Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447308775
- ISBN
- 9781447308775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.95
€ 37.99
€ 35.95
Paperback. What happens when anthropologists lose themselves during fieldwork while attempting to understand divergent cultures? When they stray from rigorous agendas and are forced to confront radically unexpected or unexplained experiences? This book deals with these questions. Editor(s): Goulet, Jean-Guy A.; Miller, Bruce Granville. Num Pages: 472 pages, Map, index. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803259928
- ISBN
- 9780803259928
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.35
€ 42.99
€ 42.35
Paperback. Veblen's landmark study of affluent American society exposes the 'pecuniary culture' and 'conspicuous consumption' that results when unessential goods are exploited at the expense of production of true value. This new edition examines Veblen's still pertinent arguments. Editor(s): Banta, Martha. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JH; JFC; JFSC; JHBA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 192 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199552580
- ISBN
- 9780199552580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.33
€ 14.99
€ 12.33
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
€ 14.99€ 11.54
€ 14.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. Gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children. This title looks at adoption as part of larger structures of inequality (poor people do not adopt the children of the wealthy, as she points out). Num Pages: 376 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2.6.2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351610
- ISBN
- 9780822351610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. Translation of the authoro's Fabbrica della strategia. Translator(s): Bove, Arianna. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAM; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 268 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146838
- ISBN
- 9780231146838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.61
€ 33.99
€ 24.61
Paperback. This interdisciplinary volume examines the junctures of politics and performance in contemporary Northern Ireland. Four chapters are about live theatre and television performances, and the remaining five chapters describe the dramatic struggles played out in various social settings. Editor(s): Harrington, John P.; Mitchell, Elizabeth J. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; AN; HBJD1; HBTB; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354. 8vo.Standard paperback edition.
. Northern Ireland, Ulster. First edition.
. Northern Ireland, Ulster. First edition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- University Massachusetts Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- SKU
- KEX0296660
- ISBN
- 9781558491977
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. The first in-depth ethnography of the brutal regime in Burma. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMB; JHM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218831
- ISBN
- 9780812218831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.80
€ 37.99
€ 35.80
Paperback. Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This title centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Num Pages: 456 pages, 43 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272958
- ISBN
- 9780520272958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.64
€ 33.99
€ 24.64
Paperback. Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Series: Urban Futures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JP; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509504824
- ISBN
- 9781509504824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.50
€ 23.99
€ 23.50
Paperback. In this fabulous little book, David Silverman lays bare what he considers to be good and bad qualitative research and gets readers thinking about how they can come to understand the world and each other better through qualitative methods. Series: Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781446252185
- ISBN
- 9781446252185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.99
€ 23.99
€ 22.99
Hardback. This revised edition of Pip Jones, Liz Bradbury and Shaun Le Boutillier s extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509505043
- ISBN
- 9781509505043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.25
€ 71.25
Paperback. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JFF; JFSR; JHB; JHBD; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 255 x 20. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349491711
- ISBN
- 9781349491711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Aff...
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Paperback. Highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. Num Pages: 318 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLC; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 318
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251717
- ISBN
- 9780520251717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.68
€ 40.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479889808
- ISBN
- 9781479889808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.43
€ 33.99
€ 33.43
Paperback. Presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism. This book shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. It explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table 2 maps 19 line illus. 56 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFSL9; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058825
- ISBN
- 9780691058825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.21
€ 52.99
€ 37.21
Hardcover. Presents an exposition of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data. This book is concerned with the ways data on population are gathered, classified, and treated to produce tabulations and various summarizing measures that reveal the significant aspects of the composition and dynamics of populations. Editor(s): Siegel, Jacob S.; Swanson, David; Shryock, Henry S.; Stockwell, Edward. Num Pages: 819 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1000.
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 819
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780126419559
- ISBN
- 9780126419559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.43
€ 117.43
Paperback. * The latest book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. * Offers an original analysis of the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid--modern' times -- the man or woman with no fixed or durable bonds. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745624891
- ISBN
- 9780745624891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.91
€ 22.91
Paperback. This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies. Series: Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology. Num Pages: 192 pages, 9d.3M. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290. "8vo. No. 4 in the Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology Series. Commissioning organisation: Goody, Jack (Editor) 180p. Bright, clean paperback copy. Spine sunned. 1st paperback edition". Keywords: "Subjects - Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences - Anthropology - General,Education Resources - Books - Social Sciences - Anthropology - General"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press Dublin, Ireland
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- KON0586743
- ISBN
- 9780521297325
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 58.55
€ 58.55
Hardcover. This volume, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a clear account of the developments of this code theory and shows the close relation between its development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise. Series: Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847695751
- ISBN
- 9780847695751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.30
€ 173.30