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Hardback. This book surveys all the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English public, from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688, with the goal of understanding the web of communication in creating political life. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804783620
- ISBN
- 9780804783620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.32
€ 86.32
Paperback. Documents how re-visiting fieldwork sites shapes anthropologists' interpretations Editor(s): Howell, Signe; Talle, Aud. Num Pages: 286 pages, 22 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223487
- ISBN
- 9780253223487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Hardcover. This volume features essays on the church and religion in contemporary Europe. Topics include: the Church and democracy in modern Europe; church and media domination; and Protestants in a Catholic state - a silent minority in Ireland. Editor(s): Inglis, Tom; Mach, Zdzislaw; Mazanek, Rafal. Num Pages: 208 pages, index, references, notes. BIC Classification: HRA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900621502
- ISBN
- 9781900621502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.51€ 47.01
€ 50.51
€ 47.01
paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252060281
- ISBN
- 9780252060281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
Hardcover. From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, this book illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: ACX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 173 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226173818
- ISBN
- 9780226173818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.74€ 78.49
€ 94.74
€ 78.49
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814731161
- ISBN
- 9780814731161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. In his eloquent new book Robert Carneiro traces the history of the development of empirical science-from the Paleolithic to the present-vividly describing the major events that have marked a great transition in human thought, and how this affected the human experience. Num Pages: 505 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Eliot Werner Publications Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 505
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979773129
- ISBN
- 9780979773129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.44
€ 54.44
Paperback. The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. This work argues that virtual archives have the potential to shift the emphasis in ethnographic writing from the monograph to commentary. It provides a model of writing in the presence of a virtual archive. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 139
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822342830
- ISBN
- 9780822342830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JFFB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 177 x 25. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, Updated Edition with a New Preface
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520274518
- ISBN
- 9780520274518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.50
€ 27.99
€ 21.50
Hardcover. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with foreigners across many realms of life, describing startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785330209
- ISBN
- 9781785330209
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.68
€ 155.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KLS; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 231.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271037998
- ISBN
- 9780271037998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.71
€ 37.99
€ 29.71
Paperback. Tracing the evolution of each of the bad habits, this title shows how liquor control boards encouraged the consumption of alcohol; how alcoholic beverage producers got their workers deferred from the draft during World War II; and how convenience stores and accounting firms pursued profits by pushing legalized gambling. Editor(s): Burnham, John C. Series: Bad Habits. Num Pages: 378 pages, 34 photographs, 13 black and white drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFF; JHM; JMAL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814712245
- ISBN
- 9780814712245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. This text is designed to be used as a supplementary text for any course in which the instructor wants to explore the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons why the concept has no biological validity, and how "race" grew to become accepted as something that virtually everyone regards as self-evident. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 maps, numerous halftones and line illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195173512
- ISBN
- 9780195173512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 136.99
€ 136.99
Hardcover. Editor(s): Rachveli, N.N.; Rachveli, N.N. Num Pages: 220 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHMP; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 174 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560721734
- ISBN
- 9781560721734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.44€ 99.33
€ 131.44
€ 99.33
paperback. Series: Global Research Studies. Num Pages: 196 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFFN; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253024831
- ISBN
- 9780253024831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? This book brings together eight eminent scholars to recount the personal and intellectual dynamics of uprooting one's life - and decades of work - to embrace a new fieldsite. Editor(s): Gottlieb, Alma. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226304908
- ISBN
- 9780226304908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.64
€ 34.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localised society or culture as its object of study. This title features essays that demonstrate how over the years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. Editor(s): Gupta, Akhil; Ferguson, James. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- n
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319405
- ISBN
- 9780822319405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
hardcover. A translation of Louis Dumont's lectures on kinship, which provide a comprehensive overview of descent theory and alliance theory for students. This work features these two theories of kinship which are associated with the British and French schools of social anthropology, as well as the theoretical tendencies of functionalism and structuralism. Translator(s): Parkin, Robert. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451462
- ISBN
- 9781845451462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.08
€ 154.08
Paperback. In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians. Num Pages: 363 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; JHBL; JHM; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080514
- ISBN
- 9780231080514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.78
€ 42.99
€ 30.78
Paperback. Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present. Editor(s): Tilley, Christopher. Num Pages: 372 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631172857
- ISBN
- 9780631172857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.18
€ 55.18
Hardcover. In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of 'the field'pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having.. Editor(s): Melhuus, Marit; Mitchell, Jon P.; Wulff, Helena. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456160
- ISBN
- 9781845456160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.65
€ 154.65
Hardback. Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of Warburg Institute, was one of the influential cultural historians of twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this book presents a study of his response to German political, social and cultural modernism. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; ABQ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453695
- ISBN
- 9781845453695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.55
€ 155.55
Hardcover. These eleven essays offer critical engagement in understanding the sky in human imagination and culture and contribute to this new field emerging within the academy. Editor(s): Gunzburg, Darrelyn. Series: The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives. Num Pages: 286 pages, 97 figures. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRLK; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 5135.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791677
- ISBN
- 9781781791677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.46
€ 135.46
Hardback. Gives an account of the social and cultural aspects of modernity over the past two centuries. This work covers topics such as: the civilizing process, gender identity, sexuality, consumerism, city life, the role of popular culture and the media in structuring experience and aspirations, and the significance of 'modernism' in culture and the arts. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 177 x 32. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631196211
- ISBN
- 9780631196211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.38
€ 127.38