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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Describes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period. Num Pages: 440 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346623
- ISBN
- 9780822346623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardback. Feminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the U.S. respond to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades. Editor(s): Fregoso, Rosa Linda; Bejarano, Cynthia L. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 photos, 2 line drawings, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSJ1; JKV; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 30. Weight in Grams: 731.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346692
- ISBN
- 9780822346692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
Paperback. Describes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period. Num Pages: 440 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822346746
- ISBN
- 9780822346746
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. An unconventional, evocative work of history and a series of moving reflections on memory, modernity, space, and time, all based on the author s interviews with elderly Indonesian intellectuals. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HBTB; HBTQ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822346975
- ISBN
- 9780822346975
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. An account of how anthropology has responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated to different ends. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346982
- ISBN
- 9780822346982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.40
€ 29.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. Examines the role of the vernacular arts in Mexico s transformation from a regionally and culturally fragmented country into a modern nation-state with an inclusive and compelling national identity. Num Pages: 424 pages, 16 color illustrations, 23 b&w, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347033
- ISBN
- 9780822347033
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.77
€ 33.99
€ 30.77
Hardback. Provides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship. Num Pages: 268 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347156
- ISBN
- 9780822347156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. A history of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the 1960s and early 1970s. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347491
- ISBN
- 9780822347491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Paperback. An ethnography exploring the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1KBB; AVGR; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347606
- ISBN
- 9780822347606
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. A historical and philosophical argument that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self-other is a product of modernity. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822347644
- ISBN
- 9780822347644
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device. Num Pages: 328 pages, 55 illustrations, incl. 23 in color. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347736
- ISBN
- 9780822347736
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Hardback. This ethnographic account of Brazil s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illustrations, incl. 10 in color. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347859
- ISBN
- 9780822347859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Paperback. Essays recovering the forgotten and downplayed histories of blacks in Central America, demonstrating the centrality of African Americans to the region s history from the earliest colonial times to the present. Editor(s): Gudmundson, Lowell; Wolfe, Justin. Num Pages: 416 pages, 21 photographs, 14 tables, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348030
- ISBN
- 9780822348030
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. Explores surfing as a local and global subculture, looking at how the culture of surfing has affected and been affected by girls, from baby boomers to members of Generation Y. Num Pages: 296 pages, 67 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ1; WSSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348054
- ISBN
- 9780822348054
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.53
€ 29.99
€ 27.53
Paperback. Argues that the imperial Inka understood stone as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred; building in stone was a way of ordering unordered nature, domesticating untamed spaces, and claiming new territories. Num Pages: 320 pages, 53 b&w illustrations, 15 color plates. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; ACBK; HDD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348078
- ISBN
- 9780822348078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Hardback. With a focus on collage and appropriation art, essays exploring the legal ramifications of such practices in an age when private companies can own culture using copyright and trademark law Editor(s): McLeod, Kembrew; Kuenzli, Rudolf. Num Pages: 376 pages, 28 illustrations, incl. 4 in color. BIC Classification: AB; JFCA; LNRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348115
- ISBN
- 9780822348115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Paperback. Essays explore the social impact of America s global network of military bases by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in South Korea, Japan/Okinawa, and West Germany. Editor(s): Hohn, Maria; Moon, Seungsook. Num Pages: 453 pages, 31 photographs, 6 tables, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; JFS; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 453
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348276
- ISBN
- 9780822348276
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.82
€ 34.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Series Editor(s): Halberstam, Jack; Lowe, Lisa. Series: Perverse Modernities. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AFKP; JFCA; JFFH; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348283
- ISBN
- 9780822348283
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. A comprehensive analysis of the changing representations of military women in American and British movies and TV programs from the Second World War to the present. Num Pages: 328 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; APFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348474
- ISBN
- 9780822348474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. A passionate call for Native peoples to decolonize their own concepts and self-determination projects Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL9; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348511
- ISBN
- 9780822348511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.47
€ 29.99
€ 27.47