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Anthropology

Hardcover. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering the conceptual convergence of local notions of relatedness, foodways, and empathy. Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 332 pages, 25 ills, 4 figs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857459190
ISBN
9780857459190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.93

Paperback. Series: Cultural Spaces. Num Pages: 276 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCV; JHB; JHMC; KNSH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138015128
ISBN
9781138015128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.29

Hardback. Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Editor(s): Chrzan, Janet; Brett, John. Num Pages: 276 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; JHMC; MBNH3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332876
ISBN
9781785332876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.45

Hardcover. The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflictnearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. Editor(s): Collinson, Paul; Macbeth, Helen M. Series: Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384038
ISBN
9781782384038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Jacknis, Ira. Series: Classics in California Anthropology S. Num Pages: 490 pages, 78 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSL9; JHMC; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 25. Weight in Grams: 935.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
PA Hearst Museum of Anthropology United States
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
SKU
V9780936127088
ISBN
9780936127088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.60

Hardcover. Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body, health, consumption, and identity. This study explores the importance of these themes as they intersect with processes of globalization and cultural production within a specific group of consumers, British Sh'ite Iranians. Series: Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; GTB; JFC; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571817402
ISBN
9781571817402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.41

Hardback. This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices. Editor(s): Chzran, Janet; Brett, John. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332890
ISBN
9781785332890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.69

Hardback. Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800s, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today. Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759120945
ISBN
9780759120945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.13

Paperback. Food and social transformation in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Editor(s): Caldwell, Melissa L. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1DVUA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221391
ISBN
9780253221391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.38

Paperback. Examining the relationship between societal practice, historical processes, and culture in a Nepali society, this book tells the story of the Thakali's search for identity and their efforts to clarify and represent their culture and history. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKN; JFSL9; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231110877
ISBN
9780231110877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.40

Paperback. An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329480
ISBN
9780822329480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.32

Hardcover. Shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale's more than forty years of work on public health in India. This book documents concrete proposals for self-government, especially at the municipal level, and the encouragement of leading Indian nationals themselves. It also includes sections on village and town sanitation. Editor(s): Vallee, Gerrard. Num Pages: 976 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
952
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889204959
ISBN
9780889204959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.65

Hardback. By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780745334127
ISBN
9780745334127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.44
€ 84.33

Paperback. By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745334110
ISBN
9780745334110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.87

Paperback. In this collaborative ethnography, Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun-who was born and raised in the dreadfully polluted shantytown in Buenos Aires from which the book takes its name-vividly describe everyday life in Flammable and depict how this ongoing, slow-motion environmental disaster is experienced and understood by its residents. Num Pages: 208 pages, 37black and white half tones, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195372939
ISBN
9780195372939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.27

Paperback. "First Time" traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents s transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their 18th century ancestors, with additional commentary. Num Pages: 208 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSS; HBTB; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226680606
ISBN
9780226680606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.46

Editor(s): Koscharsky, Halyna. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; GTF; JHMP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 262 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560727828
ISBN
9781560727828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.43
€ 77.50

Paperback. Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of "told-to" narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774819800
ISBN
9780774819800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.57

Paperback. Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous people are anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their own, culturally specific needs. This book argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were. Series: FOCI S. Num Pages: 176 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861892416
ISBN
9781861892416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.13

Paperback. The story of the Franklin Motor Expedition that collected First Nations artifacts on the Prairies in 1929 as well as a larger study of the relationships between museums and the indigenous peoples whose heritage items they house. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GM; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774827263
ISBN
9780774827263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.54

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