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Paperback. Music and dance play a central role in the 'healing arts' of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. This title shows how the sounds and gestures of music and dance acquire a potency that can transform thoughts, emotions, and bodies. Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. Num Pages: 278 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMM; JFSL9; JHM; MMZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520082816
- ISBN
- 9780520082816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.80
€ 35.99
€ 26.80
Hardcover. Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: HRQA; JHM; VXA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244168
- ISBN
- 9780812244168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31
Paperback. Series: Morality and Society Series. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; MBP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226265858
- ISBN
- 9780226265858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.89
€ 32.99
€ 25.89
paperback. Presents stories from 18 women abused as children, explaining that healing can occur at any stage of life, and that healing, itself, occurs in stages. This book offers guidance to recognize the long-lingering potential affects of childhood sexual abuse including depression, anxiety, dissociation, and chronic shock. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780313363214
- ISBN
- 9780313363214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Presents a cross-cultural perspective on manual medicine studies. This volume describes how manual medicine is one of the primary providers of traditional medicine. It is useful for manual practitioners of western medicine, including massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, and osteopaths, as well as those with traditional training. Editor(s): Oths, Kathryn S.; Hinojosa, Servando Z. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 181 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759103931
- ISBN
- 9780759103931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.34
€ 76.34
Hardback. Presents a cross-cultural perspective on manual medicine studies. This volume describes how manual medicine is one of the primary providers of traditional medicine. It is useful for manual practitioners of western medicine, including massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, and osteopaths, as well as those with traditional training. Editor(s): Oths, Kathryn S.; Hinojosa, Servando Z. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759103924
- ISBN
- 9780759103924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.42
€ 173.42
Hardback. This volume investigates how the experiences, histories, and relationships of social class are a necessary ingredient for explaining the re-emergence and dynamics of populist nationalism in both Eastern and Western Europe. Featuring in-depth urban and regional case studies, this volume reclaims class for anthropological research. Editor(s): Kalb, Don; Halmai, Gabor. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSC; JHMC; JPFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857452030
- ISBN
- 9780857452030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.06
€ 161.06
Hardback. This book brings together material on headhunting from several Southeast Asia societies, examines its cultural contexts, and relates them to colonial history, violence, and ritual. Editor(s): Hoskins, Janet. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26 half-tones, 5 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1F; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725743
- ISBN
- 9780804725743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.68
€ 167.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 33 tables, 18 charts/graphs, 3 maps, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJMV2; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801473791
- ISBN
- 9780801473791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.77
€ 33.99
€ 30.77
Hardcover. A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, "He Included Me" weaves together the story of a black family eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead." Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTB; JFSL3; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820311418
- ISBN
- 9780820311418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.71
€ 42.71
Paperback. This text explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-20th century US. It was in the workplace of this era, the author argues, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape. Num Pages: 350 pages, 16 illustrations, 6 figures, notes, index,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JHBL; KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847985
- ISBN
- 9780807847985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.76
€ 54.76
Hardcover. These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. The author focuses on a man who is permanently attached to assemblages of machines, devices, and collectivities of people: Stephen Hawking. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC; PD; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226522265
- ISBN
- 9780226522265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.72€ 89.06
€ 105.72
€ 89.06
Hardcover. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight Israeli communities, Judy Jaffe-Schagen gives a powerful account of museums' role in state formation, proposing a new approach for societies in conflict. Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Num Pages: 252 pages, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; GM; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785331343
- ISBN
- 9781785331343
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.45
€ 161.45
Paperback. Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, this book offers an account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. Arguing for more sustained anthropological attention to human quests for belonging, it addresses existential questions of love and loss that concern us all. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520278431
- ISBN
- 9780520278431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.42
€ 40.99
€ 29.42
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781506345444
- ISBN
- 9781506345444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 106.22
€ 106.22
Hardback. Presents a study of Czech society and politics in the High Middle Ages. This work paints a vivid portrait of a flourishing Christian community in the decades between 1050 and 1200. It also reveals the values and strategies that sustained the Czech Lands as a community. It also honors the complexity and dynamism of the medieval exercise of power. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DVK; 3H; JHM; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236132
- ISBN
- 9780812236132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.81
€ 111.81
Paperback. This text examines the benefits and risks of international economic integration, and criticizes mainstream economists for not emphasizing its dangers. It argues that the "winners" have as much at stake from the possible consequences of social instability exposed by globalization, as the "losers". Num Pages: 128 pages, tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFS; JH; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 8. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881322415
- ISBN
- 9780881322415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.63
€ 26.99
€ 20.63
Paperback. Harvey Sacksa s early death in 1975 robbed the social sciences of one of its most original thinkers. Although he published relatively little in his lifetime, his lectures and papers were enormously influential in sociology and sociolinguistics and they played a major role in the development of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745617114
- ISBN
- 9780745617114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.17
€ 25.17
Paperback. In Japan as in the US, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and comforts. This is a study of Japanese farm women's lives in the present: its central figure is 42-year-old Haruko, a woman who exemplifies and makes a mockery of the stereotype of Japanese women. Num Pages: 244 pages, 23 half-tones 1 table 1 map 1 plan. BIC Classification: JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804712873
- ISBN
- 9780804712873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.87
€ 32.99
€ 29.87
Paperback. Gierzynski's captivating analysis of media's impact on political views, combined with the enjoyable Potter story details, makes for an irresistible project that social scientists can use to work a little magic in their classrooms. Num Pages: 136 pages, 12, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSK; JHB; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421410333
- ISBN
- 9781421410333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.02
€ 35.02
Gierzynski's captivating analysis of media's impact on political views, combined with the enjoyable Potter story details, makes for an irresistible project that social scientists can use to work a little magic in their classrooms. Num Pages: 136 pages, 12, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSK; JHB; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421410326
- ISBN
- 9781421410326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.62
€ 59.62
Hardcover.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Wayne State Univ Pr
- Number of pages
- 543
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st ed
- SKU
- KEX0212656
- ISBN
- 9780814319338
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This book is the first to theorise and define the social harm concept beyond criminology and seeks to address these omissions and in doing so provide a platform for future debates, in this series and beyond. Series: Studies in Social Harm. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JKV; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847427953
- ISBN
- 9781847427953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.47
€ 37.47
Hardcover. This book is the first to theorise and define the social harm concept beyond criminology and seeks to address these omissions and in doing so provide a platform for future debates, in this series and beyond. Series: Studies in Social Harm. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JKV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 240 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847427946
- ISBN
- 9781847427946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.58
€ 98.58