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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasize men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. This book seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their personal goals. Num Pages: 236 pages, 8ill. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3480 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press Stanford, CA
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804708494
- ISBN
- 9780804708494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.91
€ 33.91
Paperback. A young mother began to behave in a decidedly aberrant, perhaps suicidal manner, and opinion in her village was sharply divided over the reason. Was she becoming a shaman, posessed by a god? Was she deranged, in need of physical restraint, drugs, and hospitalization? Num Pages: 164 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 10. Weight in Grams: 209.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719803
- ISBN
- 9780804719803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.15
€ 25.99
€ 24.15
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, B/W photos throughout. BIC Classification: APFA; JHBZ; JMQ; VXQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610394826
- ISBN
- 9781610394826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.53
€ 29.99
€ 20.53
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DNC; HBLW3; JHMC; KNAF. Dimension: 164 x 267 x 31. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763544849
- ISBN
- 9788763544849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.68€ 40.41
€ 50.68
€ 40.41
Paperback. An expansive new biography of Sojourner Truth, charismatic preacher and activist Num Pages: 520 pages, 38 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 346 x 236 x 34. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252078019
- ISBN
- 9780252078019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.39
€ 27.99
€ 26.39
paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 99 bw integrated, 35 colour in 16pp plates. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JHMC; WFV; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9789774166815
- ISBN
- 9789774166815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.49
€ 6.49
Hardcover. Death, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812249057
- ISBN
- 9780812249057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.27
€ 91.27
Paperback. Editor(s): Tellenbach, Margareta; Stoklund, Bjarne. Series: "Ethnologia Europaea: Journal of European Ethnology". Num Pages: 80 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPR; GBCY; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 170 x 5. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772893426
- ISBN
- 9788772893426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.68
€ 14.99
€ 12.68
Paperback. "Writing with erudition and a broad grasp of the history of social thought, Hodgen demonstrates the debt owed to the period of the late Renaissance and even the centuries prior to that."-American Anthropologist Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 669.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812210149
- ISBN
- 9780812210149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 46.00
€ 50.99
€ 46.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559879
- ISBN
- 9781875559879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.99
€ 19.99
€ 14.99
Paperback. A revindication of the concept of humanity and the primacy of practice over language. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506. The Problem of Agency. 336 pages, 7 b/w illus. A revindication of the concept of humanity and the primacy of practice over language. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHBA. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521795647
- ISBN
- 9780521795647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.56
€ 53.56
Paperback. This 1995 book is an important work of social theory and a challenge to Anthony Giddens' structuration theory. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 figures. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568. The Morphogenetic Approach. 368 pages, 21 figures. This 1995 book is an important work of social theory and a challenge to Anthony Giddens' structuration theory. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHBA. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight: 578.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521484428
- ISBN
- 9780521484428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.02
€ 60.02
Hardback. A pioneering study of the social aspects of industrialisation in a developing country in tropical Africa. Series: African Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; HBG; HBJH; HBTK; JHBL. Weight in Grams: 553. Ex Libris with usual markings. Fine copy in dustwrapper, DW with some minor nicks and bumps but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0013801
- ISBN
- 9780521082969
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
![Margaret Mian Yan - Interactions I [text + workbook]: A Cognitive Approach to Beginning Chinese - 9780253211224 - V9780253211224](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9780253211224.jpg "Margaret Mian Yan - Interactions I [text + workbook]: A Cognitive Approach to Beginning Chinese - 9780253211224 - V9780253211224")
Paperback. An innovative, user-friendly first- and second-semester Chinese-language course for beginning students. Series: Chinese in Context Language Learning Series. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CF; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 213 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253211224
- ISBN
- 9780253211224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.30
€ 42.30
paperback. The author of this work was inspired by the need to develop a truly evolutionary vision of human culture and society. The text began as the Terry Lectures, given at Yale University in 1957. Num Pages: 526 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 697.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 526
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780765806048
- ISBN
- 9780765806048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.61
€ 58.61
Paperback. Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human civilization. This volume collects her writings on the future of humanity and how humans can shape that future through purposeful action. Series: Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Cultures. Num Pages: 376 pages, 20 photos, index. BIC Classification: JFFR; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571818188
- ISBN
- 9781571818188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.58
€ 32.99
€ 30.58
Paperback. Traces the discourse that contributed to the locating of a different criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. This book demonstrates that death is not self-evident, that the space between life and death is historically and culturally constructed, fluid, multiple, and open to dispute. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 441 pages, 21 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JHM; MBX; MNQ; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 441
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520228146
- ISBN
- 9780520228146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.19
€ 38.99
€ 28.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBC; JNLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138634848
- ISBN
- 9781138634848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.90
€ 49.90
Paperback. This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters. Num Pages: 192 pages, 14 b/w photos, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL; JNRV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774811194
- ISBN
- 9780774811194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Hardback. This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20ill.4tabs. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSJ1; JHBL; JNRV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774811187
- ISBN
- 9780774811187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.38
€ 112.38
paperback. In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and over 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. This work examines the question of what their action meant and its significance in contemporary Klungkung. Num Pages: 432 pages, 6 half-tones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; HBJF; HBTQ; HBTR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226885827
- ISBN
- 9780226885827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.16
€ 52.99
€ 41.16
Paperback. Kartomi first moves through a culture-specific inspection of several societies in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and then, synthesizing current ethnomusicological trends, proceeds to make a large-scale comparative study of classification schemes and the concepts which govern them. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 350 pages, 67 line drawings, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: AVR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226425498
- ISBN
- 9780226425498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.83
€ 52.99
€ 40.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages, Illustrations,. BIC Classification: JHBK; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. . New.
- Publisher
- Veritas Publications
- Number of pages
- 88
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853909290
- ISBN
- 9781853909290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.31
€ 9.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages, Illustrations,. BIC Classification: JHBK; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Veritas Publications
- Number of pages
- 88
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KMR0005286
- ISBN
- 9781853909290
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 9.31
€ 9.31