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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. A feminist analysis of the Chicano family that sees it as a site of political struggle with patriarchal masculinity, nationalism, and homophobia. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345435
- ISBN
- 9780822345435
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€ 30.99€ 27.75
€ 30.99
€ 27.75
Paperback. This vivid ethnographic account of the first peaceful encounters between the Wari Indians of western Brazil and missionaries and government workers emphasizes how the Wari perceived the interactions. Translator(s): Rodgers, David. Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 392 pages, 38 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL9; JHMC; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345732
- ISBN
- 9780822345732
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€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. The majority of undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - including a large population of Korean American students - come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. This book explores the tensions between liberal ideals and the particularities of race, family, and community in the contemporary university. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; GTB; JHM; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346159
- ISBN
- 9780822346159
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€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. President Barack Obama's mother, S Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist who specialized in social and economic development in Indonesia. This book reflects Dunham's commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; and her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem-solving. Editor(s): Dewey, Alice G.; Cooper, Nancy I. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 440 pages, 13 tables, 2 maps, 4 figures (tent.). BIC Classification: 1F; JHM; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 39. Weight in Grams: 902.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822346876
- ISBN
- 9780822346876
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Condition: New
€ 42.66
€ 42.66
Paperback. An account of how anthropology has responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated to different ends. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346982
- ISBN
- 9780822346982
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€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. An examination of the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras. Series: Material Worlds. Num Pages: 312 pages, 48 photos, 8 tables, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCH; HBJK; HBLA; HDD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347040
- ISBN
- 9780822347040
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€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. This ethnographic account of Brazil s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illustrations, incl. 10 in color. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347859
- ISBN
- 9780822347859
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€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. Anthropological and cultural critics ask what it means to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity, examining the question through the lenses of biotechnology, the environment, and human rights. Editor(s): Feldman, Ilana; Ticktin, Miriam Iris. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348108
- ISBN
- 9780822348108
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€ 124.20
€ 124.20
Paperback. Anthropological and cultural critics ask what it means to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity, examining the question through the lenses of biotechnology, the environment, and human rights. Editor(s): Feldman, Ilana; Ticktin, Miriam Iris. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348214
- ISBN
- 9780822348214
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. Leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein s world-systems analysis. Editor(s): Palumbo-Liu, David; Robbins, Bruce; Tanoukhi, Nirvana. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 photographs, 2 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348344
- ISBN
- 9780822348344
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Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Paperback. A passionate call for Native peoples to decolonize their own concepts and self-determination projects Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL9; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348511
- ISBN
- 9780822348511
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€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; JFSJ; JHBS; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348566
- ISBN
- 9780822348566
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. This collection of twenty essays provides an unprecedented overview of Chinese trade through the centuries, highlighting its scope, diversity, complexity, and the commodities that have linked it with Southeast Asia. Editor(s): Tagliacozzo, Eric; Chang, Wen-Chin. Num Pages: 552 pages, 22 photos, 25 tables, 15 maps, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; GTB; HBJF; JHM; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 904.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348818
- ISBN
- 9780822348818
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Condition: New
€ 139.50
€ 139.50
Paperback. An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 264 pages, 11 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVG; GTB; JFFH; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349129
- ISBN
- 9780822349129
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
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€ 27.67
Hardback. Based on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFSK2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349266
- ISBN
- 9780822349266
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Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. This volume collects Gayle Rubin's essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history. Rubin's introduction gives a history and context to this pioneering and much anticipated work. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 498 pages, 4 drawings. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK5; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963. Weight in Grams: 822.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 498
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822349716
- ISBN
- 9780822349716
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Condition: New
€ 134.40
€ 134.40
Hardback. As part of the agreement for Greece to join the EU, the country had to undertake a massive psychiatric reform, moving patients out of custodial hospitals and returning them to the community to be treated as outpatients. In this subtle ethnography, Elizabeth Davis shows how this played out at the edge of the nation, in the border region of Thrace. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHMP; JKS; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350934
- ISBN
- 9780822350934
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Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; MBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780822351436
- ISBN
- 9780822351436
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Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
paperback. A collection that addresses the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and advocates for collaboration between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the right of Native people to decide how their knowledge is used. Translator(s): McCormick, Gladys. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351528
- ISBN
- 9780822351528
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. Looks at indigeneity in the central highlands of Ecuador focusing on the activism of the grassroots organization of Inca Atahualpa. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3 photos, 2 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351757
- ISBN
- 9780822351757
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Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. Ferguson starts with the commonplace assumption within political philosophy that the family provides the ideal model for political association. Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351764
- ISBN
- 9780822351764
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Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
Paperback. Looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the nineteenth century to live and work in Paris. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351832
- ISBN
- 9780822351832
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Ferguson starts with the commonplace assumption within political philosophy that the family provides the ideal model for political association. Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351900
- ISBN
- 9780822351900
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Considers how a culture of crisis management - what the author calls "the new chronic" - has come to dominate various aspects of contemporary life, from biomedicine to economics to politics. This title unravels the logic of the new chronic where people find themselves suspended in a space between life and death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 charts. BIC Classification: JHBZ; MBP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352280
- ISBN
- 9780822352280
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56