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Hardback. Ranging from the local essays to the national level and within the larger Chinese cultural/religious universe, the essays in this volume explore the complex nature of identity/role and the processes of identity formation which have shaped Taiwan's multileveled past and its many faceted present. Editor(s): Katz, Paul R.; Rubenstein, Murray. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; HRK; JFSR; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239695
ISBN
9780312239695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Paperback. Offers an examination and discussion of theories of dance by the pioneer of the anthropology of human movement. Suitable for graduate students in anthropology faced with the wide spectrum of theories of human movement, this title examines subjects ranging from Aboriginal and African dances to the Royal Ballet. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 photographs, 12 line drawings. BIC Classification: ASD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071348
ISBN
9780252071348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.70

Paperback. Challenges the conventional wisdom that democracy is a universal desire, offering a model case study of Mongolian democratization that ties culture, history, and values to the study of political systems. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPM; JHM; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781598745665
ISBN
9781598745665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.83

Paperback. From the 1850s and the Civil War to emancipation and the official end of Reconstruction in 1877, this work examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a national event with social, political, and cultural consequences. It analyzes multiple views of black child to demonstrate how Americans contested and defended slavery and its abolition. Series: American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814796337
ISBN
9780814796337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.59

Paperback. The island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it has also been a focus of French concerns about national unity and identity. Corsica is part of a vibrant Franco-Mediterranean social universe. This study of a Corsican village explores nationalism, language, kinship, and place. Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221933
ISBN
9780253221933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy. Editor(s): Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit. Num Pages: 376 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HRK; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544. The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing. 392 pages, 9 illustrations. Editor(s): Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit. This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HRK; JHMC. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351337
ISBN
9780822351337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. Series: Space and Society. Num Pages: 212 pages, 59 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1; JHMC; PDX; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319360010
ISBN
9783319360010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Hardback. This is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism, and analyzes the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Arendt. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631216124
ISBN
9780631216124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.52

Paperback. This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSR; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349382491
ISBN
9781349382491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life. Num Pages: 258 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226772240
ISBN
9780226772240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. It is the anthropologist's fate to always be between things: countries, languages, cultures, even realities. The author celebrates the creative power of the between, showing how it can transform us, changing our conceptions of who we are, what we know, and how we live in the world. Num Pages: 192 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: BM; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226775357
ISBN
9780226775357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.09

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333712436
ISBN
9780333712436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Paperback. A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of Lovell's classic account of the violence that has wracked Guatemala, from its roots in the colonial past to its aftermath in the twenty-first century Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Num Pages: 221 pages, 27 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292721838
ISBN
9780292721838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.37

paperback. Through the rendering of Catholic Church migration's debates this book shows how Latin American lay and religious migration in Rome is an Atlantic Return from the Americas challenging an Euro-centric Catholic identity and how multiple forms of being Catholic inform gender, labour and sexuality at the heart of Catholicism in Europe. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267491
ISBN
9780823267491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Komesaroff, Paul A. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316886
ISBN
9780822316886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. Tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. This book addresses the process of ethnography and the dynamics of international and intercultural communication. Series: Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment. Num Pages: 384 pages, 56 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295986685
ISBN
9780295986685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.87

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

€ 52.99
€ 44.37

Hardback. Editor(s): Magatti, Mauro. Num Pages: 254 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319478630
ISBN
9783319478630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Hardcover. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Editor(s): Robertson, Jennifer. Series: Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 544 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 187 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1162.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631229551
ISBN
9780631229551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.05

Paperback. Academic literature rarely gives an account of the ethical challenges and emotional pitfalls the researcher is confronted with before, during and after being in the field. Giving personal accounts, the authors explore some of the challenges one can face when engaging in local-level research in difficult situations. Editor(s): Thomson, S.; Ansoms, An; Murison, J. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; JHB; JHBC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349442737
ISBN
9781349442737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Living in a poor neighbourhood of Cairo, Umm Ali has raised eight children with almost no help from her husband or the Egyptian government. This book draws on the author's firsthand experience of Umm Ali's life to create an intimate portrait of Cairo's back streets and the people who live there. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226898353
ISBN
9780226898353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.08

Paperback. This book is a scholarly and lively account of the interactions between art and ethnography in Paris in the pre-WW2 period, drawing upon a diverse range of primary and archival materials: non-western art, anthropological expeditions, museum displays and works by artists in Paris. Series: Barber Institute's Critical Perspectives in Art History. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 171 x 10. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719069413
ISBN
9780719069413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.76

Paperback. Offers an in-depth critical exploration of cinematic representations of the family in transnational cinema. This book fills this gap and provides an essential resource for academics and researchers with an interest in cinematic representations of the family and transnational cinema. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: APFA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748697380
ISBN
9780748697380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.76

Paperback. Incorporating investigative journalism, this title examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador. It recounts the story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a 'popular health system'. Series Editor(s): Marshall, Mac. Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology. Num Pages: 330 pages, 13 photographs & 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; JHMC; JP; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813547367
ISBN
9780813547367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 45.62

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