Anthropology
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Anthropology
Paperback. The story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad Series: V Ethel Willis White Books. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992716
- ISBN
- 9780295992716
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.81
€ 19.99
€ 17.81
Paperback. Taking us on a journey into the nation's school kitchens, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. It explores the politics of food provision from multiple perspectives - history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269880
- ISBN
- 9780520269880
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.98
€ 33.99
€ 24.98
hardcover. What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our selves - in everyday life and when faced with life's big questions? In this book, the author develops a general theoretical model that might be able to offer a better understanding of the human condition and of the underlying principles of human behavior. Num Pages: 272 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781571816610
- ISBN
- 9781571816610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.05
€ 155.05
hardcover. This work argues that the "clash of civilizations" that is thought to be a feature of the post-Cold War environment is not necessarily caused by the dogma of world religions or cultural incompatibilities but by the hegemonic universalisms that have characterized world history since 1492. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804749800
- ISBN
- 9780804749800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.71
€ 149.71
paperback. West Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto. Num Pages: 328 pages, 52 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1MKLP; JHM; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780822351344
- ISBN
- 9780822351344
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.76
€ 34.99
€ 27.76
Paperback. This text is based upon the author's two years of residence among the Jelgobe, a group of semi-nomadic Fulani of the Sahel in Burkina Faso, western Africa. Translator(s): Fuller, M. Num Pages: 314 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDF; JFSL3; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226717432
- ISBN
- 9780226717432
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.53
€ 42.99
€ 33.53
Paperback. A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 31. Weight in Grams: 812.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341598
- ISBN
- 9780822341598
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Paperback. A biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic. It describes Allen's continually evolving life and thought, setting both in the context of his times. Num Pages: 359 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBJK; HRCC95; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 359
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814758571
- ISBN
- 9780814758571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
paperback. This study of power/knowledge in France, from the 1830s through the 1930s, uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how the social environment was described. It aims to show how modernity was revealed in urban planning, architecture, and social legislation. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226701745
- ISBN
- 9780226701745
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.14
€ 44.99
€ 37.14
Paperback. Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. It shows how creative cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter, and how it is overlooked in theories of the global. Num Pages: 344 pages, 3 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120652
- ISBN
- 9780691120652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.19
€ 47.19
hardcover. Offers an insider's view into the day-to-day lives of a self-selected group of male friends within this society in northern Zambia. This book examines the friends' vicarious experience with and orientation to the world through stories heard from their grandfathers and fathers. It represents a compilation of their direct experience in the world. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 b&w illustrations & 1 map. BIC Classification: 1H; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926247
- ISBN
- 9780813926247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.89
€ 74.89
Hardcover. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. Editor(s): Guichard, Martine; Gratz, Tilo; Diallo, Youssouf. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782382867
- ISBN
- 9781782382867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.97
€ 154.97
Paperback. A study that synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of friendship, how it develops, how it interfaces with kinship and romantic relationships, and how it differs from place to place. Series: Origins of Human Behavior and Culture. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 b/w photographs, 24 line illustrations, 2 maps, 28 sidebars, 17 equations. BIC Classification: JFFP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520265479
- ISBN
- 9780520265479
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. Series: Rhetoric and Democratic. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: CFG; GTC; JHB; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 124 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271064970
- ISBN
- 9780271064970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.81€ 59.12
€ 69.81
€ 59.12
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592130924
- ISBN
- 9781592130924
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.26
€ 25.99
€ 24.26
Hardback. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily's rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism. Series: The Human Economy. Num Pages: 244 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHMC; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785334009
- ISBN
- 9781785334009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.02
€ 155.02
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292701717
- ISBN
- 9780292701717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
Paperback. Notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for 'what others might say'. This book traces shifts in the meaning of 'tradition', suggesting that although 'modern' people cannot 'be' traditional, they must have traditions to produce themselves. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JFC; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691016641
- ISBN
- 9780691016641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.15
€ 53.29
€ 42.15
hardcover. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and the concurrent development of social complexity within a community. Series: Anthropological Horizons. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12, 6 figures; 3 maps. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442642225
- ISBN
- 9781442642225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.82
€ 86.82
Paperback. Looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in places as far apart as New York, Australia, and London. Num Pages: 360 pages, 35 photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHM; KNDF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1.11.2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351504
- ISBN
- 9780822351504
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42