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Paperback. Examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, this volume investigates the relations between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. Editor(s): Hendrickson, Hildi. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317913
ISBN
9780822317913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.37

Paperback. In this text, the author, Arun Agrawal uses the story of the Raikas, a little-known group of migrant shepherds in western India, to re-examine scholarship on markets and exchange, local and state politics, and community and hierarchy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 tables, 4 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFS; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press Durham
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321224
ISBN
9780822321224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States - George Washington Williams. Awarded the Clarence L Holte Literary Prize, this is a part biography and part social history. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321644
ISBN
9780822321644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, the author critiques the national ideology of ethnic homogeneity. He shows how Gueguence tells a story about the passing of time, the absurdity of authority, and the contradictions of coping with inheritances of the past. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFSC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press North Carolina
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322887
ISBN
9780822322887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. This book includes essays that examine an array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly Creatures, and Bound. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 376 pages, 55 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press Durham
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323426
ISBN
9780822323426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Suitable for scholars and students in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women's studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labour and postcolonial studies, this book presents an ethnography of globalisation positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324393
ISBN
9780822324393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Talks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 384 pages, 42 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324447
ISBN
9780822324447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Focuses on the role of African American folk music in Renaissance aesthetic and political debates about racial performance, social memory, and national identity. This book elucidates how spirituals, African American concert music, the blues, and jazz became symbolic sites of social memory and anticipation in the era of the Harlem Renaissance. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; GTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325918
ISBN
9780822325918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Suitable for those working on gay and lesbian studies, American literature and culture, and twentieth century history, this book analyses texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326977
ISBN
9780822326977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. Bernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, 'BLACK ATHENA', which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilisation. Editor(s): Moore, David Chioni. Num Pages: 576 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327172
ISBN
9780822327172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, this title provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States in order to illuminate the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism in an increasingly globalised world. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 30 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJH; JFFN; JFSL1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327912
ISBN
9780822327912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329725
ISBN
9780822329725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, this work collects studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, it illuminates the relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes. Editor(s): Gutmann, Matthew C. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330226
ISBN
9780822330226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. Presenting a social history of "the new woman" that emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, this title shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from the postwar economic boom, particularly in the 1920s. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 33 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330448
ISBN
9780822330448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330486
ISBN
9780822330486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. An account of the rise, fall, and persistence of the 20th century's Black Zionist dream -- the movement's creation of a homeland in Africa. Num Pages: 456 pages, 12 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFD; GTB; JFSL3; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332473
ISBN
9780822332473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334910
ISBN
9780822334910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Intervenes in the emerging discipline of law-and-film by developing a framework for evaluating how films represent "gender crimes" and how those representations affect audiences' ideas about women, their legal rights, and their roles in society Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSJ1; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336242
ISBN
9780822336242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Collection of essays on issues of women and development, attempting to bridge theory and practice in the post-9/11 era to reflect debates in various realms, from the environment, land rights, and identity to information technology, employme Editor(s): Jaquette, Jane S.; Summerfield, Gale. Num Pages: 376 pages, 6 tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336983
ISBN
9780822336983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
n
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338192
ISBN
9780822338192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Deals with central problem in modern Spanish history-- why did civil war break out in 1936-- arguing that cultural representations of earlier revolution helped trigger the war through focus on social tensions around religion and gender. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DSE; GTB; HBJD; HBLW; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339434
ISBN
9780822339434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. Sarah Banet-Weiser explores how the cable network Nickelodeon combines an appeal to kids formidable purchasing power with assertions of their political and cultural power. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
50032nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339939
ISBN
9780822339939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. Num Pages: 360 pages, 37 b&w photos, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJD; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5830 x 3971 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340379
ISBN
9780822340379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. This title shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342410
ISBN
9780822342410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

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