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Anthropology

Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780345434838
ISBN
9780345434838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.31

Paperback. Presents studies attempting to define and dissect American humor for students and scholars. Editor(s): Walker, Nancy A. Series: American Visions: Readings in American Culture. Num Pages: 284 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842026888
ISBN
9780842026888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.23

Paperback. How has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve? This book addresses these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that the author's ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226066776
ISBN
9780226066776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.34

Paperback. Provides a historical look through the eyes of outsiders as they survey and scrutinize the politics, science, technology, religion, family practices, and gender roles of civilizations not their own. This book emphasizes the broader figurative meaning of looking west in the scope of history. Editor(s): Nader, Laura. Num Pages: 472 pages, 2 b/w, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QFH; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 642.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285781
ISBN
9780520285781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.81

paperback. Explores the insights that fossil hominin teeth provide about human evolution, linking findings with current debates in palaeoanthropology. Num Pages: 275 pages, 41 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HD; JHM; PSA; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 465 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107442603
ISBN
9781107442603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.01
€ 53.36

Paperback. Editor(s): Bender, Courtney; Taves, Ann. Series: A Columbia / SSRC Book. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 recorded music items. BIC Classification: HRAM; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402. Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. 296 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 recorded music items. Editor(s): Bender, Courtney; Taves, Ann. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRAM; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 15. Weight: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156851
ISBN
9780231156851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.44

Hardback. Editor(s): Bender, Courtney; Taves, Ann. Series: A Columbia / SSRC Book. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 recorded music items. BIC Classification: HRAM; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156844
ISBN
9780231156844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.08
€ 83.63

paperback. This work takes an anthropological approach to the fundamental question of what makes life worth living. It considers the issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780520201330
ISBN
9780520201330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.60

Hardback. What Makes Learning Fun? presents a set of tested principles and strategies for the design of museum exhibits, with concrete examples of design successes and failures drawn from the author's many years in the field. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759108844
ISBN
9780759108844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.10

Paperback. Offers, on its surface, a simple theoretical argument, laid out in the titles of its mere two chapters: kinship is culture, not biology. But along the way to proving his point, the author engages an array of thinkers, from Aristotle to Emile Durkheim to Marilyn Strathern, as well as an array of ethnographic examples from around the globe. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226214290
ISBN
9780226214290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.99

Hardback. In this pithy two-part essay, the author reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. He also shows that mutuality of being is a symbolic notion of belonging, not a biological connection by 'blood'. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226925127
ISBN
9780226925127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.86
€ 76.88

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Hertfordshire Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902806068
ISBN
9781902806068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.90

Paperback. Editor(s): Borsen, Tom; Botin, Lars. Num Pages: 483 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; PD; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 34. Weight in Grams: 966.
Publisher
Aalborg University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9788771121230
ISBN
9788771121230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.29

Paperback. In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. This title explores nthe social problem of sexual harassment. Num Pages: 252 pages, 7 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFE2; JFSJ; JHMC. 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
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237414
ISBN
9780520237414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.52

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

€ 156.13

Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
266
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
Reprint, 2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295970172
ISBN
9780295970172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.03

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

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

€ 91.86
€ 76.88

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

hardcover. Treats our "National Conversation on Race" as a site for cultural analysis, examining a watershed year of news stories that challenged our notions of what is racial-or not. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804763363
ISBN
9780804763363
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.96

Paperback. This collection of articles offers an overview of developments in cultural theory as applied to western music. The text examines a range of primarily 20th-century music and provides insights into how cultural identities and differences are constructed in music. Editor(s): Born, Georgina; Hesmondhalgh, David. Num Pages: 409 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 16 music examples. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGC6; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604. Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music. 409 pages, 4 b&w photographs, 16 music examples. Editor(s): Born, Georgina; Hesmondhalgh, David. This collection of articles offers an overview of developments in cultural theory as applied to western music. The text examines a range of primarily 20th-century music and provides insights into how cultural identities and differences are constructed in music. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGC6; JHMC. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 25. Weight: 604.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
409
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520220843
ISBN
9780520220843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.65

Paperback. Editor(s): Vahman, F.; Asatrian, G.S. (both of Department of Oriental Philology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Num Pages: 144 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 2B; CFFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772891514
ISBN
9788772891514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 24.69

Paperback. Weeping Violins provides a history of the Gypsy people in Europe. Betty Alt and Silvia Folts trace the origins of the Gyspsy people and tell the story of their expansion, treatment by other ethnic groups, and struggles during the Holocaust. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Jefferson (Thomas) University Press United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9780943549392
ISBN
9780943549392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
AK Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849350631
ISBN
9781849350631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.42

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