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On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany by Daphne Berdahl
RRP: £19.99£17.54Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts
RRP: £14.99£10.95The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it... -
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions by Adam Kuper
RRP: £25.00£21.79A TLS BEST BOOK OF 2023 'A formidable work' Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A magnificent, moving survey' Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, TLS This is a history of... -
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist) by Sarah Chaney
RRP: £16.99£11.27*A Blackwell's Book of the Year* *A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* *A Telegraph Best Book for Summer 2022* *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole... -
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies by Yaron Matras
RRP: £10.99£7.77In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their cultureWho are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral... -
Tales of A Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809549Author Rita Golden GelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition A. P. Elkin 9780892814213
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892814213Author A. P. ElkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
The Grand Hostels: Luxury Hostels of the World by Budgettraveller by Gestalten 9783899556841
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899556841Author GestaltenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How ending consumerism gives us a better life and a greener world by J. B. MacKinnon
RRP: £9.99£7.11We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. What would happen if we did?We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we... -
Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines Tim Ingold 9781138244740
RRP: £47.99£41.81Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia... -
Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
RRP: £23.00£15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449908709Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm... -
The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology by Mr. Anthony Pagden 9780521337045
RRP: £43.99£36.19This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and... -
African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice by Mwenda Ntarangwi 9781842777633
RRP: £26.99£23.44This overview of the history, application and teaching of anthropology in post-colonial Africa shows how the continent's anthropologists are redefining the historical legacy of European and American disciplinary hegemony, and developing distinctively... -
On the State: Lectures at the College de France, 1989 - 1992 Pierre Bourdieu 9780745663302
RRP: £18.99£17.27What is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life? In... -
Graves of the Great and Famous: From Jane Austen to Elvis Presley by Alastair Horne
RRP: £19.99£13.65Karl Marx is buried in London, John Keats in Rome and Leon Trotsky in Mexico. Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is today known for the graves of Jim Morrison, Victor Hugo and Oscar Wilde, but when it opened in the early 19th century the owners felt that... -
The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools by Ernest Morrell 9780820474151
RRP: £25.65£22.33This book furthers the discussion concerning critical pedagogy and its practical applications for urban contexts. It addresses two looming, yet under-explored questions that have emerged with the ascendancy of critical pedagogy in the educational... -
A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies by Denielle Elliott
RRP: £25.99£22.49Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative,... -
Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth 9780198749585
RRP: £22.99£18.10This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard... -
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do by Clotaire Rapaille
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767920575Author Clotaire RapailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)... -
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart by Ruth Behar
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007136Author Ruth BeharFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Visual Anthropology: Essential Method and Theory by Fadwa El Guindi 9780759103955
RRP: £36.00£31.81El Guindi provides a comprehensive guide to the methods of visual anthropology and the use of film in cross-cultural research and ethnography. She shows how visual media - photographic, filmic, interactive - is now an accepted part of the anthropological... -
Period: The Real Story of Menstruation by Kate Clancy
RRP: £22.00£16.55A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an... -
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One Lafcadio Hearn 9780804847551
RRP: £16.99£11.54Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains... -
A War for the Soul of America, Second Edition: A History of the Culture Wars by Andrew Hartman
£20.31When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, "There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country," his audience knew what he was talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout... -
Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck
RRP: £13.99£8.77A father and his daughters may not be able to return home . . . but they can celebrate stories of their homeland! As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them stories of a faraway homeland-Palestine... -
Days In The Life by Jonathon Green
RRP: £16.99£12.68Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount... -
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature Patrick Barkham (Y) 9781783781935
RRP: £9.99£6.70From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activities we associate with a happy childhood take place outdoors. And yet, the reality for many contemporary children is very different. The studies tell us that... -
The Food Book: The Stories, Science, and History of What We Eat DK 9780241666630
RRP: £30.00£20.95Discover the origins, traditions, and use of the everyday foods served on our plates, from salt to sushi and rice to ravioli. A true celebration of food in all its forms, The Food Book follows the human quest for sustenance through the stories of... -
The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come from, and What Makes Us Happy by William von Hippel
RRP: £12.99£8.48"A rollicking tour through humanity's evolutionary past, and von Hippel is the consummate tour guide. With equal parts wisdom, humor, authority, and charm, he shows how our past explains the present and why our well-being rests on an understanding of how... -
Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins by Peter Ungar
RRP: £20.00£15.89Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist... -
Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling Rebecca Cassidy 9780745340395
RRP: £24.99£16.38Gambling is everywhere, on our TVs and phones, on billboards on our streets, and emblazoned across the chests of idolised sports stars. Why has gambling suddenly expanded? How was it transformed from a criminal activity to a respectable business run by... -
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia by Emma Kowal 9781478025375
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal... -
Silent Language Anchor by Edward T. Hall
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385055499Author Edward T. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait' GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure ... Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR ... -
Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience by Helga Nowotny 9780745618371
£16.18"Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey. From the artificial time of the scientific laboratory to the distinctively modern yearning for... -
The Biological Farmer: A Complete Guide to the Sustainable & Profitable Biological System of Farming by Gary F Zimmer
RRP: £24.95£19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601731340Author Gary F ZimmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint Acres U.S.A., IncPublisher Acres U.S.A., Inc -
Tea: A Global History Helen Saberi 9781861897763
RRP: £12.99£9.09From oolong to sencha to chai, tea is one of the world's most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a uniquely adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties and ways by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the... -
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by Reinier de Graaf 9780674241466
RRP: £20.95£17.28A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year"Sharp, revealing, funny."-The Guardian"An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again... [De Graaf] deftly shows that... -
Hong Kong - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Clare Vickers 9781857338690
RRP: £9.99£7.54Visitors marvel at Hong Kong's breathtaking location, its amazing architecture, its exciting shopping, and its fine dining. And yet it is a land of opposites of order juxtaposed with chaos, of ancient etiquette and seemingly abrupt manners, a place where... -
The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699 by B. E. Gent
RRP: £8.99£7.03Written originally for the education of the polite London classes in 'canting' - the language of thieves and ruffians - should they be so unlucky as to wander into the 'wrong' parts of town, A New Dictionary of Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting...