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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier describes Latin American anthropology as a field of knowledge that evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSL1; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938790
- ISBN
- 9780813938790
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Condition: New
€ 40.73
€ 40.73
Paperback. The struggle of civil rights in America can be traced back to the arrival of the first Africans. This text tells the story of the civil rights struggle in its full context, emphasizing the role of those ignored by history, as well as the part played by education and religion. Editor(s): Birnbaum, Jonathan; Taylor, Clarence. Num Pages: 936 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1633.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814782491
- ISBN
- 9780814782491
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.62
€ 36.99
€ 35.62
hardcover. From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati - self-immolation - feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain. This book looks specifically at whether the legal system has led to justice for women who have been the victims of violence. Editor(s): Butalia, Urvashi. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Zubaan India
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9788189884505
- ISBN
- 9788189884505
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.15
€ 30.99
€ 24.15
Paperback. Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change. Num Pages: 400 pages, 38 illustrations (incl. 3 frontispieces). BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350163
- ISBN
- 9780822350163
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.53
€ 32.99
€ 32.53
Hardcover. This multidisciplinary collection of essays represents studies on Japan and Korea mainly from the Nordic countries, but also from other parts of Europe, and from the USA, Canada, Korea and Japan. The full range of contemporary Japanese studies is covered. Editor(s): Frellesvig, Bjarke; Starrs, Roy. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772886893
- ISBN
- 9788772886893
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Condition: New
€ 38.22
€ 38.22
Paperback. Series: "Ethnologia Europaea: Journal of European Ethnology". Num Pages: 182 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPR; GBCY; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 170 x 6. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772895376
- ISBN
- 9788772895376
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.50
€ 14.99
€ 12.50
paperback. Male Confessions demonstrates that men are able to talk about themselves intimately and shows how the religious imagination helps them to do so while critically examining the limits of such intimate male talk. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLM7; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769006
- ISBN
- 9780804769006
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780814746691
- ISBN
- 9780814746691
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Hardcover. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSR2; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850657606
- ISBN
- 9781850657606
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Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 52.38
€ 52.92
€ 52.38
Paperback. Examines the geopolitical, economic and social consequences of forced migration, illustrating key global themes with empirical and comparative material. The text deals with the background to the refugee crisis, its effects in the countries of first asylum and the challenges facing governments. Editor(s): Black, Richard; Robinson, Vaughan. Num Pages: 256 pages, index, glossary, figures, tables. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JPS; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471944812
- ISBN
- 9780471944812
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Condition: New
€ 431.40
€ 431.40
Paperback. Situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Focusing on new forms of appropriation in an era of multiculturalism, the author underscores the institutionalization of racial disparities and offers insights into the intersection of race and culture in America. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASD; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226043104
- ISBN
- 9780226043104
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; AGC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 272 x 227 x 13. Weight in Grams: 776.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Government of British Columbia Canada
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780771895470
- ISBN
- 9780771895470
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.48
€ 25.99
€ 25.48
Paperback. Editor(s): Blackman, Alma. Num Pages: 97 pages. BIC Classification: JFFB. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631176739
- ISBN
- 9781631176739
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Condition: New
€ 82.31€ 57.58
€ 82.31
€ 57.58
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. Editor(s): Blackmore, Josiah; Hutcheson, Gregory S. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 488 pages, 3 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 36. Weight in Grams: 803.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323495
- ISBN
- 9780822323495
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.54
€ 34.99
€ 31.54
Hardback. Examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. Num Pages: 456 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QFG; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 844.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780765761125
- ISBN
- 9780765761125
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Condition: New
€ 103.52
€ 103.52
Hardback. A comprehensive study of the media in Scotland. Editor(s): Blain, Neil; Hutchison, David. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 629.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748627998
- ISBN
- 9780748627998
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Condition: New
€ 99.96€ 96.14
€ 99.96
€ 96.14
Hardback. Suitable for those interested in Islamic studies, religion, and South Asia, this book investigates the ways three historians living in India during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Minhaj Siraj Juzjani, Ziya' al-Din Barani and al-Din Siraj 'Afif, narrated the religious values of Muslim sovereigns through the process of history writing. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 bw integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLC1; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848855670
- ISBN
- 9781848855670
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Condition: New
€ 141.13€ 125.03
€ 141.13
€ 125.03
Paperback. From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region. Num Pages: 384 pages, 43 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJ; JFCK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469629865
- ISBN
- 9781469629865
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Condition: New
€ 42.04
€ 42.04
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media LLc
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781625450012
- ISBN
- 9781625450012
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.26
€ 19.99
€ 15.26
Paperback. His work is a rare instance of original research told in an engaging and compelling voice. Num Pages: 432 pages, 31, 31 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; HBJK; JFC; JHB; WQH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405940
- ISBN
- 9781421405940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.75
€ 27.99
€ 23.75