Anthropology
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Anthropology
Paperback. A case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalization Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335719
- ISBN
- 9780822335719
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€ 45.70
€ 45.70
Paperback. An ethnographic study of Zimbabwe's land occupations that focuses on the effects of spatialized struggles on sovereignty and the nation-state Num Pages: 424 pages, 15 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJP; GTB; JHMC; JPVH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822335702
- ISBN
- 9780822335702
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€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. Analyzes cultural adaptation among aboriginal people in the Pacific Northwest, tracing the colonial origins and political implications of ideas about native "authenticity." Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 328 pages, 37 b&w photos, 2 illus. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822335474
- ISBN
- 9780822335474
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€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335405
- ISBN
- 9780822335405
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€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. An exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society Editor(s): Sommer, Doris. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822334996
- ISBN
- 9780822334996
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€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. A collection that debates and studies how to revise the four-field approach of anthropology. Editor(s): Segal, Daniel Alan; Yanagisako, Sylvia. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334743
- ISBN
- 9780822334743
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€ 39.93
€ 39.93
Paperback. Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; JFC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822333883
- ISBN
- 9780822333883
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€ 43.00
€ 43.00
Paperback. Provides an ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in northern Japan. This book explains that spiritual practice at the Akakura shrine is motivated by the efforts of women and men to comprehend and manage contradictory obligations and desires related to personal health, family, and work. Num Pages: 288 pages, 31 b&w photos, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HRKN3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330622
- ISBN
- 9780822330622
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€ 45.70
€ 45.70
Paperback. An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329480
- ISBN
- 9780822329480
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€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high school students define white identities, this book offers insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JFSP2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328926
- ISBN
- 9780822328926
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€ 45.72
€ 45.72
Paperback. Offers an historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, this book envisions a future of politically equal and economically empowered citizens through the democratisation of power and the socialisation of property. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328667
- ISBN
- 9780822328667
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€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. Collection of anthropological essays studying radical social transformation - including violence - and its effects on the everyday lives of people in a variety of world regions. Editor(s): Greenhouse, Carol J.; Warren, Kay B.; Mertz, Professor Elizabeth. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 672.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328483
- ISBN
- 9780822328483
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€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. Suitable for all those for whom the politics of subjectivity pose real problems of authority, identity, and belief, this book discusses its roles within the fields of legal theory, social science, fiction, philosophy, and ethics. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328391
- ISBN
- 9780822328391
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€ 45.72
€ 45.72
paperback. Has kinship become more structureless, commodified, and flexible in the global era? Do such representations overlook the "diffuse, enduring ties" that kinship has long signified? What has been the effect of contemporary bio-politics on kinship practices and theories? This title deals with these questions. Editor(s): Franklin, Sarah; McKinnon, Susan. Num Pages: 536 pages, 11 b&w photos, 1 table, 6 maps, 15 figures. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 36. Weight in Grams: 828.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822327967
- ISBN
- 9780822327967
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€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Paperback. With its recurrent themes of trans-nationalism, globalisation, and postcoloniality, this title considers various embodiments of the Asian diaspora, including a rumination on minority discourses and performance studies, and an historical look at the journal Amerasia. Editor(s): Chuh, Kandice; Shimakawa, Karen. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327394
- ISBN
- 9780822327394
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€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Editor(s): Feldman, Lawrence H. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326243
- ISBN
- 9780822326243
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€ 35.34
€ 35.34
Paperback. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, this title demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, religion, and politics. Num Pages: 448 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323907
- ISBN
- 9780822323907
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€ 50.10
€ 50.10
Paperback. Presents a comprehensive collection of writings, including essays from the 1980s and 1990s that present an argument about the AIDS epidemic. The author addresses a range of issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries. Num Pages: 496 pages, 83 b&w images. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; MBNS; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 38. Weight in Grams: 807.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323181
- ISBN
- 9780822323181
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€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Paperback. Presents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. This book examines such topics as the legacy of slavery and its abolition, and race-related violence. It is suitable for those interested in the larger issues of political and social movements centered on the issue of race. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322726
- ISBN
- 9780822322726
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€ 37.94
€ 37.94
paperback. Most would agree that American culture in the 1980s differed dramatically from that of the 1960s. Yet the 1970s is still thought of as a cultural wasteland. This text debunks this notion by examining a wide range of political and cultural phenomena. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 432 pages, 29 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822321668
- ISBN
- 9780822321668
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Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69