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Anthropology

Hardback. From a multifaceted, global, and transnational perspective, the volume examines street vending and urban policies around the globe, comparing practices in the Global South to that in the Northern hemisphere. Essays show that though street vending activities vary depending on site-specific regulations.. Editor(s): Graaff, Kristina; Ha, Noa. Num Pages: 260 pages, 14 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782388340
ISBN
9781782388340
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.37

Paperback. First published in 1943, this is an account of an Italian-American slum in Boston. Num Pages: 418 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 560. Social Structure of an Italian Slum. 418 pages, illustrations. First published in 1943, this is an account of an Italian-American slum in Boston. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHM; JMH. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 27. Weight: 492.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
418
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
4th Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226895451
ISBN
9780226895451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.44

Paperback. Why does one society survive while others perish? When two cultures come into contact, how do exploitation, violence, and terror arise? Interested in the survival of various cultures in the face of encroaching white civilization, the author has studied five separate groups in Venezuela and Colombia and documented their successes and failures. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814721964
ISBN
9780814721964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. Presents an intimate look at the typical but often misunderstood practice of adoption and naming of anthropologists by Native families and communities. Leading anthropologists in the United States and Canada discuss this issue by focusing on the cases of such prominent earlier scholars as Lewis Henry Morgan and Franz Boas. Editor(s): Kan, Sergei A. Num Pages: 270 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Nebraska
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803277977
ISBN
9780803277977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been 'return' migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. This book illuminates how cultural encounters caused by transnational migration can reinforce local ethnic identities and nationalist discourses. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSB; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231128391
ISBN
9780231128391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.40

Paperback. An ethnographic account of the rapid mobilization of Chinese peasants into large cities, this text traces the profound transformations of space, power relations and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government's household registration system. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742061
ISBN
9780804742061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.63

Paperback. This vivid ethnographic account of the first peaceful encounters between the Wari Indians of western Brazil and missionaries and government workers emphasizes how the Wari perceived the interactions. Translator(s): Rodgers, David. Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 392 pages, 38 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL9; JHMC; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345732
ISBN
9780822345732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.49

Paperback. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community, whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism. Series: Transformations. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSL1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415201858
ISBN
9780415201858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.82

Hardback. An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345305
ISBN
9780822345305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Paperback. An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345459
ISBN
9780822345459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.21

Paperback. This text examines the historical formation of community in Monterey. It is also an investigation of how historical narratives are produced, looking at competing accounts of "civilizing" the Native Americans, Yankee progress, ethnical diversity and environmental protection among other issues. Num Pages: 361 pages, 35 b/w photographs, 4 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520227231
ISBN
9780520227231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.65

Hardback. Illustrated 8vo.Worn copy . Anthropology
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Delta paperback
Publication date
1966
Edition
Delta
SKU
KEX0254812
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138702615
ISBN
9781138702615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.87

Paperback. An examination of Muslim men, focusing on the stereotypes and stigma these men face, the cultural roots of these prejudices, and the effect on assimilation and possible citizenship, through an ethnography of Turkish immigrants in Germany. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804759007
ISBN
9780804759007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.11

Paperback. By analyzing how Sri Lankan free trade zone factory workers claim political subjectivity and revealing a vibrant subaltern political universe where they can express alternative perspectives, Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom of the global economy. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 173 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221121
ISBN
9780812221121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.64

paperback. A feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in the larger culture. Num Pages: 464 pages, 62 illus. (incl. 10 in color), 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AN; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334439
ISBN
9780822334439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.63

Hardcover. Despite Taiwan's rise as an economic force in the world, modernity has not led to a Weberian process of disenchantment or curbed religiosity. To the contrary, other factors - social, economic, political - have stimilated religion. How and why this has happened are central issues in this book. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, 38 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 3JJ; ASZ; HRKN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010970
ISBN
9780674010970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.92

Paperback. Well-written and eminently accessible, this book explores and celebrates the Upper Palaeolithic art of the Dordogne, admirably conveying the author's enthusiasm for her subject. Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 b/w + 8 color illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACBK; ACC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300188028
ISBN
9780300188028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.38

Hardback. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies which play a role in the 'construction' of a Kazakhstani German identity. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kazakhstan. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, 14 figures, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FCZ; JFFN; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785331923
ISBN
9781785331923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.95

hardcover. This book discusses important methodologies for developing statistical designs, sample surveys and evaluation designs. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 254 x 19. Weight in Grams: 664.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107146457
ISBN
9781107146457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.84

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