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Anthropology
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Anthropology
Paperback. Although humans slumber for approximately one third of our lives, sleep itself is vastly understudied. This volume provides a comparative frame through which we can understand the myriad ways in which sleep reflects and embodies culture as contributors examine aspects of sleep in various countries and contexts. Editor(s): Glaskin, K; Chenhall, R. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; JHMC; JMB; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457960
- ISBN
- 9781349457960
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Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Paperback. How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative registers and moral susceptibilities in disputes? This book examines such questions through cases in Europe, the United States, Israel, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Editor(s): Benda-Beckmann, F.von; Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458240
- ISBN
- 9781349458240
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€ 126.94
€ 126.94
Paperback. Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique window into popular formations of AIDS and gender conflict in Africa. The first book on the subject to draw primarily on such narratives, this book shows how they provide rich insights into the struggles of people living in an era of social upheaval. Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBK; JHM; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458370
- ISBN
- 9781349458370
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Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFD; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459292
- ISBN
- 9781349459292
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Condition: New
€ 65.70
€ 65.70
Paperback. By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and sociolinguistic variables affect a narrator's language use and linguistic behaviour. This book will be of interest to anyone engaged with narrative discourse, gender discourse, Arabic studies and linguistics. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFGR; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459513
- ISBN
- 9781349459513
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Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Paperback. With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food. Editor(s): Klein, Jakob A.; Murcott, Anne. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JHBL; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459742
- ISBN
- 9781349459742
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Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Paperback. Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support? Using a number of case studies, contributors explore social support as a tool of mutuality, or maintaining relatedness and sharing feelings, rather than preventing or patching up problems. This book helps correct the dominant framework of deliberate action. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHM; JHMC; JMH; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349461240
- ISBN
- 9781349461240
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€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to community processes and to material and emotional survival. Editor(s): Coe, C. Num Pages: 207 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349461301
- ISBN
- 9781349461301
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Condition: New
€ 65.56
€ 65.56
paperback. This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes. Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHM; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349462490
- ISBN
- 9781349462490
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Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Paperback. The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice is an ethnographic study of the effects of Fair Trade on indigenous women, as reported by the women themselves, and seeks to develop a deeper understanding of Fair Trade, globalization, culture, and policy in building justice. Num Pages: 283 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; JHMC; KJG; KJJ; KJMV6; KJVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463008
- ISBN
- 9781349463008
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Condition: New
€ 126.94
€ 126.94
Paperback. Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These debates also call into question assumptions about the decline of religion in modern industrial societies. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRCC9; HRCM; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463541
- ISBN
- 9781349463541
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHM; JHMC; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465248
- ISBN
- 9781349465248
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Condition: New
€ 65.68
€ 65.68
Paperback. Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTQ; JFC; JHM; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465668
- ISBN
- 9781349465668
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Condition: New
€ 126.77
€ 126.77
Paperback. Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects personal embodied habits and large-scale cultural practices. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFC; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465927
- ISBN
- 9781349465927
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€ 65.53
€ 65.53
Paperback. This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and participant observations conducted in schools and homes in Shanghai, China. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JHM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467020
- ISBN
- 9781349467020
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€ 65.53
€ 65.53
Paperback. The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performance, both for individuals and wider collectives. Series: Anthropology, Change and Development. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; GTF; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349468461
- ISBN
- 9781349468461
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Condition: New
€ 127.95
€ 127.95
paperback. Editor(s): Cooper, E.; Pratten, David. Series: Anthropology, Change and Development. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHM; JHMC; KCM. 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
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- SKU
- V9781349468607
- ISBN
- 9781349468607
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Condition: New
€ 71.14
€ 71.14
Paperback. The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation, stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSJ; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469246
- ISBN
- 9781349469246
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Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Paperback. Ecotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation. Davidov offers a comparative analysis of the issue using a case study of indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador and their interactions with globalization and transnational systems. Num Pages: 279 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JF; JHM; JHMC; KNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349470105
- ISBN
- 9781349470105
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? This book attempts to answer these questions by exploring the relationship between ecology and theology. Editor(s): Reijnen, Anne Marie. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JHM; JHMC; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472406
- ISBN
- 9781349472406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09