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Anthropology

Paperback. At some point in the course of evolution, all human societies, past and present, would emerge. This title offers an account of the dawn of human society. It shows that only a few evolutionary steps were required to bridge the gap between the kinship structures of our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, and the human kinship configuration. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; PSAJ; PSVW79; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046412
ISBN
9780674046412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.14

Paperback. Peasant societies in many parts of the world regulate their relationship with the natural environment through earth gods who anchor a group of families not in genealogical terms, as in the case of ancestors, but in ecological terms. Editor(s): Formosa, Bernard. Series: Diogenes library. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HRLK; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571811219
ISBN
9781571811219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.72

hardcover. Illustrated 8vo.Good copy in original cloth. Anthropology
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Aldine Publishing Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
SKU
KEX0254798
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This is a new edition of an account of the contribution of the Gypsies of Andalusia to the development of flamenco. It provides a fuller explanation of some of the technical terms and a biographical dictionary of the foremost Gyspy flamenco artists of the past. Translator(s): Shuinear, Sinaed. Series: Interface Collection. Num Pages: 160 pages, biographical notes, glossary. BIC Classification: 1DSE; ASDX; AVGH; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
University of Hertfordshire Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902806051
ISBN
9781902806051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.16

Paperback. Victorians were fascinated by the strange new worlds which science was revealing to them. This study sets out to capture the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. Editor(s): Lightman, Bernard. Num Pages: 496 pages, 44 halftones, 23 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; JHM; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226481128
ISBN
9780226481128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.16
€ 44.63

Paperback. This work introduces the reader to Sardinian music through a series of encounters with individual musicians and their families. The vignettes presented portray an art still very much alive: the music of villages with an oral tradition, sung or played in the company of others. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 128 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; AVGH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Printing CD Included
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226493411
ISBN
9780226493411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.04

Paperback. This study analyzes the manner in which the perception of human difference has changed from the time of the Renaissance to the 20th century. Building on the insights of Foucault and Garfinkel, it charts how humanity has become contained within the anthropological concept of the "Other". Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 147 x 10. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231066853
ISBN
9780231066853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. Discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. This book contains essays, which form an exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000435
ISBN
9780691000435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.05

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Herrmann, Bernd. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMC; PSAF; RG; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 5. Weight in Grams: 145.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662481387
ISBN
9783662481387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.36

Paperback / so. Series: Essentials. Num Pages: 40 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: HB; HD; JFSR; JHB; JHM; MFG; MMQ; PHVN; PNF; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 4. Weight in Grams: 91.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer Spektrum United States
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
SKU
V9783658098650
ISBN
9783658098650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.83

Hardback. This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face as adults. Explored from both a social and psychological perspective, it reveals the complexity and multidimensional nature of the private and public worlds of the only-child. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMC; JMC; JMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230521018
ISBN
9780230521018
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJH; HRCC9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9781479841660
ISBN
9781479841660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.02

Hardback. Deriving a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state's monopoly on legitimate punishment, socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations, and economic processes. Editor(s): Turner, Bertram; Schlee, Gunther. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 362 pages, 1 illustration, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334184
ISBN
9781785334184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.60

Paperback. The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. This collection of essays analyzes the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflects on its recuperation in the field. Editor(s): Berube, Michael. Num Pages: 216 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 169 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631223061
ISBN
9780631223061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.14

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814738191
ISBN
9780814738191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.10

Paperback. Editor(s): Besteman, Catherine; Gusterson, Hugh. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520243569
ISBN
9780520243569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.27

Paperback. Editor(s): Himmelgreen, David; Kedia, Satish. Series: NAPA Bulletin. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 172 x 10. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119016823
ISBN
9781119016823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.90

Paperback. Explores Wari' conceptions of person, body, and spirit, as well as indigenous understandings of memory and emotion, to explain why the Wari' felt that corpses must be destroyed and why they preferred cannibalism over cremation. This book shows why, in Wari' terms, it was considered the most honorable and compassionate way of treating the dead. Num Pages: 317 pages, 15 halftones, 3 maps, line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292712362
ISBN
9780292712362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.18

Paperback. This is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in Kansas. Bypassing the tales of radicals on either coast, the author argues that the revolution was forged in both towns and cities, as "ordinary" people struggled over the boundaries of sexual behaviour in postwar America. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones, 6 cartoons. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JJP; HBJK; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009745
ISBN
9780674009745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.07

Paperback. Editor(s): Jones, Beth Felker; Barbeau, Jeffrey W. Series: Wheaton Theology Conference. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRCX6; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780830851201
ISBN
9780830851201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.11

Paperback. Combining personal stories and analytical insights, this title helps students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKB; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520083424
ISBN
9780520083424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 25.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMC; KJM; KJMV; KJU; UYQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349425600
ISBN
9781349425600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.40

Paperback. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Num Pages: 319 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, 12 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HD; JHM; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9781489977182
ISBN
9781489977182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.38

Paperback. Explores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism in an effort to situate it in a transnational framework. Editor(s): Beverley, John R.; Oviedo, Jose; Aronna, Michael. Series: A Boundary 2 Book. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316145
ISBN
9780822316145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.02

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