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Anthropology
Hardback. Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. Editor(s): Parkin, Robert; Sales, Anne de. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 292 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456955
- ISBN
- 9781845456955
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€ 152.46
€ 152.46
Hardback. Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological and social anthropology.. Editor(s): MacClancy, Jeremy; Fuentes, Agustin. Series: Studies of the BioSocial Society. Num Pages: 316 pages, 30 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 628.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456900
- ISBN
- 9781845456900
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€ 152.38
€ 152.38
Hardback. What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring the humanA" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor.. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456375
- ISBN
- 9781845456375
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€ 152.39
€ 152.39
Hardback. Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values. Can we study the Other's morality without applying our own normative judgments? Editor(s): Heintz, Monica. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455927
- ISBN
- 9781845455927
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€ 151.90
€ 151.90
Hardback. Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 ills. BIC Classification: JHM; TQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455811
- ISBN
- 9781845455811
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Condition: New
€ 152.18
€ 152.18
Hardback. Drawing on fieldwork with British Pakistani clients of a UK genetics service, this book explores the personal and social implications of a 'genetic diagnosis'. Through case material and comparative discussion, the book identifies practical ethical dilemmas raised by new genetic knowledge.. Num Pages: 10 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC; MFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455484
- ISBN
- 9781845455484
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Condition: New
€ 152.62
€ 152.62
Hardback. Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote. "Space" and "place" are also often analyzed without grappling much (if at all) with the social, political, and historical roots of spatial practice. Editor(s): Kirby, Peter Wynn. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455385
- ISBN
- 9781845455385
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€ 151.95
€ 151.95
Hardcover. Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance's role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come from skillful manipulation.. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMT; ASDX; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455217
- ISBN
- 9781845455217
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Condition: New
€ 152.46
€ 152.46
'The Land is Dying'. Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western K...
Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane
Hardback. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death: the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, which by the turn of the century had affected every aspect of sociality and pervaded villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 444 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; JHB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454814
- ISBN
- 9781845454814
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Condition: New
€ 164.90
€ 164.90
Hardcover. Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early 21st century. From anthropology, sociology, and religious studies to performance, cultural, and media studies, Turner's ideas have had a prodigious interdisciplinary impact. Editor(s): St. John, Graham. Num Pages: 358 pages, 27 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454623
- ISBN
- 9781845454623
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Condition: New
€ 163.83
€ 163.83
Hardback. This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'election, a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an extreme identity.. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFS; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454265
- ISBN
- 9781845454265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.51
€ 152.51
Hardback. Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. Editor(s): Armbruster, Heidi; Laerke, Anna. Num Pages: 261 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454210
- ISBN
- 9781845454210
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Condition: New
€ 152.18
€ 152.18
Hardcover. Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. Editor(s): Lauth Bacas, Jutta; Kavanagh, William. Num Pages: 276 pages, 26 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; JHMC; JPSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453961
- ISBN
- 9781845453961
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Condition: New
€ 152.71
€ 152.71
Hardback. Peter Worsley's studies at Cambridge were interrupted by war service as a communist officer in the colonial forces in Africa and India, which got him interested in anthropology. His book on The Third World introduced that term into the English language. On retirement as Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, he wrote Knowledges. Num Pages: 12 ills, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: BGA; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453701
- ISBN
- 9781845453701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.39
€ 152.39
The Limits of Meaning. Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianit...
. Ed(S): Engelke, Matthew; Tomlinson, Matt
Hardback. Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, this book suggests that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider its limits. Editor(s): Engelke, Matthew; Tomlinson, Matt. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRCR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451707
- ISBN
- 9781845451707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.78
€ 151.78
Hardback. Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the experience of living that makes magic logical. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 272 pages, Bibliog., index. BIC Classification: JHM; VXW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450571
- ISBN
- 9781845450571
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Condition: New
€ 152.23
€ 152.23
hardcover. Num Pages: charts, maps. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450373
- ISBN
- 9781845450373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.55
€ 163.55
Hardback. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450250
- ISBN
- 9781845450250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.39
€ 152.39
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845414160
- ISBN
- 9781845414160
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Condition: New
€ 146.03
€ 146.03
Hardback. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity. Editor(s): Sarmiento, Fausto O; Hitchner, Sarah. Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KLS; JFSL9; JHMC; JPVH3; RNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785333965
- ISBN
- 9781785333965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.16
€ 169.16