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A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800 by Daniel Roche
RRP: £25.99£21.67Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so: in former times, everyday objects would have passed from one generation to another, without... -
What the Rest Think of the West: Since 600 AD by Laura Nader
RRP: £34.00£26.97Over the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expansive and flexible geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures with little interest in a return gaze. In turn, these other civilizations have been similarly... -
Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and... -
Applied Ethnography: Guidelines for Field Research Pertti J Pelto 9781611322088
RRP: £36.99£32.93This comprehensive, engaging guide to applied research distills the expertise of the distinguished ethnographer and methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career. Having written the first major text promoting mixed qualitative and... -
Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture by Amos Mac
RRP: £24.99£17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932597Author Amos MacFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro by Sarah H. Jacoby 9780231147699
RRP: £35.00£28.14Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only... -
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power Alex de Waal 9780745695587
RRP: £16.99£15.22The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war... -
Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogota by Austin Zeiderman
RRP: £22.99£20.01Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future... -
Walking with Pilgrims: The Kanwar Pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal by Ruma Bose 9781032654300
RRP: £39.99£35.46This volume makes a contribution to understanding pilgrimage, not as a transient activity at the margins of daily life, but as an event grounded firmly in the physical, symbolic and social experience of the everyday world. The vital relationship between... -
Hooligan by Patrick Holohan 9780717186280
RRP: £21.99£15.61When Paddy Holohan discovered mixed martial arts as a teenager, it was the first time his life settled into something approaching focus. Far removed from the chaos of the outside world, every bout reduced that maze of hardship to one simple proposition:... -
With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman among the Sami, 1907–1908 by Emilie Demant Hatt
RRP: £26.95£15.65With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing. Published in 1913 and available here in its first English... -
Introducing Cultural Studies Brian Longhurst (University of Salford, Manchester, UK) 9781138915725
RRP: £39.99£39.54This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
RRP: £23.99£21.24A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have... -
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-Ha
RRP: £15.99£14.24" . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " -Text and Performance Quarterly"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing... -
Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job by Julian E. Orr
RRP: £24.99£21.67This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers... -
A Socialist Peace?: Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country by Mike McGovern
RRP: £26.00£24.85For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country apart... -
Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific by Aletta Biersack 9780367142483
RRP: £43.99£38.44Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories concern the use of sports to recuperate but also... -
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp
RRP: £19.99£13.35A new kind of society is being built in Syria, but it's not one you would expect. Surrounded by deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people living in Syria's Rojava cantons are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies... -
Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader by Margaret Wetherell 9780761971566
RRP: £48.99£40.14`A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis... a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London Discourse Theory and Practice is much more than a... -
Afghanistan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Nazes Afroz 9781857336795
RRP: £9.99£7.54Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers 9780195168969
RRP: £17.99£12.39Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively,... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £33.99£24.61Edited by Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading archaeologists, this book provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. Unique in its approach, it is a history of both... -
Anticipating China: Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture by David L. Hall 9780791424780
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791424780Author David L. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Fish and Chips: A History by Panikos Panayi
RRP: £11.99£7.11Along with red London buses, bowler hats and cricket, few things are considered more British than fish and chips. Sprinkled with salt and vinegar, fish and chips were the country's original fast food. This innovative and well-researched book unwraps the... -
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin
RRP: £18.00£11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288195Author Peter TurchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived Cultures by Ann Gray
RRP: £50.99£41.72'This is an Excellent textbook and a valuable addition to the growing field of 'how to' books providing advice and guidance for practitioners and students wishing to undertake fieldwork of an ethnographic nature.... this books deserves to be high on your... -
Lycanthropy Reader by Charlotte F. Otten 9780815623847
£22.52Our understanding of lycanthropy is limited by our association of it with contemporary portrayals of werewolves in horror films and gothic fiction. No rational person today believes that a human being can literally be metamorphosed into a wolf;... -
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £24.99£22.07During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of... -
Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique by Alex Callinicos 9780745606149
RRP: £16.99£15.22It has become an intellectual commonplace to claim that we have entered the era of 'post-modernity'. Three themes are embraced in this claim - the poststructuralist critique by Foucault, Derrida and others of the philosophical heritage of the... -
Coffee Life in Japan by Merry I. White
RRP: £25.00£19.59This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian... -
Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena
RRP: £23.99£21.24Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial... -
Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers: Anthropological Insights by Thomas M. Wilson 9781487524326
RRP: £15.99£14.24International borders are among the most significant political inventions of modern times. The borders between national states are not just important to the peoples and governments who face each other across the borderline - any international border can... -
A New Anthropology of Islam by John R. Bowen 9780521822824
RRP: £66.00£59.04In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the... -
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri
RRP: £22.00£15.62The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller... -
Our War: How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War Christopher Somerville 9781474617635
RRP: £10.99£7.40Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war also, victory might not have come in 1945' DAILY TELEGRAPHIn this powerful and moving narrative, Christopher Somerville skilfully links... -
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe by Suzanne L. Marchand 9780691182339
RRP: £30.00£24.29"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."-Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain was... -
Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face-to-Face Behavior by Erving Goffman
RRP: £49.99£43.50"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual, a study of face-to-face interaction in natural settings, that class of events which occurs during... -
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Agustin Fuentes
£26.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101983942Author Agustin FuentesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316097
RRP: £37.50£21.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316097Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf 9780520268180
RRP: £30.00£23.69Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, "Europe and the People Without History" deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. In this foundational text about...