Anthropology
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Anthropology
Paperback. Focuses on Laweyan, a production center of batik textiles that had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of Indonesia during the twentieth century. This book portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its forms of social life and highlights the power of women in the marketplace and the home. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 halftones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691016924
- ISBN
- 9780691016924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.57€ 42.55
€ 53.57
€ 42.55
paperback. Challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection made to the attributes of the modern male form. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23 B&W figures. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHMC; JMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition, First ed.
- SKU
- V9780817358914
- ISBN
- 9780817358914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. Looking at what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in early colonial Spanish America, Joanne Rappaport finds fluid identification processes rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBG; HBLL; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356363
- ISBN
- 9780822356363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.67
€ 41.99
€ 37.67
Paperback. Exploring the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America, the author finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807871331
- ISBN
- 9780807871331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.00
€ 43.99
€ 43.00
paperback. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138260931
- ISBN
- 9781138260931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.37
€ 44.99
€ 44.37
Paperback. In the resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain insightful. This title describes that human mental and emotional capacities, far from making human beings unique, are evidence of an animal origin and evolutionary development. Num Pages: 960 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 123 x 140 x 50. Weight in Grams: 982.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691023694
- ISBN
- 9780691023694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.16
€ 46.99
€ 33.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 394 pages, 16, 13 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; JHMC; KNBP; RNFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801456589
- ISBN
- 9780801456589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.33
€ 37.99
€ 34.33
Paperback. Series: South Asia in Motion. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804796262
- ISBN
- 9780804796262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98
Hardcover. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794616
- ISBN
- 9780814794616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.25
€ 85.25
Paperback. A literary exploration of the prevalence of death--its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation--in Richard Wright's work. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334880
- ISBN
- 9780822334880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.33
€ 37.99
€ 34.33
Paperback. A photographic essay which conveys the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village - the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and the rite of exhumation. Num Pages: 248 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHBT; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 247 x 14. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000275
- ISBN
- 9780691000275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.57€ 42.23
€ 53.57
€ 42.23
Hardcover. In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 300 pages, 16 ills & figs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GTF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458728
- ISBN
- 9780857458728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.36
€ 164.36
Paperback. Discusses the influence of Indian music and culture in the West. This book tells how words such as karma, yoga, raga, nirvana, all once unknown, have entered the language. It aims to demystify musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology and the Eastern musical framework. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FKA; 3JJP; AVGE; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826428196
- ISBN
- 9780826428196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.01
€ 51.01
Hardback. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277380
- ISBN
- 9780520277380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.24€ 73.14
€ 95.24
€ 73.14
Paperback. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277397
- ISBN
- 9780520277397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.64
€ 33.99
€ 24.64
Paperback. A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance. Num Pages: 448 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; HBTB; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393348507
- ISBN
- 9780393348507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.73
€ 23.99
€ 20.73
Hardback. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems. Series: Food, Nutrition, and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBNH3; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785335624
- ISBN
- 9781785335624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.47
€ 166.47
Paperback. Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. Num Pages: 354 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520082762
- ISBN
- 9780520082762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
Paperback. Explores the complex constellation of factors that cause rural migration and determine its outcomes. Num Pages: 207 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705920
- ISBN
- 9780292705920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.04
€ 23.99
€ 22.04
The Culture of German Environmentalism. Anxieties, Visions, Realities....
Goodbody, Axel. Ed(S): Goodbody, Axel
Hardback. Assessing environmentalism as a social movement and political force, this volume of essays focuses on cultural roots and changes in attitude that influenced Germany's environmental movement. Goodbody (German studies, U. of Bath) includes an interview with Carl Amery, the Bavarian Green and science f Editor(s): Goodbody, Axel. Series: Culture and Society in Germany. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; JHM; JP; RGC; RNB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571817976
- ISBN
- 9781571817976
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.06
€ 164.06