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Hardback. What does it mean to be a volunteer in the UK today? This book adds new insights into volunteering from the perspective of the individual, the organisation and the community . Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JKSN1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847427212
- ISBN
- 9781847427212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.02
€ 181.02
Hardback. The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over the past sixty to seventy years have served the needs and interests of the State rather than those of Bedouin community at large. Series: Space and Place. Num Pages: 250 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457624
- ISBN
- 9781845457624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.23
€ 164.23
Hardback. The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history of this region's migratory patterns. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; JFFN; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457426
- ISBN
- 9781845457426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.90
€ 163.90
Hardback. Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. Editor(s): Parkin, Robert; Sales, Anne de. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 292 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456955
- ISBN
- 9781845456955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.24
€ 164.24
Hardback. Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological and social anthropology.. Editor(s): MacClancy, Jeremy; Fuentes, Agustin. Series: Studies of the BioSocial Society. Num Pages: 316 pages, 30 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456900
- ISBN
- 9781845456900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.87
€ 164.87
Hardback. What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring the humanA" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor.. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456375
- ISBN
- 9781845456375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.19
€ 164.19
Hardback. Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values. Can we study the Other's morality without applying our own normative judgments? Editor(s): Heintz, Monica. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455927
- ISBN
- 9781845455927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.66
€ 163.66
Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States
. Ed(S): Caestecker, Frank; Moore, Dr. Bob
Hardback. The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. Editor(s): Caestecker, Frank; Moore, Dr. Bob. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455873
- ISBN
- 9781845455873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.88
€ 176.88
Hardback. Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 ills. BIC Classification: JHM; TQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455811
- ISBN
- 9781845455811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.95
€ 163.95
Hardback. Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JFSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455620
- ISBN
- 9781845455620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.23
€ 163.23
Hardback. Drawing on fieldwork with British Pakistani clients of a UK genetics service, this book explores the personal and social implications of a 'genetic diagnosis'. Through case material and comparative discussion, the book identifies practical ethical dilemmas raised by new genetic knowledge.. Num Pages: 10 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC; MFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455484
- ISBN
- 9781845455484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.43
€ 164.43
Hardback. Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe's newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants' employment, housing and social exclusion in the country, as well as the process of return migration to Albania. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1DVWA; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455446
- ISBN
- 9781845455446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.64
€ 164.64
Hardback. Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote. "Space" and "place" are also often analyzed without grappling much (if at all) with the social, political, and historical roots of spatial practice. Editor(s): Kirby, Peter Wynn. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455385
- ISBN
- 9781845455385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.72
€ 163.72
Hardback. The legacy of emigres in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance.. Editor(s): Bergfelder, Tim; Cargnelli, Christian. Series: Film Europa. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APF; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455323
- ISBN
- 9781845455323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.08
€ 164.08
Hardcover. Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance's role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come from skillful manipulation.. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMT; ASDX; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455217
- ISBN
- 9781845455217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.88
€ 162.88
Hardback. In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence. This book puts forward an alternative conflict theory.. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 5 tables, 2 diagrams. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFFE; JPWS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454944
- ISBN
- 9781845454944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.40
€ 163.40
'The Land is Dying'. Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western K...
Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane
Hardback. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death: the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, which by the turn of the century had affected every aspect of sociality and pervaded villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 444 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; JHB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454814
- ISBN
- 9781845454814
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.70
€ 177.70
Hardcover. Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early 21st century. From anthropology, sociology, and religious studies to performance, cultural, and media studies, Turner's ideas have had a prodigious interdisciplinary impact. Editor(s): St. John, Graham. Num Pages: 358 pages, 27 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454623
- ISBN
- 9781845454623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.05
€ 175.05
Hardback. Based on fieldwork conducted among middle-class university students primarily at the national university (UNAM) in Mexico City, this study explores gender relations as reflected in the words macho and machismo. The author concludes that the students use them to denote aspects of their families of origin that they consider unfavorable and aspects of Num Pages: 156 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454616
- ISBN
- 9781845454616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.33
€ 163.33
Hardback. This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'election, a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an extreme identity.. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFS; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454265
- ISBN
- 9781845454265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.31
€ 164.31