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Anthropology
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
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
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
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.50
€ 33.99
€ 30.50
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
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.45
€ 33.99
€ 33.45
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
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.12
€ 27.99
€ 21.12
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
€ 150.42
€ 150.42
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
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Condition: New
€ 34.57
€ 34.57
Paperback. Introduces the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound Num Pages: 344 pages, 27 illustrations (including 2 in colour), 5 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; AVGH; HBTB; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502. Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. 344 pages, 27 illustrations (including 2 in colour), 5 tables, 1 map. Introduces the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; AVGH; HBTB; JHBT; JHMC. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 21. Weight: 498.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353652
- ISBN
- 9780822353652
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.85
€ 34.99
€ 31.85
Paperback. This first volume of the Ethnographer's Toolkit provides a practical, straightforward introduction to ethnography and ethnographic practice to the student and novice fieldworker. Series: Ethnographer's Toolkit. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759118690
- ISBN
- 9780759118690
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Condition: New
€ 53.69
€ 53.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Kleinman, Arthur; Good, Byron. Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 844. Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder. Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. 500 pages. Editor(s): Kleinman, Arthur; Good, Byron. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHM; MMJ. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 35. Weight: 880.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 500
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520058835
- ISBN
- 9780520058835
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.93
€ 46.99
€ 32.93
Hardback. How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography is a vivid account of one of the most esteemed Swedish bureaucracies - the Swedish Tax Agency. Shaping Taxpayers focuses on how fiscal strategies and relationships, as well as diverse knowledge claims - legal, economic, cultural - compete to shape taxpayer behaviour. Num Pages: 246 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNS; JHMC; JPP; KFFD1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785334108
- ISBN
- 9781785334108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.18
€ 151.18
Paperback. "Skillfully edited by Joyce and Gillespie, the volume Beyond Kinship illustrates the breadth of investigations into history, people, and place that Levi Strauss's formulation makes possible."-Current Anthropology Editor(s): Joyce, Rosemary A.; Gillespie, Susan D. Num Pages: 280 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812217230
- ISBN
- 9780812217230
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. This title tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers and consumers. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 332 pages, 20 b/w photos, 3 graphs, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450. Crafting Food and Value in America. Series: California Studies in Food & Culture. 332 pages, illustrations. Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. This title tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers and consumers. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight: 450.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270183
- ISBN
- 9780520270183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.94
€ 40.99
€ 28.94
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Dover Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486419558
- ISBN
- 9780486419558
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.38
€ 19.99
€ 15.38
Paperback. Bruce O'Neill shows how the Bucharest, Romania's homeless are unable to fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized around practices of consumption, leaving them mired in an unshakeable boredom and the slow deterioration of their lives that are symptomatic of the alienation brought on by globalization. Num Pages: 280 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; JFFA; JFFB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895. .
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363286
- ISBN
- 9780822363286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.27
€ 29.27
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320210
- ISBN
- 9780822320210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 30. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publisher
- HAU
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780986132551
- ISBN
- 9780986132551
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 27.85
€ 35.99
€ 27.85
Paperback. At some point in the course of evolution, all human societies, past and present, would emerge. This title offers an account of the dawn of human society. It shows that only a few evolutionary steps were required to bridge the gap between the kinship structures of our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, and the human kinship configuration. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; PSAJ; PSVW79; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674046412
- ISBN
- 9780674046412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.70
€ 37.99
€ 31.70
Hardback. Gathering all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must see it from another's point of view. For Levi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France's most public figures at his most personal. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JHBT; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 189 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072923
- ISBN
- 9780674072923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.06
€ 47.99
€ 39.06
Paperback. Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. Series: Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118785102
- ISBN
- 9781118785102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.92
€ 32.99
€ 32.92
Paperback. An exquisite collection of objects relating to the traditions of samurai warriors, from swords and armor to dishes and paintings Num Pages: 132 pages, 178 color + 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 218 x 8. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933789033
- ISBN
- 9781933789033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.70
€ 23.99
€ 17.70