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Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1MTN; 1QMP; 3JM; JFSL9; JHMP; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 10. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772897233
ISBN
9788772897233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.38

Hardback. The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. Num Pages: 210 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCS; JFSL; JFSP1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422. Childhood, Adolescence, and Autobiography Among the Eveny. 228 pages, 9 ills & tables, 1 map. The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FCS; JFSL; JFSP1; JHMC. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 16. Weight: 422.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
210
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857457660
ISBN
9780857457660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.76

Paperback. Series: Routledge Great Minds. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; HRA; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415854696
ISBN
9780415854696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.25

Hardback. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319297149
ISBN
9783319297149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.25
€ 71.14

Paperback. "Pathologies of Power" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 438 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 606. Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor. With a New Preface by the Author. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. 438 pages. "Pathologies of Power" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 30. Weight: 606.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
438
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520243262
ISBN
9780520243262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHBS; JHMC; UDBV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691168340
ISBN
9780691168340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.47

Hardback. 8vo. Very good copy in clean dustwrapper.The history and politics of India
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
SKU
KEX0272572
ISBN
9780521267458
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 21.00

Hardback. This is a history and ethnography of the North-West Frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area of increasing strategic interest to the West. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; JHMC; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849040723
ISBN
9781849040723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.36

Paperback. Editors: Jan. 1902-Jan. 1905, J.S. Bassett; Apr. 1905-Jan. 1919, W.H. Glasson (with Edwin Mims, Apr. 1905-July 1909; W.P. Few, Oct. 1909-Jan. 1919); Apr. 1919- W.K. Boyd, W.H. Wannamaker. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRAX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691153285
ISBN
9780691153285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.47

Paperback. Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. This book offers a tale about the forces driving decision making in health and development policy today, illustrating how the privatization of health care can have catastrophic outcomes for some of the world's most vulnerable populations. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1FCD; JHMC; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282841
ISBN
9780520282841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.94

Paperback. A study of the world of modeling. Exploring an arena of cultural production, it shows how the right 'look' is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. It examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFCK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466. The Making of a Fashion Model. 328 pages, illustrations. A study of the world of modeling. Exploring an arena of cultural production, it shows how the right 'look' is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. It examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFCK; JHMP. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight: 444.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270763
ISBN
9780520270763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.93

Paperback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401180
ISBN
9781474401180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.86

Paperback. Editor(s): Bendix, Regina F.; Bendix, John. Num Pages: 131 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHMP; JKVC; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 169 x 8. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
131
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899879
ISBN
9788772899879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.38

Paperback. Offers an ethnography and a foray into the anthropology of morality. This book takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it foregrounds the uncertainty that affects their struggles for a good life. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH; JFSL3; JHBK; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281202
ISBN
9780520281202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.36

Paperback. Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Num Pages: 422 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 7 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHM; RBKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 678. Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. 422 pages, illustrations. Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM; RBKC. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight: 652.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
422
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520250628
ISBN
9780520250628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.10

Paperback. Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. This book draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country's history of violence and state control. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JFFE; JHMC; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288522
ISBN
9780520288522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.94

Paperback.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338635
ISBN
9780822338635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.41

Paperback. Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts focused on bodies using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as pieces on medical classifications, and spirit possession. Editor(s): Lock, Margaret M.; Farquhar, Judith. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 93. Weight in Grams: 970.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338451
ISBN
9780822338451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Grusin, Richard. Series: 21st Century Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694679
ISBN
9780816694679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.55

Paperback. Narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, this work explores the transcultural exchanges that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 406 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 4 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 574. Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean. Series: California World History Library. 406 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 4 maps, 2 tables. Narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, this work explores the transcultural exchanges that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 29. Weight: 566.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
406
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520244542
ISBN
9780520244542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.02

Paperback. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the author lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. In this book, the poems are haunting, and the evocation of emotional life vivid. Num Pages: 384 pages, 19 b/w images, 1 map. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 321 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition, Reissue, 30th Anniversary Edition,
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520292499
ISBN
9780520292499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 35.84

Paperback. The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 231 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFE; JHM; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330. Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 231 pages, 1 map. The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFE; JHM; JWXK. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight: 330.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
231
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520247970
ISBN
9780520247970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.10

Paperback. This is the first major collection of media studies scholarship on video games as a unique medium and object of study. Editor(s): Wolf, Mark J. P.; Perron, Bernard. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JHM; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415965798
ISBN
9780415965798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.47

Hardback. After the USSR collapsed, Kyrgyzstan followed a path of economic liberalization, but after a few years, they produced little, and the country's principal industry of sheep breeding was decimated. This led to dependence on international aid, and ensuing comical encounters between the local population and well-meaning foreigners who help them. Translator(s): Schoch, Cynthia. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCK; GTF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387831
ISBN
9781782387831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.01

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