wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Over The Hills: The Welsh Great Escape
ISBN: 9781676646204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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42,89 |
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The Man who Collected Women
ISBN: 9781912049745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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45,14 |
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A Plague of Caterpillars: A Return to the African Bush
ISBN: 9781780601519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village in northern Cameroon where he had lived as a field anthropologist for 18 months.
When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village ...
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65,23 |
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Toraja: Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia
ISBN: 9789814423465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
45,14 |
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Symbolic Structures: An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos
ISBN: 9780521105347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Many opposing theories have been elaborated by different anthropologists in an attempt to explain the nature of symbolism. In this work Nigel Barley uses a particular ethnographic case to examine the relevance and limitations of these existing theories and to develop a new alternative approach which draws on areas of linguistics and folkloristics at one time neglected by symbolic theorists. The book is a detailed study of the symbolic universe of the Dowayos of north Cameroon, as displayed in their ritual and beliefs. Considering matters as diverse as their oral literature, their material...
Many opposing theories have been elaborated by different anthropologists in an attempt to explain the nature of symbolism. In this work Nigel Barley u...
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205,79 |
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The Innocent Anthropologist
ISBN: 9781906011505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This witty introduction to the life of the social anthropologist describes Barley's experiences in the Cameroons. In his first foray into fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipline.
This witty introduction to the life of the social anthropologist describes Barley's experiences in the Cameroons. In his first foray into fieldwork, B...
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65,23 |
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White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke
ISBN: 9780349116730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas in the presence of the Sultan. Brooke was an opportunist who, with the Sultan's backing, made war on the Dayaks tribespeople and eventually found himself ruling over Sarawak - a kingdom the size of England - as a result. How he achieved it is a romantic, sometimes horrifying story. Brooke is someone that George Macdonald Fraser would scarcely...
Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up i...
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cena:
55,19 |
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Love and Death in Bali
ISBN: 9780804841801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting "mass suicides" of the Balinese royalty, the moving story unfolds of the peasant Pak and his family and friends, and the tragedy that is their shared fate. Written within living memory of the bloody events called the puputan (the "ending"), Love and Death in Bali is the story of a passionate yet peaceful and deeply spiritual people who defy the Dutch imperial forces through an act that would bring them certain death--and certain rebirth. The looting of a Chinese...
Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting "mass suicides" of the Balinese royalty, the movi...
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72,98 |