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Anthropology
Paperback. What role does the craftsman play on the professional life of the designer? Is the craft of design threatened with deskilling by technology? These are among the questions discussed in this collection of essays about the relevance and place of handcraft in the late 20th century. Series: Studies in Design. Num Pages: 240 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: AFT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719046186
- ISBN
- 9780719046186
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Condition: New
€ 17.25
€ 17.25
Paperback. What is ethics? Is it a system of transcendent moral imperatives, or can it be produced by ordinary people in everyday life? This title address these questions in a series of thought-provoking reflections that draw their inspiration from diverse sources, ranging from fieldwork in Papua New Guinea to cinematic depictions of the Ten Commandments. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 181 x 7. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984201044
- ISBN
- 9780984201044
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.52
€ 13.99
€ 12.52
The Culture of German Environmentalism. Anxieties, Visions, Realities....
Goodbody, Axel. Ed(S): Goodbody, Axel
Hardback. Assessing environmentalism as a social movement and political force, this volume of essays focuses on cultural roots and changes in attitude that influenced Germany's environmental movement. Goodbody (German studies, U. of Bath) includes an interview with Carl Amery, the Bavarian Green and science f Editor(s): Goodbody, Axel. Series: Culture and Society in Germany. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; JHM; JP; RGC; RNB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571817976
- ISBN
- 9781571817976
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Condition: New
€ 152.18
€ 152.18
Paperback. Explores the complex constellation of factors that cause rural migration and determine its outcomes. Num Pages: 207 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705920
- ISBN
- 9780292705920
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.73
€ 23.99
€ 23.73
Paperback. Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. Num Pages: 354 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520082762
- ISBN
- 9780520082762
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.80
€ 38.99
€ 27.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- a
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226310947
- ISBN
- 9780226310947
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
€ 40.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. Tracing the werewolf's 'use' by anthropologists and criminologists and shifting interpretations of the figure - from the 'scientific' to the mythological and psychological - this work shows the werewolf in Freud's 'wolf-man' case and the sinister use of wolf imagery in Nazism. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845111588
- ISBN
- 9781845111588
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.55
€ 34.99
€ 29.55
Hardback. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems. Series: Food, Nutrition, and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBNH3; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785335624
- ISBN
- 9781785335624
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Condition: New
€ 154.02
€ 154.02
Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; ASDX; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679942
- ISBN
- 9780816679942
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Condition: New
€ 29.14
€ 29.14
Paperback. A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance. Num Pages: 448 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; HBTB; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393348507
- ISBN
- 9780393348507
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.24
€ 23.99
€ 20.24
Paperback. For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 260 pages, 16 halftones, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; AVGH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226265025
- ISBN
- 9780226265025
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.38
€ 37.99
€ 29.38
Paperback. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277397
- ISBN
- 9780520277397
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.64
€ 33.99
€ 24.64
Hardback. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277380
- ISBN
- 9780520277380
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Condition: New
€ 94.55€ 71.14
€ 94.55
€ 71.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 362 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 45 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HBJF; HBLA; HDD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442234611
- ISBN
- 9781442234611
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Condition: New
€ 123.76
€ 123.76
Paperback. This deeply moving collection of "ethnographic poetry" by the renowned cultural theorist Renato Rosaldo focuses on the immediate aftermath of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981, the day after she and her family had arrived in a northern Philippines village where Shelly and Renato were to conduct fieldwork. Num Pages: 160 pages, 21 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: DCF; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356615
- ISBN
- 9780822356615
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Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Hardcover. In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 300 pages, 16 ills & figs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GTF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458728
- ISBN
- 9780857458728
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Condition: New
€ 152.46
€ 152.46
Paperback. A photographic essay which conveys the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village - the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and the rite of exhumation. Num Pages: 248 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHBT; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 247 x 14. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000275
- ISBN
- 9780691000275
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Condition: New
€ 53.19€ 41.44
€ 53.19
€ 41.44
Paperback. A literary exploration of the prevalence of death--its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation--in Richard Wright's work. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334880
- ISBN
- 9780822334880
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Hardcover. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794616
- ISBN
- 9780814794616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.86
€ 84.86
Paperback. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794623
- ISBN
- 9780814794623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.44
€ 33.99
€ 33.44