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Paperback. This collection of 12 theoretical essays spans more than 40 years of research in order to explore the bases of human action and society. Framed by a new introduction and an extensive epilogue, the essays trace the major developments of contemporary sociological theory and analysis. Series: Heritage of Sociology Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226195568
- ISBN
- 9780226195568
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Condition: New
€ 65.40€ 55.72
€ 65.40
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Hardcover. Examines Senegal's crucial and pragmatic decisions related to its development and how they garnered international favor, decisions such as its opposition to Soviet involvement in African liberation - despite itself being a socialist state - or its support for the US-led war on terror - despite its population being predominately Muslim. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; JFSL3; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226198439
- ISBN
- 9780226198439
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€ 95.12€ 79.61
€ 95.12
€ 79.61
Paperback. Examines Senegal's crucial and pragmatic decisions related to its development and how they garnered international favor, decisions such as its opposition to Soviet involvement in African liberation - despite itself being a socialist state - or its support for the US-led war on terror - despite its population being predominately Muslim. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; JFSL3; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226198576
- ISBN
- 9780226198576
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226204666
- ISBN
- 9780226204666
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. This text provides an interpretation of isicathamiya performance and its relation to the culture and consciousness of the Zulu migrant labourers who largely compose its choirs. It addresses issues in anthropology and looks to the future of live performance in the new South Africa. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFM; AVGH; JFC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 804.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226217215
- ISBN
- 9780226217215
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.39
€ 52.99
€ 41.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226222578
- ISBN
- 9780226222578
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Hardcover. Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out. The author reveals that its development was profoundly altered by the conflict. He examines both the origins and consequences of this shift. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBWN; JHMC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226222677
- ISBN
- 9780226222677
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Condition: New
€ 108.20€ 90.12
€ 108.20
€ 90.12
Paperback. Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out. The author reveals that its development was profoundly altered by the conflict. He examines both the origins and consequences of this shift. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBWN; JHMC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226222684
- ISBN
- 9780226222684
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.78
€ 41.99
€ 32.78
Hardcover. 9780226233888. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKV; JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226233888
- ISBN
- 9780226233888
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Condition: New
€ 118.91€ 98.73
€ 118.91
€ 98.73
Paperback. Exploring different cases of the attempt to rehabilitate child sex offenders, this book details a secular ritual process aimed not only at preventing future acts of molestation but also at fundamentally transforming the offender, who is ultimately charged with creating an almost entirely new self. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKV; JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226233918
- ISBN
- 9780226233918
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.78
€ 41.99
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Paperback. This study describes the daily existence of the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, who present a challenge to anthropologists because of their apparent lack of a cultural or social structure; but Jane Fajans argues that the Baining define themselves by their own productive and reproductive work. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226234441
- ISBN
- 9780226234441
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Hardcover. In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. The author shows that the exception that was Rhodesian independence did not, in fact, make the state that different from new nations elsewhere in Africa. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1HFMS; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226235059
- ISBN
- 9780226235059
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Condition: New
€ 99.88€ 83.43
€ 99.88
€ 83.43
Paperback. More and more men and women in China are having sex before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance, leisure and free choice. Farrer explores this change by tracing the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai. Series: Chicago Visual Library-French Popular Lithographic Imagery. Num Pages: 412 pages, 10 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFSJ; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 632.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226238715
- ISBN
- 9780226238715
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
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Paperback. This collection is based on the idea that irony now extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. The essays cover the limits to irony's liberating qualities as well as irony's more positive dimensions. Num Pages: 284 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226244235
- ISBN
- 9780226244235
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.73
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Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226249377
- ISBN
- 9780226249377
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
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Paperback. From 1945 to 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of students whose work has come to define a second "Chicago School" of sociology. In this book, sociologists critically confront this legacy and discuss the internal conflicts that call into question the idea of a unified "school". Num Pages: 436 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226249391
- ISBN
- 9780226249391
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Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 46.16
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Paperback. Editor(s): Fiske, Donald W.; Shweder, Richard A. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- n
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226251929
- ISBN
- 9780226251929
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.39
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€ 41.39
Paperback. Through an ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, this book brings you inside an imaginative work of the long-marginalized tribal communities. It shows how they must affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226253046
- ISBN
- 9780226253046
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
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Paperback. Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, the authors set out to reformulate how we think about one of the most vexing and central aspects of American life. Num Pages: 520 pages, 1 halftone, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226253527
- ISBN
- 9780226253527
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 35.75
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€ 35.75
Hardcover. Organizing contributions from various anthropological subfields, including economics, security and environment, the authors offer tools which consider uncertainty, its management, and the differing modes of subjectivity appropriate to it. The also present ways of thinking about danger and risk from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Editor(s): Samimian-Darash, Limor; Rabinow, Paul. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226257075
- ISBN
- 9780226257075
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Condition: New
€ 103.45€ 86.30
€ 103.45
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226257419
- ISBN
- 9780226257419
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Condition: New
€ 95.12€ 79.61
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Paperback. In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, security became the paramount concern of virtually everyone involved in governing the United States. This title describes the human activities, emotions, relationships, and decisions that shaped the way Americans experienced homeland security. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHM; JPRB; JPWL2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226257440
- ISBN
- 9780226257440
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
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Hardcover. Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality. Editor(s): Foster, Thomas A. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226257464
- ISBN
- 9780226257464
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Condition: New
€ 95.12€ 79.61
€ 95.12
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Paperback. Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality. Editor(s): Foster, Thomas A. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346. Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. 256 pages. Editor(s): Foster, Thomas A. Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK5. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226257471
- ISBN
- 9780226257471
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.14
€ 31.99
€ 25.14