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Anthropology
Hardback. A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 half-tones. BIC Classification: ASD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729895
- ISBN
- 9780804729895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.26
€ 158.26
Paperback. A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 half-tones. BIC Classification: ASD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735247
- ISBN
- 9780804735247
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.64
€ 37.99
€ 35.64
Hardcover. Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of transnational ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama or Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. Editor(s): Neveu Kringelbach, Helene; Skinner, Jonathan. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442. Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. 260 pages, 11 ills. Editor(s): Neveu Kringelbach, Helene; Skinner, Jonathan. Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of transnational ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama or Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: ASD; JHMC. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 17. Weight: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857455758
- ISBN
- 9780857455758
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Condition: New
€ 152.18
€ 152.18
Paperback. Includes essays that offer a sophisticated view of the growing power of popular culture and its increasing inseparability from contemporary structures of economic and political power and from our everyday lives. This title reveals the ways in which popular culture is being mobilised in the service of economic and political struggles. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319177
- ISBN
- 9780822319177
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.35
€ 31.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental governmentality" that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823263660
- ISBN
- 9780823263660
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Condition: New
€ 48.84
€ 48.84
Hardback. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental governmentality" that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823263653
- ISBN
- 9780823263653
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Condition: New
€ 142.49
€ 142.49
Paperback. Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa. Series: Asia-Pacific. 288 pages, 16 b&w photographs. Examines how Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. This title analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through the fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; AN; GTB; JHMP. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343714
- ISBN
- 9780822343714
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Hardback. This work examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. Num Pages: 308 pages, 21 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLSB; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719261
- ISBN
- 9780804719261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.02
€ 180.02
Paperback. This text examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. Num Pages: 308 pages, 21 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725897
- ISBN
- 9780804725897
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.30
€ 42.99
€ 42.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSJ; JHMP; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 253 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1006.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816626496
- ISBN
- 9780816626496
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.27
€ 30.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. Focusing on the evolution of traditional forms of practice and community, as well as modern reforms and reinventions both within China and on the global stage, this book explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late nineteenth century. Editor(s): Palmer, David A; Liu, Xun. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. Num Pages: 404 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HRKN5; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520289864
- ISBN
- 9780520289864
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Condition: New
€ 54.47€ 42.50
€ 54.47
€ 42.50
Paperback. Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 26 b&w photos, and 4 photo color insert. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HRLK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329886
- ISBN
- 9780822329886
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.19
€ 31.99
€ 30.19
Hardcover. Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of misconduct among military personnel.. Num Pages: 244 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBW; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516. Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War. 244 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of misconduct among military personnel. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: HBW; JHMC. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 21. Weight: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857454980
- ISBN
- 9780857454980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.23
€ 152.23
Hardback. Discusses the ways that scientists have observed and modeled glaciers, tells how climate change is altering their size and distribution, and looks at their effect on human life. Editor(s): Orlove, Ben; Wiegandt, Ellen; Luckman, Brian H. Num Pages: 296 pages, 51 b/w photographs, 39 line illustrations, 16 maps, 19 tables. BIC Classification: JHM; RBGD; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253056
- ISBN
- 9780520253056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.07€ 63.58
€ 84.07
€ 63.58
Paperback. Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. Illuminating the nature of high-risk migration around the world, this title reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants. Num Pages: 306 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1HFDH; JFFN; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270732
- ISBN
- 9780520270732
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.64
€ 33.99
€ 24.64
Paperback. Although the role of the visual is essential to Indian tradition and culture, most attempts to understand its images are laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with tolerance and imagination. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 97 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 97
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231112659
- ISBN
- 9780231112659
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.45
€ 24.99
€ 18.45
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 1926
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642898600
- ISBN
- 9783642898600
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Condition: New
€ 54.46€ 35.46
€ 54.46
€ 35.46
Paperback. Brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology-frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. This book also provide analytical provocations that can help reframe some of the most important shifts in technology and society in the first half of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 178 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984201068
- ISBN
- 9780984201068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.44
€ 13.99
€ 12.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages, b/w photos & maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HRA; JFSJ1; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 148 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781876756154
- ISBN
- 9781876756154
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.31
€ 25.99
€ 20.31
Paperback. Drawing on the author's firsthand experience of the Iranian Revolution in 1978-1979 and subsequent trips between 2003 and 2008, this book presents a historical and ethnographic study of local-level politics, connections with national-level politics and revolution, and the changing political dynamics in Iran. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 611. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804775687
- ISBN
- 9780804775687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.64
€ 37.99
€ 35.64