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Paperback. Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies such as tattooing, piercing and scarification. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293116
- ISBN
- 9780312293116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 87.51
€ 87.51
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785330155
- ISBN
- 9781785330155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.02
€ 133.02
Paperback. The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths. Num Pages: 192 pages, 48 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRLF; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 170 x 12. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750945004
- ISBN
- 9780750945004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.27
€ 17.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 41 b&w, 5 colour. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JM; JFSP1; JHB; JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837636086
- ISBN
- 9783837636086
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Condition: New
€ 53.10€ 41.64
€ 53.10
€ 41.64
Paperback. Addresses the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity, from passports and identity cards to labor registration and alien documentation, from fingerprinting to much-debated contemporary issues such as DNA-typing, body surveillance, and more. Editor(s): Caplan, Jane; Torpey, John C. Num Pages: 432 pages, 6 tables, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; JH; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691009124
- ISBN
- 9780691009124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.19€ 41.45
€ 53.19
€ 41.45
Hardback. "A Cultural History of Food presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers nearly 3,000 years of food and its physical, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions."-- Editor(s): Montanari, Professor Massimo (Universitites of Catania and Bologna.). Series: Cultural Histories. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBTB; JFCV; JHBT; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857850249
- ISBN
- 9780857850249
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.19€ 104.10
€ 118.19
€ 104.10
Hardback. All memories invoke imagined pasts, but do the ways we remember share a common imaginary? In seeking to interpret Scottish culture in the recent past as a series of encounters with modernity, this study draws on a wide range of sources to explore relationships between perceptions of place, belonging and identity in one nation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617869
- ISBN
- 9780748617869
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Condition: New
€ 106.37€ 101.60
€ 106.37
€ 101.60
Hardback. Offers an exploration of the oral histories of three generations of refugees from India's Partition. This book focuses on the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of participants from ten Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256433
- ISBN
- 9780823256433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.53
€ 125.53
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies. Num Pages: 70 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Japan Japan
- Number of pages
- 70
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2019
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9784431557807
- ISBN
- 9784431557807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.29
€ 78.29
Paperback. This collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other. Editor(s): McRuer, Robert; Mollow, Anna. Num Pages: 432 pages, 11 illustrations, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351542
- ISBN
- 9780822351542
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 30.47
€ 37.99
€ 30.47
Hardback. Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This book examines the ways in which ordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today, focusing on the unexplored 'middle' place of human and technical mediators. Editor(s): Wathen, Nadine; Wyatt, Sally; Harris, Roma. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; MBP; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201200
- ISBN
- 9780230201200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1913
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 3. Aufl. 1913. Softcover reprint of the original 3
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662337387
- ISBN
- 9783662337387
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Condition: New
€ 54.28€ 35.59
€ 54.28
€ 35.59
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845203603
- ISBN
- 9781845203603
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.64
€ 42.99
€ 35.64
Paperback. Tracing the werewolf's 'use' by anthropologists and criminologists and shifting interpretations of the figure - from the 'scientific' to the mythological and psychological - this work shows the werewolf in Freud's 'wolf-man' case and the sinister use of wolf imagery in Nazism. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845111588
- ISBN
- 9781845111588
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.55
€ 34.99
€ 29.55
Paperback. This study of a variety of Southeast Asian countries - including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand - reveals that issues of culture and identity politics are of primary importance to the people of the region and their leaders. Editor(s): Kahn, Joel S. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; JFC; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- I B Tauris & Co Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860642456
- ISBN
- 9781860642456
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.19
€ 34.99
€ 29.19
Paperback. Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into English. Written in the 1920s and early 1930s, these essays examine the everyday world of the masses. Num Pages: 416 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674551633
- ISBN
- 9780674551633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.36
€ 54.99
€ 45.36
Paperback. A comprehensive and approachable introduction to social scientific theories of religion as they have developed in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HRA; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748615223
- ISBN
- 9780748615223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.07
€ 41.99
€ 37.07
Hardback. Although dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality, because periods of transition are often associated with death, many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these "ultimate ambiguities" as crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Editor(s): Berger, Peter; Kroesen, Justin. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782386094
- ISBN
- 9781782386094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.62
€ 152.62
Paperback. Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice. 2nd edition. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JH. .
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552667897
- ISBN
- 9781552667897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.40
€ 34.99
€ 29.40
Paperback. Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337459
- ISBN
- 9780230337459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54