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Hardback. Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. This book presents an ethnographic study which shows that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety. Series: Studies in Forced Migration. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSR2; JHMP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450182
- ISBN
- 9781845450182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.73
€ 155.73
paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 163 x 6. Weight in Grams: 90.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780976147565
- ISBN
- 9780976147565
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.93
€ 13.99
€ 12.93
'The Land is Dying'. Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western K...
Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane
Hardback. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death: the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, which by the turn of the century had affected every aspect of sociality and pervaded villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 444 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; JHB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454814
- ISBN
- 9781845454814
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 174.81
€ 174.81
Paperback. Despite mixed critical reception, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of the decade. In this book, the author revisits the film, making a case for its continued cultural relevance. Num Pages: 100 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: APF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 116 x 178 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984201051
- ISBN
- 9780984201051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.57
€ 13.99
€ 12.57
Hardback. Far from the forest primeval of popular imagination, the historians and literary scholars in this work describe a western European landscape just as consciously constructed by its inhabitants as any modern landscape - physically, conceptually and spiritually. Editor(s): Howe, John; Wolfe, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages, 22 b&w illustrations, 9 figures, 3 maps, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HBTP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
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- Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813024790
- ISBN
- 9780813024790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.60
€ 68.60
Hardback. Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 362 pages, 6 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 642.
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- Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785333781
- ISBN
- 9781785333781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.92
€ 173.92
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. .
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- 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
€ 154.54
€ 154.54
Paperback. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Verso
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781683101
- ISBN
- 9781781683101
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.43
€ 20.99
€ 17.43
Paperback. 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay readers and students. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470673928
- ISBN
- 9780470673928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 21.92
€ 33.99
€ 21.92
Hardcover. 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay readers and students. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470673911
- ISBN
- 9780470673911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.56€ 61.36
€ 89.56
€ 61.36
Hardcover. The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490. The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. 224 pages, 8 ills. The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFS; JHMC. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 17. Weight: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857455192
- ISBN
- 9780857455192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.19
€ 156.19
Paperback. A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of Lovell's classic account of the violence that has wracked Guatemala, from its roots in the colonial past to its aftermath in the twenty-first century Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Num Pages: 221 pages, 27 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292721838
- ISBN
- 9780292721838
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360605
- ISBN
- 9780822360605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.95
€ 37.99
€ 33.95
Hardback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360292
- ISBN
- 9780822360292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.02
€ 154.02
paperback. Considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. This book provides several in-depth case studies, primarily concerning the lives of Indonesian men who term themselves gay (an Indonesian-language word that overlaps with, but does not correspond exactly to, English "gay"). Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339915
- ISBN
- 9780822339915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.97
€ 37.99
€ 33.97
Paperback. A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. Editor(s): Bendix, Regina F.; Hasan-Rokem, Galit. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: JFHF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 172 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1046.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118863145
- ISBN
- 9781118863145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.95
€ 55.95
Paperback. This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psycho-cultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Editor(s): Casey, Conerly; Edgerton, Robert B. Series: Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 47. Weight in Grams: 936.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405162555
- ISBN
- 9781405162555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.34
€ 63.34
Hardback. A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 3B; HBJF; HBLA; HDDA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119055488
- ISBN
- 9781119055488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 213.33
€ 213.33
Hardcover. A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. Editor(s): Singer, Merrill. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118786994
- ISBN
- 9781118786994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 212.90
€ 212.90
Paperback. [front flap] A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics Edited by David Nugent and Joan Vincent A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics offers an unprecedented overview of the field, written by a breathtaking roster of contemporary scholars. Editor(s): Nugent, David; Vincent, Joan. Series: Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 29. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405161909
- ISBN
- 9781405161909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.79
€ 60.79