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Paperback. Examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, and ritual of southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians. This book makes a contribution to the literature on the Tlingit, the Northwest Coast cultural area, Native American and indigenous studies, and to the social scientific and humanistic literature on space, place, and landscape. Series: Culture, Place, and Nature. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 bw photos, 2 maps, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 17. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987491
- ISBN
- 9780295987491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.43
€ 25.99
€ 22.43
Paperback. This pathfinding ethnography investigates how Indian concepts of the soul offer a new way of understanding personhood and historical memory in highland Chiapas, Mexico. Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292737471
- ISBN
- 9780292737471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.21
€ 29.99
€ 27.21
Hardcover. Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects during and after the colonial era. Num Pages: 216 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405105699
- ISBN
- 9781405105699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.98
€ 116.98
Hardcover. This book, based on extensive historical research and anthropological fieldwork in contemporary Jerusalem, details the multiple ways in which space, identity, and alterity are experienced, produced and contested by the habitants of this conflicted urban center. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPG; 3JMG; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633488
- ISBN
- 9780815633488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.62
€ 44.62
Hardback. This text draws upon ethnographic research in Nepal to examine how selves, identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships through time in a multi-ethic nation-state and within a discourse of nationalism. Editor(s): Holland, Dorothy; Pach, Alfred, III; Skinner, Debra. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKN; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847685981
- ISBN
- 9780847685981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.19
€ 184.19
Paperback. Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. This book explores the relationship between collective memory and national identity in diverse cultures throughout history. It discloses the contested nature of various monuments by showing how groups and individuals struggle to shape the past to their own ends. Editor(s): Gillis, John R. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: HB; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029252
- ISBN
- 9780691029252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.21
€ 46.99
€ 33.21
Paperback. Documents both traditional and contemporary male haunts, such as bars, barbershops, lodges, pool halls, strip clubs, garages, deer camps, megachurches, the basement Barcalounger, and examines their provenance, purpose, and appeal. Num Pages: 264 pages, 79 photographs. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137355
- ISBN
- 9780231137355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.88
€ 29.99
€ 21.88
Paperback. Incorporating investigative journalism, this title examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador. It recounts the story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a 'popular health system'. Series Editor(s): Marshall, Mac. Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology. Num Pages: 330 pages, 13 photographs & 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; JHMC; JP; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813547367
- ISBN
- 9780813547367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.39
€ 46.99
€ 41.39
Paperback. A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Editor(s): Feldman, Lawrence H. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326243
- ISBN
- 9780822326243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.15
€ 28.15
Hardback. Sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. This book reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 60 b/w, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 1KLCM; JFFE; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282742
- ISBN
- 9780520282742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 71.15
€ 93.81
€ 71.15
Paperback. Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as 'a finger in the wound'. This book explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in a study of the civil war and its aftermath. It investigates the notion of Quincentennial Guatemala, which has given focus to the overarching question of Mayan - and Guatemalan - identity. Num Pages: 448 pages, 21 black-and-white illustrations and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520212855
- ISBN
- 9780520212855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.67
€ 41.99
€ 29.67
Paperback. Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader is a groundbreaking collection that brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions that anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 245 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405183345
- ISBN
- 9781405183345
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Condition: New
€ 45.18
€ 45.18
Paperback. Global goods, class, and identity in urban Egypt Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFHF; JFSG; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223111
- ISBN
- 9780253223111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.02
€ 26.99
€ 25.02
Hardback. A unique opportunity to hear the authentic voices of a world in change Series: Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut. Num Pages: 292 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780982915516
- ISBN
- 9780982915516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.52
€ 33.52
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
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252079047
- ISBN
- 9780252079047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.03
€ 28.03
paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFC; JFSF; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226707297
- ISBN
- 9780226707297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.23
€ 19.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state's coast has remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. This book examines the cultural, social, and economic importance of abalone among the California Indian tribes. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 illustrations, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822342335
- ISBN
- 9780822342335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.96
€ 26.99
€ 26.96
Paperback. A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFM; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 194 x 28. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780465015344
- ISBN
- 9780465015344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.83
€ 34.83
Hardback. Offers an exploration of the Supreme Court's approach to religion, offering a close look at various cases. This book traces the history of the way the Court has rendered important decisions involving religious liberty. It offers a fresh analysis of some of the Court's most important decisions in constitutional doctrine. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JHM; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116969
- ISBN
- 9780691116969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.22€ 58.45
€ 76.22
€ 58.45
Paperback. A book on American morality, it traces the intellectual history of American morality from its European origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s. It argues that American culture is a culture of cynicism. It shows the internal contradictions of American morality, and charts the different forms it has assumed. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFM; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557865335
- ISBN
- 9781557865335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 48.90
€ 48.99
€ 48.90
Hardback. This book offers a crosslinguistic survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. It looks at a range of issues from a cross-theoretical perspective, including complexity, argument structure, language contact, and language obsolence. Editor(s): Fortescue, Michael; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: CFDC; CFF; CFK; JHMC. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199683208
- ISBN
- 9780199683208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 235.92
€ 235.92
hardcover. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480122
- ISBN
- 9781611480122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.69
€ 119.69
Hardback. aeo An exciting new book by one of the leading social and feminist theorists writing today. aeo Brings together Barretta s work on key issues in the social sciences and humanities. aeo Highly original and interdisciplinary. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745616667
- ISBN
- 9780745616667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.97
€ 64.97