Anthropology
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Anthropology
Hardback. Drawing on intellectual and social history as well as the work of Michel Foucault, the author investigates the intersection of scientific, political, and professional interests that informed perceptions and understandings of contagion in 19th-century France. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733953
- ISBN
- 9780804733953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.16
€ 87.16
Hardcover. How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why they differ and why they change. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCD; JFFT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022493
- ISBN
- 9781137022493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. This ethnographic examination of a middle-class group that must re-position itself--schoolteachers in 1990s Russia--depicts the interplay between identity, morality and consumption. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFSC; JHBL; JHM; JNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804700696
- ISBN
- 9780804700696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.54
€ 146.54
Paperback. A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of 'true' love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. It studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of cliches and images. Num Pages: 332 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205710
- ISBN
- 9780520205710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.77
€ 38.99
€ 27.77
Hardback. Throughout the world, everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Editor(s): MacClancy, Jeremy; Henry, C. Jeya; Macbeth, Helen M. Series: Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Num Pages: 258 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453534
- ISBN
- 9781845453534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.49
€ 152.49
Paperback. Explores Wari' conceptions of person, body, and spirit, as well as indigenous understandings of memory and emotion, to explain why the Wari' felt that corpses must be destroyed and why they preferred cannibalism over cremation. This book shows why, in Wari' terms, it was considered the most honorable and compassionate way of treating the dead. Num Pages: 317 pages, 15 halftones, 3 maps, line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712362
- ISBN
- 9780292712362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.49
€ 32.99
€ 31.49
Hardback. Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organized through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this text stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption. Editor(s): Hearn, Prof. Jeff; Roseneil, Sasha. Series: Explorations in Sociology. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333747162
- ISBN
- 9780333747162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
Paperback. Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organized through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this text stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption. Editor(s): Hearn, Prof. Jeff; Roseneil, Sasha. Series: Explorations in Sociology. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333747179
- ISBN
- 9780333747179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Paperback. 'I consider this book a remarkable achievement. Sophisticated in its use of sociological, anthropological and critical theory, [it] also successfully conveys the direct tangible experience of corporality and the senses. Falk's original, insightful book sets the study of the body onto a new plane' - Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803989740
- ISBN
- 9780803989740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.12
€ 82.12
Paperback. This study surveys microeconomic and microeconometric models of individual-location choice that permit the analysis of the determinants of individual choice among various combinations of location-specific goods. It uses the example of tourists' destination choice. Series: International Economics & Institutions S. Num Pages: 192 pages, 13 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; KCH; PBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783790808520
- ISBN
- 9783790808520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Glickman, Lawrence B. Num Pages: 432 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBTB; JFFT; JHM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484865
- ISBN
- 9780801484865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.17
€ 40.99
€ 40.17
Paperback. aeo This is a comprehensive survey of theories of consumer culture, making it an ideal introduction to the field. aeo Slater presents consumer culture as part of a broader debate about the nature and development of modern societies, rather than just a contemporary or postmodern issue. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745603049
- ISBN
- 9780745603049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.41
€ 25.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 187 pages, 9 colour illustrations, 9 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFFN; JHMC; JPA; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137558534
- ISBN
- 9781137558534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Paperback. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349502738
- ISBN
- 9781349502738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardback. Series: Queer Studies and Education. Num Pages: 243 pages, 15 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNC; JFSJ; JFSK; JHMC; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137533326
- ISBN
- 9781137533326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.89
€ 108.89
Paperback. Anne Kane analyzes the intertwined cultural, political and social transformations that occur during historical events by focusing specifically on the case of the Irish Land War, a pivotal event in the formation of the modern Irish nation. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 298 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450449
- ISBN
- 9781137450449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. This text shows how different collective identities in Latin America shape the access to, and participation in, the public domain. Collective identities were previously thought to be primordial components that would not survive the modern world, but now theorists think of them as a modern creation. Editor(s): Roniger, Luis; Sznajder, Mario. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JFC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781898723776
- ISBN
- 9781898723776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Paperback. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 table, 15 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804773607
- ISBN
- 9780804773607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.17
€ 27.17
Hardback. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 table, 15 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804770804
- ISBN
- 9780804770804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.35
€ 123.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; JFSL3; JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816687183
- ISBN
- 9780816687183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.14
€ 29.14