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Anthropology

Hardback. Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with death and remembrance in Ireland. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary Irish communities. Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Num Pages: 180 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332821
ISBN
9781785332821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.32

Paperback. Explores the vibrancy and variety of humans' sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. Num Pages: 321 pages, 25 b/w images. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFHF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520290426
ISBN
9780520290426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Paperback. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478. Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. 352 pages. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight: 480. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226733081
ISBN
9780226733081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Hardcover. Maoists at the Hearth details the ways that inhabitants of a hill village in central Nepal managed their everyday activities following the arrival of Maoist insurgents in the late 1990s, exploring their changing social relationships with fellow villagers and the parties to the conflict both during and after the civil war. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKN; HBJF; HBW; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244922
ISBN
9780812244922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.93

Hardback. Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of "development" as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. Editor(s): Venkatesan, Soumhya; Yarrow, Thomas. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486. Beyond an Anthropology of Critique. 220 pages. Editor(s): Venkatesan, Soumhya; Yarrow, Thomas. Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of "development" as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: GTF; JHMC. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight: 486.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
220
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857453037
ISBN
9780857453037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.28

Paperback. Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. This book offers a perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285224
ISBN
9780520285224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. Often, violent behavior or harassment from a soldier is dismissed by the military as unacceptable acts by individuals termed, "rotten apples." In this study, the author argues that this dismissal is unsatisfactory and that there is an urgent need to look at the (mis)behavior of soldiers from a structural point of view. Num Pages: 172 pages, 15 ills. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTJ; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
172
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857459565
ISBN
9780857459565
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.54

Paperback. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade in Sierra Leone have shaped (and been reshaped by) experiences of colonialism, postcolonialsm, and the country's ten-year rebel war. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 125 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226751320
ISBN
9780226751320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138924215
ISBN
9781138924215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 42.06

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785706202
ISBN
9781785706202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.20
€ 38.69

Hardback. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHMC; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319514772
ISBN
9783319514772
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.73

Hardback. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMNX; HRLF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782385646
ISBN
9781782385646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.68

Hardback. This book explores human adaptation to mountain systems using a range of viewpoints, including anthropology, ecology, and geography. It examines human effects on mountain systems, particularly in regard to human-caused climate change. Editor(s): Lozny, Ludomir. Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation. Num Pages: 410 pages, 15 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; RGBS; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 766.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
410
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461457015
ISBN
9781461457015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.02

Paperback. .
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783605071
ISBN
9781783605071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.84

Paperback. Looking at the field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry, Matthew Frye Jacobson shows that in the USA, nation of immigrants, "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were reracialized to become Caucasian. Num Pages: 368 pages, 14 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674951914
ISBN
9780674951914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.01

Paperback. Editor(s): Bendix, Regina F. Num Pages: 114 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMP; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 245 x 9. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763544221
ISBN
9788763544221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.68

Hardback. Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 362 pages, 6 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 642.
Publisher
Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785333781
ISBN
9781785333781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.20

Paperback. The primary goal of this volume is to provide an updated synthesis of the current state of the Asian paleoanthropological and paleoenvironmental records. Papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa. Editor(s): Norton, Christopher; Braun, David R. Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Num Pages: 480 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 12. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Springer
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400733220
ISBN
9789400733220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.05

Hardback. Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context, exploring its implications for contemporary debates on the historical construction of sexual desire. It traces the origins of pre-Tokugawa homosexual traditions among monks and samurai. Num Pages: 317 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSJ; JFSK2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
317
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520209008
ISBN
9780520209008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.48

Paperback. Offers an alternative vision of how US borders might be reconfigured, grounded in moral, economic, and policy arguments for open borders. This book suggests that open borders are entirely consistent with efforts to prevent terrorism that have dominated immigration enforcement since the events of September 11, 2001. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JHMP; JPA; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814743096
ISBN
9780814743096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.70

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