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Paperback. Tracing the evolution of each of the bad habits, this title shows how liquor control boards encouraged the consumption of alcohol; how alcoholic beverage producers got their workers deferred from the draft during World War II; and how convenience stores and accounting firms pursued profits by pushing legalized gambling. Editor(s): Burnham, John C. Series: Bad Habits. Num Pages: 378 pages, 34 photographs, 13 black and white drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFF; JHM; JMAL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814712245
ISBN
9780814712245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardcover. To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men-chubs, bears, cubs - the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at large still haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gay communities. This book delves into the world of Girth & Mirth. Series: Intersections. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814708385
ISBN
9780814708385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.09

Hardcover. Death, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812249057
ISBN
9780812249057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.27

Hardcover. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones, Rituals of Ethnicity explores Thangmi cultural worlds and regional political histories to offer a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities despite the realities of mobile, hybrid lives. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKN; JFSL; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812246834
ISBN
9780812246834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.83

Hardback. Focusing on interpersonal dynamics during conflict in the Republic of Macedonia, Neofotistos describes how Macedonians and Albanians in the city of Skopje responded to threatening political developments, negotiated relationships of power, and promoted indeterminacy on the level of the everyday as a sense of impending war enfolded the capital. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVWYM; HBJD; JHMP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812243994
ISBN
9780812243994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

Hardback. An exploration of the cultural mythology of skin color during the English Renaissance. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812238327
ISBN
9780812238327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.05

Hardback. "Schorman demonstrates in this readable study of 1890s U.S. society how fashion-which he defines as clothing everyone wears and the symbolic system connected to its choice-reflects the cultural dynamics caused by rapid social change and remnants of past attitudes."-Choice Num Pages: 224 pages, 45 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JH; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812237283
ISBN
9780812237283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.57

Paperback. From the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHM; KJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223156
ISBN
9780812223156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Traditional marriage was not the only option for couples in medieval Europe. Alternative forms of union could make lives precarious but also provided a degree of flexibility. The study draws on a wide geographical and chronological range of examples in order to illustrate local difference while bringing out broad patterns. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780812222982
ISBN
9780812222982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Following the lives of a group of migrant Filipinas who worked as entertainers in South Korea and then journeyed to other parts of Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this ethnography provides a look at how work, sex, love, and ambition in migrants' lives intersect with larger issues of transnationalism, identity, and global hierarchies of inequality. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1FPKS; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222777
ISBN
9780812222777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born anthropologist's venture into a miners' occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222708
ISBN
9780812222708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 188 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222685
ISBN
9780812222685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Based on intensive fieldwork in Israel during the second intifada, this ethnographic study explores how Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives. When Israeli security imprints itself on individual lives, the book argues, security propagates the very fears it claims to prevent. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JHM; JKSW1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222661
ISBN
9780812222661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

paperback. What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of people's self-understandings as social and political actors. Editor(s): Greenhouse, Carol J. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPFK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222326
ISBN
9780812222326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Based on extensive fieldwork, Women of Fes shows how Moroccan women create their own forms of identity through work, family, and society. The book also examines how women's lives are positioned vis-a-vis globalization, human rights, and the construction of national identity. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1HBM; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221312
ISBN
9780812221312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812220926
ISBN
9780812220926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. The essays in Coming Home? examine the unique return migration experiences of refugees, migrants, and various others as they confront social pressures and sense of displacement. Editor(s): Long, Lynellyn D.; Oxfeld, Ellen. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812218589
ISBN
9780812218589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while? Struggling with the elusive question of class difference in US society, the author finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812218510
ISBN
9780812218510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. "Synthesizing an enormous amount of secondary source material, this book is a stunning achievement.. This book would make an ideal classroom text and should be read by anyone interested in the history of childhood."-Choice Num Pages: 232 pages, 26 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HB; JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812218077
ISBN
9780812218077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Contains essays which analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume includes essays that also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements. Editor(s): Joseph, Suad; Slyomovics, Susan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JJPG; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812217490
ISBN
9780812217490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

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