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Anthropology

Paperback. Presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. This book develops a perspective variously historical, philosophical, and cultural by which American writers of Italian descent can be read, increasing the discursive power of an ethnic literature that has received too little serious critical attention. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317395
ISBN
9780822317395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, this volume investigates the relations between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. Editor(s): Hendrickson, Hildi. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317913
ISBN
9780822317913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localised society or culture as its object of study. This title features essays that demonstrate how over the years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. Editor(s): Gupta, Akhil; Ferguson, James. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
n
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319405
ISBN
9780822319405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Includes essays illustrating how valuable the analytic of colonial modernity is to the rethinking of contemporary history. Editor(s): Barlow, Tani E. Series: A Positions Book. Num Pages: 464 pages, 40 b&w photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 40. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319436
ISBN
9780822319436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

Paperback. In this text, the author, Arun Agrawal uses the story of the Raikas, a little-known group of migrant shepherds in western India, to re-examine scholarship on markets and exchange, local and state politics, and community and hierarchy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 tables, 4 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFS; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press Durham
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321224
ISBN
9780822321224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.52

Paperback. Is it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capital? Is it possible for America to honour General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? This title deals with these questions. Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 160 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMGD; JFC; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322207
ISBN
9780822322207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, the author critiques the national ideology of ethnic homogeneity. He shows how Gueguence tells a story about the passing of time, the absurdity of authority, and the contradictions of coping with inheritances of the past. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFSC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press North Carolina
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322887
ISBN
9780822322887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.87

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324416
ISBN
9780822324416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Talks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 384 pages, 42 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324447
ISBN
9780822324447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.98

Paperback. A theoretical account of how spirit mediums mediate the Thai experience of capitalist modernity. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMT; HRQM2; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325178
ISBN
9780822325178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. "Political clientelism" is a term used to characterise the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favours. This title presents the ethnography of urban clientelism ever carried out in Argentina. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 table, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; JFFA; JHMP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326212
ISBN
9780822326212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Tells the story of anthropological fieldwork centred at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia during mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, this book places anthropologists' assistants and informants in a central role in the making of anthropological knowledge. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; 1HFMZ; 3JJ; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326731
ISBN
9780822326731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.25

Paperback. Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general. Editor(s): Stepputat, Finn. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JHMP; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327981
ISBN
9780822327981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329725
ISBN
9780822329725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. This study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching, examining them as a form of political spectacle performed by improverished people who want to gain access to the potential benefits of citizenship in a modern city. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: AN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333708
ISBN
9780822333708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. The Inkan empire did not have writing as it is usually understood. The Inkas kept track of information - including their social and political organization - on khipus, knotted cords of cotton or wool. This book offers a reading of the khipus of one Andean village, where villagers have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 368 pages, 55 photos (incl. 16 in color), 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1KLSX; HB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333906
ISBN
9780822333906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. A historical and ethnographic account of a region located on the border of India and Pakistan; the people who live there engage with the specter of war and religious conflict, racial identity, and the processes of modernity through varying performative mo Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
1st PAPERBACK
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334149
ISBN
9780822334149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. An examination of how popular culture is received and produced within the Middle East. Editor(s): Stein, Rebecca L. Num Pages: 424 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JFCA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335160
ISBN
9780822335160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Generates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnected Num Pages: 376 pages, 3 photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335979
ISBN
9780822335979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337430
ISBN
9780822337430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

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