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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. This work examines subjects ranging from pastoralism to the use of medicinal plants to show that understanding the knowledge system of any people is essential to understanding their relation to the environment. Editor(s): Gragson, Ted L.; Blount, Ben G. Num Pages: 184 pages, 5 maps, 10 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLC; 1KLS; JHM; KCN; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820321288
- ISBN
- 9780820321288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.42
€ 37.42
Paperback. The ten contributors to this book-anthropologists and psychologists-explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shared), interpreted, and used by people from New Guinea to the Andes. The authors take a major step toward moving the study of dreaming from the margins to the mainstream of anthropological thought. Editor(s): Tedlock, Barbara. Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- School for Advanced Research Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780933452817
- ISBN
- 9780933452817
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Condition: New
€ 34.28
€ 34.28
The Portuguese in Canada: Diasporic Challenges and Adjustment
Teixeira, Carlos; da Rosa, Victor M. P.
hardcover. Essays examine the history of the Portuguese diaspora, the Portuguese presence in Newfoundland and its fisheries, language and identity, urban experiences (especially in Montreal and Toronto), and history and literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 figures, 23 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802098337
- ISBN
- 9780802098337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.24
€ 86.24
Paperback. An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India. Num Pages: 288 pages, 46 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFSJ1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338420
- ISBN
- 9780822338420
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81
hardcover. This text examines different ways in which social scientists study environmental change and environmental problems. The history and geography of the relationship between environment and society is explored, as well as social dilemmas and cultural considerations faced when confronting issues. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 156. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Routledge Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9789056991258
- ISBN
- 9789056991258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.41
€ 187.41
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447306818
- ISBN
- 9781447306818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.63
€ 104.63
Paperback. A study where the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by many over the years. It refutes the concept of the Noble Savage being first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the 'natural' life. Num Pages: 467 pages, 26 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 467
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Paper edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520226104
- ISBN
- 9780520226104
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Hardcover. Num Pages: 247 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HRK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 474. Fine in fine dustjacket. DJ is protected by mylar
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Number of pages
- 247
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers United States
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KLJ0013797
- ISBN
- 9780934211796
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 41.99€ 31.18
€ 41.99
€ 31.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- HAU
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780997367546
- ISBN
- 9780997367546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.18
€ 35.99
€ 28.18
Paperback. Explores how oral history, using video recordings and storytelling as well as interviews, can be used for a number of purposes in communities of colour Editor(s): Barnett, Teresa; Noriega, Chon A. Num Pages: 160 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: HBTD; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780895511447
- ISBN
- 9780895511447
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Condition: New
€ 28.18
€ 28.18
Paperback. This study of fear, crime, and segregation in Sao Paulo poses questions about citizenship and urban change in contemporary urban societies. Focusing on Sao Paulo, and using comparative data on Los Angeles, it identifies patterns of segregation developing in these cities. Num Pages: 504 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 7 figures, 4 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; GTB; JFSG; JHMC; JKV; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 142 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708. Crime, Segregation and Citizenship in Sao Paulo. 504 pages, 13 b&w photographs, 7 line illustrations, 4 maps, 8 tables. This study of fear, crime, and segregation in Sao Paulo poses questions about citizenship and urban change in contemporary urban societies. Focusing on Sao Paulo, and using comparative data on Los Angeles, it identifies patterns of segregation developing in these cities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; GTB; JFSG; JHMC; JKV; JPVH1. Dimension: 228 x 142 x 31. Weight: 708.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520221437
- ISBN
- 9780520221437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
hardcover. This text provides an analysis of rural employment dynamics in European Union member states and is the result of the RUREMPLO (Agriculture and employment in the rural regions of the EU") project, supported by an EU research programme. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSF; JHBL; KCF; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- CABI Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851994994
- ISBN
- 9780851994994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.55
€ 116.55
Paperback. Engles' was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism, the official philosophies of history and science in many communist countries; he was also the first Marxist historian, anthropologist, philosopher, and commentator on early Marx. This introductory book explores the importance of Engels's thought and work. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JHBA; JPA; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 111 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192804662
- ISBN
- 9780192804662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253356536
- ISBN
- 9780253356536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.16
€ 76.16
Paperback. Presents an argument that bodies are knowable only through culture and history; they are not in any simple way natural, nor free of relations of power. This book traces the construction of particular deviant bodies, including the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body. Editor(s): Terry, Jennifer; Urla, Jacqueline L. Series: Race, Gender, & Science. Num Pages: 424 pages, 27 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JHM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780253209757
- ISBN
- 9780253209757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.47
€ 33.99
€ 30.47
Paperback. Focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing the debates around it. This book offers a critique of postmodern 'culturalism', arguing instead for a more complex relation between Culture and Nature, and trying to retrieve the importance of such concepts as human nature from a non-naturalistic perspective. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631219668
- ISBN
- 9780631219668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.56
€ 34.56
Paperback. In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631203230
- ISBN
- 9780631203230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.80
€ 40.99
€ 39.80
Hardback. Theology: The Story of God's Love provides a modern and accessible introduction to Roman Catholic theology based loosely on the magisterial but difficult work of Bernard Lonergan. The author invites a reflection on the theology of the individual personal story and then expands to the story of the Church and the history of its doctrines. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HR; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761811435
- ISBN
- 9780761811435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.11
€ 115.11
Hardback. Presents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector. This book tells how geography matters in agri-food and plays a diverse range of roles in shaping production-consumption relations. It shows the importance of various areas and their associated institutions to the development of the international food system. Editor(s): Marsden, Terry; Murdoch, Jonathan. Series: Research in Rural Sociology & Development. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762313174
- ISBN
- 9780762313174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.17
€ 122.17
Hardback. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and robust theorizations that allow readers to grasp the complexity of this topic. Editor(s): Marsden, Terry; Barbosa Cavalcanti, Josefa Salete; Bonanno, Alessandro. Series: Research in Rural Sociology & Development. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: JFCV; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 234 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783507115
- ISBN
- 9781783507115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.31
€ 155.31
Hardcover. A historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities, based on fieldwork in both Miami and Haiti. Series: North American Religions Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 1KJH; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814777084
- ISBN
- 9780814777084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.81
€ 90.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Thomason, Terry; Burton, John F., Jr.; Hyatt, Douglas. Series: LERA Research Volumes. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- KNH0004146
- ISBN
- 9780913447741
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: The Cosmopolitan Life. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHMC; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231177900
- ISBN
- 9780231177900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.20
€ 32.99
€ 27.20
Paperback. Series: Studies in Transgression. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231170833
- ISBN
- 9780231170833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.59
€ 25.99
€ 19.59