Anthropology
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Anthropology
Hardback. Records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. This title exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, that is combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789828
- ISBN
- 9780226789828
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Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 77.43
€ 94.08
€ 77.43
Hardback. Begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, the author scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. Num Pages: 192 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789859
- ISBN
- 9780226789859
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Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 77.43
€ 94.08
€ 77.43
Paperback. Begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, the author scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. Num Pages: 192 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789866
- ISBN
- 9780226789866
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
€ 32.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bodily unconscious' in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, it takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790053
- ISBN
- 9780226790053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 77.43
€ 94.08
€ 77.43
Paperback. Michael Taussig uses a make-believe Cocaine Museum, which is a parody of the Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, to illuminate the largely unacknowledged history of Indian and African Colombian miners, now being drawn into cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790091
- ISBN
- 9780226790091
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.25
€ 40.99
€ 31.25
Paperback. Offers a penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's peril. In a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state, the author chronicles two weeks in a small town in Colombia's Cauca Valley taken over by paramilitaries that brazenly assassinate adolescent gang members. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 204 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790145
- ISBN
- 9780226790145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.51
€ 31.99
€ 24.51
paperback. Michael Tenzer offers a study of Balinese gamelan music, focusing on the pre-eminent 20th-century genre, gamelan gong kebyar. He applies music theory and analysis to this non-Western orchestral genre to discuss composition and structure, as well as looking at the ethographic background. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 504 pages, 27 halftones, 70 music examples, 26 line drawings, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; AVGE; AVGH; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 33. Weight in Grams: 950.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226792835
- ISBN
- 9780226792835
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Condition: New
€ 70.56€ 59.33
€ 70.56
€ 59.33
Hardback. Issues are examined in an inter-disciplinary dialogue between distinguished anthropologists and economists and cover community development, famine relief, fundamentalism, HIV-AIDS, discrimination and heritage. Editor(s): Walton, Michael; Rao, Vijayendra. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804747868
- ISBN
- 9780804747868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.90
€ 157.90
Paperback. The "Bleek and Lloyd Collection" consists of the notebooks in which William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd transcribed and translated the narratives, cultural information and personal histories told to them in the 1870's by a number of /Xam informants. This book examines the /Xam archive and also the critical tradition that has grown up around the archive. Editor(s): Wessels, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868145065
- ISBN
- 9781868145065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JHMC; PSAK; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231168748
- ISBN
- 9780231168748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 38.85
€ 54.99
€ 38.85
Paperback. The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. BIC Classification: 1DS; JFFN; JHM; JPA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745696805
- ISBN
- 9780745696805
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Condition: New
€ 23.50
€ 23.50
Hardcover. The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; JFFN; JHM; JPA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745696799
- ISBN
- 9780745696799
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Condition: New
€ 65.05
€ 65.05
Paperback. From the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's Moses and Monotheism, de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the role and nature of history. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480. 368 pages, illustrations. From the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's Moses and Monotheism, de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the role and nature of history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBAH; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 19. Weight: 532.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231055758
- ISBN
- 9780231055758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.35
€ 42.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. Translator(s): Conley, Tim. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 10. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816627677
- ISBN
- 9780816627677
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.10
€ 27.99
€ 26.10
Paperback. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 176 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816626892
- ISBN
- 9780816626892
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.27
€ 29.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. aeo An exciting new book by one of the leading social and feminist theorists writing today. aeo Brings together Barretta s work on key issues in the social sciences and humanities. aeo Highly original and interdisciplinary. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745616667
- ISBN
- 9780745616667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.97
€ 64.97
Paperback. aeo An exciting new book by one of the leading social and feminist theorists writing today. aeo Brings together Barretta s work on key issues in the social sciences and humanities. aeo Highly original and interdisciplinary. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745616674
- ISBN
- 9780745616674
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Condition: New
€ 25.73
€ 25.73
Paperback. This text examines the social, spatial and property practices of New Zealand's high country. It combines historical, literary and ethnographic approaches to draw a portrait of families whose many features can be used in the debates about land use in the colonies of the British diaspora. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBJM; JFSL9; JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742509528
- ISBN
- 9780742509528
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Condition: New
€ 72.82
€ 72.82
Paperback. Since the 1960s social scientists have been reluctant to discuss the cultural dimensions of racial inequality - not wanting to "blame the victim" for having "wrong values". This text employs cultural analysis toward an understanding of how cultural structures articulate the black/white problem. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226468365
- ISBN
- 9780226468365
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 36.70
€ 47.99
€ 36.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801486449
- ISBN
- 9780801486449
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59
Hardback. Editor(s): Langley, Michelle C. Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Num Pages: 257 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 53 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HD; JHM; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210. Weight in Grams: 919.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789402408973
- ISBN
- 9789402408973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.93
€ 139.93
Paperback. A series of photographic mug shots taken by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia are agents in an ongoing drama of unimaginable human suffering. Series: Critical Human Rights. Num Pages: 246 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMC; HBJF; HBLW; JHMC; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299297541
- ISBN
- 9780299297541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.22
€ 45.22
Paperback. The mythic roots and modern future of Ecuadorian indigenous communities in the twenty-first century Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millenium. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 photographs; 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HRLF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252076039
- ISBN
- 9780252076039
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.97
€ 26.99
€ 26.97
paperback. Editor(s): Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist; Lamphere, Louise. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4figs.3tabs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 172 x 216 x 27. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804708517
- ISBN
- 9780804708517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59