Anthropology
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Anthropology
Paperback. Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. Editor(s): Goldberg, Harvey E. Series: The Life of Religion S. Num Pages: 267 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520227538
- ISBN
- 9780520227538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.60
€ 41.60
Paperback. Documenting the farm labour system, this text presents a collection of voices - from workers who labour in the fields, to union organizers and lobbyists. The stories present the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHM; KCFM; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520227347
- ISBN
- 9780520227347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.20
€ 42.20
Paperback. Names We Call Home includes autobiographical essays, poetry and interviews to highlight the historical, social and cultural influences that inform racial identity. Editor(s): Thompson, Becky; Tyagi, Sangeeta. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415911627
- ISBN
- 9780415911627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.73
€ 84.73
paperback. An examination of the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on their political, social and economic struggles. The authors suggest some of the ways in which diasporas are transforming global society today. Editor(s): Adachi, Nobuko. Num Pages: 308 pages, 7 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415497459
- ISBN
- 9780415497459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.39
€ 84.39
Paperback. Orientalism, the theory and practice of representing 'the Orient' in European thought, is a controversial and a problematic concept. This book provides a concise text on the evolution and development of the theory of orientalism, the practice of orientalism in history, and its persistence and reformulation. Series: Concepts in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index,. BIC Classification: ACV; JFC; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Open University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780335202065
- ISBN
- 9780335202065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.55
€ 48.55
hardcover. After more than a decade of reunification, this fresh update judiciously surveys the German way of life in an historical context. Series: Cultures and Customs of the World. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HB; JFC; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Greenwood United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313322037
- ISBN
- 9780313322037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.80
€ 80.80
hardcover. Twelve narrative chapters chronicle the nation's survival during wartime and its path toward unforeseen cultural shifts in the years ahead. Series: American Popular Culture Through History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Greenwood United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780313312991
- ISBN
- 9780313312991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.61
€ 84.61
paperback. Presenting everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking, this book shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. It builds on the author's research in the famous Hindu pilgrimage town of Sringeri, Karnataka, in southwestern India. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231139212
- ISBN
- 9780231139212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.05
€ 41.05
Paperback. How can monkeys be both eaten as food and nurtured as children? Her research reveals that monkeys play a vital role in Guaja society, ecology, economy, and religion. In Guaja animistic beliefs, all forms of plant and animal life-especially monkeys-have souls and are woven into a comprehensive kinship system. Series: Historical Ecology Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; JFSL9; JHMP; PSAF; PSVW79. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125253
- ISBN
- 9780231125253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.32
€ 55.32
Paperback. Eviatar Zerubavel casts a critical eye on how we trace our past-individually and collectively-arguing that rather than simply find out who our ancestors are from genetics or history, we actually create the stories that make them our ancestors. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTG; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199336043
- ISBN
- 9780199336043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.67
€ 44.67
paperback. This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Abelson argues that in the interest of concealing the darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and lead incapacitating illness--kleptomania. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press USA United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195071429
- ISBN
- 9780195071429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 104.26
€ 104.26
paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 6. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780155063860
- ISBN
- 9780155063860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 87.56
€ 87.56
paperback. This tribe of South Dakota has met the challenge of living in the 20th century by expressing religion and beliefs in a cultural style that mixes tradition and Christian influence with western technology. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 7. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780030574382
- ISBN
- 9780030574382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.19
€ 90.19
Paperback. Editor(s): Carreiras, Helena; Castro, Celso. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHM; JPWS; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138797482
- ISBN
- 9781138797482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.14
€ 71.14
paperback. A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439904923
- ISBN
- 9781439904923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.11
€ 40.11
Paperback. A critical look at how Inuit men balance traditional values and social circumstances to find their place in the contemporary Arctic. Series: McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1MTN; JFSJ2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773543133
- ISBN
- 9780773543133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.30
€ 40.99
€ 36.30
paperback. The most comprehensive analysis yet of the deliberate destruction of homes and homelands. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFS; JHB; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773522589
- ISBN
- 9780773522589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.55
€ 40.99
€ 36.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages, 17 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HDA; JFCD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415840507
- ISBN
- 9780415840507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 50.62
€ 51.99
€ 50.62
paperback. This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands. Num Pages: 654 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JF; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 654
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415606523
- ISBN
- 9780415606523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.61
€ 70.61
paperback. The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of US history has consisted mainly of a cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This work examines how the second generation - the Nisei - has shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society. Editor(s): Daniels, Roger. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; GTB; JFC; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252068225
- ISBN
- 9780252068225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.52
€ 30.99
€ 27.52