wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Over The Hills: The Welsh Great Escape
ISBN: 9781676646204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,73 zł |
White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke
ISBN: 9780349116730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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56,74 zł |
Island of Demons
ISBN: 9789810823818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many men dream of running away to a tropical island and living surrounded by beauty and exotic exuberance. Walter Spies did more than dream. He actually did it. In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies - ethnographer, choreographer, film maker, natural historian and painter - transformed the perception of Bali from that of a remote island to become the site for Western fantasies about Paradise and it underwent an influx of foreign visitors. The rich and famous flocked to Spies' house in Ubud and his life and work forged a link between serious academics and the visionaries from the Golden Age of...
Many men dream of running away to a tropical island and living surrounded by beauty and exotic exuberance. Walter Spies did more than dream. He actual...
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74,04 zł |
Snow over Surabaya
ISBN: 9781912049004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a multitude of different names - 'K'tut Tantri' and 'Surabaya Sue' being the best know - she joined in the struggle for Indonesian independence after the Second World War and broadcast its revolutionary message to the world on Rebel Radio. But she did more and smuggled arms, and probably drugs, to help finance the new Republic and experienced bloody battle in the British attack on Surabaya that some have seen as a war crime. She went on to become...
Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a...
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46,42 zł |
Die Raupenplage : Von einem, der auszog, Ethnologie zu betreiben
ISBN: 9783293205895 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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59,42 zł |
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 (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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67,06 zł |
The Man who Collected Women
ISBN: 9781912049745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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46,42 zł |
Not a Hazardous Sport: Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia
ISBN: 9781780601434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Not a Hazardous Sport provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague of Caterpillars (both published by Eland).
Not a Hazardous Sport provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague of...
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67,06 zł |
The Devil's Garden: Love and War in Singapore Under the Japanese Flag
ISBN: 9789814358422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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41,25 zł |
The Innocent Anthropologist
ISBN: 9781906011505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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67,06 zł |
Symbolic Structures: An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos
ISBN: 9780521105347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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218,26 zł |
Toraja: Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia
ISBN: 9789814423465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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46,42 zł |
Love and Death in Bali
ISBN: 9780804841801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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78,40 zł |