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Paperback. Authenticity is taken-for-granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. In Culture and Authenticity , Charles Lindholm calls upon anthropological case studies from different cultures, historical material, and comparative philosophy, to explore how notions of authenticity develop, what forms it takes, and how it changes over time. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405124430
- ISBN
- 9781405124430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.32
€ 42.32
Hardcover. Whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications - as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents - from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates cosmopolitanism's emergence as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project.. Editor(s): Schiller, Nina Glick; Irving, Andrew. Num Pages: 268 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384458
- ISBN
- 9781782384458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.40
€ 156.40
Paperback. Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, this book analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. It demonstrates how brain scans contribute to our social dependence on scientific authority. Editor(s): Rabinow, Paul. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 color illus. 19 halftones. 5 table. BIC Classification: JHM; JMM; MMPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113982
- ISBN
- 9780691113982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.98
€ 50.99
€ 36.98
Paperback. Weeping Violins provides a history of the Gypsy people in Europe. Betty Alt and Silvia Folts trace the origins of the Gyspsy people and tell the story of their expansion, treatment by other ethnic groups, and struggles during the Holocaust. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Jefferson (Thomas) University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780943549392
- ISBN
- 9780943549392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.94
€ 50.94
Paperback. A history of politics and society among an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialism Num Pages: 296 pages, 9 b&w illus., 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006745
- ISBN
- 9780253006745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.02
€ 31.99
€ 29.02
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Puncture Publications United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781891241536
- ISBN
- 9781891241536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.21
€ 20.99
€ 20.21
Hardback. This comprehensive volume provides an in-depth survey of Jamaican people and their history, land, religion, education, language, social customs, media and cinema, literature, music, and performing and visual arts. Series: Cultures and Customs of the World. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; GTB; HBJK; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780313305344
- ISBN
- 9780313305344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.08€ 57.30
€ 62.08
€ 57.30
paperback. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 4 colour plates, 24 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; AVGH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226874654
- ISBN
- 9780226874654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.89
€ 38.99
€ 30.89
Hardback. An ethnography of post-Soviet Cuba s health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 illustrations, 3 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMP; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351948
- ISBN
- 9780822351948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.52
€ 116.52
Hardcover. Num Pages: 305 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572334953
- ISBN
- 9781572334953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.86
€ 56.86
Paperback. Analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFFK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 215 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780745334592
- ISBN
- 9780745334592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.88
€ 36.99
€ 28.88
Paperback. A study which explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ethnographic museums. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854303
- ISBN
- 9780807854303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.01
€ 65.01
Paperback. The Energy Reader presents a series of readings that examine the energy problem from an anthropological perspective and look at energy holistically, including social and cultural components and long term implications for global and social environmental change. Editor(s): Nader, Laura. Num Pages: 574 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHM; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 32. Weight in Grams: 994.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 574
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405199841
- ISBN
- 9781405199841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.71
€ 54.71
Hardback. Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values. Can we study the Other's morality without applying our own normative judgments? Editor(s): Heintz, Monica. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455927
- ISBN
- 9781845455927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.40
€ 158.40
Hardback. Editor(s): Macedo, Stephen. Series: The University Center for Human Values Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 halftones. 26 line illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 35. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- REV UPD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160399
- ISBN
- 9780691160399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.27
€ 32.99
€ 24.27
Paperback. Series: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis. BIC Classification: JHM; JKS; JPQB; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450014
- ISBN
- 9781845450014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.68
€ 20.68
Paperback. Presents the first extended critique of rational choice theory from an anthropological perspective Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JHM; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292729025
- ISBN
- 9780292729025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.83
€ 29.99
€ 26.83
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
€ 55.56
€ 55.56
hardcover. Introduces methodology for studying host-parasite interactions, integrating laboratory methodology, field research, and theory. Editor(s): Huffman, Michael A.; Chapman, Colin A. Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. Num Pages: 548 pages, 48 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 994.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 548
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521872461
- ISBN
- 9780521872461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.81
€ 131.81
hardcover. Examining politics in a small Afghan town that managed to remain relatively peaceful in the years following the fall of the Taliban, this book calls examines how and when violence erupts and calls into question the international community's approach to developing stability in Afghanistan. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776714
- ISBN
- 9780804776714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.70
€ 124.70
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717084
- ISBN
- 9780292717084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.97
€ 32.99
€ 29.97
Hardback. Lisa Messeri traces how planetary scientists-whether working in the Utah desert, a Chilean observatory, or the labs of MIT-transform celestial bodies into places in order to understand the universe as densely inhabited by planets, in turn telling us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the cosmos. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 248 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; PGS; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361879
- ISBN
- 9780822361879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.52
€ 116.52
Hardback. How migration - especially by Latinos - can create new forms of intimacy across cultural, religious, and ethnic lines Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439910528
- ISBN
- 9781439910528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.88
€ 76.88
paperback. A consideration of the impact of racism and questions of sovereignty on genetic research, which details the exploitative history of research on Taiwanese Aborigines. Num Pages: 584 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774826600
- ISBN
- 9780774826600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.74
€ 44.99
€ 39.74