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Anthropology
The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth. A Dialogue Between Mathematic...
Brian, Eric; Jaisson, Marie
Hardback. Attempts to renew our links with the oldest traditions of scholarly thinking. After a deconstruction of the past and present conditions of scientific understanding of human sex-ratio at birth, the authors propose a reconstruction of the dynamics of the phenomenon based on stochastics. Series: Methodos Series. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMC; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1260.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402060359
- ISBN
- 9781402060359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.08
€ 133.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 394 pages, 16, 13 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; JHMC; KNBP; RNFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801456589
- ISBN
- 9780801456589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.45
€ 37.99
€ 34.45
Paperback. Series: South Asia in Motion. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804796262
- ISBN
- 9780804796262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794623
- ISBN
- 9780814794623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.36
€ 34.36
Paperback. A literary exploration of the prevalence of death--its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation--in Richard Wright's work. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334880
- ISBN
- 9780822334880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. A photographic essay which conveys the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village - the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and the rite of exhumation. Num Pages: 248 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHBT; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 247 x 14. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000275
- ISBN
- 9780691000275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 42.58
€ 53.51
€ 42.58
Hardcover. In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 300 pages, 16 ills & figs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GTF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458728
- ISBN
- 9780857458728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.85
€ 162.85
Paperback. This deeply moving collection of "ethnographic poetry" by the renowned cultural theorist Renato Rosaldo focuses on the immediate aftermath of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981, the day after she and her family had arrived in a northern Philippines village where Shelly and Renato were to conduct fieldwork. Num Pages: 160 pages, 21 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: DCF; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356615
- ISBN
- 9780822356615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Discusses the influence of Indian music and culture in the West. This book tells how words such as karma, yoga, raga, nirvana, all once unknown, have entered the language. It aims to demystify musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology and the Eastern musical framework. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FKA; 3JJP; AVGE; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826428196
- ISBN
- 9780826428196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.41
€ 51.41
Hardback. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277380
- ISBN
- 9780520277380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.12€ 73.24
€ 95.12
€ 73.24
Paperback. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277397
- ISBN
- 9780520277397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 260 pages, 16 halftones, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; AVGH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226265025
- ISBN
- 9780226265025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 30.01
€ 37.99
€ 30.01
Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; ASDX; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679942
- ISBN
- 9780816679942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems. Series: Food, Nutrition, and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBNH3; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785335624
- ISBN
- 9781785335624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.56
€ 164.56
The Culture-Bound Syndromes. Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthrop...
. Ed(S): Simons, Ronald C.; Hughes, C.C.
Paperback. Editor(s): Simons, Ronald C.; Hughes, C.C. Series: Culture, Illness and Healing. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 813.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789027718594
- ISBN
- 9789027718594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 251.80
€ 251.80
The Culture-bound Syndromes. Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthrop...
. Ed(S): Simons, Ronald C.; Hughes, C.C.
Hardback. Editor(s): Simons, Ronald C.; Hughes, C.C. Series: Culture, Illness & Healing. Num Pages: 518 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMP; M; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 923.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 518
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789027718587
- ISBN
- 9789027718587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 259.82
€ 259.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- a
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226310947
- ISBN
- 9780226310947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. Num Pages: 354 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520082762
- ISBN
- 9780520082762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Using readings of such major figures as Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton, this book considers alternative ways that fat was constructed before the introduction of the modern pathologized category of 'obesity'." Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349370603
- ISBN
- 9781349370603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Explores the complex constellation of factors that cause rural migration and determine its outcomes. Num Pages: 207 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705920
- ISBN
- 9780292705920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10