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Hardback. Combines theoretical interpretation with practical examples to show the significance of the concept of metaphor in the study and writing of material forms. This book presents three archaeological and ethnographic studies of metaphors chosen to demonstrate the richness of the concept for understanding texts, objects and artworks. Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; HD; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631192022
- ISBN
- 9780631192022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.54
€ 158.54
Paperback. Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present. Editor(s): Tilley, Christopher. Num Pages: 372 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631172857
- ISBN
- 9780631172857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HRAM9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 184 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801479137
- ISBN
- 9780801479137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback.
Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Few areas of life will remain untouched by the accompanying changes to cultural, economic and social life. Series: Polity Key Concepts in the Social Sciences Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745630854
- ISBN
- 9780745630854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.08
€ 26.08
Hardcover. Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason were seen by the Greeks not as mythical figures but as real people from a bygone age. The people who shared this ancestry used it for many alliances of trade and war. This is a study of the political uses of perceived kinship. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 193 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; JHBK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674505278
- ISBN
- 9780674505278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.79€ 73.50
€ 80.79
€ 73.50
Hardback. Series: Studies in Transgression. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSG; JHB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231176422
- ISBN
- 9780231176422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 26.09
€ 43.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. This book was written with a view to sorting our some of the muddles and misreadings -- especially misreadings of Kant -- that have charaterized recent postmodernist and post--structuralist thought. For these issues have a relevance, as Norris argues, far beyond the academic enclaves of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631187189
- ISBN
- 9780631187189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474284660
- ISBN
- 9781474284660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.27
€ 41.27
Paperback. We have specific images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds. Focusing on the 17th century to the present, this book examines how intellectuals have sought to establish the value and authority of their ideas through public displays of their private life. Num Pages: 350 pages, 54 halftones, line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX; JH; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226470146
- ISBN
- 9780226470146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. Editor(s): Faulkner, Alex; Lawless, Christopher. Series: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; MBS; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 247 x 7. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444361520
- ISBN
- 9781444361520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
paperback. Offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. This book provides a novel and insightful rendering of the cultural understandings that underwrote the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of life on the Plateau. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 273.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295983028
- ISBN
- 9780295983028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. Original analysis of and introduction to Claude Levi-Strauss, the most celebrated of twentieth-century anthropologists. Num Pages: 218 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005128
- ISBN
- 9780521016674
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Illustrator(s): Jetvic, Zoran. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Icon Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848312074
- ISBN
- 9781848312074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.90
€ 11.99
€ 9.90
Hardcover. Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren; Teuscher, Simon. Num Pages: 372 pages, 6 ills, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610. Matter and Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present. 372 pages, 6 ills, 1 table. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren; Teuscher, Simon. Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHMC. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457493
- ISBN
- 9780857457493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.26
€ 175.26
Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond: Experie...
Christopher H. Johnson (Ed.)
Hardback. This book, centered largely on the European experience of families scattered geographically, challenges the dominant narratives of modernization by offering a long-term perspective from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Paradoxically, transnational familiesA" are to be found long before the nation state was in place. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Sabean, D. W.; Teuscher, Simon; Trivellato, Francesca. Num Pages: 360 pages, 10 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; JFFN; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451835
- ISBN
- 9780857451835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.32
€ 175.32
Paperback. Examines the way in which the rhythms of social life derive from our involvement in the world, particularly as those rhythms unfold over thousands of years. The book aims to provide a theory of social change and social being as the basis for understanding social formations over time. Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HD; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631190233
- ISBN
- 9780631190233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
Paperback. The Tsimshian people of coastal British Columbia use a system of hereditary name-titles in which names are treated as objects of inheritable wealth. This book examines the way in which names link members of a lineage to a past and to the places where that past unfolded. Series: Donald R. Ellegood International Publications. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 maps,. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KBC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988078
- ISBN
- 9780295988078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.88
€ 38.88
Hardcover. Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: HRQA; JHM; VXA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244168
- ISBN
- 9780812244168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; JHMC; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231160933
- ISBN
- 9780231160933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. RELATE is one of the largest couple-counseling agencies in the world, offering over 300,000 hours of counseling each year. This book presents the theories and practices which together make up the RELATE approach. Practical tables, lists, and case studies allow the reader to experience the reality of being with a counselor using the approach. Series: Wiley Series in Brief Therapy & Counselling. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB; JKSN2; JMU; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471977780
- ISBN
- 9780471977780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.17
€ 73.17