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Anthropology

Paperback. Arguing for an approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, the author examines - with all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. He concentrates on the human body. Translator(s): Winter, Deirdre; Hamilton, Elizabeth; Rouse, Margitta; Rouse, Richard J. Num Pages: 408 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226925073
ISBN
9780226925073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.57

paperback. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 4 colour plates, 24 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; AVGH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226874654
ISBN
9780226874654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.89

Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 137 x 73. .
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118627969
ISBN
9781118627969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.65

Paperback. This work addresses the question of: are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? The author examines the evolutionary origins of social and political behaviour. He postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierachy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSAJ; PSVP; PSVW79; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780674006911
ISBN
9780674006911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 40.49

Paperback. Series: Ethnohistory S. Num Pages: 284 pages, 40 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 421.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Edition
Pbk
SKU
V9780812212419
ISBN
9780812212419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.10

Hardback. Stigmatized throughout Japanese history as outcastes, the burakumin are contemporary Japan s largest minority. In this study of youths from two different communities, Christopher Bondy explores how individuals navigate their social world, demonstrating the ways in which people make conscious decisions about disclosing a stigmatized identity." Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088405
ISBN
9780674088405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816689460
ISBN
9780816689460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; JHMC; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160933
ISBN
9780231160933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Hardcover. Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: HRQA; JHM; VXA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244168
ISBN
9780812244168
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.68

Paperback. The Tsimshian people of coastal British Columbia use a system of hereditary name-titles in which names are treated as objects of inheritable wealth. This book examines the way in which names link members of a lineage to a past and to the places where that past unfolded. Series: Donald R. Ellegood International Publications. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 maps,. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KBC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988078
ISBN
9780295988078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

Hardcover. Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren; Teuscher, Simon. Num Pages: 372 pages, 6 ills, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610. Matter and Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present. 372 pages, 6 ills, 1 table. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren; Teuscher, Simon. Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHMC. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857457493
ISBN
9780857457493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.10

Paperback. Original analysis of and introduction to Claude Levi-Strauss, the most celebrated of twentieth-century anthropologists. Num Pages: 218 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005128
ISBN
9780521016674
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. This volume challenges the idea that blood can be understood as a stable entity, and shows how concepts of blood and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history. Editor(s): Johnson, Christophe H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 261 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782381778
ISBN
9781782381778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.06

paperback. Offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. This book provides a novel and insightful rendering of the cultural understandings that underwrote the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of life on the Plateau. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295983028
ISBN
9780295983028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

Paperback. A compelling account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union.. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFFN; JHM; KCF; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857451439
ISBN
9780857451439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.51

Paperback. This book was written with a view to sorting our some of the muddles and misreadings -- especially misreadings of Kant -- that have charaterized recent postmodernist and post--structuralist thought. For these issues have a relevance, as Norris argues, far beyond the academic enclaves of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631187189
ISBN
9780631187189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HRAM9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 184 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801479137
ISBN
9780801479137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.80

Paperback. Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa. Series: Asia-Pacific. 288 pages, 16 b&w photographs. Examines how Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. This title analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through the fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; AN; GTB; JHMP. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343714
ISBN
9780822343714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present. Editor(s): Tilley, Christopher. Num Pages: 372 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631172857
ISBN
9780631172857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.52

hardcover. A unique study of Ice Age human and carnivore bone damage and its importance in understanding ancient life in Siberia. Num Pages: 500 pages, 271 b/w illus. 33 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3B; HDDA; JHMP; PSXE; RBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 180 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107030299
ISBN
9781107030299
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.56
€ 151.69

Paperback. This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JNAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526116192
ISBN
9781526116192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

This is a comprehensive ethnographic study about the Moso, a matrilineal group in Southwest China, whose unique traditions are bound to change accepted notions of marriage, kinship, the family, and gender relations. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 table, 20 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761994
ISBN
9780804761994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 96.94

Paperback. With its recurrent themes of trans-nationalism, globalisation, and postcoloniality, this title considers various embodiments of the Asian diaspora, including a rumination on minority discourses and performance studies, and an historical look at the journal Amerasia. Editor(s): Chuh, Kandice; Shimakawa, Karen. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327394
ISBN
9780822327394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.10

Hardback. Explores how Asian Americans figured in the effort to shape the credibility of American democracy during the Cold War, even while their perceived "foreignness" cast them as likely alien subversives Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 285 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; GTB; HBG; HBLW3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814759356
ISBN
9780814759356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.27

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