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Anthropology
Paperback. A critical engagement with citizen participation, state power and the difficulties of realising the principles of participatory democracy Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHM; JPHV; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 214 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745336176
- ISBN
- 9780745336176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.38
€ 23.99
€ 19.38
The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation:. Non-Indigenous People ...
. Ed(S): Maddison, Sarah; Clark, Tom; de Cost...
Hardback. Editor(s): Maddison, Sarah; Clark, Tom; De Costa, Ravindra. Num Pages: 295 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFSL1; JHMC; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811026539
- ISBN
- 9789811026539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.91
€ 161.91
The Limits of Meaning. Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianit...
. Ed(S): Engelke, Matthew; Tomlinson, Matt
Hardback. Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, this book suggests that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider its limits. Editor(s): Engelke, Matthew; Tomlinson, Matt. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRCR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451707
- ISBN
- 9781845451707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.16
€ 162.16
Paperback. Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8, 6 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMC; JNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801479182
- ISBN
- 9780801479182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity. Num Pages: 375 pages, 58 b/w illus. 1 map 29 tables. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 375
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107607613
- ISBN
- 9781107607613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.98
€ 40.99
€ 38.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415576864
- ISBN
- 9780415576864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
Paperback. Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. Editor(s): Goldberg, Harvey E. Series: The Life of Religion S. Num Pages: 267 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520227538
- ISBN
- 9780520227538
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Condition: New
€ 41.54
€ 41.54
Paperback. Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. This title tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers and consumers. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 332 pages, 20 b/w photos, 3 graphs, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450. Crafting Food and Value in America. Series: California Studies in Food & Culture. 332 pages, illustrations. Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. This title tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers and consumers. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight: 450.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270183
- ISBN
- 9780520270183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardcover. "The range of Manas performance traditions captured here is immense. What is wonderful and remarkable is that each is presented vividly, with careful ethnographic detail, so that they become living traditions to the reader."--Susan Wadley, Syracuse University Series: Philip E.Lilienthal Books. Num Pages: 450 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BM; DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 39. Weight in Grams: 900.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520066908
- ISBN
- 9780520066908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.67€ 57.47
€ 73.67
€ 57.47
The Life and Times of a Merchant Sailor. The Archaeology and History o...
Burns, Jason M. (Lighthouse Archaeological Ma...
Paperback. Series: The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology. Num Pages: 113 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; HD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 113
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461349662
- ISBN
- 9781461349662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.14
€ 126.14
Paperback. Based on the analysis of community records in a Peruvian village, The Lettered Mountain tells how Andean peasants thought to be illiterate appropriated the Roman alphabet long ago. Num Pages: 392 pages, 72 illustrations, 7 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; CFC; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350446
- ISBN
- 9780822350446
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English, showing their relevance for language spread and change. Editor(s): Trudgill, Peter; Schneider, Edgar W.; Schreier, Daniel; Williams, Jeffrey P. Series: Studies in English Language. Num Pages: 386 pages, 1 b/w illus. 25 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 386
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521883962
- ISBN
- 9780521883962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1964
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789024702930
- ISBN
- 9789024702930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
hardcover. This volume examines the lives of prominent leaders from ancient Greece to the present. It explores how these leaders imposed their individual missions and mystiques on others, thereby fulfilling , and sometimes creating, distinct needs in their followers. Editor(s): Strozier, Charles B.; Offer, Daniel; Abdyli, Oliger. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; JF; JHM; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441983855
- ISBN
- 9781441983855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.42
€ 131.42
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; JHBK; JHMC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801451294
- ISBN
- 9780801451294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 43 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFJZ; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press Chicago
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748764
- ISBN
- 9780226748764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.00€ 38.52
€ 44.00
€ 38.52
Hardback. This book chronicles a project intended to explain to someone--at some point in the distant future--what happened to the people who built derelict spacecraft. Artist/geographer Paglen spent four years interviewing scientists and others about the profound contradictions that characterize contemporary civilizations. Num Pages: 208 pages, 114 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 708. 208 pages, illustrations. This book chronicles a project intended to explain to someone--at some point in the distant future--what happened to the people who built derelict spacecraft. Artist/geographer Paglen spent four years interviewing scientists and others about the profound contradictions that characterize contemporary civilizations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JHMC. Dimension: 238 x 203 x 17. Weight: 700.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275003
- ISBN
- 9780520275003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. This is a comprehensive account of the Lapita people, the common ancestor of the Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian peoples who, over the last 4000 years, colonized the islands of the Pacific, as well as New Zealand and territories as far afield as Fiji and Madagascar. Series: Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1QSP; HBTB; HDD; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577180364
- ISBN
- 9781577180364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
Paperback. This examines a significant aspect of contemporary social life: cultural identities and our linguistic means of constructing them. It combines a theoretical re-assessment of processes of identification with case studies of the discourses of three-generation families living in split-border communities along the former 'Iron Curtain'. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554375
- ISBN
- 9780230554375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.77
€ 126.77
The Language and Iconography of Chinese Charms: Deciphering a Past Bel...
. Ed(S): Fang, Alex Chengyu; Thierry, Francoi...
hardcover. Editor(s): Fang, Alex Chengyu; Thierry, Francois. Num Pages: 302 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, 266 colour illustrations, 30 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; HDD; HRQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811017919
- ISBN
- 9789811017919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.02
€ 140.02