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Anthropology
Paperback. In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Series: Anthropological Horizons. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442626690
- ISBN
- 9781442626690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.90
€ 44.90
In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Series: Anthropological Horizons. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649316
- ISBN
- 9781442649316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 86.77
€ 86.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9ill. BIC Classification: JHM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816644063
- ISBN
- 9780816644063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
Hardback. The links among religion, race relations, and peace activism Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC97; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252037047
- ISBN
- 9780252037047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.27
€ 71.27
Hardcover. Explores the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged Editor(s): Abramson, Allen; Holbraad, Martin. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719095993
- ISBN
- 9780719095993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.81
€ 153.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226277332
- ISBN
- 9780226277332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.30
€ 43.30
Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226277165
- ISBN
- 9780226277165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.76
€ 119.76
Paperback. Originally published in 1978, this book was one of the first to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBS; JHM; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133418
- ISBN
- 9780231133418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.29
€ 46.29
Hardback. From Greek athletic competitions to the cult of body-building at Gold's Gym, this text examines literature, art, television, and movies to uncover a vast array of evidence that cultures across the ages have reflected at length, in celebration and censure, on the erotic nature of sports. Num Pages: 232 pages, 48 illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; VFVC; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231105569
- ISBN
- 9780231105569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.74
€ 98.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAK; ACBK; HRKP; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477310267
- ISBN
- 9781477310267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.73
€ 40.73
Hardback. Num Pages: 375 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAK; ACBK; HRKP; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781477309957
- ISBN
- 9781477309957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.33
€ 120.33
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; APF; BGF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763539784
- ISBN
- 9788763539784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.39€ 40.19
€ 50.39
€ 40.19
Paperback. Deals with the idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century. This work states that the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. Num Pages: 275 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 13 line illustrations, 29 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFSL9; JHBK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 63.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232426
- ISBN
- 9780520232426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.40
€ 49.40
Paperback. For this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case studies to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that extends their perspective to the problem of industrialization and globalization. Num Pages: 456 pages, 11 line diagrams 9 tables 3 graphs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740326
- ISBN
- 9780804740326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.71
€ 49.71
Hardback. For this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case studies to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that extends their perspective to the problem of industrialization and globalization. Num Pages: 456 pages, 11 line diagrams 9 tables 3 graphs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 706.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740319
- ISBN
- 9780804740319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.04
€ 167.04
Paperback. Explores the function of money in everyday life in Vietnam Series: Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JHMC; KCBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992747
- ISBN
- 9780295992747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.78
€ 39.78
Paperback. From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to Somali women's headcovering in inner-city Minneapolis, this work explores the power of dress in African and pan-African settings. Nationalist and diasporic identities, as well as their histories and politics, are examined at the level of what is put on the body every day. Editor(s): Allman, Jean. Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 36 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1H; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253216892
- ISBN
- 9780253216892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.77
€ 29.77
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
€ 43.21
€ 43.21
Paperback. A memoir of Africa recounting the experiences of Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived in two remote villages in the rain forest of Cote d'Ivoire. Num Pages: 350 pages, xii, 336, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305066
- ISBN
- 9780226305066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.63
€ 46.63
Paperback. In this companion volume to "Parallel Worlds," Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire. Num Pages: 302 pages, 2 maps, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1H; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305073
- ISBN
- 9780226305073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.12
€ 40.12
Paperback. Braiding their own stories with those of the villagers of Asagbe and Kosangbe, the authors recounts a host of unexpected dramas with these West African villages, prompting serious questions about the fraught nature of cultural contact. Num Pages: 176 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDY; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305288
- ISBN
- 9780226305288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.62
€ 38.62
Hardcover. Addressing questions of life-course, research methods, institutional support, professional networks, ethnographic models, and disciplinary paradigm shifts, this title discusses the ways the authors' earlier and later projects compare on both scholarly and personal levels. Editor(s): Gottlieb, Alma. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226304892
- ISBN
- 9780226304892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.86
€ 117.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JHM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816643738
- ISBN
- 9780816643738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.59
€ 26.59
Hardcover. In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. This work shows how Muslim Hadendowa women manage health and reproductive suffering in their quest to become "responsible" mothers. Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 b/w photos & an eight page colour insert 4 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; GTB; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299223809
- ISBN
- 9780299223809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.43
€ 74.43