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Anthropology
Hardback. Attiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFSJ5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363330
- ISBN
- 9780822363330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.18
€ 154.18
Hardback. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the linguistically and geographically diverse regions of the world. As in the rest of the world, deaf people live throughout sub-Saharan communities. This is a research on sub-Saharan signed languages and deaf community, organizing has created the opportunity to gather together and the perspectives presented herein. Editor(s): Cooper, Audrey C.; Rashid, Khadijat K. Num Pages: 232 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1HF; CFZ; JFFG; JFSL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 70 x 100 x 15. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686344
- ISBN
- 9781563686344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.60
€ 96.60
In this work, Audrey C. Cooper develops ethnographic and language-centered accounts of Deaf social organizing in Viet Nam. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686856
- ISBN
- 9781563686856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.83
€ 102.83
Hardback. Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditional Tibetan medical practices? Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454579
- ISBN
- 9781845454579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.27
€ 155.27
paperback. "Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe" examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement "nutrition is a biological process more fundamental than sex". Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; JFC; JHBT; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415320115
- ISBN
- 9780415320115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.03
€ 69.03
Paperback. A sweeping work examining the evolution of "race" in the past three centuries as a cultural invention rationalizing inequality among the peoples of North America Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813345543
- ISBN
- 9780813345543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.16
€ 74.16
Hardcover. This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir valley of the Pakistani district of Chitral, focusing on their winter feasts which culminate in a great winter solstice festival. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 290 x 36. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Gingko Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909942844
- ISBN
- 9781909942844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.23
€ 54.23
Hardback. Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies--stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas collected to represent a form of historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science that seeks to understand social phenomena by dialogically engaging global and local perspectives. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823241897
- ISBN
- 9780823241897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.70
€ 89.70
paperback. Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies--stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas collected to represent a form of historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science that seeks to understand social phenomena by dialogically engaging global and local perspectives. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823241903
- ISBN
- 9780823241903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.97
€ 36.99
€ 33.97
Hardback. Once hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question is whether the law and literature enterprise has lived up to its initial promise. This is a contemporary study of law and literature. It includes contributions by an international group of leading scholars. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762314829
- ISBN
- 9780762314829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.35
€ 115.35
Paperback. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 312 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361626
- ISBN
- 9780822361626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.33
€ 47.33
Hardback. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 312 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361435
- ISBN
- 9780822361435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.21
€ 120.21
Paperback. In this collaborative ethnography, Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun-who was born and raised in the dreadfully polluted shantytown in Buenos Aires from which the book takes its name-vividly describe everyday life in Flammable and depict how this ongoing, slow-motion environmental disaster is experienced and understood by its residents. Num Pages: 208 pages, 37black and white half tones, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195372939
- ISBN
- 9780195372939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.90
€ 45.90
Paperback. Editor(s): Gordon, Avery; Newfield, Christopher. Num Pages: 504 pages, 31 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816625475
- ISBN
- 9780816625475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.86
€ 37.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824834913
- ISBN
- 9780824834913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.43
€ 36.43
Paperback. By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, this book throws new light on discussions about "difference", and "diversity", informed by feminism and post-structuralism. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1F; JFC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415121262
- ISBN
- 9780415121262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.09
€ 60.09
Paperback. A groundbreaking study of the role of women as political actors and peacemakers in the Middle East" Series: Women & Culture S. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472089307
- ISBN
- 9780472089307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.54
€ 42.54
Paperback. Tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. This book addresses the process of ethnography and the dynamics of international and intercultural communication. Series: Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment. Num Pages: 384 pages, 56 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295986685
- ISBN
- 9780295986685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.95
€ 35.99
€ 33.95
Hardback. Explores the process and rationale of the emergence of ethnic identity to investigate how and why ethnic groups exclude each other, looking specifically at the case of racial and ethnic group identity formation in the early years of Israeli statehood. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 360 pages, 26 tables, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804756976
- ISBN
- 9780804756976
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.51
€ 90.51
Paperback. In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. This title documents the socioeconomic inequalities, ethnic discrimination, and political neglect that have bred a volatile generation of minority ethnic youths deeply distrustful of a society they believe has failed them. Translator(s): Hargreaves, Alec G. Num Pages: 154 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803262621
- ISBN
- 9780803262621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.96
€ 40.96