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Anthropology

Hardback. Reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own "Deaf Space" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 photographs, 11 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFFG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781563686320
ISBN
9781563686320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.06
€ 60.32

Paperback. A fascinating study of institutional knowledge practices Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472088324
ISBN
9780472088324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.79

Paperback. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, this title looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. It focuses on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, and boundaries. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: JHMP; MJC; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329176
ISBN
9780822329176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MKLP; 1MKP; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424. The Paradox of Keeping-while-giving. 264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map. Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MKLP; 1MKP; JFFK; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight: 414.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520076044
ISBN
9780520076044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.48

Paperback. Editor(s): Rathle, Annette. Series: Acta Hyperborea. Num Pages: 295 pages, colour photos & b/w illus. BIC Classification: HDW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 168 x 28. Weight in Grams: 732.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772897127
ISBN
9788772897127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.91
€ 40.41

Paperback / so. Series: Auswartige Kulturpolitik. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMC; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer vs United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783658075927
ISBN
9783658075927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.80

hardcover. This work argues that the "clash of civilizations" that is thought to be a feature of the post-Cold War environment is not necessarily caused by the dogma of world religions or cultural incompatibilities but by the hegemonic universalisms that have characterized world history since 1492. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804749800
ISBN
9780804749800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.71

Hardcover. This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 2. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785333026
ISBN
9781785333026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.17

Hardback. This text juxtaposes an in-depth study of the spread of Rastafari in the 1970s with an examination of the rise of an international marijuana economy. It emphasizes Rastafari as the "hearts and minds" behind both the Caribbean informal drug economy and the internationalisation of the "ganja complex" Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HRK; JFFH1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739103609
ISBN
9780739103609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.70

Paperback. Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum. Num Pages: 432 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 238 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520078277
ISBN
9780520078277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.07

Paperback. An important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies Translator(s): Asselin, Charles. Num Pages: 536 pages, 6 b&w photographs, 12 tables. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 28. Weight in Grams: 625.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071027
ISBN
9780252071027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. Contributors focus on such key media texts of the 1960s as The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, demonstrating what close textual investigation can reveal about the great social and cultural transformation of the decade. Editor(s): Aldgate, Anthony; Chapman, James (Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, Open University); Marwick, Arthur (Professor of History, Open University). Num Pages: 232 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; JFC; JFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860643835
ISBN
9781860643835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.62

Paperback. This book is an excellent, comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have evolved over time. Successful in hardback, it is now available in paperback for a student audience. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631161691
ISBN
9780631161691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.93

Hardcover. Num Pages: 326 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLSX; HBJK; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1198.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884024033
ISBN
9780884024033
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.55
€ 67.37

Paperback. Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the European Renaissance on. Editor(s): Grafton, Anthony; Blair, Ann. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216677
ISBN
9780812216677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). . Some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KTG0003645
ISBN
9781845450502
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardback. Just who are the Malays? This provocative study, now available in paperback, poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical 'Malay' context. Series: Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631172222
ISBN
9780631172222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.85

Paperback. A synthesis of Jungian psychology with the discoveries of ethology and socio-biology, this is intended to take the reader a step beyond Ardrey and Morris into a wider science. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHMP; JMS; PSX; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415052207
ISBN
9780415052207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.96

Paperback. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691170787
ISBN
9780691170787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.60

Hardback. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JHMC; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691170770
ISBN
9780691170770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.37
€ 71.09

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