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Paperback. For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as a farmer. In 1989 he returned as an anthropologist to begin the span of 11 years' fieldwork that has resulted in this work - an account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; JFSF; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744560
ISBN
9780804744560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.95

Hardcover. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China's recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782386322
ISBN
9781782386322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.00

Hardback. In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; HRAX; HRC; JHMC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 243 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057616
ISBN
9780674057616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.08

Paperback. Demonstrates the role that race has played in the formation of knowledge. This book demonstrates how race theory intersects with other bodies of knowledge by examining discursive records such as travelogues, literature, and historiography and theoretical structures such as common sense, pseudoscientific racism, and Eurocentrism. Editor(s): Young, Joseph A.; Braziel, Jana Evans. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX; JHMP; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 534. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072567
ISBN
9780252072567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.65

Hardback. Presents studies on gender and life in the Amazon. This book covers the fieldwork of the authors among the Mundurucu people of Brazil in 1952. It provides an account of the historical, ecological, and cultural setting of the Mundurucu, including the mythology surrounding women, women's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, and more. Num Pages: 328 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
30 Anniversary ed
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132329
ISBN
9780231132329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.72
€ 87.87

Hardback. Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Num Pages: 174 pages, 820 black & white illustrations, 311 colour illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 305 co. BIC Classification: HDW; JHM; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210. .
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401774307
ISBN
9789401774307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.53
€ 112.10

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

€ 29.99
€ 26.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMP; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816627318
ISBN
9780816627318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.75

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152266
ISBN
9780231152266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.01
€ 60.60

Paperback. Examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBWS2; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277717
ISBN
9780520277717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.27

Paperback. What does it means to be Palestinian in the diaspora? This book offers a collection of 100 reflections on being Palestinian. It contributes to the debate on what it means to be Palestinian. It asks what the diaspora is for Palestinians. It looks at how being Palestinian varies across gender, generation, religious affiliation and more. Editor(s): Suleiman, Yasir; Suleiman, Yasir. Num Pages: 320 pages, 120 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474405393
ISBN
9781474405393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWVG; JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226283814
ISBN
9780226283814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWVG; JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226283784
ISBN
9780226283784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.77
€ 76.95

Hardback. Confucianism and Christianity are the foundation of Chinese and Western culture. The father-son relation is at the centre of Confucian thinking and the ethical natural relationship is the model for other familial, social and political relationships. This book offers a religious and cultural comparative study from this crucial relationship. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; HRKN1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 174 x 21. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845191610
ISBN
9781845191610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.75

Paperback. Oral traditions of the Piikani, together with textual records spanning centuries, reveal the enduring cultural significance of prehistoric intergroup trading and gaming grounds. Series: Mercury Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 tables, 35 colour illustrations, 11 black & white halftones, 10 graphs, 12 maps. BIC Classification: HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780776621388
ISBN
9780776621388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.85

Paperback. This work addresses the relationship between the Catholic imagination, acceptance of the other, and -- using the case of Haitian- and African-Americans -- suggests the concept is a useful tool for the study of diasporic cultures. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 213.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761853657
ISBN
9780761853657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.79

hardcover. For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as a farmer. In 1989 he returned as an anthropologist to begin the span of 11 years' fieldwork that has resulted in this work - an account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; JFSF; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804733090
ISBN
9780804733090
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.18

Paperback. The question of identity is one of present-day Israel's cardinal and most pressing issues. In a comprehensive examination of the issue, this study focuses on attitudes toward the Jewish people in Israel and the Diaspora; the Holocaust and its repercussions on identity; and attitudes toward Jewish religion. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387954
ISBN
9781782387954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.17

Paperback. A study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. It brings poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political. It focuses on the conflict over secularism in the aftermath of an Islamist victory in the city's municipalities. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJPR; HRQA; JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691088457
ISBN
9780691088457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.06
€ 43.71

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. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455453
ISBN
9781845455453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.70

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