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Anthropology
The Postmodern Presence. Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture...
Arthur Asa . Ed(S): Berger
Paperback. "Postmodern" is a popular term, but difficult to define. Instead of summing up the various perspectives of scholars and the variety of ideas to which the term postmodernism has been assigned, this text lets this diversity speak for itself. Editor(s): Berger, Arthur Asa. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989806
- ISBN
- 9780761989806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.32
€ 67.32
The Postmodern Presence. Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture...
Arthur Asa . Ed(S): Berger
Hardback. "Postmodern" is a popular term, but difficult to define. Instead of summing up the various perspectives of scholars and the variety of ideas to which the term postmodernism has been assigned, this text lets this diversity speak for itself. Editor(s): Berger, Arthur Asa. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989790
- ISBN
- 9780761989790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.73
€ 151.73
Paperback. This volume offers an innovative ethnography, which strives to express the lived experience of women's music by turning the postmodern critique into a lyrical and complex expression of social experience. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989660
- ISBN
- 9780761989660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardback. This volume offers an innovative ethnography, which strives to express the lived experience of women's music by turning the postmodern critique into a lyrical and complex expression of social experience. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989653
- ISBN
- 9780761989653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.42
€ 150.42
Paperback. This edition of Friedman's popular work contains the full text of the original volume along with 2 related articles by the author and a comprehensive introduction. This work is suitable for advanced students and academics in anthropology. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 356 pages, figs.tabs.M. BIC Classification: 1F; DSA; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989349
- ISBN
- 9780761989349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.47
€ 74.47
Hardback. A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or "somewhat secular." Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What are its roots? This insightful book provides an overview of a profound development in the evolving history of Jewish life in America. Editor(s): Heller, Zachary I.; Gordis, David M. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761857938
- ISBN
- 9780761857938
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.14
€ 104.14
Paperback. Using a mixed-method approach, Unintended Consequences of Human Actions documents a wide range of unintended and unanticipated consequences of human actions. The major message is the urgent need to review a range of possible outcomes of human actions. During these fragile times "looking down the road" has become imperative. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 167.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761854456
- ISBN
- 9780761854456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.40
€ 52.40
Paperback. This work addresses the relationship between the Catholic imagination, acceptance of the other, and -- using the case of Haitian- and African-Americans -- suggests the concept is a useful tool for the study of diasporic cultures. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761853657
- ISBN
- 9780761853657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99
€ 54.99
Hardback. Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800s, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today. Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759120945
- ISBN
- 9780759120945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.13
€ 153.13
Hardback. This book presents the voices of foreign brides from 123 countries who married Korean men in response to a critical shortage of marriageable women in rural Korea since the early 1990s. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759120358
- ISBN
- 9780759120358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.13
€ 136.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 281 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 22. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759120266
- ISBN
- 9780759120266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.74
€ 136.74
Hardback. Editor(s): Hicks, David. Num Pages: 496 pages, figures. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 190 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1153.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759111554
- ISBN
- 9780759111554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.90
€ 199.90
Hardback. This study is the result of decades of analysis of the skeletal material from the Early Bronze Age I tombs at the site of Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 285 x 221 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1146.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759110755
- ISBN
- 9780759110755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 389.02
€ 389.02
Hardback. What Makes Learning Fun? presents a set of tested principles and strategies for the design of museum exhibits, with concrete examples of design successes and failures drawn from the author's many years in the field. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759108844
- ISBN
- 9780759108844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.90
€ 133.90
Paperback. Tackles the critical question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems that arise with global integration. This book reveals these impacts on an urban US community, on Mandalay rice cultivators, on Mayan and Andean peasants and miners. It is for anthropologists and other social scientists engaged in ethnographic research. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759108813
- ISBN
- 9780759108813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Hardback. With a focus on the personal, immediate and contextual, this work presents plays about marginalized identities, abortion, street life and oppression that manage a unique balance between theoretical research and everyday realism. Editor(s): Saldana, Johnny. Series: Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759108127
- ISBN
- 9780759108127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.71
€ 164.71
Paperback. Through authors' letters and commentaries, this book reveals the key relationship between anthropologist and subject. It is a reflection on the survival of contemporary Portuguese nobility. It is suitable for scholars of anthropological methods and fieldwork, and to researchers interested in the anthropology of elites and in Portuguese culture. Series: Alterations. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759107779
- ISBN
- 9780759107779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Hardback. Reveals the key relationship between anthropologist and subject through their letters and commentaries. This ethnography is a reflection on the survival of the contemporary Portuguese nobility. It is of interest to scholars of anthropological methods and fieldwork, and to those interested in the anthropology of elites and in Portuguese culture. Series: Alterations. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 767.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759107762
- ISBN
- 9780759107762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.59
€ 175.59
Paperback. Utilizing almost 40 years' work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antecedents. Following the assumption that Africa has never been isolated from the rest of the world, Smith illuminates key topics ranging from material culture and rituals, to future prospects for pastoralists. Series: African Archaeology Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759107489
- ISBN
- 9780759107489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.98
€ 76.98
Hardback. Utilizing almost 40 years' work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antecedents. Following the assumption that Africa has never been isolated from the rest of the world, Smith illuminates key topics ranging from material culture and rituals, to future prospects for pastoralists. Series: African Archaeology Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759107472
- ISBN
- 9780759107472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.78
€ 171.78