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The Work of the Gods in Tikopia: Second Edition Raymond Firth 9780367716660
RRP: £39.99£35.06First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular... -
Cosmopolis: Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780226808383
RRP: £23.00£22.13In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of... -
The Fix by Damian Thompson 9780007436101
RRP: £10.99£8.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ways of Walking: Ethnography and Practice on Foot Jo Lee Vergunst 9781138244627
RRP: £47.99£41.81Despite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers. Ways of Walking combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored... -
Why Music Matters David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK) 9781405192415
RRP: £23.95£20.97Listen to David Hesmondhalgh discuss the arguments at the core of 'Why Music Matters' with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q9q2n/Thinking_Allowed_Why_Music_Matters_Bhangra_and_Belonging/ In what ways... -
Tequila: A Global History by Ian Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.09With its unique aroma and heady buzz - the perfect accompaniment to even the spiciest tacos - tequila has won its way into drinkers' hearts worldwide. There are few places on earth besides Mexico that have the climate and terrain to evolve the agave... -
Other Asias Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) 9781405102070
RRP: £32.95£29.14In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole. Major work from one of the world's most... -
Fencing in Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State by Miguel Diaz-Barriga
RRP: £19.99£17.54Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Diaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not... -
Egypt's Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics by Carl Rommel
RRP: £45.00£39.18Both a symbol of the Mubarak government's power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regime's overthrow during the 2011 revolution. With the help of the state,... -
A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon by Munira Khayyat
RRP: £25.00£19.59What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed... -
Tribe Made in Britain: A Personal History of British Subculture by Martin Roach 9781906191290
RRP: £12.99£8.73From punks and teddy boys to mods and rockers, the last fifty years has seen the British Isles overrun with the iconic styles and attitudes - youthful 'tribes' changing the world with their bold new ideas. Britain's youth movements are regarded... -
Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India by Shetty V.T. Rajshekar 9780932863058
£9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863058Author Shetty V.T. RajshekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Okinawa: The History of an Island People George Kerr 9784805314791
RRP: £19.99£13.35"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language...a standard work."-Pacific AffairsOkinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu... -
The Death Rituals of Rural Greece by Loring M. Danforth
RRP: £45.00£35.32This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of... -
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they... -
Myth and Meaning by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780802063489
RRP: £11.99£10.94Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human... -
Houses and Cottages of Britain - Vernacular Building Series by R. W. Brunskill
RRP: £22.50£22.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780575071223Author R W BrunskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )Publisher Yale University... -
Malawi - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Kondwani Munthali 9781857338782
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... -
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
RRP: £10.99£7.77Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been... -
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society by Robert L. Herbert 9780300050837
£35.51"Long-awaited, this full-scale revision of Impressionism immediately supersedes all other studies in the field. Herbert rejuvenates even the most famous paintings by seeing them in a dense and flexible context touching on everything from the hierarchy... -
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig 9780226789835
RRP: £23.00£22.13"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 - as well as its caption,... -
Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America by Nadia Abu El-Haj
RRP: £20.00£16.43Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the American public's imagination, the traumatized soldier... -
A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson 9781913743796
RRP: £25.00£20.30Gregory Bateson died in 1980, but his work grows more and more relevant each year. In his wide-ranging, penetrating thought he illuminated many dimensions of human interaction and of our connection to the wider biological world. One of the questions... -
Suq - Geertz on the Market Clifford Geertz 9781912808984
RRP: £28.00£27.39A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print. Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz's essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and... -
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 9781933550732
RRP: £10.75£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933550732Author Hans-Hermann HoppeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)... -
Management in a Liquid Modern World Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9781509502226
RRP: £14.99£13.58Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely... -
Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us by Avi Tuschman
RRP: £13.99£10.15By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light on the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today. It shows how political orientations arise from three clusters... -
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny by Michael Tomasello
RRP: £20.95£16.52Winner of the William James Book AwardWinner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award"A landmark in our understanding of human development."-Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You're Told"Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human... -
Guyana At 50: Reflection, Celebration And Inspiration by Arif Ali 9781910553572
RRP: £30.00£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553572Author Arif AliFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited -
You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World by Alan Noble
RRP: £17.99£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830847822Author Alan NobleFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 224mm *... -
Spirits from the Edge of the World: Classical Shamanism in Ulchi Society by J Van Ysslestyne 9780692104293
RRP: £31.00£22.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692104293Author J Van YsslestyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Pathfinder Counseling and CommunicationsPublisher Pathfinder Counseling and... -
Out of Office: the big problem and bigger promise of working from home by Anne Helen Petersen 9781913348786
RRP: £14.99£9.53A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work - and live - together. When the COVID-19 pandemic closed offices around the world, sending millions into makeshift home offices, it was a forced... -
Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory Matei Candea 9781138229723
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book presents an overview of important currents of thought in social and cultural anthropology, from the 19th century to the present. It introduces readers to the origins, context and continuing relevance of a fascinating and exciting kaleidoscope... -
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction Jurg Wassmann 9781859731598
RRP: £37.99£33.78The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent... -
The God of the Witches by Margaret A. Murray 9780195012705
RRP: £14.99£13.33This celebrated study of witchcraft in Europe traces the worship of the pre-Christian and prehistoric Horned God from paleolithic times to the medieval period. Murray, the first to turn a scholarly eye on the mysteries of witchcraft, enables us to see... -
Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters Between the Irish and the Iranians by H. E. Chehabi 9780674088283
RRP: £20.95£16.88In Erin and Iran, ten essays by North American and European scholars discuss parallel themes in and interactions between Irish and Iranian cultures. In the first section three essays explore common elements in pre-Christian Irish and pre-Islamic Iranian... -
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time Jean-Francois Lyotard (formerly Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Paris VIII and Professor, University of California at Irvine) 9780745612386
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the... -
The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society by William Deresiewicz 9781250858634
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250858634Author William DeresiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Meanings of Violence: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Goeran Aijmer 9781859734407
RRP: £35.99£31.69There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties,... -
Camel by Robert Irwin 9781861896490
RRP: £14.95£10.92A distinct symbol of the desert and the Middle East, the camel was once unkindly described as half snake, half folding bedstead. But in the eyes of many the camel is a creature of great beauty. This is most evident in the Arab world, where the camel has...