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PAPERBACK, squiggly pencil underlining on about 15 pages in chapter 4, and large old price label on rear cover obscuring part of cover text and not easy to remove, otherwise still quite good copy for reading and study. TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER C. Sacrifice as terror: the Rwandan genocide of 1994 COPY WITH SOME UNDERLINING. Oxford ; NY: Berg, 2001, x, 197pp., . Series: Global issues "This book, the outcome of the author's experiences during this conflict, is an attempt to understand the atrocities committed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which nearly one million people, mostly of Tutsi ethnicity, were slaughtered in less than four months." "Perhaps most importantly, in light of the recent resurgence of violence, the author advances hypotheses about how the violence in Rwanda and Burundi might be transcended." - CONTENTS: Rwanda -- The Hamitic hypothesis in Rwanda and Burundi -- The cosmology of terror -- The dialectics of hate and desire: Tutsi women and Hutu extremism. 9781859732786 ISBN 185973278X.

Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover, glossy boards, 601 pages. This book explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years' 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 sociocultural system based on a carefully negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony between the sexes. Pencil marking to 10 pages otherwise clean. Record # 379668.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. (2000), Very Good Plus/no dj, octavo, 287pp., green pictorial glossy boards hardcover, b&w ill's throughout, light cover soil, binding tight, text unmarked, uncommon in hardcover.

Later trade paperback printing. ix + 239 pp w/index. Corner crease to one page, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First U.S. Edition. x, 212pp w extensive bibliography and index. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. 8vo. xiii, 382 pp. Original stiff photographic brown wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book hardcover First Edition pp228. No DJ Pictorial boards. Condition New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Faintly bumped at lower tips else FINE in glazed pictorial boards, 32-ppgs photos, 499-ppgs, indexed. This is the first book in English to deal comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. It explores the failed attempt by the Nazi state to construct a female image that would mirror official gender policies, inculcate feelings of national pride, promote a German victory on the fashion runways of Europe and support a Nazi-controlled European fashion industry.

Condizione: Sehr gut. VII; 226 S.; Abb.; 8°; kart. Sehr gutes Ex. - Jews and Shoes - Edna Nahshon - PART I: RELIGION AND THE BIBLE - The Biblical Shoe - Eschewing Footwear: The Call of Moses As Biblical Archetype - Ora Horn Prouser - The Halitzah Shoe - Between Female Subjugation and Symbolic Emasculation - Catherine Hezser - The Tombstone Shoe - Shoe-Shaped Tombstones in Jewish Cemeteries in the Ukraine - Rivka Parciack - The Israeli Shoe - Biblical Sandals and Native Israeli Identity - Orna Ben-Meir - PART II: MEMORIES AND COMMEMORATION - The Shtetl Shoe - How to Make a Shoe Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett - The Folkloristic Shoe - Shoes and Shoemakers in Yiddish Language and Folklore - Robert A. Rothstein - The Holocaust Shoe - Untying Memory: Shoes as Holocaust Memorial Experience - Jeffrey Feldman - PART Ml: IDEOLOGY AND ECONOMICS - The Wanderer's Shoe - The Cobbler's Penalty: The Wandering Jew in Search of Salvation - Shelly Zer-Zion - The Equalizing Shoe - Shoes As a Symbol of Equality in the Jewish Society in Palestine during the First Half of the Twentieth Century - Ayala Raz - PART IV: THEATRE, ART, AND FILM - The Fetishist's Shoe - "Poems of Pedal Atrocity": Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Art of Bruno Schulz - Andrew Ingall - The Artist's Shoe - Digging into the Jewish Roots of Shoe-Field - Sonya Rapoport - The Theatrical Shoe - The Utterance of Shoemaking: Cobblers on the Israeli Stage - Dorit Yerushalmi - The Cinematic Shoe - Ernst Lubitsch's East European "Touch" in Pinkus's Shoe Palace - Jeanette R. Malkin. // Abbildungen: Statuette of Polish Jewish shoemaker - High Priest in ceremonial garb - Indian-Jewish family - North African woman's shoes - North African Beit Midrash - Reading Lamentations, The Rothschild Mahzor - Nechama Golan, sandal - Yemenite Jews on their way to Israel - Yosl Bergner, shoe from Lost Shoes series - Yosl Bergner. Shoe from Lost Shoes series - Issachar-Ber Rybak, poster - Postcard image of shoemaker's workshop - Emblem of the Jewish shoemakers guild of Prague - The shoemakers' synagogue in Birze, Lithuania - The marketplace in Kazimierz, Poland - Boy in shoemaker's apartment, Lithuania - Itinerant cobbler in New York's Lower East Side - Hirsh Lekert, portrait - Shoe factory in Kiev named after Hirsh Lekert - 'Shoes on the Danube Bank' memorial in Budapest - Title page of 1712 Passover Haggadah - Halitzah ceremony - Halitzah shoe - Cemetery with shoe-shaped tombstones - Shoe-shaped tombstone - Map of cemeteries with shoe-shaped tombstones - Native Israeli sandals - Kibbutz members at work - Memorial monument at kibbutz Negba - 'Bar-Mitzva Wish,' caricature - Settler with Isareli flag. ISBN 9781847880505 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.