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.94
€ 32.99
€ 25.94
Hardcover. The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. It is home to the Sahariyas, officially classified as Rajasthan's only "primitive tribe." The author organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226194400
- ISBN
- 9780226194400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.74€ 79.37
€ 94.74
€ 79.37
Paperback. Explores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism in an effort to situate it in a transnational framework. Editor(s): Beverley, John R.; Oviedo, Jose; Aronna, Michael. Series: A Boundary 2 Book. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316145
- ISBN
- 9780822316145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.64
€ 31.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. This interdisciplinary volume examines the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision" and explores the role that scholars can and should play in approaching this issue. Editor(s): Shell-Duncan, Bettina; Hernlund, Ylva. Series: Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations & Innovations S. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; JFFE2; JFM; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555879952
- ISBN
- 9781555879952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.34
€ 35.34
Paperback. This is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in Kansas. Bypassing the tales of radicals on either coast, the author argues that the revolution was forged in both towns and cities, as "ordinary" people struggled over the boundaries of sexual behaviour in postwar America. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones, 6 cartoons. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JJP; HBJK; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009745
- ISBN
- 9780674009745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.99
€ 41.99
€ 34.99
Paperback. Explores Wari' conceptions of person, body, and spirit, as well as indigenous understandings of memory and emotion, to explain why the Wari' felt that corpses must be destroyed and why they preferred cannibalism over cremation. This book shows why, in Wari' terms, it was considered the most honorable and compassionate way of treating the dead. Num Pages: 317 pages, 15 halftones, 3 maps, line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712362
- ISBN
- 9780292712362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
paperback. Discusses social and moral values in the global Senegalese community Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223678
- ISBN
- 9780253223678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.32
€ 26.99
€ 25.32
Paperback. Editor(s): Himmelgreen, David; Kedia, Satish. Series: NAPA Bulletin. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 172 x 10. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119016823
- ISBN
- 9781119016823
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Condition: New
€ 32.09
€ 32.09
Paperback. Editor(s): Besteman, Catherine; Gusterson, Hugh. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520243569
- ISBN
- 9780520243569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814738191
- ISBN
- 9780814738191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. This collection of essays analyzes the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflects on its recuperation in the field. Editor(s): Berube, Michael. Num Pages: 216 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 169 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631223061
- ISBN
- 9780631223061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.55
€ 47.55
Hardback. Deriving a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state's monopoly on legitimate punishment, socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations, and economic processes. Editor(s): Turner, Bertram; Schlee, Gunther. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 362 pages, 1 illustration, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHM. 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
- V9781785334184
- ISBN
- 9781785334184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.11
€ 138.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJH; HRCC9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781479841660
- ISBN
- 9781479841660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. Discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. This book contains essays, which form an exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000435
- ISBN
- 9780691000435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.84
€ 54.99
€ 39.84