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Hardback. Built around key events, this book explores politics among left radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics, drawing on anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon to establish analogies between perceptions of the body, autonomy, forests and capitalism. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; JHMC; JPF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 293 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387367
ISBN
9781782387367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.09

Paperback. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Sussman explains why-when it comes to race-too many people still mistake bigotry for science. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHM; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660038
ISBN
9780674660038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.18

Paperback. An edited collection that explores all aspects of the state and its institutions. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPS; JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745335599
ISBN
9780745335599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNJ; HBJF; JHMC; KNTY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295741314
ISBN
9780295741314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.29

Hardback. Based on original fieldwork collected in Sudan from 2006-11, contributors' look at "access to resources" from various disciplinary approaches. The book analyzes major transformations, from the 1980s to South Sudan's independence in 2011, which affected the country in the framework of "globalization". Editor(s): Casciarri, Barbara; Assal, Munzoul; Ireton, Francois. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBS; GTB; JHMC; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 694.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782386179
ISBN
9781782386179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.26

paperback. This practical introduction to using autoethnography as a research method, provides background to the method, and covers the necessary writing skills, considering some of the criticisms of the approach, and providing worked examples throughout. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 172 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847874733
ISBN
9781847874733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.67

Paperback. Offers a methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. This title identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. 1 maps. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJM; HBLL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691146362
ISBN
9780691146362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.94

Paperback. How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? These are some of the questions considered in this Very Short Introduction. By examining the science of languages, we find that the answers are not as simple as we might expect. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, Approximately 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: CBX; CFF; CFZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 173 x 114 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199590599
ISBN
9780199590599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Following transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that US immigration policies and state removals affect families, this book includes accounts of displacement, struggle, and profound loss, but also those of resilience, flexibility, and imaginings of what may come. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 181 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520287082
ISBN
9780520287082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.54

Hardback. An edited collection which contains unusual and global case studies providing a Marxist analysis of the commodification of life Editor(s): Angosto-Ferrandez, Luis Fernando; Presterudstuen, Geir Henning. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745336633
ISBN
9780745336633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.09
€ 49.58

Paperback. Addresses two developments in the conceptualization of citizenship that arise from the 'war on terror', namely the reculturalization of membership in a polity and the re-moralization of access to rights. This book takes an anthropological perspective of the subject. Editor(s): Eckert, Julia M., PhD. Num Pages: 196 pages, col. maps. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 137 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9783899429640
ISBN
9783899429640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.09

Paperback. Combines an account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with examples and illustrations of anthropologists. This book discusses about the anthropology's contributions to modern thought, and examines specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 176 pages, halftones, line drawings. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
9th ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192853462
ISBN
9780192853462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.41

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198701880
ISBN
9780198701880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.79

Hardback. Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a "modern" identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an "African" identity with the new lifestyles with which they are experimenting. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK5; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 603.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
324
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857454782
ISBN
9780857454782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.87

Paperback. Providing guidance to ethnographic research methods, this work examines why reflexivity, at both personal and broader cultural levels, should be integrated into ethnographic research and discusses how this can be accomplished for a variety of research methods. It also includes a chapter on internet-based research and 'interethnography'. Series: The ASA Research Methods. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415409018
ISBN
9780415409018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.28

Hardback. A rich and sophisticated ethnography of a stateless indigenous society and its complex and troubling relations with its natural environment and the Soviet state that dominated it. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FCS; GTB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734622
ISBN
9780804734622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.52

Paperback. Series: Conduct & Communication. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812211122
ISBN
9780812211122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.59

Paperback. An ethnographic examination of how northern Ugandans understand and attempt to control their moral universe and material circumstances in the midst of civil war. Series: The Cultures and Practices of Violence. Num Pages: 286 pages, 8 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406. War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda. Series: The Cultures and Practices of Violence. 304 pages, 8 illustrations. Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord's Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. This title describes how the Acholi - the younger generation, those born into the era of civil strife - understand and attempt to control their moral universe. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; JFFE; JHMC. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight: 448.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341918
ISBN
9780822341918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.18

Hardback. Focusing on pastoralist societies in East and West Africa, the Far North and Siberia, and the Eurasian steppes, this volume addresses the issue of property rights and the changes these societies have undergone due to the direct or indirect influence of modernization and globalization processes. Editor(s): Khazanov, Anatoly M.; Schlee, Gunther. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JFSF; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857453358
ISBN
9780857453358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.86

Paperback. * Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place. * Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life. Editor(s): Low, Setha M.; Lawrence-Zuniga, Denise. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 170 x 32. Weight in Grams: 728.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631228783
ISBN
9780631228783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.42

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