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  • Ethiopia
    Paulos Milkias
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    136,48 €

  • Unruly Hills
    Bengt G. Karlsson / Bengt GKarlsson
    The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification> of land and other as...
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    183,89 €

  • Modern Homelessness
    Mary Hombs
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    82,14 €

  • Gold
    Shannon Kenny
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    135,70 €

  • Organization Theory and Transnational Social Movements
    KBGhimire / Kleber Bertrand Ghimire / Klzber Ghimire
    This book explores the internal functioning and exercise of power inside a widely acclaimed transnational social organization: the alternative globalization movement. Drawing on new empirical data and perspectives from the Organizational Theory (OT), it highlights the movements’ many unique features that are yet to be fully grasped within theoretical debates: ideological flexib...
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    132,16 €

  • The Spatial Logic of Social Struggle
    Nikolaus Fogle
    This is the first work to explicitly target Bourdieu’s philosophy of space as a basic organizing force for his social theory. It draws together his work on both social space and physical space, and it applies the logic that binds them together to problems of architecture and urban development. ...
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    132,01 €

  • The Wedding Night
    Chris Filstrup / Jane Merrill
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    69,26 €

  • Immigration and Social Cohesion in the Republic of Ireland
    Bryan Fanning
    In the last decade Ireland’s immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. This is the first major academic book to offer a detailed account of how immigrants in Ireland are faring and is the first to address the challenge of integration and social cohesion. ...
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    29,67 €

  • Coping with Distances
    J. Rgen Ole Baerenholdt / JRgen Ole Baerenholdt
    The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations, networking and the formation of identities people have coped with distances, thus continuously rebuilding societies in Northern Norway, Iceland, the Faroes and Greenland. Living ...
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    44,23 €

  • Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies
    Roy Ellen
    Probably more than any other British anthropologist, Roy Ellen is associated with the study of ethnobiology; his has also long ranked among the leading names in the field . . . Both readers new to Ellen as well as thosealready familiar with his work will find this collection rewarding. American AnthropologistThe 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological...
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    44,36 €

  • A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity
    Linda Kalof
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 Animals had a ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world. A Cultural History of Animals In Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BC to 1000 AD, describing how animals were an intrinsic part of the spiritual life of ancient society, how they were hunted, domesticated and used for en...
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    50,96 €

  • Chronology of Americans and the Environment
    Chris Magoc
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    53,90 €

  • Causal Explanation for Social Scientists
    Andrew Vayda
    All social scientists, despite their differences on many issues, ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to answer those questions. ...
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    73,15 €

  • Causal Explanation for Social Scientists
    Andrew Vayda
    All social scientists, despite their differences on many issues, ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to answer those questions. ...
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    176,94 €

  • Adapting to Climate Change
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    100,80 €

  • Reflections on Humans and their Surroundings
    Simon Saint
    As the title suggests this is a collection of individual but interconnected reflections concerning humans and their surroundings. The book starts with a consideration of human ’world views’ - the way that humans conceive of themselves in relation to their surroundings. The reflections cover topics such as the relationship between awareness, experience and qualia, the nature of ...
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    12,59 €

  • Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica
    Carlos Sandoval-García / Kari Meyers
    Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica is a major contribution to scholarship on Central American immigration by the sheer number of topics it covers by an internationally recognized team of scholars from several disciplines. ...
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    165,96 €

  • The Legacy
    Thomas Bennett / Thomas Peter Bennett
    This book is an account of the origins, founding, and development in twentieth-century Florida of a people’s museum that reflects Florida’s changes through Spanish exploration, statehood, tourism, endangered manatees, and space development over a thousand years. This story of volunteerism leads to today’s South Florida Museum and its several facilities. ...
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    68,24 €

  • The Legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean
    Arnold Gibbons
    Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium and was disturbed by the inability of intellectuals to share a common cause with the masses. He sought to lift the Caribbean people from the victimization of history and the poverty of material circumstance. ...
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    59,94 €

  • English Villages And Hamlets
    Humphrey Pakington
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    35,94 €

  • Environmental Social Sciences
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    129,88 €

  • Envisioning Media Power
    Brett Christophers
    Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy, focusing on the UK and New Zealand markets, and on their respective relationships with the U.S. market and its globally influential media corporations. In illuminating the fabric of television's international space economy, the b...
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    78,29 €

  • Boundless Worlds
    Peter Wynn Kirby
    Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote. 'Space' and 'place' are also often analyzed without grappling much (if at all) with the social, political, and historical roots of spatial practice. This volume embarks upon the novel strategy of focusing on movement as a way of understandi...
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    44,56 €

  • The Earth in Transition
    H. S. Bennett / HSBennett
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    71,59 €

  • From Dar es Salaam to Bongoland. Urban Mutations in Tanzania
    Bernard Calas
    The name Dar es Salaam comes from the Arabic phrase meaning house of peace. A popular but erroneous translation is 'haven of peace' resulting from a mix-up of the Arabic words 'dar' (house) and 'bandar' (harbour). Named in 1867 by the Sultan of Zanzibar, the town has for a long time benefitted from a reputation of being a place of tranquility. The tropical drowsiness is a comfo...
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    90,59 €

  • Eritrea
    Mussie Tesfagiorgis G.
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    136,08 €

  • Faiths on Display
    Tim Oakes
    By providing a unique perspective on China’s changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Throughout China, spaces for religious expression and practice have been rebuilt, revived, and contrived for display by local officials hoping to cash in on tourist revenue. Faiths on Display...
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    160,73 €

  • Diasporas
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    50,91 €

  • Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology
    Kenneth Feder
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    135,57 €

  • Culture and Customs of the Hmong
    Gary Yia Lee / Nicholas Tapp
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    77,11 €