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Anthropology
Paperback. What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while? Struggling with the elusive question of class difference in US society, the author finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218510
- ISBN
- 9780812218510
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Paperback. The essays in Coming Home? examine the unique return migration experiences of refugees, migrants, and various others as they confront social pressures and sense of displacement. Editor(s): Long, Lynellyn D.; Oxfeld, Ellen. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218589
- ISBN
- 9780812218589
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Paperback. The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220926
- ISBN
- 9780812220926
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€ 32.99€ 31.23
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Paperback. Based on extensive fieldwork, Women of Fes shows how Moroccan women create their own forms of identity through work, family, and society. The book also examines how women's lives are positioned vis-a-vis globalization, human rights, and the construction of national identity. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1HBM; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221312
- ISBN
- 9780812221312
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€ 32.99€ 31.30
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paperback. What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of people's self-understandings as social and political actors. Editor(s): Greenhouse, Carol J. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPFK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222326
- ISBN
- 9780812222326
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€ 36.99€ 35.75
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Paperback. This ethnography analyzes the popularity of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India through examining the everyday acts of women activists, finding that women's ability to recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds and the movement's willingness to accommodate a multiplicity of positions are central to understanding its expansionary power. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHM; JPFN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222340
- ISBN
- 9780812222340
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Paperback. Based on intensive fieldwork in Israel during the second intifada, this ethnographic study explores how Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives. When Israeli security imprints itself on individual lives, the book argues, security propagates the very fears it claims to prevent. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JHM; JKSW1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222661
- ISBN
- 9780812222661
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€ 36.99€ 35.80
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Paperback. Anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 188 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222685
- ISBN
- 9780812222685
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Paperback. Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born anthropologist's venture into a miners' occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222708
- ISBN
- 9780812222708
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€ 36.99€ 36.04
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Paperback. Following the lives of a group of migrant Filipinas who worked as entertainers in South Korea and then journeyed to other parts of Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this ethnography provides a look at how work, sex, love, and ambition in migrants' lives intersect with larger issues of transnationalism, identity, and global hierarchies of inequality. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1FPKS; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222777
- ISBN
- 9780812222777
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Paperback. From the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHM; KJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223156
- ISBN
- 9780812223156
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€ 36.99€ 35.80
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Hardback. An exploration of the cultural mythology of skin color during the English Renaissance. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 628.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812238327
- ISBN
- 9780812238327
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Hardback. Focusing on interpersonal dynamics during conflict in the Republic of Macedonia, Neofotistos describes how Macedonians and Albanians in the city of Skopje responded to threatening political developments, negotiated relationships of power, and promoted indeterminacy on the level of the everyday as a sense of impending war enfolded the capital. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVWYM; HBJD; JHMP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812243994
- ISBN
- 9780812243994
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€ 81.44
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Hardcover. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones, Rituals of Ethnicity explores Thangmi cultural worlds and regional political histories to offer a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities despite the realities of mobile, hybrid lives. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKN; JFSL; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 676.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812246834
- ISBN
- 9780812246834
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€ 90.54
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Hardcover. Death, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812249057
- ISBN
- 9780812249057
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€ 96.99
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Hardcover. To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men-chubs, bears, cubs - the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at large still haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gay communities. This book delves into the world of Girth & Mirth. Series: Intersections. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814708385
- ISBN
- 9780814708385
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€ 91.49
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Paperback. Tracing the evolution of each of the bad habits, this title shows how liquor control boards encouraged the consumption of alcohol; how alcoholic beverage producers got their workers deferred from the draft during World War II; and how convenience stores and accounting firms pursued profits by pushing legalized gambling. Editor(s): Burnham, John C. Series: Bad Habits. Num Pages: 378 pages, 34 photographs, 13 black and white drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFF; JHM; JMAL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814712245
- ISBN
- 9780814712245
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€ 33.99€ 33.63
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Paperback. The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Drawing from local as well as international examples, this book present strategies such as coalition building, dispute resolution, and community organizing. Num Pages: 179 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814715840
- ISBN
- 9780814715840
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€ 28.18
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Paperback. Reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, this book shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. It offers a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and bibliography. Num Pages: 202 pages, glossary, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814726709
- ISBN
- 9780814726709
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€ 29.99€ 29.10
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Paperback. "God in Chinatown" is a study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China's southeastern coast, to New York's Chinatown. Series: Religion, Race, & Ethnicity. Num Pages: 225 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814731543
- ISBN
- 9780814731543
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Paperback. Explores the individual psychology, family dynamics, and societal messages behind bicultural development Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFSL4; JHMC; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814740903
- ISBN
- 9780814740903
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Paperback. Editor(s): Perea, Juan F. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL1; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780814766422
- ISBN
- 9780814766422
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.44
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paperback. This text explores a range of topics, including underground literature, religious revival, and the rise of a national Jewish consciousness. It examines the ambivalent role traditionally played by the Soviet Union in both allowing cultural expression and suppressing individual religious practice. Editor(s): Ro'i, Yaacov; Beker, Avi. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JFC; JFSR1; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 660.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814774328
- ISBN
- 9780814774328
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 26. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814774823
- ISBN
- 9780814774823
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.47
€ 33.99
€ 33.47