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Anthropology
Paperback. In legend, Cumbe ruled the Colombian community of Cumbal during the Spanish invasion. Although there is no proof of his existence, today's Cumbales point to him as their link to the past. Here, Rappaport examines the Cumbales' reappropriation of history and the resulting reinvention of tradition. Num Pages: 262 pages, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226705262
- ISBN
- 9780226705262
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.72
€ 43.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified, human behaviors. Our earthiest instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: JHMP; JMM; PSAN; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674284135
- ISBN
- 9780674284135
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.02
€ 36.99
€ 31.02
Hardback. Customizing Indigeneity follows the Aguaruna on their paths to becoming leaders of Peru's Amazonian movement, revealing both their creative cultural agency and the constraints of contemporary indigenous movement politics along the way. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761185
- ISBN
- 9780804761185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.11
€ 135.11
Hardback. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 272 pages, B&W Illus.: 11,. BIC Classification: 1FKP; APF; JFMP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231162883
- ISBN
- 9780231162883
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Condition: New
€ 109.52€ 83.43
€ 109.52
€ 83.43
Paperback. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 272 pages, B&W Illus.: 11,. BIC Classification: 1FKP; APF; JFMP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231162890
- ISBN
- 9780231162890
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.61
€ 37.99
€ 27.61
paperback. Argues African ways of seeing and interpreting their environments and past are not only critical to how historians write environmental history, they also have important lessons for policymakers and conservationists. It focuses on the Mpiemu people of the Central Arfrican Republic. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFJR; JFC; JFSL9; JHMC; RNA; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813921037
- ISBN
- 9780813921037
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Condition: New
€ 33.40
€ 33.40
Hardcover. Based on ethnographic research on the online activities of Christian & Muslim actors in the Moluccan conflict, this study investigates processes of identity construction, community building, & evolving conflict dynamics on the internet. An innovative contribution to conflict & internet research, this study paves the way for a new cyber anthropology Translator(s): Gaines, Jeremy. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 460 pages, 20 ills, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JMC; JFD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458544
- ISBN
- 9780857458544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.29
€ 183.29
Paperback. Examining internet advertising, role-playing games, chat rooms, cyberpunk fiction and web design, Nakamura traces the real-life consequences that follow when we attempt to push issues of race and identity on-line. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JHMP; UBJ; UDB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415938372
- ISBN
- 9780415938372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.29
€ 54.29
Hardcover. A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of this multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; ASD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782381471
- ISBN
- 9781782381471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.20
€ 164.20
Hardback. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: ASD; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 180. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634830966
- ISBN
- 9781634830966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 311.89€ 232.34
€ 311.89
€ 232.34
Hardback. A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 half-tones. BIC Classification: ASD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729895
- ISBN
- 9780804729895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.04
€ 171.04
Hardcover. Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of transnational ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama or Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. Editor(s): Neveu Kringelbach, Helene; Skinner, Jonathan. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442. Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. 260 pages, 11 ills. Editor(s): Neveu Kringelbach, Helene; Skinner, Jonathan. Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of transnational ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama or Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: ASD; JHMC. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 17. Weight: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857455758
- ISBN
- 9780857455758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.49
€ 161.49
Paperback. Includes essays that offer a sophisticated view of the growing power of popular culture and its increasing inseparability from contemporary structures of economic and political power and from our everyday lives. This title reveals the ways in which popular culture is being mobilised in the service of economic and political struggles. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319177
- ISBN
- 9780822319177
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental governmentality" that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823263660
- ISBN
- 9780823263660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.62
€ 41.99
€ 37.62
Hardback. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental governmentality" that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823263653
- ISBN
- 9780823263653
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Condition: New
€ 132.13
€ 132.13
Paperback. Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa. Series: Asia-Pacific. 288 pages, 16 b&w photographs. Examines how Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. This title analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through the fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; AN; GTB; JHMP. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343714
- ISBN
- 9780822343714
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.75
€ 37.99
€ 33.75
Hardback. This work examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. Num Pages: 308 pages, 21 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLSB; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719261
- ISBN
- 9780804719261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.13
€ 194.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSJ; JHMP; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 253 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1006.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816626496
- ISBN
- 9780816626496
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.64
€ 30.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Focusing on the evolution of traditional forms of practice and community, as well as modern reforms and reinventions both within China and on the global stage, this book explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late nineteenth century. Editor(s): Palmer, David A; Liu, Xun. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. Num Pages: 404 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HRKN5; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520289864
- ISBN
- 9780520289864
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Condition: New
€ 54.76€ 43.39
€ 54.76
€ 43.39
Paperback. Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 26 b&w photos, and 4 photo color insert. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HRLK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329886
- ISBN
- 9780822329886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.78
€ 43.99
€ 38.78