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Anthropology

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Anthropology

Paperback. Explores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226023526
ISBN
9780226023526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.21

Paperback. Analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice. Though acknowledging past failures to establish cross-racial empathy, this book focuses on examples that show avenues for future progress and change. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252079948
ISBN
9780252079948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or "White Negroes," who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. The author claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover over the years. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252038433
ISBN
9780252038433
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349187355
ISBN
9781349187355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.39

Paperback. Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology. Editor(s): Bonnell, Victoria E.; Hunt, Lynn. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 361 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: HBA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520216792
ISBN
9780520216792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. Celebrates the 40th anniversary of the journal "American Studies in Scandinavia", which began publication in 1967. This book is an invitation to develop a dialogue across the Atlantic. Editor(s): Nye, David E. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776742522
ISBN
9788776742522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.12

Paperback. Over the years, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This title explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the US. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520269590
ISBN
9780520269590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts focused on bodies using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as pieces on medical classifications, and spirit possession. Editor(s): Lock, Margaret M.; Farquhar, Judith. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 93. Weight in Grams: 970.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338451
ISBN
9780822338451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.18

Paperback. Critical social science case studies demonstrate how the practice of agricultural and natural resource management sciences can be improved by going beyond their biophysical roots to consider their cultural, political, and epistemological dimensions Editor(s): German, Laura A.; Ramisch, Joshua J.; Verma, Ritu. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; RGC; RNF; RNU; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401784214
ISBN
9789401784214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.38

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226457154
ISBN
9780226457154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.06
€ 79.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226457291
ISBN
9780226457291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Hardback. This work presents the methodological and theoretical foundations for economic personalism through a detailed investigation of human action from two different perspectives to develop a comprehensive theory of human action from moral and economic perspectives. Series: Religion, Politics & Society in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 128 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHMC; KCA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739101827
ISBN
9780739101827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.30

Hardcover. Editor(s): Fletcher, Robert. Num Pages: 177 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 181 x 17. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
SKU
V9781600210327
ISBN
9781600210327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.86
€ 133.76

Hardcover. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, the author formulates a sophisticated new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 520 pages, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: HPS; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 806.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226144450
ISBN
9780226144450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.06
€ 79.61

Paperback. Deals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 488 pages, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: HPS; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 756.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226212364
ISBN
9780226212364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.78

Paperback. This volume strives to establish a new agenda for methodologies in the social sciences, summarizing the most important research strategies developed in the social sciences since the early globalization and transnationalization studies of the 1980s and 1990s. Editor(s): Amelina, Anna; Nergiz, Devrimsel D.; Faist, Thomas; Schiller, Nina Glick. Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism. Num Pages: 276 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GPS; JFFN; JHBA; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415754576
ISBN
9780415754576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.76

Paperback. Series: Anthropology, History and the Critical Imagination. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; JHMC; RBG; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403962652
ISBN
9781403962652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.37

Paperback. A historical and ethnographic account of a region located on the border of India and Pakistan; the people who live there engage with the specter of war and religious conflict, racial identity, and the processes of modernity through varying performative mo Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
1st PAPERBACK
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334149
ISBN
9780822334149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. "Skillfully edited by Joyce and Gillespie, the volume Beyond Kinship illustrates the breadth of investigations into history, people, and place that Levi Strauss's formulation makes possible."-Current Anthropology Editor(s): Joyce, Rosemary A.; Gillespie, Susan D. Num Pages: 280 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812217230
ISBN
9780812217230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. An ethnographic study of a community of Mongolian herders who have been undergoing dramatic environmental and social transformations since 1980. It observes a remote region of modern China, documenting some of the unintended harmful consequences of decollectivization and economic development. Num Pages: 272 pages, 32 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPM; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742788
ISBN
9780804742788
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

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