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Paperback. Juvenile homicide and fatal maltreatment are serious and pervasive problems in the developed world and especially in the United States. This multidisciplinary resource explores many of the finer details of investigations into abuse-related juvenile fatalities. Editor(s): Ross, Ann H.; Abel, Suzanne M. Num Pages: 215 pages, 23 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; JKVF1; MBGL; MMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781627038898
ISBN
9781627038898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 134.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; JHMC; WGG; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 199.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629144542
ISBN
9781629144542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.23

Hardcover. Writing from the perspective of long-term engagement with the contexts in which the films are set, anthropologists and historians reflect on these films and assess the contemporary place Africa holds in the North American and European cinematic imagination. Editor(s): Eltringham, Nigel. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; APFA; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782380733
ISBN
9781782380733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.37

Hardcover. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China's recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782386322
ISBN
9781782386322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.12

Hardcover. Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility & assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population & how social experience leads to a decision for (or against) having an IVF. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JHBK; JHMC; MJTF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782386346
ISBN
9781782386346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.02

Hardback. This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic dimension of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. An array of case studies provide an account of how change is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society's capacity for political action. Editor(s): Hariman, Robert; Cintron, Ralph. Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387466
ISBN
9781782387466
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.43

Hardback. Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth. This ethnography focuses on these "stayers," who enable others to migrate while preserving the values and traditions of rural, sedentary life. Num Pages: 244 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDG; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387794
ISBN
9781782387794
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.00

Paperback. With debates on the meaning of 'liberal society' more heated than ever, this is a timely re-issue of a classic text Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JHBA; JHM; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784786472
ISBN
9781784786472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.73

Hardback. Although academic writing is an anthropologist's primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction. This book explores how writing shapes anthropologists and their discipline. Editor(s): Wulff, Helena. Num Pages: 276 pages, 2 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785330186
ISBN
9781785330186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.55

Hardcover. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with foreigners across many realms of life, describing startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785330209
ISBN
9781785330209
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.68

Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785330773
ISBN
9781785330773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.43

Hardback. This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. Num Pages: 300 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1; JHMC; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785330810
ISBN
9781785330810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.60

Hardback. Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Editor(s): Brightman, Marc; Grotti, Vanessa Elisa; Fausto, Carlos. Num Pages: 278 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785330834
ISBN
9781785330834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.52

Hardcover. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa's environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means. Num Pages: 518 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMZ; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 34. Weight in Grams: 894.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785331572
ISBN
9781785331572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 206.13

Hardcover. In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world. Num Pages: 268 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 262 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785331596
ISBN
9781785331596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.57

Hardcover. Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich'in Natives of Alaska. Num Pages: 232 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785331619
ISBN
9781785331619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.97

Hardback. The book examines the causes and consequences of infertility and the rapid proliferation of new reproductive technologies in 'modern India'. The book emerges from an ethnographic inquiry that explains how assisted conception, as a means of bypassing infertility, is being accommodated, understood and used in India today. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMC; MFKC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332302
ISBN
9781785332302
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.75

Hardcover. Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population's interaction with modern medicine. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the 'biomedical' is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life. Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 maps, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332340
ISBN
9781785332340
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.28

Hardback. Centering on "moving places" - places with locations that are not fixed, but relative - this book draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making. Editor(s): Gregoric Bon, Natasa; Repic, Jaka. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 253 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332425
ISBN
9781785332425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.00

Hardcover. This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 2. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785333026
ISBN
9781785333026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.17

Hardback. This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into 'universal knowledge', and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. Editor(s): Josephides, Lisette; Gronseth, Anne Sigfrid. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334047
ISBN
9781785334047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.17

Hardcover. Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 196 pages, 2 figures, 1 illustration, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; GTJ; JHMC; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334146
ISBN
9781785334146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.69

Hardcover. Starry Nights envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them. Series: Loose Can(N)Ons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334610
ISBN
9781785334610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.40

Hardcover. Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spirits; it provides a way to apprehend how society.. Series: Social Identities. Num Pages: 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFG; AFKP; HRLF; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845450557
ISBN
9781845450557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.42

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