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Paperback. This work explores the role of literature in the former Yugoslavia's attempts to create a multicultural nation. It focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 316 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731812
ISBN
9780804731812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.45

Paperback. Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present day. Editor(s): Costlow, Jane T.; Sandler, Stephanie; Vowles, Judith. Num Pages: 372 pages, 9 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731553
ISBN
9780804731553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.94

Hardback. This is three books in one: an impressionistic account (based on the aestheticism of Walter Pater) of the dancer's homoerotic career, a deconstructive analysis of his gay male reception (drawn from the semiotics of Roland Barthes), and an exploration of the limitations of that analysis. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23 half-tones. BIC Classification: ASDL; BG; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729499
ISBN
9780804729499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.71

Paperback. The author, one of the first practicing psychoanalysts to join Lacan's school, here offers a lucid exposition of the psychoanalysis that has emerged from the French "return to Freud," analyzing the often enigmatic pronouncements of Lacan and working through the central tenets of the "Ecole freudienne." Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729116
ISBN
9780804729116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. These essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures. Editor(s): Budick, Sanford; Iser, Wolfgang. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 364 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 493.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725613
ISBN
9780804725613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. This timely and pathbreaking work shows how and why the dramatic collapse of the soviet Union was caused in large part by nationalism, that is, by the increasingly urgent demands of the subject nationalities of the Soviet Union for independence and autonomy. Editor(s): Suny, Ronald Grigor. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722476
ISBN
9780804722476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.98

Paperback. Brings to the analysis of American kinship a theoretical perspective that attends to the historically situated, symbolic processes through which people interpret and thereby transform their kinship relations. Num Pages: 300 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Stanford University Press Stanford
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720175
ISBN
9780804720175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.94

Paperback. Recent years have seen an exchange between anthropology and history, each field taking on a new dimension in consequence. These papers demonstrate the vitality, growth and promise in new challenges to a discipline no longer satisfied with approaches epitomized in the ethnographic present. Editor(s): Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804717915
ISBN
9780804717915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Stanford University Press Stanford
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804717106
ISBN
9780804717106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBT; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804712842
ISBN
9780804712842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Stanford University Press California
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804710428
ISBN
9780804710428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. Editor(s): Wolf, Arthur P. Num Pages: 372 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804710077
ISBN
9780804710077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.19

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. The author describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803295506
ISBN
9780803295506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. From African Americans in football to the meaning of Zero in the sport, this title profiles players and personalities, teams and events, games and football concepts, and sociological and technological changes in the sport. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803290129
ISBN
9780803290129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, this book examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Num Pages: 370 pages, 14 photographs, table. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 114 x 232 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803289499
ISBN
9780803289499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Yuwipi is the Oglala Sioux version of an ancient and widespread ritual in which a shaman is bound and, in the darkness, calls spirits to come and free him and to communicate with his audience. This book shows how this ritual is related to two other old institutions, the vision quest and the sweat lodge. Num Pages: 113 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
113
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803287105
ISBN
9780803287105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. A collection of stories that aims to bring to life the world of the Crow Indians. It features a collection of legends, tales, history, and detailed accounts of life and culture, told from Crow points of view. Num Pages: 168 pages, 11 photos, map. BIC Classification: 1K; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803282636
ISBN
9780803282636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. Lends clarity to the heated debate about the purpose and direction of Native American scholarship Editor(s): Mihesuah, Devon Abbott. Num Pages: 213 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; JFSL9; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803282438
ISBN
9780803282438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.93

Paperback. The 55 selections in this volume represent the interests and accomplishments in American anthropology from the establishment of the American Anthropologist through World War I. Editor(s): Laguna, Frederica de. Num Pages: 838 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Nebraska
Number of pages
868
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803280083
ISBN
9780803280083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.00
€ 42.30

Paperback. Presents an intimate look at the typical but often misunderstood practice of adoption and naming of anthropologists by Native families and communities. Leading anthropologists in the United States and Canada discuss this issue by focusing on the cases of such prominent earlier scholars as Lewis Henry Morgan and Franz Boas. Editor(s): Kan, Sergei A. Num Pages: 270 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Nebraska
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803277977
ISBN
9780803277977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.52

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