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Sociology & anthropology
Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Ter...
Watson, James L., Watson, Rubie S.
Paperback. Constituting an ethnographic record of a cultural system teetering on the threshold of the historic transition, this book explores the cultural traditions of Cantonese villagers who first settled in South China's Pearl River Delta during the Tang and Song dynasties. It features two villages in particular: San Tin and Ha Tsuen. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 3JJP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629961183
- ISBN
- 9789629961183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.35
€ 33.35
Paperback. An unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families in Tsarist Russia Editor(s): Ransel, David L.; Levine, Michael. Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 b&w photos, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253207845
- ISBN
- 9780253207845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.66
€ 17.99
€ 17.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 213 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFSF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772893440
- ISBN
- 9788772893440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 37.26
€ 50.99
€ 37.26
paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; JH; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 159. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Lit Verlag
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783825826185
- ISBN
- 9783825826185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.09
€ 47.99
€ 40.09
Paperback. Argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers and frequent references to popular culture, this title examines the causes of violent outbreaks like those seen in Israel and Palestine and in terrorist acts around the world. Series: Big Ideas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846680274
- ISBN
- 9781846680274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.50
€ 16.99
€ 12.50
Hardback. Societies often struggle to address crime and violence within families; as such behaviors are often unreported and even concealed. This multidisciplinary volume of CPFR addresses topics such as: child abuse, spousal violence, incarceration, family life and delinquency, intrafamily violence, and policy-related issues pertaining to family violence. Series Editor(s): Blair, Sampson Lee. Series: Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBK; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 238 x 31. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785602634
- ISBN
- 9781785602634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 266.40
€ 266.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HRAM9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 184 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801479137
- ISBN
- 9780801479137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98
paperback. Editor(s): Wilkinson, Carol W. Num Pages: 283 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBL; KNXC; VFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Government Institutes Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865875425
- ISBN
- 9780865875425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 183.73
€ 183.73
Hardback. The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; JFFE; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769358
- ISBN
- 9780804769358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.12
€ 109.12
Hardback. Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFFE; JHMC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785332364
- ISBN
- 9781785332364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.56
€ 162.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252066085
- ISBN
- 9780252066085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.25
€ 24.99
€ 23.25
Paperback. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication", which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. This title tells the story of Violette. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464. A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris. 352 pages, illustrations. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication", which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. This title tells the story of Violette. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; JHB; JKV. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 22. Weight: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272729
- ISBN
- 9780520272729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFP; JHBA; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816670055
- ISBN
- 9780816670055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.45
€ 29.99
€ 27.45
Paperback. Delving into everything from medieval drama to Bollywood films to the Twilight franchise, Virgin Envy examines the elusive state of virginity. Editor(s): Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889774230
- ISBN
- 9780889774230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.64
€ 25.99
€ 22.64
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786990365
- ISBN
- 9781786990365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.50€ 63.99
€ 99.50
€ 63.99
Paperback. Traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centuries. Virtual America identifies the connections (or lack thereof) between our individual selves, an American identity, and the geography oout there.o Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 photographs, 5 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBA; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803232785
- ISBN
- 9780803232785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.49
€ 26.99
€ 25.49
Paperback. An ethnographic analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry illuminates the growing phenomenon of "virtual migration" Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 b&w photos, 4 tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JHBL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336693
- ISBN
- 9780822336693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Paperback. A collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema Editor(s): Ruoff, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337133
- ISBN
- 9780822337133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.32
€ 36.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Editor(s): Whitehead, Neil L.; Finnstrom, Sverker. Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMC; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354475
- ISBN
- 9780822354475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.33
€ 36.99
€ 34.33
Hardback. The contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war, contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery, and examining the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research. Editor(s): Whitehead, Neil L.; Finnstrom, Sverker. Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMC; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354352
- ISBN
- 9780822354352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40