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Anthropology

Hardback. This book combines fine-grained ethnography with conceptual and analytical work to examine Islamic discourses and practices and their articulation within mass media. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HRH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109827
ISBN
9780230109827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

Hardback. This study maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Sean Heuston combines interdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, with close reading, and in so doing argues provocatively for the intersection of modern poetry studies and contemporary ethnographic theory. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111677
ISBN
9780230111677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardback. Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure. Editor(s): Norton, Matthew. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111714
ISBN
9780230111714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.33

Hardcover. Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112575
ISBN
9780230112575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility towards the United States is a predominant feature. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120822
ISBN
9780230120822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Hardback. This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement. Editor(s): Hockey, Jenny; Komaromy, Carol; Woodthorpe, Kate. Num Pages: 285 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230224162
ISBN
9780230224162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardback. Exploring the experiences of children encountering war and armed conflict, this book draws upon history, ethnography, sociology, literature, media studies, psychology, public policy, and other disciplines to address children as soldiers, refugees, and peace-builders within their social, cultural, and political contexts. Editor(s): Cook, Daniel Thomas; Wall, John. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHMC; JPWS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230274433
ISBN
9780230274433
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.48

Hardback. A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating the importance of these earlier forms of imperialism to broaden our perspective on modern concerns about empire and the legacy of colonialism. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 597.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230294721
ISBN
9780230294721
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.79

Hardcover. A fresh theory on how individuals respond to inequalities occurring within their own communities. This original and insightful study draws on empirical research on the Santal people of Asia, examining power relations within social fields, and the state, to reveal a typology of power practices, and applies these to forced marriage in the West. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; LAQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230304536
ISBN
9780230304536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardback. This book is a collection of grounded accounts by feminist popular educators reflecting critically on processes of collective learning andself- and social transformation in various geopolitical settings.The contributorsadd to the debateon the forging of feminist praxis today. Editor(s): Walters, Shirley; Manicom, Linzi. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230339132
ISBN
9780230339132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardback. Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media, and the 'real' lives of these women. Num Pages: 298 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFK; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230340312
ISBN
9780230340312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

Paperback. This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFH2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230340992
ISBN
9780230340992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.66

Hardback. This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a relational action constructed in interaction through pre-existing patterns and captures the features of ritual phenomena by analysing interactants' behaviour in culturally and socially diverse contexts. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230393042
ISBN
9780230393042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-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: JHBC; JHMC; JMC; JMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230521018
ISBN
9780230521018
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

hardcover. In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant discourse to represent and subvert oppressive gender and class evaluations. Num Pages: 201 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFY; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2007th Edition
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600270
ISBN
9780230600270
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Hardback. This study examines the origins and development of racism in North America through addressing the inception and persistence of the concept of 'race' and the biology of human variance. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600775
ISBN
9780230600775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.16

Hardback. 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: 1FMV; 1FPJ; 1KBB; JFM; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602991
ISBN
9780230602991
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Paperback. Coca-Globalization explores globalization through an historical and anthropological study of soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi, examining how they have become more than mere commodities. Num Pages: 275 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHM; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603868
ISBN
9780230603868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

paperback. Editor(s): Behar, Ruth; Suarez, Lucia M. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 258 pages, 23 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604773
ISBN
9780230604773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230605381
ISBN
9780230605381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

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