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Anthropology in the East Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9781905422784, ISBN: HB: 9781905422777, Seagull Books, September 2008
568 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm
Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet, with the exception of fieldwork experience, there is little research available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines or on the practices of pioneering anthropolog...
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£30,00
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£82,50
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Bells of Change Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity In India
ISBN: PB: 9781905422487, Seagull Books, September 2008
240 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 13 halftones
This is the first critical study of Kathak dance. "Bells of Change" traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to...
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£22,50
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Belgrade A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955436, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Belgrade sits above the confluence of two great rivers, the Sava and Danube. It has been home to many civilizations: Celts, Romans, Byzantines, Bulgars, Magyars, Ottomans and Serbs. Frequently attacked and destroyed, it has bee...
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£12,00
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Vienna A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955450, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Habsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Au...
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£12,00
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Of Matters Modern The Experience of Modernity in Colonial and Post-colonial South Asia
ISBN: PB: 9781905422623, ISBN: HB: 9781905422616, Seagull Books, August 2008
402 pp., 23x15.6 cm
"Of Matters Modern" analyses the experience of modernity in South Asia. Arguing that South Asia's experience of modernity has to be understood in a global context, the book explores a wide range of topics: the emergence of "Assam Fever" in colonial d...
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£26,50
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£75,00
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Andalucia A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955443, Signal Books, August 2008
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andalucia has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilizations for more than ten thousand years...
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£12,00
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Patagonia A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955382, Signal Books, July 2008
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encomp...
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£12,00
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Censoring Sexuality
ISBN: HB: 9781905422562, Seagull Books, May 2008
160 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Despite Western culture's roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no place in the official cultures of Western societies. As late as the 19th Century, homosexuality was th...
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£15,00
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Bangkok A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955399, Signal Books, March 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Bangkok stands out as a place of extraordinary allure. Beginning as a floating city in a lush tropical setting, known to foreigners as the "Venice of the East", centuries later, its majestic Grand Palace and glittering Buddhist...
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£12,00
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How to be a Good Husband
ISBN: HB: 9781851243761, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2008
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books.Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns de...
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£4,99
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