Anthropology
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Anthropology
Hardback. This magnificent ethnographic photo-essay presents the modern Maya of Yucatan who - resilient, resourceful, creative, and armed with intimate knowledge of the place where they live - have survived centuries of upheaval Series: The William and Bette Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Num Pages: 368 pages, 385 duotones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AJC; HBJK; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7747 x 5817 x 915. Weight in Grams: 2212.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292726932
- ISBN
- 9780292726932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.24
€ 56.24
Hardcover. In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth. The author argues that they engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticity - highlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFDY; JFFT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226575193
- ISBN
- 9780226575193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.50€ 89.11
€ 107.50
€ 89.11
Paperback. Suitable for sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and others curious about the semiotics of food, this book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalising. It includes chapters on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CFG; DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323419
- ISBN
- 9780822323419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.67
€ 42.99
€ 37.67
Hardcover. Percival Kirby was one of the greatest South African musicologists and ethnomusicologists. Born in Scotland in 1887, after completing his studies at the Royal College of Music in London he came out to South Africa as the Music Organiser to the Natal Education Department. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AVR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 180. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Edition
- Third edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868146055
- ISBN
- 9781868146055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.50
€ 49.50
Paperback. Presenting the feats of the hero Mwindo, this title covers an epic which was sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of eastern Zaire. It provides insights into the social structure, value system, linguistics, and cosmology of this African people. Editor(s): Biebuyck, Daniel; Mateene, K.C. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520020498
- ISBN
- 9780520020498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.18
€ 38.18
Paperback. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Sussman explains why-when it comes to race-too many people still mistake bigotry for science. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHM; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674660038
- ISBN
- 9780674660038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.81
€ 26.99
€ 23.81
Hardback. More than fifty years after the death of Hitler, the defeat of Nazism, and the horrors of the Holocaust, the concept of a Jewish race is still alive and well in the minds of too many. This book is an attempt to destroy such a myth from both a biological and historical point of view. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460339
- ISBN
- 9781611460339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.26
€ 116.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JHMC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231175302
- ISBN
- 9780231175302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.70€ 51.27
€ 65.70
€ 51.27
Paperback. Tracing the connections among newly invented craft traditions, social networks and consumption patterns, this book highlights the way ethnic identities and class cultures materialize in a sensual world that includes luxurious woven belts, powerful stereos and garlic roasted "cuyes" (guinea pigs). Num Pages: 266 pages, 18 halftones, 3 maps, 26 line drawings, 14 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226113951
- ISBN
- 9780226113951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.80
€ 36.99
€ 28.80
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL1; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295995663
- ISBN
- 9780295995663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.02
€ 119.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL1; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295995670
- ISBN
- 9780295995670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Edition
- 10/19/10
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571313225
- ISBN
- 9781571313225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.00
€ 18.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781517902834
- ISBN
- 9781517902834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.55
€ 29.99
€ 26.55
Hardcover. Editor(s): Manzanilla, Linda; Arnauld, M. Num Pages: 344 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HDD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816520244
- ISBN
- 9780816520244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.86
€ 85.86
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; JHMP; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691612133
- ISBN
- 9780691612133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.13
€ 43.99
€ 31.13
The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe
Ammerman, Albert J.; Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Lu...
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; JHMP; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691640068
- ISBN
- 9780691640068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.34
€ 132.34
In a series of intriguing essays, Taussig hovers between story-telling and high theory and thus creating strange new modes of critical discourse. Num Pages: 218 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHM; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- London
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415904452
- ISBN
- 9780415904452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. A fascinating study of institutional knowledge practices Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472088324
- ISBN
- 9780472088324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.72
€ 38.72
Hardcover. The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting with a number of ways of analyzing this movement, the authors were able to develop a novel theory of social religious movements of broad applicability. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWS; HRQC; JHM; VX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571819932
- ISBN
- 9781571819932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.78
€ 161.78
Paperback. Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. This book challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 halftones. 16 tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRH; JFSJ2; JHMC; MBNH4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148892
- ISBN
- 9780691148892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.17€ 39.62
€ 50.17
€ 39.62