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Policing Welfare. Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance, Paperback - Spencer Headworth

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Signs of Safety: A Solution and Safety Oriented Approach to Child Protection, Hardcover - Steve Edwards

237,99 RON

It focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantia...

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Race, Culture and Media, Paperback - Anamik Saha

236,99 RON

Anamik Saha has taken an integrative approach, combining both cultural studies and political economy perspectives in a cutting-edge book that cover...

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On Clinical Social Work: Meditations and Truths from the Field, Hardcover - Danna R. Bodenheimer

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Through words and images, Dr. Danna Bodenheimer brings to life a wide range of realities for clinical social workers. Consider her a master teacher...

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Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples, Paperback - Jack D. Forbes

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history...

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Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal, Paperback - Joseph Hill

233,99 RON

DescriptionSince around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As u...

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Owning the Street. The Everyday Life of Property, Paperback - Amelia Thorpe

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Data Practices. Making Up a European People, Hardback - Stephan Scheel

232,99 RON

Publisher: Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonAuthor(s): Stephan ScheelNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 146 x 210 x 26Cover type: ...

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Corsairs of Saint-Malo. Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Regime, Paperback - Henning Hillmann

232,99 RON

Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local net...

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Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks Over Northern Iraq, Paperback - Scott A. Snook

232,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Scott A. SnookOn April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopte...

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Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga, Hardcover - Laura Watts

232,99 RON

DescriptionMaking local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast...

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Compromising Positions. Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity, Hardback - Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith

232,99 RON

DescriptionAmericans have long believed that the private lives of their politicians are important indicators of their fitness to lead and of their ...

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Participatory Culture, Community, and Play. Learning from Reddit, New ed, Paperback - Adrienne L. Massanari

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In this incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how culture is created and challenged on Reddit.com, the self-proclaimed "front p...

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Knowledge Justice. Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, Paperback - Jorge R. Lopez-Mcknight

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Artistic Research Methodology. Narrative, Power and the Public, New ed, Paperback - Juha Suoranta

232,99 RON

Artistic Research Methodology argues for artistic research as a context-aware and historical process that works inside-in, beginning and ending wit...

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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West, Hardcover - Payal Arora

231,99 RON

DescriptionA digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East--home to mo...

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Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family, Paperback - Jean L. Briggs

231,99 RON

DescriptionIn the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-mon...

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Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Paperback - Maxine Hong Kingston

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace is a harvest of creative, redemptive storytelling-nonfiction, fiction, and poetry-spanning five wars and written...

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Understanding Diversity. An Introduction, 3 Revised edition, Paperback - Bryan R. Ellis

230,99 RON

What is diversity? How does prejudice show itself? What are the societal consequences of discrimination? Has anything changed over the past 50 year...

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Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader, Paperback - Ian McIntosh

229,99 RON 246,99 RON

Reducere. Over the years, many textbooks have been written about the troika of sociological geniuses, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Too often, however, these wo...

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Timothy Leary: A Biography, Paperback - Robert Greenfield

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary,...

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Classification Struggles: General Sociology, Volume 1, Hardcover - Pierre Bourdieu

228,99 RON

DescriptionThis is the first of five volumes that will be based on lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Coll ge de France in the early 1980s un...

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Sex: Ethnographic Encounters, Paperback - Dieter Haller

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DescriptionFocusing on the unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. Ant...

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At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means for the Future, Paperback - Edward Dutton

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWe are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits' End. The authors take us on a journey thr...

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Jung: His Life and Work, a Biographical Memoir, Paperback - Barbara Hannah

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis full-scale study of Jung's life and work is written by a close student, friend, and associate of more than thirty years. It is a lu...

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Comparison in Anthropology, Paperback - Matei Candea

228,99 RON

DescriptionWhy and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be...

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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, Paperback - Hal Abelson

228,99 RON

Blown to Bits, Second Edition is the brilliant, plain-English guide to digital technology, how it's changing the world, and what you need to know t...

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Thinking Sociologically, Paperback - Zygmunt Bauman

227,99 RON

DescriptionWidely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thi...

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Weaving Chiapas: Maya Women's Lives in a Changing World, Paperback - Yolanda Castro Apreza

225,99 RON

In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance...

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Critical Statistics: Seeing Beyond the Headlines, Paperback - Robert de Vries

225,99 RON

DescriptionAwarded the 2019 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.This accessible and entertaining new t...

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From a Trickle to a Torrent: Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal, Paperback - Geoff Childs

224,99 RON

What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education? From a Trickle to a Torrent documents the d...

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The Lost Heir: an Unruly Royal, an Urchin Queen, and a Quest for Justice, Paperback - Rivera Sun

224,99 RON 240,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionGoing beyond dragon-slayers and sword-swingers, The Lost Heir blends fantasy and adventure with social justice issues in an unstoppable ...

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New Media and Intercultural Communication. Identity, Community and Politics, Paperback - ***

224,99 RON

Offers theoretical insights, fresh evidence and applications as it assesses nature of digital culture(s) in order to address assumptions about the ...

