Catálogo de libros: Sociología y antropología

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  • Lourdes Arizpe
    Lourdes Arizpe
    This book presents major texts by Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser, a pioneering Mexican anthropologist, on the occasion of her 70th birthday. She is a leading researcher into indigenous peoples, an innovator in women’s studies and a global scientific leader who has inspired the international research and policy communities. Throughout her distinguished career she has analyse...
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    68,33 €

  • Revenge in Athenian Culture
    Fiona McHardy
    Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life - even where we might not expect to find it today. Revenge was of prime importance as a means of survival for the people of early Greece and remained in force during the rise of the ’poleis’. The revenge of epic heroes such as Odysseus and Menalaus influences later thinking about...
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    51,37 €

  • Food and the Self
    Isabelle de Solier
    We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to ’meaningless’ modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form meaningful and moral selves through both the consumption and production of materia...
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    47,34 €

  • Food and the Self
    Isabelle De Solier
    We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to ’meaningless’ modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form meaningful and moral selves through both the consumption and production of materia...
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    174,04 €

  • Man to Man (a Conversation Between a Father & Son)
    Jay Baisden
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    18,30 €

  • Man to Man (a Conversation Between a Father & Son)
    Jay Baisden
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    32,40 €

  • A Special Way of Being Roma in Toflea Village of Romania
    Rarita Mihail
    The Roma are often approached by researchers and public opinion as a group whose ethnic identity is 'obvious'. As their way of life is considered as completely different from the groups surrounding them, any image of the non-gypsies about the gypsies is built in order to account for this radical difference. And this difference is naturalised and essentialised by the majority. B...
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    35,74 €

  • The Gloss of Harmony
    Birgit Müller
    The Gloss of Harmony focuses on agencies of the United Nations, examining the paradox of entrusting relatively powerless and underfunded organisations with the responsibility of tackling some of the essential problems of our time. The book shows how international organisations shape the world in often unexpected and unpredictable ways.The authors of this collection look not onl...
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    60,32 €

  • The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice
    Tamara L. Stenn
    The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice is an ethnographic study of the effects of Fair Trade on indigenous women, as reported by the women themselves, and seeks to develop a deeper understanding of Fair Trade, globalization, culture, and policy in building justice. ...
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    133,94 €

  • The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences
    David Baronov
    Large-scale, long-term, historical accounts of social and cultural change survive as legacies of those treatises by Smith, Comte, Marx, and others grappling with the complexities of an emerging Modern Age. Postmodern and postcolonial writers have built a formidable body of work in opposition to this legacy and to its contemporary disciples. The core criticism is that these acco...
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    254,12 €

  • Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production
    Leandro Rodriguez Medina
    This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences. It explores not only how knowledge is appropriated in peripheral fields but also how foreign ideas shape those fields and the trajectories of scholars, and uses actor-network theory to explain circulati...
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    254,44 €

  • Intelecturales indígenas en Ecuador, Bolivia y Chile
    Claudia Zapata Silva
    El protagonismo político de los movimientos indígenas ha dominado la escena latinoamericana desde los años ochenta del pasado siglo. Una de las claves de este proceso ha sido la creación de una discursividad propia. Era, por fin, la llegada del otro indígena que hablaba sobre sí mismo y desde su diferencia. En este proceso han confluido distintos actores indígenas, uno de ellos...
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    25,48 €

  • How to Read a Folktale
    Lee Haring
    How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineag...
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    67,11 €

  • Mindful Parenting
    Kathleen Restifo / Susan Bögels
    Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply-and the quality of parenting suffers-when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children develop can tax parents’ inner resources, often undoi...
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    144,58 €

  • Ethnographic Worldviews
    This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers’ and participants’ worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understand many of the current issues an...
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    132,63 €

