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Anthropology
Paperback. This book explores the link between the everyday relations of gender and the reform of the rural political economy in the 1980's, and argues that the reconstitution of the Chinese state in the reform era draws force and authority from the inherent politics and power of gender. Editor(s): Judd, Ellen R. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; JFFK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- V9780804726986
- ISBN
- 9780804726986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.12
€ 40.99
€ 40.12
hardcover. This is the story of how the women's movement in China took advantage of the government's official efforts to position women in the rural economic reforms of the 1980s to achieve a significant and ever-increasing role in China's developing turn toward a market economy, which was not the state's intent. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFK; JHMC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744058
- ISBN
- 9780804744058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.91
€ 135.91
Paperback. Provides an ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in northern Japan. This book explains that spiritual practice at the Akakura shrine is motivated by the efforts of women and men to comprehend and manage contradictory obligations and desires related to personal health, family, and work. Num Pages: 288 pages, 31 b&w photos, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HRKN3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330622
- ISBN
- 9780822330622
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.23
€ 30.99
€ 29.23
Paperback. Probes the experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. This book shows how surrogates and intended mothers negotiate their cooperative endeavor. It traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a transition to motherhood. Num Pages: 384 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526. The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self. 384 pages, illustrations. Probes the experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. This book shows how surrogates and intended mothers negotiate their cooperative endeavor. It traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a transition to motherhood. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 23. Weight: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520259645
- ISBN
- 9780520259645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JHBK; JHM; VFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 6. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226507972
- ISBN
- 9780226507972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.51
€ 31.99
€ 24.51
Paperback. The essence of this book is to assist educators to improve eduational practice in the constantly changing cultural contexts of school and society. Cross cultural dimensions such as diversity; uniformity; individualism, and collectivism emerge as key focus areas of discussion. Series: Wiley Series in Culture & Professional Practice. Num Pages: 328 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471897880
- ISBN
- 9780471897880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.21
€ 94.21
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813569703
- ISBN
- 9780813569703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.87
€ 169.87
Paperback. Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex. Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFSP1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813569697
- ISBN
- 9780813569697
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.01
€ 41.99
€ 41.01
Hardcover. Based on fieldwork over ten years, this book builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated in urban society and is part of the modern global world. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 tables & 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBX; JFSL; JHMC; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459312
- ISBN
- 9780857459312
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Condition: New
€ 151.93
€ 151.93
Hardcover. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Genoa, Italy, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary urban life that refuses scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption and casts a fresh light on an oft-neglected social group-the middle class. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248784
- ISBN
- 9780812248784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.60€ 27.84
€ 74.60
€ 27.84
Hardback. Anthropological literature has traditionally been static and synchronic, only occasionally contributing to historical processes, however this is slowly beginning to change. This collection introduces focus and direction to this developing interface between anthropology and history. Editor(s): Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Num Pages: 344 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804717922
- ISBN
- 9780804717922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.93
€ 168.93
Paperback. Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? And why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? This title examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other people. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 halftones 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691021102
- ISBN
- 9780691021102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.05
€ 46.99
€ 33.05
Hardcover. This study provides ethnographically rich descriptions of managerial practices in a set of international corporate investment projects. Drawing also on historical and statistical data, it renders a comprehensive perspective on management, corporations, and capitalism in the late modern globalized economy. Num Pages: 284 pages, 15 tables & figures. BIC Classification: JHM; KCX; KJM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451859
- ISBN
- 9780857451859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.46
€ 152.46
Paperback. In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how women's use of sex hormones in Bahia, Brazil for menstrual suppression shapes social relations, having become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMC; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361619
- ISBN
- 9780822361619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.14
€ 30.99
€ 29.14
Hardback. In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how women's use of sex hormones in Bahia, Brazil for menstrual suppression shapes social relations, having become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMC; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361428
- ISBN
- 9780822361428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Paperback. Originally published in Sweden as Med lapperne i hojfjeldet, copyright 1913. Translator(s): Sjoholm, Barbara. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299292348
- ISBN
- 9780299292348
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.30
€ 27.99
€ 24.30
Paperback. Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world. Series: Primers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118877470
- ISBN
- 9781118877470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 51.62
€ 51.99
€ 51.62
Paperback. Reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are pre-eminent Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992235
- ISBN
- 9780295992235
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.47
€ 37.99
€ 33.47
Paperback. Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture. This work seeks to understand mania's appeal and how it weighs on the lives of Americans diagnosed with manic depression. It takes us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds and psychotropic drugs. Num Pages: 400 pages, 19 halftones. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Paperback Prin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141060
- ISBN
- 9780691141060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.74
€ 42.99
€ 30.74
Hardcover. This book examines the formation, entrenchment, and sociopolitical consequences of land conflict in the Negev region of Israel as it has become defined along ethnic lines. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JHMC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 239 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804797603
- ISBN
- 9780804797603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.06
€ 125.06