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Anthropology
Hardback. Shows that 'Aryan,' a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship. This book features the history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. Num Pages: 259 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFC; JFF; JFSL1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205468
- ISBN
- 9780520205468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.86€ 48.05
€ 60.86
€ 48.05
Paperback. Offers a different interpretation of the genesis of "kinship" and of the role it played in late nineteenth-century intellectual history. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 illustrations, 5 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803260061
- ISBN
- 9780803260061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.87
€ 29.99
€ 26.87
Paperback. Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. The author traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the West, where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 colour plates, 40 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFZ; JHMC; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226264363
- ISBN
- 9780226264363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.07
€ 33.99
€ 27.07
Hardcover. In Sami Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hilder offers the first book-length study of this diverse and dynamic music scene and its intersection with the politics of indigeneity. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DN; AVA; AVGH; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810888951
- ISBN
- 9780810888951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.37
€ 146.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719086465
- ISBN
- 9780719086465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.60
€ 31.60
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571811134
- ISBN
- 9781571811134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.22
€ 45.22
Paperback. Editor(s): Her, Vincent K.; Buley-Meissner, Mary Louise. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873518482
- ISBN
- 9780873518482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.23
€ 26.99
€ 24.23
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457929
- ISBN
- 9780857457929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.58
€ 44.58
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
€ 158.28
€ 158.28
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
€ 45.13
€ 45.13
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
€ 210.40
€ 210.40
Paperback. A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Editor(s): Wilson, Thomas M.; Donnan, Hastings. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBD; JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119111672
- ISBN
- 9781119111672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.79
€ 49.79
Paperback. Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, the author asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 29 halftones. 17 tables. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJP; JFSG; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New Preface
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691162553
- ISBN
- 9780691162553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.32
€ 23.99
€ 18.32
Paperback. * The most comprehensive account of anthropological concepts, theories and methodologies yet published. * The first reference work in anthropology to give equal prominence to American, British and European work in the discipline. * Fully referenced throughout with guides to further reading arranged by entry. Editor(s): Barfield, Thomas (Boston University, Massachusetts, USA). Num Pages: 640 pages, 15. BIC Classification: GBC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577180579
- ISBN
- 9781577180579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.96
€ 39.96
Paperback. A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780745399652
- ISBN
- 9780745399652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.30
€ 15.30
Paperback. Thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745333526
- ISBN
- 9780745333526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.42
€ 29.99
€ 23.42
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857857422
- ISBN
- 9780857857422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745335933
- ISBN
- 9780745335933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.59
€ 25.99
€ 21.59
Paperback. New edition of this core text for all students of social anthropology. Additions include cultural property rights and commercialisation of identity. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC; JPFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745330426
- ISBN
- 9780745330426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.20
€ 32.99
€ 26.20
Hardcover. The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. He has contributed to the understanding of urban life and transnational networks, and the role of media, paradoxes of identity and new forms of community, suggesting to see culture in terms of flows rather than as bounded entities. Editor(s): Eriksen, Thomas Hylland; Garsten, Christina; Randeria, Shalini. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384496
- ISBN
- 9781782384496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.72
€ 156.72
Hardcover. Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 316 pages, 30 ills. BIC Classification: 1DST; HRA; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454821
- ISBN
- 9781845454821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.88
€ 155.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Phoenix Edition, 1980
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226307466
- ISBN
- 9780226307466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.81
€ 38.99
€ 30.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; JFSJ; JHM; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226307435
- ISBN
- 9780226307435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.81
€ 38.99
€ 30.81
Paperback. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between charisma and institution by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the continuing anthropological interest in Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity, and representing the first book-length treatment of literacy practices in Africa. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HRC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451422
- ISBN
- 9780857451422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.13
€ 45.13