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Anthropology

Hardcover. Presents a portrait of Begay family's decision to return to the Navajo reservation and reclaim its cultural identity. This book examines the spiritual healing that can take place when cultural identity is honored and restored. Num Pages: 200 pages, 82 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCP; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 283 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1284.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890135549
ISBN
9780890135549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.65
€ 43.00

Paperback. Places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context i Editor(s): Counts, Dorothy Ayers; Brown, Judith K.; Campbell, Jacquelyn C. Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252067976
ISBN
9780252067976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.73

paperback. Presents a study of the Lummi Indians of northwestern Washington and the political and economic forces that have determined their changing fortunes over the past years. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 237 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; GTB; JHM; TVT; WSXF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295978482
ISBN
9780295978482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, 13 halftones, 15 line drawings. BIC Classification: ASD; GTC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
340
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226315492
ISBN
9780226315492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.73

Paperback. Offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, the author challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 b/w halftones, 1 line art. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRC; JFSC; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288829
ISBN
9780520288829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. This is the first book to explore the photographic imagery of the Tlingit dating from a critical period of change, from the 1860s through the 1920s. Num Pages: 240 pages, 130 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934536100
ISBN
9781934536100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.31

hardcover. This book traces the formation of historical consciousness among the Duna people of Papua New Guinea and explores how this is constituted differently for men and women. Num Pages: 260 pages, 18 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728997
ISBN
9780804728997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.44

Hardback. "Timepass" is a vivid ethnography that illuminates the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to the underemployment they face. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770736
ISBN
9780804770736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.77

Paperback. Timepass is a vivid ethnography that illuminates the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to the underemployment they face. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770743
ISBN
9780804770743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. This ground--breaking book addresses transformations in the understanding of time and the generation and degeneration of value at the cutting edge of modernity and postmodernity. Editor(s): Lash, Scott; Quick, Andrew; Roberts, Richard. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFCX; JHM; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631210030
ISBN
9780631210030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.93

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169264
ISBN
9780231169264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.89
€ 85.15

Paperback. This work is a critique of the notions that anthropologists are "here and now", their objects of study are "there and then" and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own. Num Pages: 205 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
205
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125772
ISBN
9780231125772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
With a New PostScript by the A ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169271
ISBN
9780231169271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. This volume interweaves such diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivore evolution and science and romance, to show how we create the past and understand the present. Num Pages: 60 pages, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 210 x 6. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921297
ISBN
9780813921297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.63

Hardcover. Series: Studies in Forced Migration. Num Pages: 12 illustrations, 6 tables, 5 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKN; 1FPCT; JFFD; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Edition
illustrated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571811578
ISBN
9781571811578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.12

Paperback. The first study of how Mapuche shamans make history, this book challenges perceptions of shamans as being outside of history and examines how shamans themselves understand notions of civilization, savagery, and historical processes. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21 b&w photos, 1 b&w map. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477308981
ISBN
9781477308981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Paperback. This work examines how consumer culture places less emphasis on ideological representations and resistances to ideology than on the educative powers of mass culture and the way that social position is determined through the politics of consumer culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722506
ISBN
9780804722506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.48

Hardcover. This story of an anthropological expedition to Albania in 1929 is an account of the rugged Highlands as seen by an Albanian that presents a faithful portrayal of Northern Albania as it was more than seventy years ago. Translator(s): Prifti, Peter R. Num Pages: 180 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVWA; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880334945
ISBN
9780880334945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.87

Hardback. Offers a response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan - a piece of fiction, anthropological field notes, and a social science article - to explore some of these criticisms. Num Pages: 164 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804719797
ISBN
9780804719797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.12

Paperback. A trans-national study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris. Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1HBM; JFCA; JFFS; JHMP; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328964
ISBN
9780822328964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. As a young anthropologist, the author undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. This title presents a summation of his work in the region and is a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined. Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFSL3; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066212
ISBN
9780674066212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.87

Paperback. An archival history of governmental investigations of anthropologists in the 1950s, based on over 20,000 pages of documents obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JHM; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333388
ISBN
9780822333388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 84 halftones, 68 line illustrations, and 16 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 169 x 20. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
9 Rev ed
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195367409
ISBN
9780195367409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 193.14

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GM; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774825405
ISBN
9780774825405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.10

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