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Paperback. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia - long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness - are low in some countries and not others? This book gives an account of the different experiences living with serious psychotic disorder in the U.S., India, Africa, and South East Asia. Editor(s): Luhrmann, T. M.; Marrow, Jocelyn. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black and white. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
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- Reprint
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- New
- SKU
- V9780520291096
- ISBN
- 9780520291096
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€ 33.99€ 24.98
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Hardback. Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and writers, this volume investigates the intersection of aerospace and Southern California through the lenses of anthropology, history of science and technology, labor, business, ethnicity and gender, architecture, and the environment. Editor(s): Westwick, Peter J. Series: Western Histories. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of California Press
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- New
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- V9780520289062
- ISBN
- 9780520289062
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€ 40.99€ 29.15
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Paperback. Offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, the author challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 b/w halftones, 1 line art. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRC; JFSC; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
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- New
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- V9780520288829
- ISBN
- 9780520288829
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Paperback. Based on intensive fieldwork conducted among worshippers in Bengal's Navadvip-Mayapur sacred complex, this book discusses the diverse and contrasting ways in which Bengal-Vaishnava devotees experience sacred geography and divinity. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 294 pages, 14 b/w. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287716
- ISBN
- 9780520287716
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€ 40.99€ 29.12
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Hardback. What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? The author offers some answers to these questions. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
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- New
- SKU
- V9780520287228
- ISBN
- 9780520287228
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€ 94.05€ 72.62
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Paperback. Based on years of fieldwork, this book offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets - and their bodies - radically transformed. It is suitable for anyone who cares about the politics of healthy eating. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 b/w, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHM; JKS; MBNH3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286825
- ISBN
- 9780520286825
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Paperback. Offers an account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
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- New
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- V9780520284746
- ISBN
- 9780520284746
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€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback. Offers a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. This book critiques on the existing models field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284623
- ISBN
- 9780520284623
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€ 94.05€ 72.45
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Hardback. Investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; HRKP; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
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- New
- SKU
- V9780520284265
- ISBN
- 9780520284265
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€ 94.05€ 72.21
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Paperback. Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges of accommodating difference, however difficult such accommodation may be. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 232 pages, 27 b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284128
- ISBN
- 9780520284128
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€ 21.99€ 17.88
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Paperback. Offers an examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history - twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
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- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283749
- ISBN
- 9780520283749
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€ 27.99€ 21.28
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Hardback. Compares a range of case studies from around the world in order to clarify the conditions under which and institutions through which economic, social, and cultural rights are progressively realized in practice. Editor(s): Haglund, LaDawn; Stryker, Robin. Num Pages: 392 pages, 13 Tables, 7 Maps, 15 Charts/Figures, 6 Appendix, 1 Box. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHB; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 674.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283091
- ISBN
- 9780520283091
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€ 74.07€ 57.54
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Paperback. An ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, in which, the author depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 scattered b&w. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBK; LNMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282452
- ISBN
- 9780520282452
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Hardback. Tells the story of China's political elites from their own perspectives. Based on over five hundred interviews, this title offers a rare glimpse into how the attitudes and ideas of those at the top have evolved over the decades. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 227 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
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- New
- SKU
- V9780520281219
- ISBN
- 9780520281219
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€ 35.99€ 26.55
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Hardback. Prodded by economists in the 1970s, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEOs with hopes of boosting their companies' fortunes. Guided by largely unproven assumptions, this trend continues today. This book explores the consequences of this development. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 233 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520281011
- ISBN
- 9780520281011
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€ 40.99€ 29.12
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Hardback. Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. It is suitable for anthropologists, sociologists, health scientists, and scholars of religion. Editor(s): Das, Veena; Han, Clara. Num Pages: 896 pages, 11 black and white, 29 line drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 263 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1724.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 896
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520278417
- ISBN
- 9780520278417
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€ 171.64€ 130.40
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Paperback. Explores the surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. Num Pages: 236 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277984
- ISBN
- 9780520277984
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€ 33.99€ 24.74
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Hardback. Explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277960
- ISBN
- 9780520277960
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€ 94.05€ 72.21
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Hardback. Editor(s): Jung, Yuson; Klein, Jakob A.; Caldwell, Melissa L. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277403
- ISBN
- 9780520277403
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Condition: New
€ 64.66€ 50.63
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Paperback. Presents an examination of the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. This title discusses the origins of surfing in Hawai'i, its central role in Hawaiian society, and the mele (chants) and hula (dance or visual poetry) about surfing. Num Pages: 240 pages, 38 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AV; JHBS; WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276642
- ISBN
- 9780520276642
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
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