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Hardback. As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany's Turkish immigrant population. Num Pages: 16 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFFN; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454784
- ISBN
- 9781845454784
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€ 155.45
€ 155.45
Hardback. Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions.. Num Pages: 286 pages, 7 ills. BIC Classification: 1H; HRC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454838
- ISBN
- 9781845454838
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€ 155.28
€ 155.28
Hardback. How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do some groups tend to embrace this icon of development while other groups actively fight against it? This book examines the effects of electricity's arrival in an African, rural community. Num Pages: 16 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JHM; PDR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454951
- ISBN
- 9781845454951
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€ 155.05
€ 155.05
Paperback. Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV.. Editor(s): Della Porta, Donatella; Piazza, Gianni. Series: Protest, Culture and Society. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHB; JPWF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455156
- ISBN
- 9781845455156
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€ 154.02
€ 154.02
hardcover. In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 ills. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781845455255
- ISBN
- 9781845455255
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€ 155.12
€ 155.12
Hardback. Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of childrenA" commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people under eighteen years of age. Editor(s): Hart, Jason. Series: Studies in Forced Migration. Num Pages: 321 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455286
- ISBN
- 9781845455286
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€ 166.66
€ 166.66
Hardback. Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression.. Editor(s): Donnan, Hastings; Magowan, Fiona. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 518.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455392
- ISBN
- 9781845455392
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€ 155.28
€ 155.28
Hardback. Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world.. Series: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455453
- ISBN
- 9781845455453
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€ 155.12
€ 155.12
Hardback. This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the face of new types of transaction - such as organ donation, forensic identification and other new medical and reproductive technologies - that involve the use of corporeal material. Drawing on comparative insights into how human biological material is treated.. Editor(s): Lambert, Helen; McDonald, Maryon. Num Pages: 188 pages, 2 ills. BIC Classification: JFM; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455538
- ISBN
- 9781845455538
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€ 154.54
€ 154.54
Hardback. Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. Editor(s): Pinxten, Rik; Dikomitis, Lisa. Series: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, plans. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455545
- ISBN
- 9781845455545
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€ 154.32
€ 154.32
Hardback. In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-war reconstruction. Today the region has two international protectorates, contested states and borders, severe ethnic polarisation and minority concerns. BIC Classification: 1DV; JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455606
- ISBN
- 9781845455606
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€ 166.66
€ 166.66
Hardback. Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455613
- ISBN
- 9781845455613
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€ 166.71
€ 166.71
Hardback. As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book offers an important analytical instrument for all those seeking entry points through which to address entrenched conflicts. Series: Human Rights in Context. Num Pages: 352 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JHMC; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455651
- ISBN
- 9781845455651
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€ 166.82
€ 166.82
Hardback. Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Editor(s): O'Kane, David; Hepner, Tricia Redeker. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGE; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455675
- ISBN
- 9781845455675
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€ 154.88
€ 154.88
Hardback. News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. Series: Anthropology of the Media. Num Pages: 216 pages, 3 ills. BIC Classification: JFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455798
- ISBN
- 9781845455798
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€ 154.72
€ 154.72
Hardback. Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here.. Editor(s): Kapferer, Bruce; Bertelsen, Bjorn Enge. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455835
- ISBN
- 9781845455835
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€ 166.66
€ 166.66
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa
. Ed(S): Schlee, Gunther; Watson, Elizabeth E...
Hardback. Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Editor(s): Schlee, Gunther; Watson, Elizabeth E. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 maps, 13 photos, 2 figs, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFG; GTJ; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456030
- ISBN
- 9781845456030
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€ 155.17
€ 155.17
Hardback. School differentiates students-and provides differential access to various human and material resources-along a range of axes: from elected subjects and academic "achievement" to ethnicity, age, gender, or the language they speak. Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1MBN; JHB; JNFR; JNLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456092
- ISBN
- 9781845456092
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€ 154.94
€ 154.94
Hardback. Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored placeA" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of kinds of place,A" or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better understand.. Editor(s): Johnson, Leslie Main; Hunn, Eugene S. Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Num Pages: 332 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RGC; RNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456139
- ISBN
- 9781845456139
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€ 167.12
€ 167.12
Hardback. Peasants tell tales,A" one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 639.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456207
- ISBN
- 9781845456207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.05
€ 156.05