Anthropology
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Anthropology
Suggests that anthropological interpretation of the religious practices of Mayan people and of Maya cosmology has never escaped the epistemological influence of Christianity. Using ethnographic, archaeological, and glyphic evidence, this study traces modern Mayan attitudes toward sacrality and sacred objects back to Classic Maya beliefs. Num Pages: 290 pages, 100 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HRK; HRLM; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826347633
- ISBN
- 9780826347633
Condition: New
€ 96.15
€ 96.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HRCC7; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826348340
- ISBN
- 9780826348340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.89
€ 40.89
This book, the first major collection of data from the Cochuah region investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area. Editor(s): Shaw, Justines M. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 drawings, 12 halftones, 31 maps, 3 graphs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HDD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826348647
- ISBN
- 9780826348647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 107.99
€ 107.99
Editor(s): Straus, Lawrence Guy; Gonzalez Morales, Manuel R. Num Pages: 472 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: HBLA; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 41. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826351487
- ISBN
- 9780826351487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.61
€ 100.61
Num Pages: 243 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826352736
- ISBN
- 9780826352736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.62
€ 70.62
An Archaeology of Architecture. Photowriting the Built Environment.
Tedlock, Mcnulty Professor In The Poetics Pro...
"This book was published with assistance from the University of Buffalo Foundation."--Title page verso. Num Pages: 150 pages, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: AGC; AGN; AJC; AM; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 957.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826353054
- ISBN
- 9780826353054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 44.59
€ 51.99
€ 44.59
Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World
Cook, Garrett W.; Offit, Thomas A.
"Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826353184
- ISBN
- 9780826353184
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.77
€ 64.77
Presented here in English, Tzotzil, and Spanish are forty-two stories told to Robert Laughlin in Tzotzil by the only speaker of Tzotzil left in the village of San Felipe Ecatepec in Chiapas, Mexico. The stories range from mythological sacred stories to historical accounts of life in the twentieth century. Translator(s): Hernandez, Socorro Gomez; de la Torre, Juan Benito. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFHF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826354488
- ISBN
- 9780826354488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.57
€ 95.57
Through cross-cultural comparisons, archaeological data, and ethnographic insights, Joel W. Palka addresses central questions about Maya pilgrimage practice and discusses the broad importance of Maya ritual landscapes and pilgrimage for Mesoamerica as a whole. Series: Archaeologies of Landscapes in the Americas Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; HDD; HRK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826354747
- ISBN
- 9780826354747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.57
€ 95.57
This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Caninde in northeast Brazil. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRA; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826355317
- ISBN
- 9780826355317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.04
€ 70.04
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. Editor(s): Werness-Rude, Maline D.; Spencer, Kaylee R. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HDD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826355799
- ISBN
- 9780826355799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.57
€ 95.57
Through stories about becoming and being a midwife and stories about receiving midwifery care, this book describes how fundamental tenets of midwifery philosophy and practice are being reworked by the practical and ideological challenges of midwifery's new place within the formal health care system. Num Pages: 196 pages, index, references, glossary. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JHM; MQCW; MQD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826515766
- ISBN
- 9780826515766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.81
€ 122.81
An ethnography that juxtaposes the context of post-war reconstruction at home, shaped by a fragile institutional peace process and emerging pan-Maya movement, with the hidden, marginal lives of mostly undocumented K'iche' transmigrants in New England, and describes the movement of people, money, symbols, and ideas between the two locations. Num Pages: 376 pages, references, index, glossary. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826515803
- ISBN
- 9780826515803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.16
€ 124.16
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions, this work discusses how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the political economy of intimacy, and lesbian and gay expressions of companionship. Editor(s): Padilla, Mark B.; Hirsch, Jennifer S.; Munoz-Laboy, Miguel; Sember, Robert; Parker, Richard G. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826515841
- ISBN
- 9780826515841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.44
€ 124.44
Focusing on Rhodes island, this book paints a portrait of how a longstanding system of "local" gynecological and obstetrical knowledge under the control of women was displaced in the postwar period, and how the technologically-intensive biomedical model that took its place in turn assumed its own distinctive signature. Num Pages: 376 pages, 18 b&w photos, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DVGS; JFSJ1; JHM; MQD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826515988
- ISBN
- 9780826515988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.74
€ 124.74
Contains thirteen essays that explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. This collection discusses travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements. Editor(s): Egan, Linda; Long, Mary K. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w cartoons, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJ; DNF; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826516381
- ISBN
- 9780826516381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 125.46
€ 125.46
Num Pages: 214 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826516992
- ISBN
- 9780826516992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.87
€ 122.87
Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 map, references. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JHMC; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826517173
- ISBN
- 9780826517173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 125.03
€ 125.03
Hardcover. Editor(s): Castillo, David R.; Nelson, Bradley J. Series: Vanderbilt Uni Press: Hispanic Issues Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826518163
- ISBN
- 9780826518163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.87
€ 123.87
Paperback. Editor(s): Castillo, David R.; Nelson, Bradley J. Series: Vanderbilt Uni Press: Hispanic Issues Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826518170
- ISBN
- 9780826518170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.65
€ 52.65