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Paperback. Shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city of Athens could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. This book shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JHMC; JKVP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691094892
- ISBN
- 9780691094892
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€ 54.99€ 39.95
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Paperback. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, this book examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. It considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural 'enfranchisement' to the logics of intellectual property. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. 3 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHM; KNDP; RNC; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095578
- ISBN
- 9780691095578
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€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. This book shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space, time, and self. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 maps. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFC; JHM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 266 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095912
- ISBN
- 9780691095912
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€ 59.41€ 46.96
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Paperback. Traces the growth of a middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new socio-cultural space in one of the world's 'least developed countries'. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 maps. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKN; GTF; JFC; JFSC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095936
- ISBN
- 9780691095936
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€ 53.47€ 42.58
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Paperback. Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, this book analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. It demonstrates how brain scans contribute to our social dependence on scientific authority. Editor(s): Rabinow, Paul. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 color illus. 19 halftones. 5 table. BIC Classification: JHM; JMM; MMPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113982
- ISBN
- 9780691113982
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
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Paperback. The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. This title analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity. It also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115634
- ISBN
- 9780691115634
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€ 52.99€ 38.30
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Paperback. The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. This volume assembles a set of conceptual tools - "modern equipment" - to assess how intellectual work is conducted and how it might change. It offers a discussion of how one might best think about anthropos. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHBC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 8. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115665
- ISBN
- 9780691115665
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€ 43.99€ 31.19
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Paperback. Offers a contribution to theoretical debates about political - religious and nationalist - violence. This book brings together two perspectives on political violence - identification and purification. It combines these insights with a focus on urban youth culture, in which masculinity, physicality, and the performance of violence are key values. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFFE; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117096
- ISBN
- 9780691117096
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€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Offers an anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law. This book approaches injury law as a symptom of a larger American injury culture. It offers an understanding of the problematic role that law plays in Americans' relations with the objects they consume. It shows that American law sets out injury as an exceptional state. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 halftones. 7 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMC; LAQ; LNTJ; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119083
- ISBN
- 9780691119083
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€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Hardback. Offers an analysis and interpretation of the Court's historical understanding of religion, explaining the revolutionary change that occurred in the 1940s. This book examines how a strict separation of church and state was sustained through the opinions of Jefferson and Madison, even though their views were those of the minority. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JHM; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119236
- ISBN
- 9780691119236
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€ 77.23€ 60.10
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Paperback. Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps" - places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftones. 20 tables. 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVWA; 1DVWY; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121994
- ISBN
- 9780691121994
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€ 52.99€ 38.20
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Paperback. Looks back on twenty-five years of what Hodgson calls "the conservative ascendancy" in America, demonstrating how it has come to dominate American politics. This title addresses a range of issues, with chapters on politics, the economy, immigration, technology, women, race, and foreign policy, among others. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127675
- ISBN
- 9780691127675
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€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Unlike criticisms of multiculturalism, which worry about 'reverse discrimination' or the erosion of core Western cultural values, this book's focuses on the effects of multicultural rhetoric and multicultural rights on their beneficiaries. It argues that multicultural accounts of cultural difference do not describe the practices of social groups. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128696
- ISBN
- 9780691128696
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€ 40.99€ 29.44
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Paperback. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and German painter Gerhard Richter, this book offers a set of conceptual tools for scholars examining practices in the life sciences, security, new media and art practices, and other emergent phenomena. It shows how anthropology remains relevant to contemporary debates. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133638
- ISBN
- 9780691133638
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
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Paperback. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic republic. This title explores how Iranian women understand their rights. It reveals that the postrevolutionary republic blended practices of a liberal republic with Islamic principles of equality. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSJ1; JFSR2; JHMC; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135472
- ISBN
- 9780691135472
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Paperback. Examines the polarized fields of nationalist politics - in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region - and also the more fluid terrain on which ethnicity and nationhood are experienced, enacted, and understood in everyday life. This book addresses fundamental questions about ethnicity: where it is, when it matters, and how it works. Num Pages: 504 pages, 16 color plates. 20 halftones. 16 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; JHMP; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136226
- ISBN
- 9780691136226
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€ 53.47€ 42.58
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Paperback. Examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. This work explores how gender relations among the Pomaks had to be renegotiated after the collapse of both Communism and the region's state-subsidized lead and zinc mines. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 280 pages, 25 halftones. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVWB; JFSJ1; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139555
- ISBN
- 9780691139555
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
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Paperback. Takes readers into the ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. This book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs? Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 halftones. 11 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH1; JHMC; MMZR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691144504
- ISBN
- 9780691144504
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Hardback. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, this book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147093
- ISBN
- 9780691147093
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€ 65.35€ 51.34
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Hardback. In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JHB; JHMC; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147871
- ISBN
- 9780691147871
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Condition: New
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