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Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States, Paperback - Kathryn A. Mariner

224,99 RON

DescriptionBased on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the e...

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Making Media Studies. The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies, Paperback - David Gauntlett

224,99 RON

In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doi...

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Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism, Paperback - Jeremiah Morelock

223,99 RON 239,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAfter President Trump's election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of right-wing figures, there has been intense focus on authoritarian po...

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Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana, Paperback - Mensah Adinkrah

223,99 RON

Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative wi...

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Beyond Marx and Other Entries - David Gleicher

222,99 RON

DescriptionBeyond Marx and Other Entries explores deep areas of semiotics, joined with economics, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and ...

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The Way Between, Paperback - Rivera Sun

222,99 RON 238,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn an exciting blend of action, adventure, and fantasy author Rivera Sun boldly takes the reader in a new direction . . . that of waging...

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Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture, Paperback - Yuri Lotman

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Universe of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of CultureYuri M. LotmanIntroduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann ShukmanA major book by one of the init...

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Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire - Wendy Brown

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionTolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent reli...

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The Goat Woman, Hardcover - Jo Anne Beaty

219,99 RON

DescriptionScary stories told at a sleepover give seven-year-old Jodie nightmares about the Goat Woman. Only after a drive and a special picnic in ...

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Palma Africana, Paperback - Michael Taussig

218,99 RON

"It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream." So begins Palma Africana, th...

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Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi, Paperback - Gokce Gunel

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert...

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Magic's Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy, Paperback - Graham M. Jones

218,99 RON

In Magic's Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they...

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The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai, Paperback - Maura Finkelstein

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past. In The Archive of Loss Maura Finkel...

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Wandering Spirits: Loneliness and Longing in Greenland, Paperback - Janne Flora

218,99 RON

DescriptionIt is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. B...

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Ethnicity, Inc., Paperback - John L. Comaroff

218,99 RON

In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Th...

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Marginal Gains. Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa, Paperback - Jane I. Guyer

218,99 RON

This study reveals how popular economic systems work in Africa, and elsewhere in the Third World.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s...

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Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy, Paperback - Emily Wilcox

217,99 RON

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

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Arab and Jewish Questions. Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond, Paperback - ***

217,99 RON

This book brings together leading scholars to consider how the "Jewish Question" and the "Arab Question" are entangled historically and in the pres...

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Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia, Paperback - Morten Axel Pedersen

215,99 RON

DescriptionThe forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; w...

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Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of Lgbt Activism in Eastern Europe, Paperback - Conor O'Dwyer

215,99 RON

DescriptionHow homophobic backlash unexpectedly strengthened mobilization for LGBT political rights in post-communist Europe While LGBT activism ha...

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Time Maps, Paperback - Eviatar Zerubavel

215,99 RON

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Eviatar ZerubavelNumber of pages: 187Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 232 x 166 x 13Cover typ...

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Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age. Global Industries and New Audiences, New ed, Paperback - ***

214,99 RON

Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. In this title, chapters addresses the issues, theories, a...

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Sweetwater. Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, Paperback - Robin M. Boylorn

214,99 RON

Presents a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. This book captures the artistry, strength, hope, sound, lang...

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Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics, Paperback - Myrl Beam

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere's expansion has helped--and hindered--the LGBT cause What if the very structure on which so...

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Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures, Paperback - Gert Jan Hofstede

213,99 RON

Exploring Culture brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life. Gert Jan Hofstede and his co-authors Paul Pedersen and Geert...

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Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality, Paperback - Mark Banks

212,99 RON

DescriptionCreative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and cultural workplace. It first aims to do just...

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Spirits from the Edge of the World: Classical Shamanism in Ulchi Society, Paperback - J. Van Ysslestyne

212,99 RON 227,99 RON

Reducere. Description Spirits from the Edge of the World is a compilation of oral shamanic history gathered from 1994 to the present.The Ulchi are Manchu-Tun...

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In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology, Paperback - George Gmelch

211,99 RON

This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining acco...

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Women, Islam and the State, Paperback - Deniz Kandiyoti

211,99 RON

Publisher: Temple University Press, U.S.Author(s): Deniz KandiyotiNumber of pages: 276Collection: Women In The Political EconomyPublication date: 1...

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Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, Paperback - Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Haitian Vodou breaks away from European and American heuristic models for understanding a religio-philosophical system such as Vodou in order to fo...

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Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America, Paperback - Esther Newton

210,99 RON

DescriptionFor two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens-homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton s...

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Precarious Japan, Paperback - Anne Allison

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Reducere. In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japan...

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The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia, Paperback - Nancy Postero

209,99 RON

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

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The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania, Paperback - Frank Marlowe

209,99 RON

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza,...

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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Paperback - James Clifford

209,99 RON

This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which ...

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Soul Hunters. Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs, Paperback - Professor Rane Willerslev

209,99 RON

An ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northe...

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Doing your Research Project in Sport - Chris Lynch

207,99 RON

Guides students thorough the process of researching a project, from the initial stages to the presentation of the findings. With a no-nonsense, sim...

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