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Anthropology

Paperback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487593476
ISBN
9781487593476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.27

A prize-winning journalist and Asia expert issues a provocative critique of the West's eroticized illusions about Asia and how profoundly they color our social, cultural, business, personal, and political interactions. Num Pages: 464 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FP; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 744.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Condition
New
SKU
V9781586483944
ISBN
9781586483944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. How has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes? How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest? The author helps us to understand this mobilizing spirit as he taps into the intimate relationships everyday Japanese have with their government. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 halftones 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSL; JHM; JMH; JPHC; KF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691001913
ISBN
9780691001913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 42.58

Paperback. From Janis Joplin to P.J. Harvey, Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415211901
ISBN
9780415211901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.84

Hardback. Sheila Kitzinger, passionate campaigner for women's and babies' rights, childbirth educator and author, describes the experiences that have shaped her since childhood and the enormous changes that have taken place over the last 50 years on the subject of birth. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JHM; VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 39. Weight in Grams: 786.
Publisher
Pinter & Martin Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780661704
ISBN
9781780661704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3488 x 12. Weight in Grams: 247.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804719599
ISBN
9780804719599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226276526
ISBN
9780226276526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.66

Hardback. Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women's lives and their economic and social status. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JHMC; KNAC; MJT; PSXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 661. Weight in Grams: 587.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781477311387
ISBN
9781477311387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.36

Paperback. In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159652
ISBN
9780691159652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JHB; JHMC; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147871
ISBN
9780691147871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 42.58

Paperback. Editor(s): Nahm, Sheena; Hughes Rinker, Cortney. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138914520
ISBN
9781138914520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narco-trafficking along the US - Mexico border. This book explores the everyday reality of the drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers: those living at the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of "the war on drugs." Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JHMC; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
255
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276789
ISBN
9780520276789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at fifteen, he attempts to claim America as his homebase, and his personal history is interwoven with dreams, stories, and letters of his family's life in America. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; BGA; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988160
ISBN
9780295988160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1MK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 177 x 12. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941792070
ISBN
9781941792070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.32

Paperback. With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. This book explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380. Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 280 pages, illustrations. With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. This book explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHMC. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight: 380.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272422
ISBN
9780520272422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.13

Hardback. Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement of the greater common good.. Editor(s): Kasmir, Sharryn; Carbonella, August. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782383635
ISBN
9781782383635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.23

Hardcover. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKP; HDD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 203 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1120.
Publisher
Peabody Museum Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Har/Cdr
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873652155
ISBN
9780873652155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.30
€ 76.62

Paperback. A work of Black queer feminist theory that examines the intertwined histories of critical race theory, queer theory, and Black feminism, histories which could not have been formed in the same way without each other, but which are often held at a respectful distance. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352068
ISBN
9780822352068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. This is the first book to explore the photographic imagery of the Tlingit dating from a critical period of change, from the 1860s through the 1920s. Num Pages: 240 pages, 130 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934536100
ISBN
9781934536100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.58

Hardcover. * Combines classic theoretical texts with cutting edge anthropological works. * Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state". * Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Editor(s): Sharma, Aradhana; Gupta, Akhil. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 424 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHM; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 188 x 27. Weight in Grams: 944.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405114677
ISBN
9781405114677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.52

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