Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians. Num Pages: 363 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; JHBL; JHM; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080514
- ISBN
- 9780231080514
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.39
€ 42.99
€ 30.39
Paperback. Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and place. Editor(s): Cobb, R. Num Pages: 298 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469789
- ISBN
- 9781349469789
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€ 62.14
€ 62.14
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896802834
- ISBN
- 9780896802834
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€ 32.99€ 31.69
€ 32.99
€ 31.69
Paperback. This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships - mother-son, brother-sister, co-wives, father-daughter - to explore women's contribution to shaping and defining themselves in relation to others. Editor(s): Joseph, Suad. Series: Gender & political history in the Middle East. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSR2; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Syracuse Univ Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815628170
- ISBN
- 9780815628170
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Condition: New
€ 42.58
€ 42.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; A; JFC; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816629251
- ISBN
- 9780816629251
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.01
€ 26.99
€ 25.01
Paperback. This book examines how ordinary families and communities of minority groups in Sri Lanka have dealt with prolonged civil war and resulting issues as diverse as child recruitment, generational and gender conflicts, political terror, refugee camp life, ethnic nationalism, and migration and mobility. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222845
- ISBN
- 9780812222845
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.14
€ 40.99
€ 36.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 27 photograps, 17 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFHF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803285644
- ISBN
- 9780803285644
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€ 37.99€ 35.80
€ 37.99
€ 35.80
Hardback. Over the last century, Western portrayals of shamanism have changed radically toward an ethnopoetics of shamanism. While shamanic practices had long been indirectly registered by Westerners, it is only since the late nineteenth century that they have taken on symbolic import within discourses of primitivism and debates over magic and rationality. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMC; VXWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443687
- ISBN
- 9781137443687
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Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Paperback. This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding of how people evaluate. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; JFCX; JFSR; JHM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349477906
- ISBN
- 9781349477906
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Condition: New
€ 61.49
€ 61.49
Paperback. Lisa Messeri traces how planetary scientists-whether working in the Utah desert, a Chilean observatory, or the labs of MIT-transform celestial bodies into places in order to understand the universe as densely inhabited by planets, in turn telling us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the cosmos. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 248 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; PGS; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 477.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362036
- ISBN
- 9780822362036
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Condition: New
€ 28.15
€ 28.15
Paperback. Rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. This title offers an analysis and that moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 40 photographs. BIC Classification: APF; JFFK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356202
- ISBN
- 9780822356202
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.24
€ 27.99
€ 26.24
Paperback. Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy. 328 pages, 57 b&w photographs, 3 figures. Focuses on the struggles of white mothers parenting African-descent children in Britain, analyzing the complex, racialized status of these women and their commitments to antiracism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSL; JHBK. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 17. Weight: 634.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348764
- ISBN
- 9780822348764
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€ 31.99€ 30.15
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Paperback. 208 pages, 3 maps. Combining narrative ethnography, research, philosophy, and poetry, this title construes the meaning of home existentially, as a metaphor for the balance people try to strike between the world they call their own and the world they see as 'other'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Dimension: 235 x 141 x 14. Weight: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325383
- ISBN
- 9780822325383
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.17
€ 29.99
€ 27.17
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814731208
- ISBN
- 9780814731208
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Hardback. Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Shahram Khosravi weaves a tapestry from individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis to depict how Iranians react to the experience of precarity and the possibility of hope. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JM; JHB; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248876
- ISBN
- 9780812248876
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Condition: New
€ 75.32
€ 75.32
Paperback. This book examines the formation, entrenchment, and sociopolitical consequences of land conflict in the Negev region of Israel as it has become defined along ethnic lines. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JHMC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804798303
- ISBN
- 9780804798303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.23
€ 29.99
€ 29.23
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739078
- ISBN
- 9780804739078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.95
€ 40.99
€ 35.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783899423730
- ISBN
- 9783899423730
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.38
€ 42.99
€ 30.38
Paperback. The history of Mexico's fearless intimacy with death--the elevation of death to the center of national identity. Num Pages: 584 pages, 52 black & white illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHBZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Number of pages
- 581
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951542
- ISBN
- 9781890951542
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Hardback. Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509517206
- ISBN
- 9781509517206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.58
€ 71.58