Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in Canada

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter t suzuki”
Skip side bar filters

  • Critical Survey of Studies on the Anthropology of Nias, Mentawei and Enggano

    by Peter T. Suzuki ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The purpose of this bibliography is to serve as a medium for informing those interested about the contents of books and articles which have thus far appeared dealing with the above-mentioned three cultures. Anthropology here is used in its widest sense: Physical anthropology, ethnology, cultural anthropology, archaeology and ethno history. l In view of the fact that Kennedy's bibliography has ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Becoming Yellow

    A Short History of Racial Thinking

    by Michael Keevak ...
    The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to ... Read more

    $79.19 CAD

  • The Return of Hans Staden

    A Go-between in the Atlantic World

    by Eve M. Duffy, Alida C. Metcalf ...
    Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world.Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • From Batavia to Jakarta in Poetry

    A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

    by Michael Groß, Zeffry J. Alkatiri, Deborah Cole ...
    Series Book 24 - BTW
    German Title: Von Batavia bis Jakarta in GedichtenIndonesian Title: Dari Batavia ke Jakarta dalam Sajak dan puisi lainnyaZeffry Alkatiri’s poetry collection is a romp through history in verse. These poems are flashes of past events that are unrolled to form a historical mosaic of Indonesia’s capital city. Starting with the Dutch turning Jakatra into Batavia, the poems paint a unique picture of the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Apples and Oranges

    Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany

    by Joy Wiltenburg ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Iceland Imagined

    Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

    by Karen Oslund ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund’s Iceland Imagined.This ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Chinese Sympathies

    Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

    by Daniel Leonhard Purdy ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established ... Read more

    Free

  • Selected Poems and Prose

    by Gottfried Benn ...
    Translated by David Paisey ...
    These selections from the esteemed career of Gottfried Benn—one of the most significant German poets of the 20th century—showcase his early, shockingly graphic depictions of human suffering and degradation, as well as the isolation and fragmentation of the human being adrift in a nihilistic world found in his later work. Translator David Paisey presents two selections, of verse and prose ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust'

    German and Intercultural Stagings

    by David G. John ...
    Series series German and European Studies
    Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. Notably, Bennewitz conducted stagings of Goethe's Faust in four different languages over a series of seven productions — ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book

    Gender and the Making of Textual Authority

    by Sara S. Poor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Dynastic Colonialism

    Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

    by Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD