Anthropology
Results 1969 - 1992 of 4988
Anthropology
Paperback. This study suggests that the balance in Africa, between the prevalence of witchcraft and the forces of modernity, stems both from obsession with power and from the increasing feeling of powerlessness among the people. It also gives a parallel with aspects of politics in Western democracies. Translator(s): Geschiere, Peter; Roitman, Janet. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1H; HRKT; HRQX5; HRQX9; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 50977th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917030
- ISBN
- 9780813917030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.36
€ 45.36
Paperback. This work analyzes and discusses current cultural issues and aims to offer clues as to where the next American culture wars may be waged. The contributors examine new developments in the culture wars, such as common-ground efforts and whether the wars represent a global phenomenon. Editor(s): Nolan, James L. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916972
- ISBN
- 9780813916972
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Condition: New
€ 40.35
€ 40.35
Paperback. Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813552842
- ISBN
- 9780813552842
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Condition: New
€ 47.97
€ 47.97
Paperback. Explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. Editor(s): Manderson, Lenore; Smith-Morris, Carolyn. Series Editor(s): Marshall, Mac. Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: JHM; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813547473
- ISBN
- 9780813547473
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Condition: New
€ 57.47
€ 57.47
Paperback. An account of the significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships. It tracks young couples as they move in a world fraught with shifting connections of class, race, and culture that are reflected in space, racialized language, and media representations of blackness, whiteness, and mixedness. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813547237
- ISBN
- 9780813547237
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Condition: New
€ 47.28
€ 47.28
Paperback. Offers a look at the processes of immigration, political behavior, and citizenship in both the United States and Europe. This book contains essays, which draw on issues of race, national identity, and religion. Editor(s): Reed-Danahay, Deborah; Brettell, Caroline B. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFFN; JHM; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813543307
- ISBN
- 9780813543307
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Condition: New
€ 48.84
€ 48.84
Paperback. Editor(s): Knight, Chris; Dunbar, Professor Robin; Power, Camilla. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813527314
- ISBN
- 9780813527314
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Condition: New
€ 44.05
€ 44.05
Paperback. This is a comprehensive approach to music from the point of view of anthropology. The author maintains that ethnomusicology, by definition, must not divorce the sound-analysis of music from its cultural context of people thinking, acting, and creating. Num Pages: 370 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810106079
- ISBN
- 9780810106079
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Condition: New
€ 33.28
€ 33.28
Paperback. Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807872901
- ISBN
- 9780807872901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.74
€ 52.74
Paperback. Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 illustrations, 9 tables, notes, biblography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807871584
- ISBN
- 9780807871584
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Condition: New
€ 45.64
€ 45.64
Paperback. Exploring the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America, the author finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807871331
- ISBN
- 9780807871331
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Condition: New
€ 52.74
€ 52.74
Paperback. An illustrated book which offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African-American quilters during the era of slavery. It examines the history of quilting in the enslaved community and places the quilts into a historical and cultural context. Series: Chapel Hill Books. Num Pages: 100 pages, 73 colour photographs, 53 b&w photographs, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBTB; JFSL3; JHMC; WFBQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849958
- ISBN
- 9780807849958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.71
€ 49.71
Paperback. Through the life of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), South Carolina's self-styled agrarian rebel, this book traces the history of white male supremacy and its discontents from the era of plantation slavery to the age of Jim Crow. Series: Fred W.Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807848395
- ISBN
- 9780807848395
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Condition: New
€ 56.28
€ 56.28
Paperback. John C Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R Bartlett's boundary commission surveying the US-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803263123
- ISBN
- 9780803263123
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Condition: New
€ 40.40
€ 40.40
Paperback. Editor(s): Faure, David; Ts'Ui-P'Ing, Ho. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 383 pages, , black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 383
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774823692
- ISBN
- 9780774823692
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Condition: New
€ 48.80
€ 48.80
Paperback. Nine prominent experts hold court on the relation of religion to law, politics, morality and bioethics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 296. Essays in Pluralism, Religion, and Public Policy. 224 pages. Editor(s): Farrow, Douglas. Nine prominent experts hold court on the relation of religion to law, politics, morality and bioethics. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HR; JHMC. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 12. Weight: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773528345
- ISBN
- 9780773528345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.66
€ 35.66
Paperback. Translator(s): Collins, John F. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHMC; JKSW1; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469623405
- ISBN
- 9781469623405
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Condition: New
€ 40.39
€ 40.39
Paperback. Series: American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas). Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPA; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619696
- ISBN
- 9780700619696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.88
€ 41.88
Paperback. Chronicles how Indians came to represent themselves in Wild West shows, Hollywood films, sports, music, and their use of the automobile. This book examines longstanding stereotypes of Indians as invariably violent, suggesting that, even as such views continued in American popular culture, they were also transformed by the violence at Wounded Knee. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 312 pages, 51 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700614592
- ISBN
- 9780700614592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.91
€ 37.91
Hardcover. Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? This study shows us how the ways we remember the past greatly influence our ability to imagine multiple futures - in distant universes that appear very strange and yet utterly familiar. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700614301
- ISBN
- 9780700614301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.46
€ 71.46
Paperback. This text combines ethical theory and personal experience to explore family and community influences on individual behaviour within an ethnic setting. Concentrating on Italian-Americans, the author assesses the links with often conflicting groups such as family, friends, neighbourhood and country. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSL1; JHBK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700607303
- ISBN
- 9780700607303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.88
€ 41.88
Hardcover. An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; AVA; AVGP; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118489
- ISBN
- 9780472118489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.43
€ 102.43
Hardcover. Exploring the notion of community identity in an archaeological context Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HDA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472117864
- ISBN
- 9780472117864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.96
€ 102.96
Paperback. Num Pages: figures. BIC Classification: JHMP; MBNH3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 218 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472115914
- ISBN
- 9780472115914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.36
€ 122.36