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Anthropology
Paperback. Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "Latin American multicultural turn" in Afro Latino social movements of the past two decades. Editor(s): Rahier, Jean. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHM; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349352357
- ISBN
- 9781349352357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Paperback. This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema. Editor(s): Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng; Davidson, Andrew P. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349353309
- ISBN
- 9781349353309
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Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. "This book is a collection by distinguished language reasearchers focussing on the most prominent theoretical framework on language and sociology of religion"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; HRA; HRAM; JFSR; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349354764
- ISBN
- 9781349354764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Paperback. This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine at face-to-face encounters in marketplaces. Editor(s): Cook, D. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JHB; JHMC; KJSU; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349354849
- ISBN
- 9781349354849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Paperback. This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challengesonly-children face as adults.Explored from both a social and psychological perspective, it reveals the complexity and multidimensional nature of the private and public worlds of the only-child." Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBC; JHBK; JHM; JMS; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355983
- ISBN
- 9781349355983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. This profound anthology comprehensibly introduces latest approaches in the central fields of game studies and provides an extensive survey of the contemporary game culture. Editor(s): Jahn-Sudmann, Andreas; Stockmann, Ralf. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHBA; JHM; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349360932
- ISBN
- 9781349360932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.89
€ 126.89
Paperback. In this new collection of essays, a range ofestablished and emergingcultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies. They examine Hoggart's legacy, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and complexities, and affirming his importance." Editor(s): Owen, S. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFC; JFCX; JHBA; JHM; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349360956
- ISBN
- 9781349360956
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Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Paperback. This bookexamines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the connections between mundane practices in the reproduction of our bodies and our relations with those we live with, and the technological practices that inform daily life." Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JHBK; JHM; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361014
- ISBN
- 9781349361014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
paperback. This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten legacy of a colonial past that cannot be confined to the past. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFC; JFF; JFSL; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349367719
- ISBN
- 9781349367719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Paperback. Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise. Editor(s): Higgins, V.; Larner, Wendy. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBC; JHM; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367948
- ISBN
- 9781349367948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Paperback. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JHB; JHBS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368129
- ISBN
- 9781349368129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. This book explores the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349369621
- ISBN
- 9781349369621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Paperback. In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book tells the story of the history of the tattooed body on display in the Unites States while demonstrating how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Num Pages: 213 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; JHM; JHMC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349369706
- ISBN
- 9781349369706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349369980
- ISBN
- 9781349369980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.58
€ 65.58
Paperback. This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Using readings of such major figures as Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton, this book considers alternative ways that fat was constructed before the introduction of the modern pathologized category of 'obesity'." Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349370603
- ISBN
- 9781349370603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, almost trivial differences in personal values between cultures. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371419
- ISBN
- 9781349371419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.58
€ 65.58
Paperback. This book traces representations of "Gypsies" that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies. Editor(s): Glajar, Valentina; Radulescu, Domnica. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 269 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJ; HBJD; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371549
- ISBN
- 9781349371549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop. Num Pages: 222 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFC; JFSR; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349372430
- ISBN
- 9781349372430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Sebek, B; Deng, S. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 287 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBH5; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349372591
- ISBN
- 9781349372591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book tells the stories of eleven remarkable people in the Islamic world, from a religious musician in Pakistan who sings the sufferings of the saints and hopes to bring reconciliation to his country, to the son of one of the greatest Shi'ite scholars of Iraq who was murdered trying to restore peace in his city. Editor(s): Trix, Frances; Walbridge, John. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HRH; JHM; JHMC; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349372829
- ISBN
- 9781349372829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.56
€ 65.56