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1	A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments more books like this by Christopher Y Tilley, Bruce Kapferer (Editor), John Gledhill (Editor) add to wishlist Offering a new approach to landscape perception, this book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship ... see all copies from $21.97! new only from $27.08! \| SVS
2	Other Worlds: Notions of Self and Emotion Among the Lohorung Rai more books like this by Charlotte E Hardman, Bruce Kapferer (Editor), John Gledhill (Editor) add to wishlist This important ethnographic study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe of about 3,000 members living in Eastern Nepal. These rice farmers have a tradition of migration combined with hunting and gathering. By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, this book explores the way in which ancestral ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.62! \| first editions
3	The Anthropology of Europe: Identities and Boundaries in Conflict more books like this by Victoria Ana Goddard, Bruce Kapferer (Editor), John Gledhill (Editor) add to wishlist This is one of the first anthropological studies of Europe post-1989. Fourteen authors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation. Their aim is to set an agenda for future research based on European ... see all copies from $11.98! new only from $15.26! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Power and Its Disguises - Second Edition: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics more books like this by John Gledhill add to wishlist Shows how the study of the micro-dynamics of power in everyday life, coupled with sensitivity to interactions between local and global processes, offers critical insights into such issues as state terror and ethnic violence, the emancipatory potential of social movements and the politics of rights, gender and culture. see all copies from $20.90! new only from $31.00! \| SVS
5	Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea more books like this by Bernard Juillerat, John Gledhill (Editor), Bruce Kapferer (Editor) add to wishlist This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their rainforest environment are mediated by a ... see all copies from $15.65! new only from $27.56!
6	Britain, France and Appeasement more books like this by Martin Thomas, Bruce Kapferer (Editor), John Gledhill (Editor) add to wishlist This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series of Popular Front coalition Ministries. It asserts that French policy-makers made a substantial impact upon the course of British foreign policy whilst breathing new life into the waning Entente ... see all copies from $14.58! new only from $34.09! \| SVS
7	Corporate Scandal: Global Corporatism Against Society more books like this by John Gledhill add to wishlist see all copies from $3.78! new only from $25.00!
8	Power & Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics more books like this by John Gledhill add to wishlist Anthropologists now argue that their perspectives help those in the North understand themselves in a world that is experiencing profound changes. In exploring this argument what emerges from this work is a multilayered complexity of political relations which include symbols and rituals associated with political action. The emergent New World Order ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $21.26!
9	Britain, France and Appeasement: Anglo-French Relations in the Popular Front Era more books like this by Martin Thomas, Bruce Kapferer (Editor), John Gledhill (Editor) add to wishlist This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to 1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series of Popular Front coalition Ministries. It asserts that French policy-makers made a substantial impact upon the course of British foreign policy whilst breathing new life into the waning Entente ... see all copies from $9.55! new only from $61.33!
10	Casi NADA: A Study in Agrarian Reform in the Homeland of Cardenismo more books like this by John Gledhill add to wishlist "CASI NADA is the result of many months that the author shared the lives of the ejidatarios of Guaracha, Michoacan and of his patient reconstruction of the collective memory concerning a half centry of violence and hope. Without a doubt, it will become obligatory reading for those interested in the themes of agrarian reform, peasant reproduction ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $25.00!
11	Neoliberalism, Transnationalization, and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Michoacan, Mexico more books like this by John Gledhill add to wishlist Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory, this is a close examination of the responses of a regional society to economic change and political strategies to provide an understanding of the economic, social and political dimensions of the Salinas regime in Mexico. Discussing the links between rural Mexico and the agri-business ... see all copies from $75.00! new only from $75.00!
12	Managing Students more books like this by John M Gledhill add to wishlist Designed to guide managers and administrators through the complexities within student administration, this text covers issues from judicial review through to the question of why examination desks move. It explores how managers can balance the needs of the student with those of the institution. see all copies from $15.27! new only from $25.79! \| SVS
13	How to Translate Thomas Mann's Works more books like this by John R M Gledhill add to wishlist Thomas Mann's three stories Tonio Krger, Tristan and Der Tod in Venedig are compared with the translations by Helen Lowe-Porter and David Luke respectively. From the comparison, it emerges that Lowe-Porter's translations are so deeply flawed that her oeuvre can be regarded as a scandal in the translation world. Even today, her botched versions of ... see all copies from $65.65! new only from $65.65! \| SVS

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