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Hardback. Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731997
ISBN
9780804731997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.98

Paperback. Originally published: 1993. With new preface. Series: Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138242982
ISBN
9781138242982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.30

Paperback. A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bodily unconscious' in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, it takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226790060
ISBN
9780226790060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. Records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. This title exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, that is combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 69. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226789835
ISBN
9780226789835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226310855
ISBN
9780226310855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.51

Paperback. "Defacement" asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732000
ISBN
9780804732000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.40

Hardback. Records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. This title exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, that is combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226789828
ISBN
9780226789828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.67
€ 76.88

Hardback. Begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, the author scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. Num Pages: 192 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226789859
ISBN
9780226789859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.67
€ 76.88

Paperback. Begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, the author scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. Num Pages: 192 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226789866
ISBN
9780226789866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.28

Hardback. A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bodily unconscious' in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, it takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226790053
ISBN
9780226790053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.67
€ 76.88

Paperback. Michael Taussig uses a make-believe Cocaine Museum, which is a parody of the Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, to illuminate the largely unacknowledged history of Indian and African Colombian miners, now being drawn into cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226790091
ISBN
9780226790091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.81

Paperback. Offers a penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's peril. In a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state, the author chronicles two weeks in a small town in Colombia's Cauca Valley taken over by paramilitaries that brazenly assassinate adolescent gang members. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 204 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226790145
ISBN
9780226790145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.35

paperback. Michael Tenzer offers a study of Balinese gamelan music, focusing on the pre-eminent 20th-century genre, gamelan gong kebyar. He applies music theory and analysis to this non-Western orchestral genre to discuss composition and structure, as well as looking at the ethographic background. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 504 pages, 27 halftones, 70 music examples, 26 line drawings, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; AVGE; AVGH; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 33. Weight in Grams: 950.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226792835
ISBN
9780226792835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.50
€ 58.45

hardcover. The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the culture of the English-speaking world but reject its unspoken consensual position on many issues. This study examines the way these English-speakers see themselves, and how this self-image is influenced by the presence of the blacks. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1993rd Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333365731
ISBN
9780333365731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.21

Hardcover. This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit. Wainwright looks at the importance of chess as a literary device and examines the structural analogy drawn between the game and linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230338609
ISBN
9780230338609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.11

Hardback. This pioneering study applies game theory to a selection of minoritarian texts from the American canon. Concentrating on rational decision making, the discussion introduces the most common social dilemmas such as the Stag Hunt and the Prisoner's Dilemma as a means of interpreting works by writers such as Douglass, Hurston, and Morrison. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137590558
ISBN
9781137590558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.35

Hardback. Issues are examined in an inter-disciplinary dialogue between distinguished anthropologists and economists and cover community development, famine relief, fundamentalism, HIV-AIDS, discrimination and heritage. Editor(s): Walton, Michael; Rao, Vijayendra. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804747868
ISBN
9780804747868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.75

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JHMC; PSAK; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168748
ISBN
9780231168748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.20

Hardcover. What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? Contributing anthropologists join editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette in answering these questions and exploring how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory. Editor(s): Jackson, Michael; Piette, Albert. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782386360
ISBN
9781782386360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.83

Paperback. "Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision"-- Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343942
ISBN
9781349343942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.30

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