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Hardback. Documents the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest: how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of the cross, how it was taken up by native writers to become the language of indigenous literature, and how it ultimately became the language of rebellion against the system that produced it. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 484 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 17 maps, 25 tables, 41 examples. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2JNM; 3JB; CBX; CFB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257702
ISBN
9780520257702
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.87
€ 57.93

Paperback. Humans are unique among all other species in having one cognitive attribute-the ability, almost without conscious effort, to engage in blending. This is the first book that brings the theory of blending to a wide audience and shows how blending is at the heart of the origin of ideas. Num Pages: 320 pages, With illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; JMR; PSAJ; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 200 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190263157
ISBN
9780190263157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 5. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
American Anthropological Association United States
Edition
Number 14
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780913167649
ISBN
9780913167649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 148 pages, b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1D; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 9. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763508858
ISBN
9788763508858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.97

Hardcover. The Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field's classical origins to today's debates about the "magic" of the free market. Editor(s): Edelman, Marc; Haugerud, Angelique. Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 188 x 29. Weight in Grams: 926.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631228790
ISBN
9780631228790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.27

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. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455798
ISBN
9781845455798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.72

Paperback. The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
CA res. please inc. 7.25% tax
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226775432
ISBN
9780226775432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.96

Paperback. This text discusses the role of social movements in the recovery and expansion of democracy and justice in the 21st century. The topics covered include political and social theory, movement history, institutional analysis, ideology, activism, and the instigation of change. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBA; JHMC; JPA; JPF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742508132
ISBN
9780742508132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.75

Paperback. This comprehensive study explores the region's 'forgotten' narratives, myths and traditions. Drawing on stories from Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Syria-Palestine and Persia, Wasilewska shows how these narratives of creation, destruction and rebirth reach to the very roots of the Biblical and Quranic Genesis. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, chronological charts, maps, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRLB; JFC; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Pub
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853026812
ISBN
9781853026812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFS; JHM; KJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816630219
ISBN
9780816630219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Hardback. As part of the agreement for Greece to join the EU, the country had to undertake a massive psychiatric reform, moving patients out of custodial hospitals and returning them to the community to be treated as outpatients. In this subtle ethnography, Elizabeth Davis shows how this played out at the edge of the nation, in the border region of Thrace. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHMP; JKS; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350934
ISBN
9780822350934
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 506 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
506
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691623634
ISBN
9780691623634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.81
€ 61.86

Hardcover. This is an ethnographic study of kinship and the nature and behaviour of ownership amongst the much-studied Sepik River Iatmul people. Written from the viewpoint of a Melanesian scholar, this book seeks to re-think anthropology's central assumptions about social relations. Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Num Pages: 220 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1MB; 1MKLP; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780197264454
ISBN
9780197264454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.25

Hardback. Perspectives on Modern South Asia presents an exciting core collection of essays drawn from anthropology, literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, economics, and political science to reveal the complexities of a region that is home to a fifth of humanity. Editor(s): Visweswaran, Kamala. Series: Global Perspectives. Num Pages: 396 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 802.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405100625
ISBN
9781405100625
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, b/w photos, maps & tables. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 265 x 194 x 10. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763511742
ISBN
9788763511742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. An ethnography of contemporary Java. It analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. It exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the 'accidents' that precede the formulations of culture as such. Num Pages: 350 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FMN; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000855
ISBN
9780691000855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Hardback. Series Editor(s): Sivaramakrishnan, Arvind; Sivaramakrishnan, K.; Kaimal, Padma; Yang, Anand A. Series: Global South Asia. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 2 maps, 9 illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295995526
ISBN
9780295995526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.57

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 311 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 1KLCM; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1962
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226905006
ISBN
9780226905006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardback. Study of the development of foraging strategies in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present. Series: African Archaeology Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1H; 3B; HDD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759101531
ISBN
9780759101531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.34

Paperback. Provides social, cultural, and historical context for understanding one of Europe's longest-running conflicts Editor(s): Papadakis, Yiannis (Asst. Professor of Anthropology, University of Cyprus); Peristianis, Nicos; Welz, Gisela. Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 figures, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DVC; 1FB; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253218513
ISBN
9780253218513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

paperback. Editor(s): Georgiou, Myria. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 8. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138844902
ISBN
9781138844902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Hardback. In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how women's use of sex hormones in Bahia, Brazil for menstrual suppression shapes social relations, having become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMC; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361428
ISBN
9780822361428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Paperback. This rare, first-hand, ethnographic account of a potlatch from Tsimshian scholar William Benyon reveals the wonderful complexities of the events that took place in Gitsegukla in 1945. Editor(s): Halpin, Marjorie M.; Anderson, Margaret. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations, glossary, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JJP; JFSL9; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774807449
ISBN
9780774807449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

Paperback. How can monkeys be both eaten as food and nurtured as children? Her research reveals that monkeys play a vital role in Guaja society, ecology, economy, and religion. In Guaja animistic beliefs, all forms of plant and animal life-especially monkeys-have souls and are woven into a comprehensive kinship system. Series: Historical Ecology Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; JFSL9; JHMP; PSAF; PSVW79. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125253
ISBN
9780231125253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.89

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