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Anthropology
Paperback. From the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHM; KJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223156
- ISBN
- 9780812223156
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€ 37.99€ 35.80
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Paperback. Following the lives of a group of migrant Filipinas who worked as entertainers in South Korea and then journeyed to other parts of Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this ethnography provides a look at how work, sex, love, and ambition in migrants' lives intersect with larger issues of transnationalism, identity, and global hierarchies of inequality. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1FPKS; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222777
- ISBN
- 9780812222777
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€ 37.99€ 35.75
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Paperback. Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born anthropologist's venture into a miners' occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222708
- ISBN
- 9780812222708
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€ 37.99€ 36.04
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Paperback. Anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 188 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222685
- ISBN
- 9780812222685
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€ 32.99€ 31.45
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Paperback. Based on intensive fieldwork in Israel during the second intifada, this ethnographic study explores how Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives. When Israeli security imprints itself on individual lives, the book argues, security propagates the very fears it claims to prevent. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JHM; JKSW1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222661
- ISBN
- 9780812222661
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Paperback. This ethnography analyzes the popularity of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India through examining the everyday acts of women activists, finding that women's ability to recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds and the movement's willingness to accommodate a multiplicity of positions are central to understanding its expansionary power. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHM; JPFN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222340
- ISBN
- 9780812222340
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€ 33.99€ 33.76
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paperback. What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of people's self-understandings as social and political actors. Editor(s): Greenhouse, Carol J. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPFK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222326
- ISBN
- 9780812222326
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Paperback. Based on extensive fieldwork, Women of Fes shows how Moroccan women create their own forms of identity through work, family, and society. The book also examines how women's lives are positioned vis-a-vis globalization, human rights, and the construction of national identity. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1HBM; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221312
- ISBN
- 9780812221312
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€ 32.99€ 31.30
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Paperback. The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220926
- ISBN
- 9780812220926
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€ 32.99€ 31.23
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Paperback. The essays in Coming Home? examine the unique return migration experiences of refugees, migrants, and various others as they confront social pressures and sense of displacement. Editor(s): Long, Lynellyn D.; Oxfeld, Ellen. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218589
- ISBN
- 9780812218589
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€ 37.99€ 33.73
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Paperback. What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while? Struggling with the elusive question of class difference in US society, the author finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218510
- ISBN
- 9780812218510
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€ 32.99€ 31.45
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Paperback. Contains essays which analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume includes essays that also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements. Editor(s): Joseph, Suad; Slyomovics, Susan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JJPG; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812217490
- ISBN
- 9780812217490
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Paperback. "Quite simply, a tour de force--a wonderful synthesis of history and criticism."--Daniel Czitrom, author of Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215601
- ISBN
- 9780812215601
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€ 32.99€ 31.29
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paperback. Editor(s): Dellamora, Richard. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812215588
- ISBN
- 9780812215588
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€ 37.99€ 35.62
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Paperback. In Looking West, John D. Dorst examines a largely neglected pattern of seeing that stands in contrast to the universally familiar iconography. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812214406
- ISBN
- 9780812214406
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.80
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Paperback. Series: Ethnohistory S. Num Pages: 284 pages, 40 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 421.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Pbk
- SKU
- V9780812212419
- ISBN
- 9780812212419
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€ 32.99€ 31.30
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Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Policy. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JM; JHMC; JNF; KCM; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804799850
- ISBN
- 9780804799850
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.39
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Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL3; JHMC; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804799560
- ISBN
- 9780804799560
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Condition: New
€ 97.71
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JHB; JHMC; JNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804798532
- ISBN
- 9780804798532
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.80
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Hardback. Series: Anthropology of Policy. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JM; JHMC; JNF; KCM; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804797979
- ISBN
- 9780804797979
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Condition: New
€ 146.37
€ 146.37