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Switzerland: Village History by Professor David Birmingham
RRP: £20.99£18.37Switzerland: A Village History is an account of an Alpine village that illuminates the broader history of Switzerland and its rural, local underpinnings. It begins with the colonization of the Alps by Romanized Celtic peoples who came from the plain to... -
Lion by Deirdre Jackson 9781861896551
RRP: £14.95£14.65Majestic, noble, brave lions, with their tawny coats and luminous eyes, have inspired countless stories, traditions and beliefs. Whether we are seduced by their beauty or drawn to danger, we want to be near them. No other animal has had such an enduring... -
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
RRP: £27.00£21.46TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic--a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on... -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing... -
Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint by R. Andrew Chesnut 9780190633332
RRP: £33.99£22.37R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions of... -
Scottish Proverbs by Colin S.K Walker
RRP: £6.99£4.84Proverbs, once described as 'the wisdom of many and the wit of one', offer unique insights the way of life and the social mores of past generations. This book features an introduction which explores the role of proverbs in Scottish culture and over... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet 9781324074519
RRP: £14.99£12.00Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the... -
Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants by Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
RRP: £27.99£26.67The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listening to the voices of people who experience political violence-either as victims or as perpetrators-gives new... -
Pentesting Azure: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Securing Deployments by Matt Burrough
RRP: £37.99£22.90A comprehensive guide to penetration testing cloud services deployed in Microsoft Azure, the popular cloud computing service provider used by numerous companies large and small. Packed with real-world examples from the author's experience as a corporate... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: £15.00£12.99Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke... -
The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything by Christopher John Snowdon 9780956226518
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956226518Author Christopher John SnowdonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Little DicePublisher Little DiceWeight(grams) 194g -
The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality by Samuel Turvey 9781399409773
RRP: £20.00£14.29'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest - and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and... -
Order and Dispute: An Introduction to Legal Anthropology by Simon Roberts 9781610271844
RRP: £30.24£23.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610271844Author Simon RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Quid Pro LLCPublisher Quid Pro LLCWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm -
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
RRP: £17.99£13.35***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about... -
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity by Eric Chivian 9780195175097
RRP: £43.49£41.88The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this... -
Understanding Foucault: A Critical Introduction by Tony Schirato 9781446252352
RRP: £44.99£36.59"An outstandingly good introduction to Foucault's work: lucid, measured, well organised, and covering this complex and in many ways heterogeneous body of work with remarkable thoroughness and ease." - Professor John Frow, University of Melbourne ... -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Boehme
RRP: £13.99£9.26"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the... -
After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century by Marilyn Strathern 9780521426800
RRP: £25.99£21.99Central as kinship has been to the development of British social anthropology, this is the first attempt by an anthropologist to situate ideas about English kinship in a cultural context. Based on the Morgan lectures given at the University of Rochester... -
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns by Bruno Latour
RRP: £25.95£24.52Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated-a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth... -
Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age by Ashley Frawley 9781350026797
RRP: £19.99£17.61Significant Emotions is a piercing examination of the rising use of emotional signifiers in public debate and the rhetoric of an increasingly expansive array of social problems. Building on ideas developed in Ashley Frawley's previous book, Semiotics of... -
Everyday Life in the Ice Age: A New Study of Our Ancestors by Elle Clifford
£35.89Everyday Life in the Ice Age is the first attempt to present a truly complete, balanced and realistic picture of life during the last Ice Age, with its many problems and challenges, while dispelling many of the myths and inaccuracies about our early... -
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists by Napoleon A. Chagnon 9780684855110
RRP: £22.00£16.07"One of history's greatest anthropologists-and a rip-roaring storyteller-recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignited" (Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature).Napoleon... -
Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: £17.00£14.62How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a... -
Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing: Voices of Country by Norm Sheehan 9780367706883
RRP: £36.99£32.531. The book foregrounds the voices of Australian Aboriginal people who are involved in ‘Caring for Country’. 2. The text is an essential resource for those engaged in the study of Country, heritage, museums, indigenous peoples, landscape architecture,... -
The Hand by Frank R. Wilson
RRP: £14.99£12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740476Author Frank R. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
RRP: £20.95£14.71Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this... -
The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames: Early Prehistory to 1500 BC by Tony Morigi 9780954962784
RRP: £34.99£34.62A review of the rich and diverse evidence for understanding past climate and environmental change in the Thames Valley, and the effects on plant and animal populations and the challenges and opportunities these presented to early humans. Part 1 of... -
Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society by Emile Benveniste 9780986132599
RRP: £30.00£29.65Since its publication in 1969, emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural... -
Beyond Diversity: 75 Experts Reveal How To Actually Create A More Inclusive World by Rohit Bhargava
RRP: £14.99£9.88Wall Street Journal Bestseller"A useful, forcefully written, and wide-ranging study of inequities-and how to fix them." -Kirkus ReviewsWhat if we could go beyond the conversation about diversity and take real action?In early 2021, more than two hundred... -
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography by James Clifford
RRP: £30.00£23.69This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.About the AuthorJames Clifford... -
Miracle Brew: Adventures in the Nature of Beer Pete Brown 9781783525461
RRP: £9.99£6.52Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink on the planet, but few who enjoy it know much about how its four ingredients - hops, malted barley, water and yeast - miraculously combine.From the birth of brewing in the Middle East, through the surreal madness... -
The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner
RRP: £25.95£20.64What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it... -
Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad by Richard Landes
RRP: £18.99£14.92Landes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad... -
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in... -
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler 9780691146362
RRP: £30.00£23.29Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the... -
Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola 9780226212364
RRP: £31.00£26.73Successor to Claude Levi-Strausa at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its publication... -
Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ by Eleana J. Kim
RRP: £20.99£18.37The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has been off-limits to human habitation for nearly seventy years, and in that time, biodiverse forms of life have flourished in and around the DMZ as beneficiaries of an unresolved war. In Making Peace with Nature... -
Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology by Christopher Heaney 9780197542552
RRP: £22.99£19.96When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic... -
Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City by Felix Ringel 9781789208054
RRP: £27.95£22.58How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to... -
Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities and the Gaelic Renaissance Sharon Macdonald 9781859739853
RRP: £37.99£33.38Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their languages and traditions as revival policies suppose? This book...