Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Hardcover. A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of this multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; ASD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782381471
- ISBN
- 9781782381471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.31
€ 152.31
Paperback. Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives presents the work of dance scholars whose professional fieldwork spans several continents and includes studies of the dance and movement systems of varied global communities. Editor(s): Dankworth, Linda E.; David, A. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349436057
- ISBN
- 9781349436057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 117.85
€ 117.85
paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JFSR; JHB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- SKU
- V9780312174545
- ISBN
- 9780312174545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JFSR; JHB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312174538
- ISBN
- 9780312174538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
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
€ 308.40€ 227.23
€ 308.40
€ 227.23
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
€ 42.99€ 32.86
€ 42.99
€ 32.86
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
€ 158.26
€ 158.26
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
€ 36.99€ 35.64
€ 36.99
€ 35.64
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
€ 50.19
€ 50.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ASD; HRAM; HRLK; JHBL; KJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349499236
- ISBN
- 9781349499236
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.25
€ 61.25
Paperback. A collection of papers, written specially for this volume, which explores aspects of the ways in which dance and gender intersect in a variety of cultural contexts, from social and disco dance, to the Hollywood musical and dances from different cultures. Editor(s): Thomas, Helen. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333637593
- ISBN
- 9780333637593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.25
€ 88.25
Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, contains readings of international postmodern dances, exploring the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity and reading dances 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual, able-bodied, male norm. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JHBA; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229792
- ISBN
- 9780230229792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.74
€ 118.74
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
€ 152.18
€ 152.18
Hardcover. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403970442
- ISBN
- 9781403970442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 161 x 11. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403970459
- ISBN
- 9781403970459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.31
€ 61.31
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€ 30.35
€ 31.99
€ 30.35
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€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
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
€ 48.84
€ 48.84
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
€ 142.49
€ 142.49
Paperback. A revisionary overview of twentieth-century dance. Num Pages: 208 pages, 33 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253209474
- ISBN
- 9780253209474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.66
€ 21.66