Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This book highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Editor(s): Ramos, Gabriela; Yannakakis, Yanna P. Num Pages: 344 pages, 29 photographs, 5 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSX; HBTB; HBTQ; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356608
- ISBN
- 9780822356608
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€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Ge...
Lerhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
Hardback. Presents an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. This book emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith - which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions - and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 table, 2 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; HRLF; JFSL3; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356639
- ISBN
- 9780822356639
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€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Hardback. Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, this book illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFC; JFSK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356738
- ISBN
- 9780822356738
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€ 109.87
€ 109.87
Paperback. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, this title details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 photographs, 1 table, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356783
- ISBN
- 9780822356783
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€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Hardback. In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women? Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 328 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 239 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359531
- ISBN
- 9780822359531
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€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: AKTX; HBTB; JFCK; JFD; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 239 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360308
- ISBN
- 9780822360308
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€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Hardback. In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life-the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia-to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DD; HBJD1; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360599
- ISBN
- 9780822360599
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€ 110.26
€ 110.26
Hardback. Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the period between August 1921 and August 1922. During this particularly tumultuous time, Garvey suffered legal, political, and financial trouble, while the UNIA struggled to grow throughout the Caribbean. Editor(s): Hill, Robert A.; Dixon, John; Rodriguez, Mariela Haro; Yuen, Anthony. Num Pages: 472 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; JFSL3; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 255 x 34. Weight in Grams: 926.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361169
- ISBN
- 9780822361169
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€ 132.47
€ 132.47
Paperback. Building on the possibilities opened up by Ethnic Studies, this volume promotes open dialogue, discussion, and debate regarding Critical Ethnic Studies' expansive, politically complex, and intellectually rich concerns on topics ranging from multiculturalism and the neoliberal university to the militarized security state. Editor(s): Elia, Nada; Hernandez, David Manuel; Kim, Jodi; Redmond, Shana L.; Rodriguez, Dylan; See, Sarita Echavez. Num Pages: 576 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 34. Weight in Grams: 834.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361275
- ISBN
- 9780822361275
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€ 37.99€ 34.17
€ 37.99
€ 34.17
Paperback. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for creating "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs as they breed, raise, butcher, market, sell, and prepare their pasture-raised hogs for consumption. Num Pages: 37 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; JFCV; JHMC; KCT; WBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361572
- ISBN
- 9780822361572
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€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. Karin Amimoto Ingersoll uses her concept of seascape epistemology to articulate an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a sensorial, intellectual, and embodied literacy of the ocean that can provide the means for generating an alternative indigenous politics and ethics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; HBTB; HPK; JFSL4; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362340
- ISBN
- 9780822362340
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€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Hardback. Offering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging. Num Pages: 408 pages, 109 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; APFA; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 706.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362463
- ISBN
- 9780822362463
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€ 123.50
€ 123.50
Paperback. In analyses of digital death footage-from victims of police brutality to those who jump from the Golden Gate Bridge-Jennifer Malkowski considers the immense changes digital technologies have introduced in the ability to record and display actual deaths-one of documentary's most taboo and politically volatile subjects. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; APFA; APFR; HPJ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363156
- ISBN
- 9780822363156
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€ 30.99€ 27.53
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€ 27.53
Paperback. Dean Duncan provides a critical survey of the aesthetics of classical music in film. Exploring tensions between high art and commercial culture, he examines how directors quote themes and classical passages in genres ranging from the Soviet avant garde to Hollywood romances. Series: Communications & Media Studies. Num Pages: 211 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; AVGC4; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 17. Weight in Grams: 341.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
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- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823222803
- ISBN
- 9780823222803
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€ 43.99€ 38.32
€ 43.99
€ 38.32
Hardback.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232567
- ISBN
- 9780823232567
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€ 96.90
€ 96.90
Hardback. Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. Editor(s): Sciorra, Joseph. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232659
- ISBN
- 9780823232659
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€ 102.33
€ 102.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 530 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 704.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823233625
- ISBN
- 9780823233625
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€ 51.99€ 46.16
€ 51.99
€ 46.16
Paperback. "This work was originally published in French as .. Le versant animal. Bayard Editions, 2007"--T.p. verso Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Num Pages: 100 pages, 5 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 10. Weight in Grams: 134.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823234448
- ISBN
- 9780823234448
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€ 30.99€ 27.59
€ 30.99
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Paperback. Suggests that untying and recognizing relations of intimacy and dependency can, under certain circumstances, change the discourse of hatred into relations of peace and even friendship Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JMQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823250059
- ISBN
- 9780823250059
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€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
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Paperback. An analysis of the history and social role of mobile phones today (with an enhancement of their primary writing function) is followed by a proposal of a philosophical theory of objects, which is meant to be complementary to Searle's 'collective intentionality', that places writing at the basis of social reality. Translator(s): De Sanctis, Sarah. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256167
- ISBN
- 9780823256167
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Hardback. War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing and death. Recent history demonstrates that body counts are more necessar Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256778
- ISBN
- 9780823256778
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€ 91.05
€ 91.05
Hardback. Through a series of literary and cultural analyses, this book examines current theories of resistance and their impact on contemporary Latin American cultural discourse, developing a cultural theory of "illiteracy" Series: Just Ideas. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823257096
- ISBN
- 9780823257096
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Condition: New
€ 91.05
€ 91.05
Hardback. Figures of a Changing World develops an account of culture change that is based on the distinction between the two rhetorical figures of metaphor and metonymy. These figures are applied both to the large-scale interpretation of tensions in culture change and to the micro-interpretation of tensions within particular texts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 147 x 20. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823257478
- ISBN
- 9780823257478
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€ 88.44
€ 88.44
Hardback. The highly-anticipated first English-language edition of the monumental critical anthology of writings from the golden age of the Italian disapora in America is now available. Editor(s): Durante, Francesco. Num Pages: 1032 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 193 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1776.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823260614
- ISBN
- 9780823260614
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Condition: New
€ 133.98
€ 133.98