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Hardback. Gathering all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must see it from another's point of view. For Levi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France's most public figures at his most personal. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JHBT; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 189 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072923
- ISBN
- 9780674072923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.96
€ 47.99
€ 39.96
Paperback. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304. Essays on Writers and Writing. 218 pages. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275263
- ISBN
- 9780520275263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. In this account of hunter/gatherer culture gleaned from years of living and hunting with the Inuits of the Arctic and the salmon-fishing tribes in the Canadian Northwest, the author reaches through everyday realities to reflect on the human condition. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571205028
- ISBN
- 9780571205028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.99
€ 17.99
€ 12.99
Hardback. This book offers a crosslinguistic survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. It looks at a range of issues from a cross-theoretical perspective, including complexity, argument structure, language contact, and language obsolence. Editor(s): Fortescue, Michael; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: CFDC; CFF; CFK; JHMC. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199683208
- ISBN
- 9780199683208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 239.23
€ 239.23
Hardback. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in shaping human history, with case studies from five continents examining human-animal relationships across a range of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Albarella, Umberto; Rizzetto, Mauro; Russ, Hannah; Vickers, Kim; Viner-Daniels, Sarah. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 816 pages, 129 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA; HD; JHMC; RGM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199686476
- ISBN
- 9780199686476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 247.38
€ 247.38
Paperback. Introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it reveals about the people who spoke it. Using related evidence from archaeology and natural history, this work explores the lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy, history, and environment of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Num Pages: 760 pages, Numerous tables. BIC Classification: CF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1298.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 760
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199296682
- ISBN
- 9780199296682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.34
€ 57.34
Paperback. Through sixty-one beautifully crafted, concise essays, the anthropologist Michael Jackson reflects on life situations where we are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding ourselves and connecting with others. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343813
- ISBN
- 9780822343813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29
Paperback. In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. This book explores how American experts framed a catastrophe that never occurred. Num Pages: 250 pages, 18 b/w. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284098
- ISBN
- 9780520284098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.98
€ 33.99
€ 24.98
Paperback. Interweaves the stories of George Forrest and Joseph Francis Charles Rock, two early twentieth-century botanists and explores the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Num Pages: 376 pages, 45 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 1FPC; 1FPCT; 3JJC; JHMC; PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538. Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet. 376 pages, illustrations. Interweaves the stories of George Forrest and Joseph Francis Charles Rock, two early twentieth-century botanists and explores the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 1FPC; 1FPCT; 3JJC; JHMC; PST. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight: 520.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269033
- ISBN
- 9780520269033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. This book draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country's history of violence and state control. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JFFE; JHMC; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520288522
- ISBN
- 9780520288522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.81
€ 33.99
€ 24.81
hardcover. Looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the nineteenth century to live and work in Paris. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351696
- ISBN
- 9780822351696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.75
€ 110.75
Paperback. Looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the nineteenth century to live and work in Paris. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351832
- ISBN
- 9780822351832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Hardcover. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 262 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Har/Com
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810881471
- ISBN
- 9780810881471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.67
€ 170.67
Paperback. Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession and colonial interests. It is the operation of these forces, in combination with the talent of Pasteur, that Latour sets out as a prime example of science in action. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan; Law, John. Num Pages: 292 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JHM; MBN; P. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1st Paberback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674657618
- ISBN
- 9780674657618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.19
€ 49.99
€ 42.19
Paperback. Takes us on a journey into an iconic Western landscape - northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. This title chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262089
- ISBN
- 9780520262089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. A text on socio-political violence that highlights the human experience of domination, resistance and terror as they are woven into the fabric of everyday life. It takes the reader from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East to Asia to capture the cultural construction of socio-political violence. Editor(s): Nordstrom, Carolyn; Martin, JoAnn. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM; JPA; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520073166
- ISBN
- 9780520073166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.48
€ 38.99
€ 28.48
Hardback. In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients' daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography. Series: Wyse Series in Social Anthropology. Num Pages: 274 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKH; JHMC; MBP; MX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785333941
- ISBN
- 9781785333941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.00
€ 157.00
Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 312 pages, 34. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475573
- ISBN
- 9780801475573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.94
€ 34.99
€ 31.94
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 928
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803228436
- ISBN
- 9780803228436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.95
€ 182.95
Paperback. Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FC; DS; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253017604
- ISBN
- 9780253017604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15