Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Blaikie explores how our different ways of seeing influence the relationship between place and belonging. He argues that our memories, however brief or complex, invoke imagined pasts. But do our recollections share a common frame of reference? Blaikie's cross-disciplinary exploration sets out to answer this question. Includes numerous case studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 b+w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 186 x 232 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617876
- ISBN
- 9780748617876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.12
€ 40.99
€ 34.12
Hardback. All memories invoke imagined pasts, but do the ways we remember share a common imaginary? In seeking to interpret Scottish culture in the recent past as a series of encounters with modernity, this study draws on a wide range of sources to explore relationships between perceptions of place, belonging and identity in one nation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617869
- ISBN
- 9780748617869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.11€ 107.83
€ 113.11
€ 107.83
Hardback. This book examines how states make soldiers and what happens to fallen military elites when they no longer fit into the political spectrum. Num Pages: 288 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804773959
- ISBN
- 9780804773959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.02
€ 147.02
Hardback. 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: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804731805
- ISBN
- 9780804731805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.76
€ 150.76
Paperback. Utilizing almost 40 years' work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antecedents. Following the assumption that Africa has never been isolated from the rest of the world, Smith illuminates key topics ranging from material culture and rituals, to future prospects for pastoralists. Series: African Archaeology Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759107489
- ISBN
- 9780759107489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.45
€ 77.45
Hardback. Utilizing almost 40 years' work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antecedents. Following the assumption that Africa has never been isolated from the rest of the world, Smith illuminates key topics ranging from material culture and rituals, to future prospects for pastoralists. Series: African Archaeology Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759107472
- ISBN
- 9780759107472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.83
€ 172.83
Paperback. Shows what guanxi production, the formation of social connections, reveals about the evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender in Dengist China. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 b&w photographs, 3 maps, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318736
- ISBN
- 9780822318736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished village of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. This is a portrait of the rapid change of Zouping, its environs, and more. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 b/w, 7 maps, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520289710
- ISBN
- 9780520289710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 29 black & white tables, 18 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHB; JNLC; JNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 174. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138190016
- ISBN
- 9781138190016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.31
€ 43.99
€ 43.31
Hardback. News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. Series: Anthropology of the Media. Num Pages: 216 pages, 3 ills. BIC Classification: JFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455798
- ISBN
- 9781845455798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.04
€ 164.04
Hardback. Explores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; CFG; HBTQ; HBTR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226023519
- ISBN
- 9780226023519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.31€ 78.71
€ 95.31
€ 78.71
Paperback. Explores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226023526
- ISBN
- 9780226023526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.70
€ 31.99
€ 24.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 298 pages, 4 maps, 8 figures, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226023434
- ISBN
- 9780226023434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.33
€ 40.99
€ 31.33
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226336596
- ISBN
- 9780226336596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.31€ 79.50
€ 95.31
€ 79.50
Paperback. This work presents analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. It reconsiders how knowledge actually changes and advances. Challenging the accepted belief that social sciences are in a perpetual state of progress, this work contends that there is a core set of principles. Num Pages: 276 pages, 16 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBT; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226001012
- ISBN
- 9780226001012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 452 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 452
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226000695
- ISBN
- 9780226000695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.41
€ 40.99
€ 31.41
Hardback. Editor(s): Wernick, Andrew. Series: Anthem Companions to Sociology. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857281852
- ISBN
- 9780857281852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.46
€ 140.46
Hardcover. Offers a study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America. This book looks at the career of physician Alexis Carrel, as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: JHBD; PSAK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451721
- ISBN
- 9781845451721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.32
€ 164.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 72. BIC Classification: 1FCS; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801436314
- ISBN
- 9780801436314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.02
€ 72.02
Paperback. Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? This book takes the reader on a tour of America's sports culture, connecting it with other fundamental American exceptionalisms. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JH; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691074474
- ISBN
- 9780691074474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.89
€ 52.99
€ 37.89