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Anthropology

Hardcover. Describes the changing nature of ethnography as anthropologists use it to analyze places closer to home. This book maintains that a conversational style of ethnography can help us look beyond our assumptions and gain new insight into arenas of contemporary life such as corporations, financial institutions, science, the military, and religion. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226887517
ISBN
9780226887517
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.86
€ 55.59

Paperback. Courtney-Clarke's classic photographic work is the result of five years spent visiting the Ndebele of the southern Transvaal and recording their art. The people were violently treated and forcibly resettled so that, in many cases, these pictures are the only surviving documents of their work. Num Pages: 204 pages, 188 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; ACBK; AJCR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 281 x 285 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500283875
ISBN
9780500283875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.56

Paperback. Extracts from the Doukhobor conflict lessons for understanding the nature of both terrorism and hegemonic practices, and traces how we view conflict and intervention from a Western perspective. Num Pages: 192 pages, map. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHM; LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774812597
ISBN
9780774812597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816625451
ISBN
9780816625451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.03

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; JFSL3; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196967
ISBN
9781845196967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.76

Paperback. Explores the role ethnic minorities from China, Japan, North Africa, and the Middle East have played in constructing a national identity, thereby challenging dominant notions of Brazilian nationality and citizenship. By examining how acculturating minority groups have represented themselves, this title re-envisions what it means to be Brazilian. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 b&w photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFFN; JFSL1; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822322924
ISBN
9780822322924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Hardback. Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of 'dynastic urbanisms'. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 370 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035614
ISBN
9780674035614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.52

Paperback. In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores how Cuban raperos (black-identified rappers) in Havana craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship in the face of continuing racism and marginalization during an era in which the Cuban economy, society, and nationhood have been under constant flux. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AVGR; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822358855
ISBN
9780822358855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Presents an ethnographic analysis of the social fabric and internal dynamics of one such neighborhood: Miyamoto-cho, a pseudonym for a residential and commercial district in Tokyo where the author carried out fieldwork from June 1979 to May 1981, and during several summers since. Num Pages: 368 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804717977
ISBN
9780804717977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.59

paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; HBJM; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315933
ISBN
9780822315933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Through a series of ethnographic case studies, Aihwa Ong reconceptualizes neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they authoritarian, democratic, or communist. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 b&w photos, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337485
ISBN
9780822337485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.27

Paperback. Examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated 'rust belt' of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, this title shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSJ1; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520266919
ISBN
9780520266919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.78

hardcover. A bilingual (Nepali and English) critical edition of three complete, representative repertoires of shaman texts that have been collected over 20 years in Jajarkot District, Western Nepal. The volume includes both publicly chanted recitals and privately whispered spells of three shamans. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 706 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1FKN; HRLP1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 185 x 63. Weight in Grams: 2124.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
706
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674607958
ISBN
9780674607958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.85
€ 87.46

Hardback. Delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. This work offers a critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 218 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMP; JHMC; UDB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742554313
ISBN
9780742554313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.48

Paperback. An innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking within the movements against corporate globalization. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 400 pages, 29 illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHMC; JPW; KJK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586. The Movements Against Corporate Globalization. 376 pages, 28 illustrations. Offers an account of how the anti-corporate globalization movement uses technologies to organize. This book provides a history of anti-corporate globalization movements, an examination of their connections to local dynamics in Barcelona, and an analysis of the movements' networking politics, or organization and decision-making practices. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHMC; JPW; KJK. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight: 582.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342694
ISBN
9780822342694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 22.14

Paperback. Examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain". This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical reflections on life and work in two laboratories that have played key roles in this development: a human lab in Switzerland and an animal lab in California. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474. The Revival of Hallucinogen Research Since the Decade of the Brain. 336 pages, illustrations. Examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain". This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical reflections on life and work in two laboratories that have played key roles in this development: a human lab in Switzerland and an animal lab in California. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight: 460.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520274822
ISBN
9780520274822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.94

Hardback. Examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain". This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical reflections on life and work in two laboratories that have played key roles in this development: a human lab in Switzerland and an animal lab in California. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520274815
ISBN
9780520274815
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 71.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; PSAJ; UDB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578633494
ISBN
9781578633494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.82

Paperback. Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the adopted daughter of an Eskimo family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 halftones, 5 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674608283
ISBN
9780674608283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226100333
ISBN
9780226100333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 32.86

Paperback. This book explores a historical moment in which a Middle Eastern Jewish community not only adopted a new nation, Iraq, but a new ethnicity, Arabism--and its ultimate demise. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778756
ISBN
9780804778756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.11

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107503946
ISBN
9781107503946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.79

Hardback. Editor(s): Schulz, Oberto J.; Koch, Bega E. Num Pages: 153 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
153
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620818985
ISBN
9781620818985
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.99
€ 113.56

Paperback. Editor(s): Adalslteinn, Martin; Olander, Thomas. Num Pages: 60 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 6. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628082036
ISBN
9781628082036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 145.82
€ 99.57

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