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Hardback. This collection of essays celebrates the cultural diversity of the US as it is articulated through ritual performance. It presents ways in which people perpetuate their cultural identity, and invokes the state of critical self-awareness that is increasingly enlisted in multicultural discourse. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780897893350
- ISBN
- 9780897893350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.26€ 77.59
€ 86.26
€ 77.59
Hardback. Describes, from the perspective of the young anti-apartheid fighters, the tactics that young local leaders used and how the state retaliated Series: Forms of Living. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823243099
- ISBN
- 9780823243099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.88
€ 92.88
Hardback. This book, based on extended ethnographic and multi-method research in a small town in Canada, adds new perspectives on the ways that citizenship is produced and reproduced under conditions of neoliberalism. Num Pages: 21 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774828215
- ISBN
- 9780774828215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.06
€ 114.06
Hardback. Series: Mobility and Politics. Num Pages: 163 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 163
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137588012
- ISBN
- 9781137588012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.30
€ 90.30
Hardback. Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth. This ethnography focuses on these "stayers," who enable others to migrate while preserving the values and traditions of rural, sedentary life. Num Pages: 244 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDG; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387794
- ISBN
- 9781782387794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.11
€ 160.11
Hardcover. The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process - one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. Editor(s): Skinner, Jonathan; Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857452771
- ISBN
- 9780857452771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.43
€ 157.43
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457929
- ISBN
- 9780857457929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.43
€ 44.43
Hardcover. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa. Editor(s): Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Molyneux, Sassy. Num Pages: 452 pages, 32 ills. BIC Classification: 1H; JHM; MBGR; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857450920
- ISBN
- 9780857450920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 209.73
€ 209.73
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571811134
- ISBN
- 9781571811134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.09
€ 45.09
Paperback. Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 362 pages, 6 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 270 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785334269
- ISBN
- 9781785334269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.64
€ 45.64
Paperback. Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia. Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. 288 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Ellen, Roy. The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case.. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JHM; MBNH2; RNT. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 16. Weight: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451453
- ISBN
- 9780857451453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft in Vergleichender Perspektive. Festschrift F...
Pappi, Franz Urban (Universitat Mannheim Germ...
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Best, Professor of Sociology Heinrich (Professor of Sociology, University of Jena, Germany Fredrich-Schiller-University, Jena Fredrich-Schiller-University, Jena Fredrich-Schiller-University, Jena Fredrich-Schiller-University, Jena Fredrich-Schiller-University, Jena). Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531127224
- ISBN
- 9783531127224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.08
€ 81.08
Paperback. This book considers the intimate lives of migrant laborers and highlights the shortcomings of policies that criminalize migrants and their loved ones. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 251 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804798839
- ISBN
- 9780804798839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.16
€ 31.99
€ 29.16
Hardback. This book considers the intimate lives of migrant laborers and highlights the shortcomings of policies that criminalize migrants and their loved ones. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804794428
- ISBN
- 9780804794428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.13
€ 129.13
Hardback. Investigates the emerging, new sexual culture of Iranian youth, in which sexuality represents freedom and engaging in sex can be considered political activism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758567
- ISBN
- 9780804758567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.62
€ 113.62
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 1KBBW; HB; HD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816524525
- ISBN
- 9780816524525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.77€ 63.10
€ 68.77
€ 63.10
Hardcover. * Brings together for the first time both classic works from Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, as well as articles on such electrifying contemporary debates as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship. Editor(s): Parkin, Robert; Stone, Linda. Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 496 pages, 32. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1038.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631229988
- ISBN
- 9780631229988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.11
€ 169.11
Paperback. Evil may be said to be shadowy, mysterious, covert, and associated with night, darkness, secrecy. It is a force acting to destroy the integrity, happiness and welfare of a normala society. It is at once the cause and the explanation of misfortune, of the wretchedness of human existence, and of our own individual wrongdoing. Editor(s): Parkin, Robert. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631154327
- ISBN
- 9780631154327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.83
€ 53.83
Hardback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152204
- ISBN
- 9780231152204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.04
€ 149.04
Paperback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152211
- ISBN
- 9780231152211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.71
€ 38.99
€ 28.71
Paperback. In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. This title provides a riveting ethnographic account of this collective violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; HRH; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691151779
- ISBN
- 9780691151779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Hardcover. Based on the volume "Zoos Humains", this title puts into perspective the spectacularization of the Other, a process that is at the origin of contemporary stereotypes and of the construction of our own identities. It takes us to the heart of Western fantasies, and allows us to understand the genesis of identity in Japan, Europe and North America. Editor(s): Blanchard, Pascal; Bancel, Nicolas; Boetsch, Gilles; Deroo, Eric; Lemaire, Sandrine; Forsdick, Charles. Translator(s): Bridgeman, Teresa. Num Pages: 452 pages, 28 colour plates, 52 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JHM; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846311239
- ISBN
- 9781846311239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.82
€ 138.82
Hardback. Rituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This book examines the role of females in Papua New Guinea male rituals. It builds on ethnographies that show how female kin had roles in male rituals that had previously gone unseen. Editor(s): Bonnemere, Pascale. Series: Social Anthropology in Oceania. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237894
- ISBN
- 9780812237894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.22
€ 96.22
paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789051705133
- ISBN
- 9789051705133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.29
€ 18.99
€ 17.29