Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Tells the story of an idea that humanity's expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, this title follows the trajectory of European knowledge about continent's eastern frontier. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRKP; JFSR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275324
- ISBN
- 9780520275324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814720783
- ISBN
- 9780814720783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531159669
- ISBN
- 9783531159669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.04
€ 76.04
Hardback. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments. Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; JHMC; RGCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785334511
- ISBN
- 9781785334511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.23
€ 155.23
Paperback. Editor(s): Tosse, Sigvart. Num Pages: 211 pages, references. BIC Classification: 1DN; JHBC; JNP; JNRV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 11. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Tapir Academic Press Norway
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788251915465
- ISBN
- 9788251915465
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.85
€ 23.99
€ 17.85
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531191980
- ISBN
- 9783531191980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.34
€ 48.34
Hardback. Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Wadauer, Sigrid; Buchner, Thomas; Mejstrik, Alexander. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 456 pages, 30 illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782385509
- ISBN
- 9781782385509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.86
€ 167.86
Paperback. Series: B Rgergesellschaft Und Demokratie. Num Pages: 441 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTC; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531174518
- ISBN
- 9783531174518
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Condition: New
€ 60.97
€ 60.97
Paperback. This portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students. It explores the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigates the price students pay for attaining it. Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHMP; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 426
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226257143
- ISBN
- 9780226257143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.74
€ 40.99
€ 31.74
Paperback. Documents how re-visiting fieldwork sites shapes anthropologists' interpretations Editor(s): Howell, Signe; Talle, Aud. Num Pages: 286 pages, 22 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223487
- ISBN
- 9780253223487
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Hardback. Since the late 1960s, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. This book locates transnational adoption within a broad context of Western life, especially values concerning family, children and meaningful relatedness, and explores the many ambiguities and paradoxes that the practice entails. Num Pages: 260 pages, 6 ills, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451844
- ISBN
- 9781845451844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.17
€ 155.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 23 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 3. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark
- Number of pages
- 23
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788790199807
- ISBN
- 9788790199807
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Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 7.92
€ 7.99
€ 7.92
Hardback. Demonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Num Pages: 328 pages, 39, 18 black and white, 21 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFSJ; JHBK5; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 243 x 31. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010353
- ISBN
- 9781847010353
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Condition: New
€ 115.37
€ 115.37
Hardback. Allows you to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the rabbinic period in Israel. This book explores the complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. Series: Judaism and Jewish Life. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843147
- ISBN
- 9781934843147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.61
€ 127.61
Paperback. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349502738
- ISBN
- 9781349502738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.73
€ 63.73
Hardback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 25. Weight in Grams: 907.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531187174
- ISBN
- 9783531187174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.00
€ 73.00
Paperback. Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into English. Written in the 1920s and early 1930s, these essays examine the everyday world of the masses. Num Pages: 416 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674551633
- ISBN
- 9780674551633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.96
€ 54.99
€ 45.96
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1965
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783663031031
- ISBN
- 9783663031031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.94
€ 69.94
Paperback. As a young anthropologist, the author undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. This title presents a summation of his work in the region and is a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined. Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFSL3; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066212
- ISBN
- 9780674066212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.87
€ 34.99
€ 29.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 tables, 4 maps, 15 charts. BIC Classification: HBTV; HBW; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801479625
- ISBN
- 9780801479625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91