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How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining, 1920 by J. Rey
RRP: £10.00£7.75First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishment was elevated to a high social art, attended by intricate details and elaborate ritual. Starched linens,... -
Four Overarching Patterns of Culture: A Look at Common Behavior by Robert Strauss 9781532693182
RRP: £26.00£19.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532693182Author Robert StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Teeth: A Very Short Introduction by Peter S. Ungar
RRP: £8.99£6.45Teeth are amazing - the product of half a billion years of evolution. They provide fuel for the body by breaking apart other living things; and they must do it again and again over a lifetime without themselves being broken in the process. This means... -
The World is Your Burger: A Cultural History by David Michaels
RRP: £24.95£20.89An encyclopaedic, eye-catching tribute to one of the world's most popular foods - the humble hamburger Celebrate the classic hamburger with this unprecedented collection of essays, photographs, and ephemera - a colourful look at the burger's origins and... -
Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age and Roman Europe by David Green 9780752425283
RRP: £30.00£22.43Sacrifice, like death, is one of the great taboo subjects of modern society. The notion that human sacrifice, murder most horrid and even cannibalism could be considered a most holy act is almost inconceivable. Yet the evidence for human sacrifice in... -
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
RRP: £25.99£24.21The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical... -
The Oxford History of the World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
RRP: £12.99£9.09Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it-with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain. The Oxford History of the World... -
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity by Afsaneh Najmabadi 9780520242630
RRP: £30.00£23.29Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern... -
Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder by Chloe Silverman
RRP: £45.00£35.72Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a... -
Magazine by Prof Jeff Jarvis 9781501394959
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the... -
Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men by Hugh Firth 9781800739789
RRP: £19.95£16.40How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century. Told by Rosemary and Raymond Firth's... -
The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction Fiona Bowie (University of Bristol) 9781405121057
RRP: £27.95£24.25Now available in a revised second edition, this popular introduction to the anthropology of religion combines discussion of the origin and development of debates within the field, with a look at where the subject is heading. Introduces readers to the... -
Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation by Dr. Thomas Buckley
RRP: £25.00£19.59Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs. It challenges the widespread... -
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia by Audrey Richards
RRP: £16.99£15.22Audrey Richards (1899-1984) was a leading British anthropologist of the twentieth century and the first woman president of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Based on fieldwork conducted at a time when the discipline was dominated by male... -
Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-west Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties by Marilyn Strathern 9780521105033
RRP: £38.99£33.26In the village of Elmdon in north-west Essex, members of certain families are distinguished from other residents as being `real Elmdon'. Through a detailed ethnography of the structure of the village, and the interrelationships between its various... -
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society by Jack Goody 9780521339629
RRP: £25.99£21.99This book assesses the impact of writing on human societies, both in the Ancient Near East and in twentieth-century Africa, and highlights some general features of social systems that have been influenced by this major change in the mode of communication... -
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 by Bryan D. Palmer
RRP: £65.00£43.09Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of... -
Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm by Alex Blanchette
RRP: £22.99£20.01In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been... -
The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: £10.95£7.81Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and... -
The Invention of the White Race: The Origins of an American Ordeal by Theodore W Allen
RRP: £20.00£16.83When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the... -
Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society by Webb Keane
RRP: £29.00£22.54Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses by Laura U. Marks
RRP: £22.99£21.04Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit... -
The Making of English National Identity by Krishan Kumar 9780521777360
RRP: £43.99£38.54Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003,... -
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: £14.99£9.98In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'. A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal... -
Jamaica - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Nick Davis
RRP: £8.99£6.84Culture 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... -
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter 9781250009067
RRP: £17.99£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250009067Author Cameron McWhirterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
The Last Of The Hippies: An Hysterical Romance by Penny Rimbaud 9781629631035
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631035Author Penny RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 107g -
Indigenous Experience Today Marisol de la Cadena 9781845205195
RRP: £35.99£32.09A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and... -
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £52.95£43.71When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most... -
Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose
RRP: £15.99£13.33In this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before her death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life - the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the processes of transition and transformation - that flows across and between... -
Animism and the Question of Life Istvan Praet 9781138952904
RRP: £37.99£33.38The central purpose of this book is to help change the terms of the debate on animism, a classic theme in anthropology. It combines some of the finest ethnographic material currently available (including firsthand research on the Chachi of Ecuador) with... -
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Ms Peggy Mohan 9780670093687
RRP: £19.99£13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093687Author Peggy MohanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance by Klara Naszkowska 9781032595351
RRP: £31.99£28.73Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women's education, politics, and migration.The book's first section discusses relatively known analysts such as Sabina... -
Dust by Michael Marder
RRP: £9.99£9.35Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking... -
A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Svendsen
£19.12Although boredom is something that we have all suffered from at some point in our lives, and has become one of the central preoccupations of our age, very few of us can explain precisely what it is. In this book, Lars Svendsen examines the nature of... -
The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age by Joanna Zylinska 9780826459039
RRP: £59.99£59.61The Cyborg Experiments analyzes the challenges posed to corporeality by techology. Taking as their starting point the work of the highly influential performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, the essays in this timely and important collection raise a number... -
Process and Pattern in Culture: Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward John W. Chapman 9780202361345
RRP: £43.99£38.84This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students, colleagues, and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was no preconceived attempt to give the volume any greater... -
Writing Material Culture History by Dr Anne Gerritsen
RRP: £26.99£25.76Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the... -
The Anthropology of Drugs by Neil Carrier 9780367625269
RRP: £35.99£31.69An ideal book for those coming to the anthropology of drugs for the first time, filling a surprisingly big gap in the literature Includes many case studies, such as drug tourism, the opioid crisis and 'county lines' in the UK as well as global examples... -
The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings by David F. Lancy 9781108931991
RRP: £30.99£28.52How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now in its third edition, this deeply engaging book delves into these questions by reviewing and cataloging...