  • Most-Cited Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 1986-2010
    Amaia Iratzoqui / David P. Farrington / David PFarrington / Ellen G Cohn
    ​​ ​This brief examines the influence and prestige of scholars and works in the field of Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as changes in influence and prestige over a period of 25 years, based on citation analysis. Methods of measuring scholarly influence can be highly controversial, but the authors of this work clearly outline their methodology, developed over years of...
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    67,08 €

  • Ein Leben ohne Kinder
    Trotz der offensichtlichen sozialpolitischen Relevanz und großen medialen Aufmerksamkeit des Phänomens Kinderlosigkeit sind das Ausmaß, die Ursachen und die Konsequenzen der Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland bislang unzureichend untersucht worden, mit der Folge, dass in öffentlichen Debatten eine unkritische Verwendung irreführender, wenn nicht falscher Angaben über Kinderlosigkei...
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    59,84 €

  • The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia
    The household has traditionally been neglected in studies of Asian political economy. While there is an emergent literature that looks at this relationship, to date, it is fragmented. The contributors consider how the household economy has increasingly been incorporated into development planning and policy making within both states and multilateral development agencies. They ex...
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    64,98 €

  • Deconstructing Youth
    F. Gabriel
    Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to ’youth problems’ by recasting the foundations of the concept of ’youth’. ...
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    48,27 €

  • Regulatory Peptides and Cognate Receptors
    Dietmar Richter
    In the last two decades, our knowledge on regulatory peptides and their cognate receptors, most of which are members of the seven transmembrane receptor families, has increased enormously. Regulatory peptides are small proteins which, besides their hormonal functions in regulating cellular metabolism in various tissues, may also act as neurotransmitte...
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    271,82 €

  • New Developments in Psychometrics
    At the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Osaka, Japan, more than 300 participants from 19 countries gathered to discuss recent developments in the theory and application of psychometrics. This volume of proceedings includes papers on methods of psychometrics such as the structural equation model and item response theory. The book is...
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    64,24 €

  • Harvey Sacks Lectures 1964-1965
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    209,26 €

  • Response Models for Detection of Change
    Anatol Rapoport / G. Burkheimer / W. Stein
    This book reports our research on detection of change processes that underlie psychophysical, learning, medical diagnosis, military, and pro­ duction control situations, and share three major features. First, the states of the process are not directly observable but become gradually known with the sequential acquisition of fallible information over ti...
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    66,65 €

  • A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism
    Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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    66,31 €

  • The P DAT Itaka of y Milaka
    G. H. Schokker / P. J. Worseley
    In 1966 a text-edition of Syämilaka’s Padatagitaka, an ancient Sanskrit monologue-play (bhä’la) dating from the Gupta time (between 455 and 510 A.D.), was published by me as a doctoral dissertation for the University of Leyden. The present book which is published as the second part of 'The Pädata ...
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    146,30 €

  • Death in Classic and Contemporary Film
    Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema. ...
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    66,36 €

  • Akkulturation junger Ausländer in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
    Werner Treuheit
    Die AusHinderpolitik der Bundesregierung wird im wesentlichen von drei Gesichtspunkten bestimmt: Integration der hier Leben­ den - soweit die rechtlichen Voraussetzungen gegeben sind; Einschrankung des weiteren Zuzugs und Forderung der Rtick­ kehrbereitschaft. Bedingt durch wirtschaftliche Interessen und einen verstarkten Asylbewerberzugang war die of...
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    73,22 €

  • Anthropoid Origins
    The study ofanthropoid origins continues to be a lightning rod for research in paleoanthropology. Issuessurrounding anthropoid origins impact the higher leveltaxonomy ofprimates, adaptivescenariosfor basalprimate radiations, and the timing of origination of the major primate clades. Basic questions about anthropoid evolution remain unanswered. Where d...
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    70,31 €

  • Refiguring the Archive
    Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive’ in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as hol...
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    358,00 €

  • Six Lives in Jerusalem
    Randy L. Sturman
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    66,92 €


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