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Anthropology

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252063268
ISBN
9780252063268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. This ethnographic, historical and cultural study examines marginalized events, sites and cultural practices in Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226388335
ISBN
9780226388335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. A highly provocative and original volume that examines the issues, themes, and difficulties emerging out of the new anthropological concern with history. Num Pages: 428 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; HBAH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231079211
ISBN
9780231079211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 35.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 246 x 27. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
HAU
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780986132537
ISBN
9780986132537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.11

paperback. Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. This book treats the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. Series: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology. Num Pages: 437 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520072022
ISBN
9780520072022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.15

Hardback. Reveals the complex imperial dynamics of Russian physical anthropology and contributes an important comparative perspective from which to understand the emergence of racial science Translator(s): Mogilner, Marina. Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 504 pages, 38 photographs, 4 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 43. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803239784
ISBN
9780803239784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.21

Paperback. Music and dance play a central role in the 'healing arts' of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. This title shows how the sounds and gestures of music and dance acquire a potency that can transform thoughts, emotions, and bodies. Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. Num Pages: 278 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMM; JFSL9; JHM; MMZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520082816
ISBN
9780520082816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.47

paperback. What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? This book draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHB; JHMC; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436. Clean copy with minor warping to covers and pages. Remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0021703
ISBN
9780520282315
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345459
ISBN
9780822345459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.59

Hardback. An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345305
ISBN
9780822345305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. This book examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims-residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an-uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government's official paradigm for development. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746854
ISBN
9780804746854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. Conversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices. Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Num Pages: 368 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359630
ISBN
9780822359630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. The Biotechnology Act in Norway, the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people's choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state.. Num Pages: 204 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFMG; JHMC; MFKC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
204
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857455024
ISBN
9780857455024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.48

Hardcover. In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of 'the field'pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having.. Editor(s): Melhuus, Marit; Mitchell, Jon P.; Wulff, Helena. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845456160
ISBN
9781845456160
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.65

Paperback. * Combats stereotypes that have dominated theories on female moral development by challenging the notion that girls are inherently supportive of each other. * Examines the stances that girls on a playground in a multicultural school setting assume and shows how they position themselves in their peer groups. Series: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture. Num Pages: 344 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 172 x 23. Weight in Grams: 632.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631234258
ISBN
9780631234258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.53

Paperback. One of Washington's finest writers on people, politics, and life -- collected for the first time. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Condition
New
SKU
V9781586484576
ISBN
9781586484576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 17.03

Hardback. Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of Warburg Institute, was one of the influential cultural historians of twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this book presents a study of his response to German political, social and cultural modernism. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; ABQ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845453695
ISBN
9781845453695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.55

Paperback. Shows that students of culture today operate in social and intellectual circumstances similar to those of 17th century natural philosophers. Just as Newton was drawn to alchemy, scholars today are fascinated by ghostly and mercurial agents thought to account for the meanings of cultural entities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226739281
ISBN
9780226739281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. Global goods, class, and identity in urban Egypt Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFHF; JFSG; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253223111
ISBN
9780253223111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.25

Paperback. The age of information, media and virtuality is transforming many aspects of human experience. This is an investigation of the postmodern world which critically examines a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. The author contends that postmodern culture is full of creative possibilities. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 354 pages, 13 colour plates, 122 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PDR; U. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 184 x 24. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226791593
ISBN
9780226791593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.06

Paperback. Since the late 1970s, a new folk hero has risen to prominence in the US-Mexico border region and beyond--the narcotrafficker. This book takes a look at the persona of the narcotrafficker and how it has been shaped by Mexican border culture, socioeconomic and power disparities, and the transnational music industry. Series: Inter-America Series. Num Pages: 212 pages, 15 b&w photos, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292702066
ISBN
9780292702066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Religion is commonly imagined as a timeless component of human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered their religion only after India became an independent secular state. This title shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its emergence. Num Pages: 305 pages, 25 images. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520290549
ISBN
9780520290549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader is a groundbreaking collection that brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions that anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 245 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405183345
ISBN
9781405183345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.78

Hardback. Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader is a groundbreaking collection that brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions that anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405183352
ISBN
9781405183352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.83

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