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Paperback. Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. It explores innovative rites for important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Series: Life Passages S. Num Pages: 393 pages, 6 figures, 7 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: HRLF; JFC; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 520. Re-Inventing Rites of Passage. Series: Life Passages S. 393 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 6 line illustrations. Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. It explores innovative rites for important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HRLF; JFC; JHBT; JHMC. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 26. Weight: 552.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
393
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236752
ISBN
9780520236752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Editor(s): Morphy, Howard; Perkins, Morgan. Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 576 pages, 239 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 30. Weight in Grams: 992.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405105620
ISBN
9781405105620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.32

Paperback. Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478055
ISBN
9780801478055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.00

Paperback. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; MFGM; MJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361015
ISBN
9780822361015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, this title probes the unobserved moments in our daily lives - waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task - and illuminates these 'empty' times as full of significance. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386. 280 pages. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, this title probes the unobserved moments in our daily lives - waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task - and illuminates these 'empty' times as full of significance. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHMC. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight: 388.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520262638
ISBN
9780520262638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

Paperback. This volume brings together essays by five scholars concerned with the senses and the anthropology of everyday life. Covering a wide range of topics from film to food, the authors describe ways in which sensory memories have preserved cultures otherwise threatened by urbanism and modernity. Num Pages: 158 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
158
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Univ of Chicago PR ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226748771
ISBN
9780226748771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. A collection of essays that develop the extended case method by connecting the author's own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century - the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of US capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Num Pages: 360 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: JHM; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400. Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition. 360 pages, illustrations. A collection of essays that develop the extended case method by connecting the author's own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century - the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of US capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM; KCS. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 21. Weight: 400.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520259010
ISBN
9780520259010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.24

Paperback. Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the adopted daughter of an Eskimo family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 halftones, 5 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674608283
ISBN
9780674608283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.55

Paperback. A generously illustrated ethnography arguing that popular photographic practices have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 400 pages, 127 photographs, incl. 32 in color. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJP; AJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 774.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346111
ISBN
9780822346111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Ethnographic studies trace the background to and impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period. Editor(s): Jesch, Judith. Series: Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology. Num Pages: 382 pages, 2, 2 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3F; HBJD; HBLC1; HDDM; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
382
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843837282
ISBN
9781843837282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.84

Paperback. Looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in places as far apart as New York, Australia, and London. Num Pages: 360 pages, 35 photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHM; KNDF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1.11.2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351504
ISBN
9780822351504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. This book details collaborations between contemporary art, heritage, anthropologica, and archaeological practitioners, exploring the creative interplay of 'art' and 'archaeology' so new modes of expression can build new understanding of the world. Editor(s): Russell, Ian Alden; Cochrane, Andrew. Series: One World Archaeology. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493926541
ISBN
9781493926541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 123.74

Paperback. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, this title provides an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
Later Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099967507
ISBN
9780099967507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HBTB; HPC; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 4. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802063489
ISBN
9780802063489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Trinacria Editions LLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780615796949
ISBN
9780615796949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 37.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 482 pages, 20 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662. 482 pages, 20 line drawings, 2 tables. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PDA. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight: 682.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
482
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226668017
ISBN
9780226668017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.16

Paperback. Editor(s): Mitchell, Timothy. Series: Contradictions of modernity series. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HBM; 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631346
ISBN
9780816631346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. A philosophical examination and celebration of the human hand. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: HPM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 233 x 22. Weight in Grams: 582.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617388
ISBN
9780748617388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. Explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired 'society of affliction' that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. This title draws upon the critiques of Western metaphysics, revealing what this little known practice can tell us about sensation, transformation, and redemption in the Black Atlantic. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468. Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba. 328 pages. Explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired 'society of affliction' that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. This title draws upon the critiques of Western metaphysics, revealing what this little known practice can tell us about sensation, transformation, and redemption in the Black Atlantic. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JHMC. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight: 452.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520256842
ISBN
9780520256842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. The many political lives of an Indian Ocean metropolis, as seen through the eyes of scholars, writers and activists. Editor(s): Khan, Nichola. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; HBJF; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849047265
ISBN
9781849047265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.89

Paperback. A timely exploration of music's role in conflict situations across the globe Editor(s): O'Connell, John; Castelo-Branco, Salwa El-Shawan. Num Pages: 304 pages, 28 photographs, 2 maps, 3 charts, 8 music examples, 3 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; GTJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077388
ISBN
9780252077388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270. With New Material. 221 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JHMC. Dimension: 211 x 137 x 14. Weight: 270.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
221
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520274914
ISBN
9780520274914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.36

Hardback. Brazilian Bodies, and their Choreographies of Identification retraces the presence of a particular way of swaying the body that, in Brazil, is commonly known as ginga. Cristina Rosa its presence across distinct and specific realms: samba-de-roda (samba-in-a-circle) dances, capoeira angola games, and the repertoire of Grupo Corpo. Series: New World Choreographies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; ASD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137462268
ISBN
9781137462268
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.80

Paperback. This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date. Series Editor(s): Granovetter, Mark. Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFFH1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594. Selling Crack in El Barrio. Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences. 432 pages, 16 b/w illus. 1 table. This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFFH1; JHMC. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight: 576. Series Editor(s) :Granovetter, Mark.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521017114
ISBN
9780521017114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.65

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