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Anthropology
Paperback. Immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. This title provides an ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822345442
- ISBN
- 9780822345442
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.89
€ 30.99
€ 27.89
Paperback. This text offers ancient and modern writings that address learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities and education to nursing and public policy. It includes tools and suggestions for new ways of being and acting in relation to each other. Editor(s): Blackmore, Chris. Num Pages: 247 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849961325
- ISBN
- 9781849961325
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Condition: New
€ 75.35€ 47.95
€ 75.35
€ 47.95
Paperback. Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. The author traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the West, where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 colour plates, 40 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFZ; JHMC; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226264363
- ISBN
- 9780226264363
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.07
€ 34.99
€ 27.07
Paperback. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Editor(s): Robertson, Jennifer. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJM; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405182898
- ISBN
- 9781405182898
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Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781108400305
- ISBN
- 9781108400305
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.18
€ 26.99
€ 26.18
Paperback. An investigation of the boundaries of science. Gieryn argues that when scientific claims reach courtrooms, boardrooms and living rooms, we use cultural 'maps' to decide whom to believe and to demarcate science from ideology, faith or nonsense. He argues that there are no stable criteria to distinguish science from non-science. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 halftone, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHM; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226292625
- ISBN
- 9780226292625
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Condition: New
€ 47.44
€ 47.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- HAU
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780986132506
- ISBN
- 9780986132506
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 23.85
€ 30.99
€ 23.85
Paperback. Translator(s): Slaght, Jonathan C. Num Pages: 488 pages, 36 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FP; 3JJC; JFSL9; JHMC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253022158
- ISBN
- 9780253022158
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.43
€ 38.99
€ 35.43
Hardback. The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime. Editor(s): Brumann, Christoph; Berliner, David. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 292 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: GM; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785330919
- ISBN
- 9781785330919
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Condition: New
€ 170.80
€ 170.80
Paperback. Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city. Num Pages: 296 pages, 51 b&w photographs, 16 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AMC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292747142
- ISBN
- 9780292747142
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.05
€ 32.99
€ 30.05
Paperback. From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more politically involved, to the religious leaders worried that Lebanese youth are losing their moral compasses, this title looks at leisure in the Lebanese capital. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 halftones 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBL; HRHP; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691153667
- ISBN
- 9780691153667
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.27
€ 32.99
€ 24.27
Paperback. Disruptive montage has often been regarded as a potential threat to the dialogue between scholarly representations and the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. Editor(s): Suhr, Christian; Willerslev, Professor Rane. Num Pages: 300 pages, 73 ills, 5 figs. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 212 x 18. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459640
- ISBN
- 9780857459640
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Condition: New
€ 56.51
€ 56.51
Paperback. Illustrates the stages of the ethnographic process from inception through the emergence of a focus, and toward a subsequent formalization of methods and analysis. This book also illustrates several approaches designed to reconcile the contradictory demands of the scientific process and human behavior. Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780120444700
- ISBN
- 9780120444700
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Condition: New
€ 41.20
€ 41.20
Hardback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRLF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941792056
- ISBN
- 9781941792056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.81€ 48.36
€ 56.81
€ 48.36
Paperback. An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 photograph, 2 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMP; KCX; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822345992
- ISBN
- 9780822345992
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.17
€ 35.99
€ 32.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Feld, Steven. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 456 pages, 37 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: APF; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 23. Weight in Grams: 870.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816641048
- ISBN
- 9780816641048
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
€ 28.95
Paperback. This volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Editor(s): Rojas, Carlos; Litzinger, Ralph A. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; KCM; KCP; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361930
- ISBN
- 9780822361930
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.98
€ 31.99
€ 28.98
Paperback. "This volume encompasses a rich world of political culture, from the Spanish kings of the Reconquest to German metal-workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . A welcome contribution to the interdisciplinary study of ritual, symbolism, and power."-- Editor(s): Wilentz, Sean. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216950
- ISBN
- 9780812216950
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.40
€ 38.99
€ 35.40
Paperback. This collection of essays is written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. The book uses theoretical, ethnographic and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions characterizing life in dangerous places. Editor(s): Nordstrom, Carolyn; Robben, Antonius C. G. M. Num Pages: 310 pages, 13 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496. Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture. 310 pages, 13 b&w photographs. Editor(s): Nordstrom, Carolyn; Robben, Antonius C. G. M. This collection of essays is written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. The book uses theoretical, ethnographic and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions characterizing life in dangerous places. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM; JPWL. Dimension: 229 x 167 x 19. Weight: 496.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 310
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520089945
- ISBN
- 9780520089945
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.65
€ 37.99
€ 27.65
Paperback. Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery Editor(s): Wright, Robin; Whitehead, Neil L. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRQX5; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333456
- ISBN
- 9780822333456
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.06
€ 31.99
€ 29.06
Hardback. In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, this book explores how and why South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to present. It also shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 432 pages, 50 b/w photographs, 12 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMC; WFU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 892.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273863
- ISBN
- 9780520273863
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Condition: New
€ 82.30€ 63.14
€ 82.30
€ 63.14
Paperback. In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. In this book, the author looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJPK; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520290518
- ISBN
- 9780520290518
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.30
€ 32.99
€ 24.30
Paperback. Presents an overview of the field of law and anthropology. This book also explores historical issues and contemporary ones such as illegal migration, human rights, gender discrimination, political corruption. Editor(s): Moore, Sally Falk. Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 28. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405102285
- ISBN
- 9781405102285
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Condition: New
€ 52.14
€ 52.14
Paperback. Editor(s): Chanady, Amaryll Beatrice. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816624096
- ISBN
- 9780816624096
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.87
€ 30.99
€ 27.87