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Hardback. This first English translation of lectures Claude Levi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986 synthesizes his ideas about structural anthropology, critiques his earlier writings on civilization, and assesses the dilemmas of cultural and moral relativism, including economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, and genetic and reproductive engineering. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 116 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072909
ISBN
9780674072909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.75

Paperback. Studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. This title shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires. Num Pages: 315 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JHMC; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351597
ISBN
9780822351597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.54

Paperback. Favazza critically assesses new and significant biological, ethnological, social, and psychological findings regarding self-injury; presents current understandings of self-injurious acts from cultural and clinical perspectives; and places self-mutilation in historical and contemporary context. Num Pages: 352 pages, 17, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMH; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
third edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801899669
ISBN
9780801899669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.56

Paperback. This new edition presents a nuanced and credible picture of childhood in different cultures, past and present. Num Pages: 547 pages, 34 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 876.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107420984
ISBN
9781107420984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.76

Paperback.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845201135
ISBN
9781845201135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 592.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226277332
ISBN
9780226277332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.73

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472594853
ISBN
9781472594853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.33

Hardback. Based on an extended period of research in two local steel factories, this descriptive account offers a wide-ranging critique of post-industrial capitalism. Its central argument is that recent government attempts to engineer Britain's transition to a post-industrial have instead created volatile post-industrial spaces marked by informal labor.. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; JHMC; KNJH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455514
ISBN
9781845455514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.82
€ 84.74

Paperback. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501707551
ISBN
9781501707551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691170787
ISBN
9780691170787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.52

Paperback. Based on a return to the village in Sierra Leone where he did his first ethnographic fieldwork in 1969-70, an anthropologist reflects on the universality of human discontent. Num Pages: 230 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349150
ISBN
9780822349150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.47

Hardcover. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKP; HDD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 203 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1120.
Publisher
Peabody Museum Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Har/Cdr
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873652155
ISBN
9780873652155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.00
€ 73.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745335933
ISBN
9780745335933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.34

Hardback. Num Pages: 324 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137489203
ISBN
9781137489203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.18
€ 16.98

Paperback. With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. This book explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380. Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 280 pages, illustrations. With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. This book explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHMC. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight: 380.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272422
ISBN
9780520272422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.01

Hardcover. This volume demonstrates how cultural studies has diffused from Britain into other English-speaking countries, and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. It is a guide to international cultural studies. Editor(s): Blundell, Valda; Shepherd, John; Taylor, Ian. Series: International Library of Sociology. Num Pages: 248 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430. "Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Commissioning organisation: edited by Valda Blundell, John Shepherd, and Ian Taylor. x, 236 p. 23 cm. Associated Names: Blundell, Valda,. Associated Names: Shepherd, John,. Associated Names: Taylor, Ian R. Associated Dates: 1941-. Associated Dates: 1947-. Near fine paperback copy." Keywords: "Subjects - Education & Languages - New & Used Textbooks - Arts & Humanities - Cultural Studies - General,Subjects - Education & Languages - New & Used Textbooks - Arts & Humanities - Cultural Studies"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Routledge,an imprint of Taylor &
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0030778
ISBN
9780415075480
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 117.26

Paperback. Editor(s): Stanley, Principal Historian Peter (Australian War Memorial). Num Pages: 165 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 9. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Helion and Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909982673
ISBN
9781909982673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.03

Paperback. Offers, on its surface, a simple theoretical argument, laid out in the titles of its mere two chapters: kinship is culture, not biology. But along the way to proving his point, the author engages an array of thinkers, from Aristotle to Emile Durkheim to Marilyn Strathern, as well as an array of ethnographic examples from around the globe. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226214290
ISBN
9780226214290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. An account of a hunter - gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature. This is about earthly paradise and of a legendary and people. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 24. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847923806
ISBN
9781847923806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226310855
ISBN
9780226310855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 37, 21 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HRQX5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801479458
ISBN
9780801479458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.87

Paperback. Explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. This book contains essays that reveal the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319696
ISBN
9780822319696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.47

Hardback. "I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. In this book, the author explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. Num Pages: 168 pages, 2 maps, 2 charts. BIC Classification: HBG; HD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520293120
ISBN
9780520293120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226041124
ISBN
9780226041124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.35

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