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Paperback. This book examines, in Andean national contexts, the impacts of the 'Latin American multicultural turn' of the past two decades on Afro Andean cultural politics, emphasizing both transformations and continuities. Num Pages: 255 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHB; JHM; JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444960
- ISBN
- 9781349444960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
paperback. Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSR; JHB; JHBL; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349296514
- ISBN
- 9781349296514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.67
€ 116.67
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272713
- ISBN
- 9781137272713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Paperback. A highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the racial, sexual, and social complexities of Afro-Ecuadorian culture, as revealed through the annual Festival of the Kings. Series: Interp Culture New Millennium. Num Pages: 216 pages, 16 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252079016
- ISBN
- 9780252079016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. This collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region - they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods. Editor(s): Michaud, Jean; Forsyth, Tim. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 16 maps, 6 graphs & tables. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1FPC; JFSL3; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774818377
- ISBN
- 9780774818377
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. This collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region - they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods. Editor(s): Michaud, Jean; Forsyth, Tim. Num Pages: 256 pages, , black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FML; 1FMV; 1FPC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774818384
- ISBN
- 9780774818384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white tables, 4 black & white halftones, 6 blac. BIC Classification: JHBC; JN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415535267
- ISBN
- 9780415535267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.94
€ 57.94
Paperback. An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329480
- ISBN
- 9780822329480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. "Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and" Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFSL9; JHBA; JHMC; JMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780201050714
- ISBN
- 9780201050714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.62
€ 20.99
€ 17.62
Paperback. Introduces the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings - especially babies - require the kind of instinctive nurturing as practiced by our ancient relatives. This book suggests practical ways to regain our natural well-being, for our children and ourselves. Num Pages: 176 pages, index. BIC Classification: JHM; RN; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140192452
- ISBN
- 9780140192452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of the author's research on those tailors in the late 1970s. This title shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 halftones, 2 maps, 3 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226470726
- ISBN
- 9780226470726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Hardback. Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. This volume explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HRQX5; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785330858
- ISBN
- 9781785330858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.87
€ 161.87
Hardback. In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife's paid employment less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728355
- ISBN
- 9780804728355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.02
€ 134.02
Paperback. In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife's paid employment less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804728362
- ISBN
- 9780804728362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.60
€ 30.99
€ 27.60
Paperback. In this capstone title to the Ethnographer's Toolkit series, Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte explore how ethnographic research intersects with and enhances numerous areas of applied and practice-oriented social science. Series: Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition. Num Pages: 420 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 15 tables. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 420
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759122116
- ISBN
- 9780759122116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.03€ 33.97
€ 51.03
€ 33.97
Paperback. An analysis of serious but subtle forms of oppression involving neither physical violence nor the use of law. It uncovers a set of underlying moral principles that account for the immorality of civilized oppression, and points to some of the implications for social and institutional life. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692750
- ISBN
- 9780847692750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.71
€ 62.71
Paperback. A history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our children Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252075810
- ISBN
- 9780252075810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. What role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history. Editor(s): Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114408
- ISBN
- 9780226114408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 9 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1H; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 232 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114231
- ISBN
- 9780226114231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Editor(s): Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L. Num Pages: 400 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114095
- ISBN
- 9780226114095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.73
€ 42.99
€ 33.73
Hardcover. Offers a look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. The author's broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and taboos, and even the detailed preparation techniques involving food and drink in Mesopotamian high culture during the second and third millenniums BCE, as the Mesopotamians recorded them. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Num Pages: 152 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBJF1; HBLA; JHBT; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226067353
- ISBN
- 9780226067353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.22€ 45.21
€ 52.22
€ 45.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 348 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349503117
- ISBN
- 9781349503117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Paperback. In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism. Num Pages: 136 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBA; HP; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745612225
- ISBN
- 9780745612225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.47
€ 23.47
Paperback. Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations. Translator(s): Foss, Paul; Johnston, John; Patton, Paul; Kendall, Stuart. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350385
- ISBN
- 9781584350385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.93
€ 22.93