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Anthropology

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; HDD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 187 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226351193
ISBN
9780226351193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain". This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical reflections on life and work in two laboratories that have played key roles in this development: a human lab in Switzerland and an animal lab in California. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474. The Revival of Hallucinogen Research Since the Decade of the Brain. 336 pages, illustrations. Examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain". This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical reflections on life and work in two laboratories that have played key roles in this development: a human lab in Switzerland and an animal lab in California. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight: 460.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520274822
ISBN
9780520274822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. Translation of: Le social et le sensible. Translator(s): Furniss, Jamie; Furniss, Jamie. Series Editor(s): Howes, David. Series: Sensory Studies Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472531964
ISBN
9781472531964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.93

Paperback. In Religion and the Making of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures along with the legacies of British colonial rule have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH; HBTB; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362272
ISBN
9780822362272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 maps, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HREX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231147699
ISBN
9780231147699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.97

Paperback. Offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari', inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 321 pages, 17 black and white, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520289147
ISBN
9780520289147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.45

Paperback. Presents a critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty". In this title, the author provides a portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 5 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
367
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition, with a New Pref ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276048
ISBN
9780520276048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.68

Paperback. Emily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before "globalization" became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674281332
ISBN
9780674281332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.26

Paperback. A study that upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. It presents an account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, and shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520256866
ISBN
9780520256866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.68

Paperback. Editor(s): Faubion, James D.; Marcus, George E. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801475115
ISBN
9780801475115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Buchanan, Dana. Translator(s): Hamilton, Roland. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 maps, 10 figures. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292755598
ISBN
9780292755598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.63

Paperback. The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic D at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JHM; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509503988
ISBN
9781509503988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.03

Paperback. Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of colour lexicons. Series: Hume S. Num Pages: 200 pages, notes, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575861623
ISBN
9781575861623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.05

Paperback. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging global health approaches to animal-borne illness, this title tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidemics amid poverty, political change, and economic upheaval. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 10 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282629
ISBN
9780520282629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.34

Hardback. Editor(s): Corbin, Alain; Courtine, Jean-Jacques; Vigarello, George. Translator(s): Cohen, Keith. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 752 pages, 56 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; JFSJ2; JHMC; JMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168786
ISBN
9780231168786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.43
€ 41.44

Paperback. "An ingeniously constructed springboard for a criticism of anthropology."-- Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 189 x 11. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812212921
ISBN
9780812212921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BM; HBJF; JHMC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408864289
ISBN
9781408864289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.91

Hardback. Editor(s): Richard, Francois G. Num Pages: 307 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 15 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: 1H; HDD; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 245 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493926329
ISBN
9781493926329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.71

Hardback. Series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. Num Pages: 218 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 44 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3H; HDDA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319284026
ISBN
9783319284026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.66

Paperback. Series: Theory Out of Bounds. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: APF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 175 x 14. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816622948
ISBN
9780816622948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.22

Paperback. A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings. Editor(s): Levinson, Bradley A.; Pollock, Mica. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119111665
ISBN
9781119111665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.64

Paperback. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, the author guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new 'anthropology of passion.' Num Pages: 266 pages, 2 b/w photographs, 7 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
266
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272606
ISBN
9780520272606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.03

Paperback. Finding biopolitics unable to adequately reveal the mechanisms of power that govern contemporary life, Elizabeth A. Povinelli offers "geontopower" as a new theory of power that operates through the regulation of clear distinctions between life and nonlife. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; JHMC; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362333
ISBN
9780822362333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.87

Paperback. Translation of: Les metamorphoses du gras. Translator(s): Delogu, C. Jon. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 296 pages, 25. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231159777
ISBN
9780231159777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.79

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