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Hardcover. This collection offers an introduction to the figurational sociology of sport and leisure. The distinctive features of the approach are clearly explained and contributors show how figurational sociology is applied in the analysis of concrete problems. Editor(s): Rojek, Chris; Dunning, Eric. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333512258
- ISBN
- 9780333512258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.33
€ 128.33
hardcover. Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities. Editor(s): Levermore, Roger. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 55. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542563
- ISBN
- 9780230542563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.99
€ 67.99
Paperback. Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities. Editor(s): Levermore, Roger. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JHBS; KNS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349360109
- ISBN
- 9781349360109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today. Editor(s): Long, Jonathan; Spracklen, Karl. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JHBS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. 300 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Long, Jonathan; Spracklen, Karl. With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JFSL1; JHBS. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 22. Weight: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230236158
- ISBN
- 9780230236158
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Paperback. With an international line-up of contributors, this bookexamines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today." Editor(s): Long, Curator of Charleston Museum J, Ind; Spracklen, K. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSL; JHBS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314270
- ISBN
- 9781349314270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBS; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. .
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262035477
- ISBN
- 9780262035477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.56
€ 38.99
€ 34.56
Sport & Gender (Inter)Nationale Sportsoziologische Geschlechterforschu...
. Ed(S): Sobiech, Gabriele; Gunter, Sandra
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Sobiech, Gabriele; Gunter, Sandra. Series: Geschlecht Und Gesellschaft. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ; JHBS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer vs United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783658130978
- ISBN
- 9783658130978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.57
€ 94.57
Paperback. Examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a "unifying" Hispanic heritage, and the ways in which grassroots organizations challenge and reconfigure definitions of national identity through their own activities and representations. Series: Puerto Rican Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJP; JFC; JHM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566395496
- ISBN
- 9781566395496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardback. In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of "war," experienced daily by women of color. Editor(s): White, Renee T.; Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847686049
- ISBN
- 9780847686049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.94
€ 188.94
Paperback. Reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. This book argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBK5; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136325
- ISBN
- 9780691136325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
€ 43.99
€ 31.19
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3B; HDDA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 517.
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788771241273
- ISBN
- 9788771241273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.26
€ 56.26
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583941171
- ISBN
- 9781583941171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Uniquely comparing Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox views and practices, the chapters look at changes in theological thought over time as well as in social customs related to spiritual kinship, including godparenthood. Editor(s): Alfani, Guido; Gourdon, Vincent. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349348565
- ISBN
- 9781349348565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.92
€ 72.92
Spirits without Borders: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational ...
Fjelstad, Karen, Hien, Nguyen Thi
Hardcover. Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 229 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HRLK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 208 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114937
- ISBN
- 9780230114937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 229 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRLK; JFC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299185
- ISBN
- 9781137299185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar, spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 314 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HRK; HRQM2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137534798
- ISBN
- 9781137534798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar, spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 314 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HRQM2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027498
- ISBN
- 9781137027498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Hardback. Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions.. Num Pages: 286 pages, 7 ills. BIC Classification: 1H; HRC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454838
- ISBN
- 9781845454838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.76
€ 162.76
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bautista, Julius. Num Pages: 230 pages, 49, 44 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 186 x 21. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877277880
- ISBN
- 9780877277880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Paperback. Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, this book exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced German's conceptions of modernity and national culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226068916
- ISBN
- 9780226068916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback / so. Series: Dortmunder Beitr GE Zur Sozialforschung. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Germany
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531181950
- ISBN
- 9783531181950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.51
€ 61.51
Paperback. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 268 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Familius LLC United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781942934752
- ISBN
- 9781942934752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.39
€ 16.99
€ 15.39
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 349 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften Germany
- Number of pages
- 349
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531164175
- ISBN
- 9783531164175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.39
€ 78.39
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 235 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531186047
- ISBN
- 9783531186047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.55
€ 83.55