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Anthropology
Paperback. The construction of masculinity is becoming a field of growing interest because it is opening up new and fascinating perspectives, thus adding a further dimension to Gender Studies. However, so far the analysis has focused mostly on homosexuality. By contrast, the author examines social processes and relations that constitute hegemonic masculinity. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. Num Pages: 192 pages, Bibliog., Index. BIC Classification: 1DSP; JFSJ2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 162 x 10. Weight in Grams: 234.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571818911
- ISBN
- 9781571818911
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.45
€ 32.99
€ 30.45
Paperback. According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. This work explores the issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of the author's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; HRKT; HRQX2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226893983
- ISBN
- 9780226893983
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Condition: New
€ 34.76
€ 34.76
Paperback. The author shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions and her study provides a wealth of insights to anyone interested in the significance of cartography, the growth of empire, or this exciting period of Chinese history. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 colour plates, 13 halftones, 6 maps, 4 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226354217
- ISBN
- 9780226354217
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Condition: New
€ 53.72
€ 53.72
Hardback. In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one. This book focuses on the Catholic communities of Fuan county in northeast Fujian. It suggests that Christianity became part of a pre-existing pluralistic, local religious space. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 5 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRCC7; HRCX7; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 34. Weight in Grams: 860.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035966
- ISBN
- 9780674035966
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.06
€ 54.99
€ 46.06
Paperback. Represents a major step forward in the use of economic sociology to illuminate the nature and workings of capitalism amid the far-reaching changes of the contemporary era of global capitalism. This work addresses core issues and problems in the new study of capitalism; and considers a variety of topics concerning America. Editor(s): Nee, Victor; Swedberg, Richard H. Num Pages: 496 pages, 22 line illus. BIC Classification: JHMC; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 754.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119588
- ISBN
- 9780691119588
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Condition: New
€ 74.08
€ 74.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations, 17 tables, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226349794
- ISBN
- 9780226349794
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Condition: New
€ 71.10
€ 71.10
Paperback. Elongated Skulls of the Ancients. 346 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JHMC; MFG. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Adventures Unlimited Press
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935487760
- ISBN
- 9781935487760
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.29
€ 20.99
€ 20.29
Hardback. In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Levi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 508. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415255486
- ISBN
- 9780415255486
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Condition: New
€ 106.10
€ 106.10
Paperback. Passage to Manhood is a groundbreaking and beautifully written ethnography that addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and AIDS as they intersect in a new "rite-of-passage" among young ethnic-minority males in contemporary China. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 table, 3 figures, 3 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFH2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770255
- ISBN
- 9780804770255
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Condition: New
€ 36.32
€ 36.32
Hardcover. Bringing together several disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, politics, and linguistics, the contributors here consider the factors that make the case of the Kurds so critical. Examples are drawn from the modern histories of Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. Illustrator(s): Dawod, Hocham. Editor(s): Jabar, Faleh A. Num Pages: 378 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 634.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Saqi Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863568251
- ISBN
- 9780863568251
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 42.88
€ 51.99
€ 42.88
Paperback. Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search for identity in an image-oriented world. That search is told through the experiences of a group of women who came of age in the wake of second and third wave feminism, featuring voices from marginalized and misrepresented groups. Num Pages: 408 pages, 25. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442610057
- ISBN
- 9781442610057
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Paperback. An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative "Ages of the World, " second draft Series: The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472066520
- ISBN
- 9780472066520
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.14
€ 26.99
€ 25.14
Paperback. aeo An engaging and accessible study of the relation between religion and postmodernity. aeo Examines key issues such as the rise of consumerism and the influence of communication and information technologies as a way of understanding the transformations of religion throughout the worl. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRLB; JFC; JHBA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745614892
- ISBN
- 9780745614892
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Condition: New
€ 25.77
€ 25.77
Paperback. Editor(s): Cochran. Num Pages: 252 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781885445032
- ISBN
- 9781885445032
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.25
€ 27.99
€ 26.25
Paperback. "Defacement" asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732000
- ISBN
- 9780804732000
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.85
€ 37.99
€ 33.85
Paperback. An ethnography of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions including Candomble shows that the lines separating one tradition from another are much less fixed than anthropologists and Afro-Brazilian religious elites have maintained. Translator(s): Grant, Lucy Lyall. Num Pages: 336 pages, 36 photographs, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLSB; HRKT; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346364
- ISBN
- 9780822346364
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
€ 37.99
€ 34.25
Paperback. Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference. Series: Experimental Futures. 280 pages, 5 illustrations. Proposes that medical treatment should be seen as a site of, rather than an alternative to, political and social contestation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JHM; MBDC; MJD. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 17. Weight: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353447
- ISBN
- 9780822353447
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.95
€ 37.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JHMC; WD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 279 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1016.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933823447
- ISBN
- 9781933823447
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Condition: New
€ 59.20€ 46.26
€ 59.20
€ 46.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252011832
- ISBN
- 9780252011832
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Condition: New
€ 28.23
€ 28.23
Paperback. Rejecting abstractions of "culture", this text proposes an existential anthropology that recognizes even abstract relationships as modalities of interpersonal life. Michael Jackson's work shows how general ideas are always anchored in particular social events and critical concerns. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 0002-
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226389462
- ISBN
- 9780226389462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43