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Paperback. Presents an ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities. This book challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 240 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFSK2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332176
- ISBN
- 9780822332176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBM; HBJF1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226317489
- ISBN
- 9780226317489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer highlights anthropology's continuing ability to gain insights on the whole through the comparative study of the particular and unique while critiquing the quantitative social sciences for their sweeping generalizations. Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361589
- ISBN
- 9780822361589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415561815
- ISBN
- 9780415561815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.21
€ 59.21
Paperback. Informed by five years of fieldwork in Sudan, the author studies indigenous and "outsider" perspectives on the traditional practice of female genital cutting. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1HBS; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812217469
- ISBN
- 9780812217469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. An ethnographic account of the rapid mobilization of Chinese peasants into large cities, this text traces the profound transformations of space, power relations and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government's household registration system. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742061
- ISBN
- 9780804742061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardcover. The historical experience of Japan in the period since it embarked on 'modernization' illuminates the limitations of Western social theory. Num Pages: 362 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1FPJ; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 566. "Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-312) and index. Commissioning organisation: David Williams. xxvii, 334 p. ill. 23 cm. Paperback. Fine copy." Keywords: "Subjects - Education & Languages - New & Used Textbooks - Social Sciences - Politics & International Relations - Politics,Subjects - Society, Politics & Philosophy - Government & Politics - Political"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Routledge,an imprint of Taylor &
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KEX0061332
- ISBN
- 9780415111300
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 81.65
€ 81.65
Paperback. Organizational Ethnography brings contributions from leading scholars in organizational studies that help to develop an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. Editor(s): Yanow, Dvora; Ybema, Sierk; Kamsteeg, Frans H.; Wels, Harry. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHMP; KJU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847870469
- ISBN
- 9781847870469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.88
€ 74.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816665860
- ISBN
- 9780816665860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.82
€ 31.82
Paperback. This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 221 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHMC; JMRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 169 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017888
- ISBN
- 9781137017888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.41
€ 99.41
Paperback. Engages with developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men - a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston - in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 315
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276727
- ISBN
- 9780520276727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 191 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475627
- ISBN
- 9780801475627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. For the second edition of this work, James Watson has added a new chapter on "McDonald's as Political Target," as well as reflections on the dark side of globalism. Editor(s): Watson, James. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; JFCA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749893
- ISBN
- 9780804749893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 27.68
€ 27.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. It explores innovative rites for important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Series: Life Passages S. Num Pages: 393 pages, 6 figures, 7 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: HRLF; JFC; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 520. Re-Inventing Rites of Passage. Series: Life Passages S. 393 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 6 line illustrations. Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. It explores innovative rites for important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HRLF; JFC; JHBT; JHMC. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 26. Weight: 552.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 393
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236752
- ISBN
- 9780520236752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.66
€ 40.99
€ 35.66
Paperback. This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Editor(s): Morphy, Howard; Perkins, Morgan. Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 576 pages, 239 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 30. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405105620
- ISBN
- 9781405105620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.07
€ 54.07
Paperback. Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801478055
- ISBN
- 9780801478055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; MFGM; MJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361015
- ISBN
- 9780822361015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, this title probes the unobserved moments in our daily lives - waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task - and illuminates these 'empty' times as full of significance. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386. 280 pages. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, this title probes the unobserved moments in our daily lives - waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task - and illuminates these 'empty' times as full of significance. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHMC. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight: 388.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262638
- ISBN
- 9780520262638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist 'The best book about the alienation within America' Evening Standard 'The memoir gripping America.. Vividly articulates the despair and disillusionment of blue-collar America' Sunday Times Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFFM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008220563
- ISBN
- 9780008220563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.08
€ 15.99
€ 13.08
Paperback. This volume brings together essays by five scholars concerned with the senses and the anthropology of everyday life. Covering a wide range of topics from film to food, the authors describe ways in which sensory memories have preserved cultures otherwise threatened by urbanism and modernity. Num Pages: 158 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Univ of Chicago PR ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748771
- ISBN
- 9780226748771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82