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Paperback. Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this volume engages in debates that address new questions.. Editor(s): Kurti, Laszlo; Skalnik, Peter. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; 3JMC; JHMC; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451576
- ISBN
- 9780857451576
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Condition: New
€ 45.54
€ 45.54
Hardback. This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the face of new types of transaction - such as organ donation, forensic identification and other new medical and reproductive technologies - that involve the use of corporeal material. Drawing on comparative insights into how human biological material is treated.. Editor(s): Lambert, Helen; McDonald, Maryon. Num Pages: 188 pages, 2 ills. BIC Classification: JFM; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455538
- ISBN
- 9781845455538
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Condition: New
€ 155.84
€ 155.84
Hardback. Editor(s): Levi, Erik; Scheding, Florian. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations, printed music items. BIC Classification: AVA; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810863798
- ISBN
- 9780810863798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.26
€ 146.26
Hardback. This collection focuses attention on the relationships between "homeland" and "diaspora" communities in today's world. It highlights the changing character of homeland-diaspora ties and offers new understandings of the issues that these communities face and explores the roots of their fascinating, yet sometimes paradoxical, interactions Editor(s): Levy, Andre; Weingrod, Alex. Num Pages: 376 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747714
- ISBN
- 9780804747714
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Condition: New
€ 173.89
€ 173.89
Hardback. While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The book as a whole explores the connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes. Editor(s): Lindquist, Galina; Handelman, Don. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HR; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457716
- ISBN
- 9781845457716
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Condition: New
€ 156.91
€ 156.91
Hardback. This volume explores the search for meaning among people in China today. The subjects of these essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars, with the issues ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. Editor(s): Link, Perry; Madsen, Richard; Pickowicz, Paul G. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; JFC; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742510784
- ISBN
- 9780742510784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.30
€ 193.30
Hardback. These 13 workshop-based papers critique ecofeminist assumptions about traditional societies viewing women as closer to nature and more spiritual than men. Following an overview by Low (history, Open U.) and Tremayne (social and cultural anthropology, U. of Oxford), the first contribution frames the Editor(s): Low, Alaine; Tremayne, Soraya. Num Pages: index. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHM; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571814678
- ISBN
- 9781571814678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.14
€ 157.14
Hardback. The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its multi-disciplinary nature adds to its complexity. Editor(s): Macbeth, Helen M.; MacClancy, Jeremy. Num Pages: 227 pages, 17 figs, 8 tables, Glossary, Index. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571815446
- ISBN
- 9781571815446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.07
€ 157.07
Hardback. The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis. Editor(s): MacCannell, Juliet; Zakarin, Laura. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723060
- ISBN
- 9780804723060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.51
€ 162.51
Hardback. Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological and social anthropology.. Editor(s): MacClancy, Jeremy; Fuentes, Agustin. Series: Studies of the BioSocial Society. Num Pages: 316 pages, 30 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456900
- ISBN
- 9781845456900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.11
€ 157.11
Hardback. Throughout the world, everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Editor(s): MacClancy, Jeremy; Henry, C. Jeya; Macbeth, Helen M. Series: Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Num Pages: 258 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453534
- ISBN
- 9781845453534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.73
€ 156.73
Hardback. Editor(s): Markovits, Claude; Pouchepadass, Jacques; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 380 pages, 2+ maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; JFC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843312314
- ISBN
- 9781843312314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.94
€ 133.94
Hardback. In the past before improving technologies allowed for the direct observation of brain activity, brain damaged patients were a prime avenue for understanding language structure and inferring back to brain function. This book focuses on the interactions of frontotemporal dementia patients. Editor(s): Mates, Andrea W.; Mikesell, Lisa; Smith, Michael Sean. Num Pages: 256 pages, 52 figures. BIC Classification: CFB; CFD; CFG; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845534349
- ISBN
- 9781845534349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Paperback. The Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. This work provides a historical overview of the ethnology and ethnohistory of this region, and focuses on contemporary, theoretically informed studies of communities and issues. Editor(s): Mauze, Marie; Harkin, Michael E.; Kan, Sergei A. Num Pages: 508 pages, 22 photographs, 2 figures, map, index. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803282964
- ISBN
- 9780803282964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.87
€ 38.99
€ 34.87
The Body in Parts. Discourses and Anatomies in Early Modern Europe.
. Ed(S): Mazzio, Carla; Hillman, David
Paperback. Examines how the body - its organs, limbs, viscera - was represented in literature and culture of early modern Europe. The text asks why 16th and 17th century medical, religious, and literary texts portray the body part by part, rather than as an entity and what this tells of society at the time. Editor(s): Mazzio, Carla; Hillman, David. Num Pages: 376 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JHM; MFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415916943
- ISBN
- 9780415916943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.30
€ 53.30
Paperback. Editor(s): McChesney, Robert W.; Wood, Ellen Meiksins; Foster, John Bellamy. Num Pages: 224 pages, index. BIC Classification: GPF; JHM; KCP; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853459897
- ISBN
- 9780853459897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.98
€ 22.98
Paperback. Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statements made by northern governments, NGOs, and international institutions that view the merging of security with development as both unproblematic.. Editor(s): McNeish, John-Andrew; Sande Lie, Jon Harald. Series: Critical Interventions. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 109 x 5. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451774
- ISBN
- 9780857451774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.60
€ 20.60
Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences Mobile Work, Mobile Lives
. Ed(S): Meerwarth, Tracy L.; Gluesing, Julia...
Paperback. Editor(s): Meerwarth, Tracy L.; Gluesing, Julia C.; Jordan, Brigitte. Series: NAPA Bulletin. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 172 x 9. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405194334
- ISBN
- 9781405194334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.96
€ 33.99
€ 33.96
Hardback. This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also at home in modernity. Editor(s): Meyer, Birgit; Pels, Peter. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HRQX2; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744638
- ISBN
- 9780804744638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.15
€ 152.15
Paperback. Editor(s): Misselwitz, Charlotte; Siebeck, Cornelia. Num Pages: 232 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FBH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837612738
- ISBN
- 9783837612738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.35
€ 36.99
€ 26.35
Editor(s): Montenegro, Pedro A.; Juarez, Stefanee M. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 187 x 25. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621007661
- ISBN
- 9781621007661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 224.38€ 150.02
€ 224.38
€ 150.02
Paperback. The professionalization of anthropology through practical engagement is a major force underpinning the reformulations of the nature of the anthropological project. It is therefore imperative that anthropologists critically explore the conditions of their practices, to determine the difficulties and limitations to their ethical practice. Editor(s): Morris, Barry; Bastin, Rohan. Series: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis. Num Pages: 134 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 8. Weight in Grams: 109.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450038
- ISBN
- 9781845450038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.48
€ 20.48
Hardback. Toward an Anthropology of the Will, the first book that systematically explores volition from an anthropological point of view, demonstrates how a richly nuanced, ethnographically-informed approach to the cultural experience of willing can help shape theories of social action in the human sciences. Editor(s): Murphy, Keith; Throop, C. Jason. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768870
- ISBN
- 9780804768870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.90
€ 83.90
Hardback. Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. Editor(s): O'Hanlon, Michael; Welsch, Robert L. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23 ills, 5 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 497.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571818119
- ISBN
- 9781571818119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.31
€ 157.31