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Sociology & anthropology

Hardback. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: ASD; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 180. Weight in Grams: 710.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
366
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634830966
ISBN
9781634830966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 311.34
€ 230.17

Paperback. In Amazonian folktales, dolphins take human form, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. This book examines these stories, both as folk narratives and as representations of culture and conflict in the Amazon. Num Pages: 326 pages, 24 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; JFC; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226761848
ISBN
9780226761848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.29

Hardback. A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 half-tones. BIC Classification: ASD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729895
ISBN
9780804729895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.32

Paperback. A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 half-tones. BIC Classification: ASD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735247
ISBN
9780804735247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardcover. A dazzling exploration of a seductive, glittery culture Num Pages: 294 pages, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ASDR; JFCA; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814722664
ISBN
9780814722664
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.59

Hardcover. Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of transnational ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama or Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. Editor(s): Neveu Kringelbach, Helene; Skinner, Jonathan. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442. Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. 260 pages, 11 ills. Editor(s): Neveu Kringelbach, Helene; Skinner, Jonathan. Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of transnational ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama or Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: ASD; JHMC. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 17. Weight: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857455758
ISBN
9780857455758
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.12

Paperback. Includes essays that offer a sophisticated view of the growing power of popular culture and its increasing inseparability from contemporary structures of economic and political power and from our everyday lives. This title reveals the ways in which popular culture is being mobilised in the service of economic and political struggles. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319177
ISBN
9780822319177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Paperback. Uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and 'savage', the author shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greek's worship of Dionysus to the medieval practices of Christianity as a 'danced religion'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847080080
ISBN
9781847080080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental governmentality" that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823263660
ISBN
9780823263660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardback. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental governmentality" that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823263653
ISBN
9780823263653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.97

Paperback. Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa. Series: Asia-Pacific. 288 pages, 16 b&w photographs. Examines how Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. This title analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through the fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; AN; GTB; JHMP. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343714
ISBN
9780822343714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.60

Hardback. This work examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. Num Pages: 308 pages, 21 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLSB; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 631.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804719261
ISBN
9780804719261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.51

Paperback. This text examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. Num Pages: 308 pages, 21 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725897
ISBN
9780804725897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers movement and the womens movement. The first part is historical, the second theoretical. Historical examples range from the mid-19th century to the 1970s and include events, debates and key personalities from China, Russia, the USA, France, Italy, Spain and Britain. Series: Resistance Books. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780850366440
ISBN
9780850366440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSJ; JHMP; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 253 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1006.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816626496
ISBN
9780816626496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Focusing on the evolution of traditional forms of practice and community, as well as modern reforms and reinventions both within China and on the global stage, this book explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late nineteenth century. Editor(s): Palmer, David A; Liu, Xun. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. Num Pages: 404 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HRKN5; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520289864
ISBN
9780520289864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.66
€ 43.02

Paperback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHBA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400076703
ISBN
9781400076703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.27

Paperback. Simone Browne shows how racial ideologies and the long history of policing black bodies under transatlantic slavery structure contemporary surveillance technologies and practices. Analyzing a wide array of archival and contemporary texts, she demonstrates how surveillance reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL4; JHB; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359388
ISBN
9780822359388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 26 b&w photos, and 4 photo color insert. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HRLK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329886
ISBN
9780822329886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

Hardcover. Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of misconduct among military personnel.. Num Pages: 244 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBW; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516. Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War. 244 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of misconduct among military personnel. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: HBW; JHMC. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 21. Weight: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857454980
ISBN
9780857454980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.17

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