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Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Pover...
Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- 1 Reprint
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292728899
- ISBN
- 9780292728899
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€ 21.99€ 20.79
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Hardback. Comprehensive study of one of the world's great indigenous arts explores issues surrounding dreams and visions, ranging from what shamanic vision is to how artists use vision and how they perceive the soul in relation to their art Num Pages: 311 pages, 43 b&w, 24 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK; AFW; HRLK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 660.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292728769
- ISBN
- 9780292728769
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€ 52.25
€ 52.25
Paperback. Drawing on a wealth of oral histories from pioneering Chicana activists, as well as the vibrant print culture through which they articulated their agenda and built community, this book presents the first full-scale investigation of the social and political factors that led to the development of Chicana feminism. Series: Chicana Matters Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1KLC; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JFSJ1; JFSL4; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292726901
- ISBN
- 9780292726901
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€ 32.99€ 29.51
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Paperback. From the sweaty summer days of a junky's nightmare to the bittersweet success of true surrender and emergence into a new way of life, Border Junkies paints a searing, first-hand portrait of addiction, poverty, and recovery on the U.S.-Mexico border Series: Inter-America Series. Num Pages: 246 pages, 26 b&w photos in section. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; JFFA; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292726833
- ISBN
- 9780292726833
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€ 26.99€ 25.29
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Paperback. An anthology of vibrant responses to Alma Lopez's controversial print Our Lady, exploring critical issues of censorship, religion, and the female body. Editor(s): Gaspar de Alba, Alicia; Lopez, Alma. Series: Chicana Matters Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 color and 34 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AGR; JFC; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- Pap/DVD
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292726420
- ISBN
- 9780292726420
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€ 32.99€ 29.58
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Hardback. Filled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century. Series: Literary Modernism Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292723399
- ISBN
- 9780292723399
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€ 59.65
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Paperback. This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation--the food trade--and showing the connections between and among social categories. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 b&w Photographs, 5 maps, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292723269
- ISBN
- 9780292723269
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€ 37.99€ 33.91
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Paperback. Aims to capture the metamorphosis of Islamic movement in Iran, from encounters with Great Britain and United States in the 1920s through twenty-first-century struggles between those seeking to reform Islam's role and those who take a defensive stance. This book describes how the extremism of 1960s brought more confidence to Islam-minded Iranians. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Series. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 figure, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 539.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717565
- ISBN
- 9780292717565
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€ 26.99€ 25.12
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Paperback. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan's Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report, this title offers an investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness. Num Pages: 212 pages, 55 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717459
- ISBN
- 9780292717459
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€ 26.99€ 25.20
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Paperback. An overview of Roman women's roles and functions in religion and, by extension, in Rome's history and culture during both the republic and the empire. This work examines major female deities and cults, to show how conservative Roman society adopted and integrated Greek culture into its mythic history, artistic expressions, and religion. Num Pages: 222 pages, 9 b&w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 3D; HRKP; HRLF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292716940
- ISBN
- 9780292716940
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
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Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 6 maps, 50 tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KLCM; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292716414
- ISBN
- 9780292716414
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.64
€ 31.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. Conversations with Writers and Artists. 308 pages, black & white illustrations. Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicanolandia writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicanolandia literature and art. This book presents interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicanolandia poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSB; GTB; JFC. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 19. Weight: 516.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292713123
- ISBN
- 9780292713123
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€ 32.99€ 29.60
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Paperback. Dona Marina (La Malinche).. Pocahontas.. Sacagawea - their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds. This title investigates the many roles played by go-betweens in the colonization of sixteenth-century Brazil. Num Pages: 391 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712768
- ISBN
- 9780292712768
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.11
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292709393
- ISBN
- 9780292709393
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.79
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Hardcover. A study of the innovations, obligations, and fresh possibilities in the field of visual anthropology. It concentrates on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research. Editor(s): Strong, Mary; Wilder, Laena. Num Pages: 384 pages, 166 colour and b&w figures, 3 tables, 1 diagram, 1 box. BIC Classification: AJCR; APF; JFC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 284 x 223 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1988.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292706712
- ISBN
- 9780292706712
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Condition: New
€ 101.00
€ 101.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292701717
- ISBN
- 9780292701717
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
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Paperback. Editor(s): Wilde, Alexander. Series: From the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFFE; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 525.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044312
- ISBN
- 9780268044312
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.00
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Hardcover. This study describes a Latin American legal system which punishes only the poor and a "democratic" state which fails to control its own agents' arbitrary practices. The contributors argue that judicial reform cannot be seperated from human rights and that justice must be made available to the poor. Editor(s): Mendez, Juan; O'Donnell, Guillermo; Pinheiro, Paulo Sergio (Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFF; JPVH; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Edition
- First edition, presumed.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268043018
- ISBN
- 9780268043018
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Condition: New
€ 132.93
€ 132.93
Paperback. Combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in Shi'ite Islam. This book explores the proliferation of Marian imagery in Late Antiquity through the Church fathers and popular hagiography. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRC; HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268042318
- ISBN
- 9780268042318
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
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Paperback. Series: Latino Perspectives. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041465
- ISBN
- 9780268041465
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
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Paperback. Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity. This volume explores the intricate, dynamic relationships that pertain between women's agency and the state-making institutions and armed forces of Kashmir, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar). It also addresses the complex roles of Islam and Hinduism. Editor(s): Skidmore, Monique; Lawrence, Patricia. Series: Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 illustrated maps, 19 illustrated halftones. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041267
- ISBN
- 9780268041267
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Hardcover. Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity. This volume explores the intricate, dynamic relationships that pertain between women's agency and the state-making institutions and armed forces of Kashmir, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar). It also addresses the complex roles of Islam, and Hinduism. Editor(s): Skidmore, Monique; Lawrence, Patricia. Series: Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 illustrated maps, 19 illustrated halftones. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041250
- ISBN
- 9780268041250
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Condition: New
€ 108.31
€ 108.31
Paperback. This reassessment of the ideas that Americans have had about race tells the history of the American system of racial domination and of twentieth-century challenges to that racial hierarchy, from monoracial movements to the multiracial movement. Editor(s): Spickard, Paul R.; Daniel, G.Reginald. Series: The African-American Intellectual Heritage S. Num Pages: 392 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041045
- ISBN
- 9780268041045
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.71
€ 46.99
€ 41.71
Paperback. Argues that understanding the relation between death and conversion in the Andes involves not only considering the obvious attempts to destroy the cult of the dead, but also investigating a range of policies and strategies whose application demanded continuous negotiation between Spaniards and Andeans. Series: History, Languages and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; HBJD; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 298 x 27. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268040284
- ISBN
- 9780268040284
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.22
€ 41.99
€ 37.22