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Paperback. Offers an intimate look at the lives of African women trying to reconcile motherhood with new professional roles in a context of dramatic social change. The author argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change. Num Pages: 288 pages, 23 figures, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 121 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226401829
- ISBN
- 9780226401829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.47
€ 49.47
Hardback. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: CFGR; JHMC; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 252 x 17. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118909713
- ISBN
- 9781118909713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.37
€ 106.37
Paperback. Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the uncannily familiar: disturbing reflections of themselves either actual Europeans or Westernized natives." Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 images. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; DSBH; JFC; JHBT; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810132092
- ISBN
- 9780810132092
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Condition: New
€ 40.05
€ 40.05
Paperback. A theoretical argument that anthropology has developed a concept of culture that reproduces some of the essentialisms of racism while making it difficult for the field to adequately address race. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346357
- ISBN
- 9780822346357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Hardback. Although dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality, because periods of transition are often associated with death, many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these "ultimate ambiguities" as crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Editor(s): Berger, Peter; Kroesen, Justin. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782386094
- ISBN
- 9781782386094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.45
€ 149.45
Paperback. A critical introduction to the theory of risk, reviewing the contribution of leading sociologist, Ulrich Beck. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745318141
- ISBN
- 9780745318141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.45
€ 52.45
Hardback. This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber, 99Designs, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and CrowdFlower promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745653563
- ISBN
- 9780745653563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.47
€ 87.47
Paperback. This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber, 99Designs, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and CrowdFlower promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745653570
- ISBN
- 9780745653570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.74
€ 28.74
Paperback. Editor(s): Moses, Claire Goldberg; Hartmann, Heidi. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFK; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252064623
- ISBN
- 9780252064623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.52
€ 35.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Rivera, Elva A.; Murphy, Deloris R. Num Pages: 69 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBD; JHBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 69
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626185326
- ISBN
- 9781626185326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.29€ 68.31
€ 99.29
€ 68.31
Paperback. This volume is the first of its kind, bringing together adherents of two major schools of thought that have sometimes been in bitter opposition to one another to address critical issues of our time. Series: AJES: Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118450048
- ISBN
- 9781118450048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.42
€ 59.42
Hardcover. This volume is the first of its kind, bringing together adherents of two major schools of thought that have sometimes been in bitter opposition to one another to address critical issues of our time. Series: AJES: Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118450055
- ISBN
- 9781118450055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.37
€ 136.37
Hardback. This study compares the topographic and ethnographic descriptions produced with respect to Galicia and Portugal during the 19th and 20th centuries in order to understand how the integration in different states and the existence of a specific nationalist discourse marked differences in the ways that two bordering regions have been represented. Translator(s): Earl, Martin. Series: European Anthropology in Translation. Num Pages: 388 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; JHMC; JPFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 654. Nationalism and Ethnography in Galicia and Portugal. Series: European Anthropology in Translation. 388 pages, 17 ills. This study compares the topographic and ethnographic descriptions produced with respect to Galicia and Portugal during the 19th and 20th centuries in order to understand how the integration in different states and the existence of a specific nationalist discourse marked differences in the ways that two bordering regions have been represented. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; JHMC; JPFN. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 25. Weight: 654. Translator(s): Earl, Martin.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 388
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457240
- ISBN
- 9780857457240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.65
€ 167.65
Paperback. A detailed examination of the contest in Manchuria between Korean, Chinese, and Japanese interests and its consequences for history Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 photos, 6 tables, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; HBLW; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336143
- ISBN
- 9780822336143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, this book provides a perspective from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. It describes an anarchist sensibility that celebrates the local knowledge, common sense, and creativity of ordinary people. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 halftones. 9 line illus. BIC Classification: HPS; JHM; JPFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New in Paper
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691161037
- ISBN
- 9780691161037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.88
€ 19.99
€ 18.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBM; HBJF1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226317489
- ISBN
- 9780226317489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.21
€ 40.21
Paperback. The two-sided traditions of multiple births in Africa Editor(s): Peek, Philip M. Num Pages: 376 pages, 36 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223074
- ISBN
- 9780253223074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.29
€ 37.29
Paperback. Editor(s): Kowalski, Jeff Karl; Kristan-Graham, Cynthia. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia. Num Pages: 432 pages, 87 black-and-white photographs, 132 line illustrations, 7 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884023722
- ISBN
- 9780884023722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.92
€ 67.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785044
- ISBN
- 9780804785044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.53
€ 87.53
Paperback. Traces the discourse that contributed to the locating of a different criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. This book demonstrates that death is not self-evident, that the space between life and death is historically and culturally constructed, fluid, multiple, and open to dispute. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 441 pages, 21 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JHM; MBX; MNQ; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 441
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520228146
- ISBN
- 9780520228146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.83
€ 47.83