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Hardcover. Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Metraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. Series: Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Cultures. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571818133
ISBN
9781571818133
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.14

Hardback. The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S. government turned to anthropologists for insight. The result was a research effort that continued long after the war, aimed, in the words of Margaret Mead, at analyzing the cultural. Editor(s): Mead, Margaret; Metraux, Rhoda. Series: Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Cultures. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571812155
ISBN
9781571812155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.66

Hardcover. This volume draws on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations in order to consider the impact of cultural difference, embodiment, and local knowledge on understanding obesity. It is through this reconstruction of how obesity and fatness are studied and understood that a new discussion will be introduced.. Editor(s): McCullough, Megan; Hardin, Jessica. Series: Food, Nutrition, and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 5 figs, 1 table. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBNH3; MMZF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 169 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782381419
ISBN
9781782381419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.25

Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRE; JFSJ1; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 295 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804799546
ISBN
9780804799546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FMP; HBJF; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816671977
ISBN
9780816671977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Hardback. In Domesticating Organ Transplant Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico, where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity, national pride, and the role of women in creating the Mexican state. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360520
ISBN
9780822360520
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Paperback. In Domesticating Organ Transplant Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico, where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity, national pride, and the role of women in creating the Mexican state. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360674
ISBN
9780822360674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Hardback. This ethnography focuses on the romantic experiences of women from adolescence to maturity in a rural village in North Bali. It delves into the intensity of passion that exists below the harmonious veneer of traditional patterns of courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742518636
ISBN
9780742518636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.44

Paperback. This ethnography focuses on the romantic experiences of women from adolescence to maturity in a rural village in North Bali. It delves into the intensity of passion that exists below the harmonious veneer of traditional patterns of courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742518643
ISBN
9780742518643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

Paperback. Through an ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, this book brings you inside an imaginative work of the long-marginalized tribal communities. It shows how they must affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226253046
ISBN
9780226253046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.02

Paperback. A historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean. Num Pages: 360 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1HFG; GTB; HBG; HBLL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 307 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333999
ISBN
9780822333999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson realized that her students individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their historical marginalization. In order to overcome their civic empowerment gap, students must learn how to reshape power relationships through public political and civic action. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: HPS; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 130 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674284241
ISBN
9780674284241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.73

Paperback. This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body, constructing a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFC; JFSR1; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750806
ISBN
9780804750806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

hardcover. This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body, constructing a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFC; JFSR1; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804732727
ISBN
9780804732727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardcover. Collapsing concrete colossuses, run-down overgrown skeletons, immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment, which we are dying to dispose of - and yet cannot do without - have inspired many ghost stories, crime novels and urban legends. Series: Remapping Cultural History. Num Pages: 278 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455309
ISBN
9781845455309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 32 color illustrations, 115 halftones, 14 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: AJ; HD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 279. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Peabody Museum Press
Edition
Anniversary
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873658676
ISBN
9780873658676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. Food and social transformation in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Editor(s): Caldwell, Melissa L. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1DVUA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221391
ISBN
9780253221391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. Illustrates how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism. This book features ten studies that present activist groups across US - from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231128506
ISBN
9780231128506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43
€ 90.47

Paperback. Illustrates how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism. This book features ten studies that present activist groups across US - from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231128513
ISBN
9780231128513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. * This is a remarkable study of the impact on online technologies on professional workers. * Gregg introduces the notion of work's intimacy to describe the way technology exacerbates the expectations of professional jobs as they come to invade spaces and times that were once less susceptible to work's presence. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745650289
ISBN
9780745650289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.57

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