Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Provides a primer on the current state of the same-sex marriage debate, and a new way of framing the issue that provides valuable new insights into the political, social, and personal stakes involved Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JHBK; LNMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 307
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814709306
- ISBN
- 9780814709306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Hardback. Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. Editor(s): Pinxten, Rik; Dikomitis, Lisa. Series: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, plans. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455545
- ISBN
- 9781845455545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.39
€ 151.39
Paperback. The authors in this volume question what the possible appeal of these old religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam could be in the new urban environment and, conversely, what impact global urbanization will have on learning and on the performance and nature of ritual. Editor(s): Pinxten, Rik; Dikomitiz, Lisa. Series: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture. Num Pages: 166 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234. Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts. Series: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture. 166 pages, 12 ills. Editor(s): Pinxten, Rik; Dikomitiz, Lisa. The authors in this volume question what the possible appeal of these old religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam could be in the new urban environment and, conversely, what impact global urbanization will have on learning and on the performance and nature of ritual. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFSR; JHMC. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 9. Weight: 234.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 166
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458070
- ISBN
- 9780857458070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.95
€ 32.99
€ 29.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761808107
- ISBN
- 9780761808107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.04
€ 76.04
Paperback. Examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narco-trafficking along the US - Mexico border. This book explores the everyday reality of the drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers: those living at the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of "the war on drugs." Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JHMC; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276789
- ISBN
- 9780520276789
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.51
€ 33.99
€ 24.51
paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JHB; MFKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2004
- SKU
- V9781349999767
- ISBN
- 9781349999767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, halftones, figures, tables. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195372069
- ISBN
- 9780195372069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.50
€ 42.50
Paperback. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, this book examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. It considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural 'enfranchisement' to the logics of intellectual property. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. 3 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHM; KNDP; RNC; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095578
- ISBN
- 9780691095578
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.05
€ 46.99
€ 33.05
Paperback. Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JHB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495023
- ISBN
- 9781349495023
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Condition: New
€ 118.57
€ 118.57
Paperback. Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 427.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781475787740
- ISBN
- 9781475787740
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Condition: New
€ 119.45
€ 119.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1KJH; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801486739
- ISBN
- 9780801486739
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.75
€ 37.99
€ 33.75
Paperback. There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights and how they are treated throughout the justice process from the arrest of a parent to imprisonment and release. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKV; JKVP; JPQB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349490202
- ISBN
- 9781349490202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.54
€ 118.54
Paperback. Argues that within the festival of the goddess Gangamma ultimate reality is imagined as female Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRGC; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253009562
- ISBN
- 9780253009562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.06
€ 28.06
Hardback. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments. Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; JHMC; RGCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785334511
- ISBN
- 9781785334511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.29
€ 152.29
Paperback. Stemming from an interdisciplinary convention in 2005 at the Institute for the Studies of the Americas in London, this collection has a strong thematic integrity, but also illustrates the dramatic variety of approaches to the question of modernity. This volume fills the gaps in prior literature on Latin America's experience of modernity. Editor(s): Miller, N.; Hart, S. (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel). Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JHMC; JP; RBGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349538645
- ISBN
- 9781349538645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardback. Editor(s): Miller, Nicola; Hart, Stephen. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403980007
- ISBN
- 9781403980007
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.85
€ 118.85
Hardback. Peasants tell tales,A" one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 639.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456207
- ISBN
- 9781845456207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.10
€ 153.10
Hardback. After the USSR collapsed, Kyrgyzstan followed a path of economic liberalization, but after a few years, they produced little, and the country's principal industry of sheep breeding was decimated. This led to dependence on international aid, and ensuing comical encounters between the local population and well-meaning foreigners who help them. Translator(s): Schoch, Cynthia. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCK; GTF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387831
- ISBN
- 9781782387831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.78
€ 151.78
Hardback. Collects twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' this work regards frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Editor(s): Rausch, Jane M.; Weber, David J. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 222 pages, suggested readings, suggested films. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBJK; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842024778
- ISBN
- 9780842024778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.98
€ 157.98
Hardback. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). . Some light shelf wear else as new.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KTG0003645
- ISBN
- 9781845450502
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99