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Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object by Johannes Fabian
RRP: £30.00£23.29Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian... -
A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword: Power, Piety and Play by Dr Robert W Jones
RRP: £30.00£24.85The sword is an important and multi-faceted symbol of military power, royal and communal authority, religion and mysticism. This study takes the sword beyond its functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artefact, and the... -
Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Richard M. Cyert 9780631174516
RRP: £34.00£30.02Behavioural Theory of the Firm has become a classic work in organizational theory, and is one of the most significant contributions to improving the theory of the firm. This second edition includes new material which puts the original text in a... -
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality by Agnes Horvath 9781785337499
RRP: £27.95£22.58Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between... -
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... -
Living Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community by Julia Cassaniti
RRP: £24.99£20.01In Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment, and intention as they are translated into everyday practice in contemporary Thailand. Although most lay people find these philosophical concepts difficult to... -
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Zouwen Ho
RRP: £26.99£23.32Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the... -
Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
RRP: £20.00£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250800152Author Chris GosdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm * 23mm -
A General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss
RRP: £12.99£11.94First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it... -
Doll by Maria Teresa Hart
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessed-by our... -
White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker 9780822360759
RRP: £22.99£18.37In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of... -
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World by Arturo Escobar 9780691150451
RRP: £28.00£21.80How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third... -
The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu
RRP: £15.99£10.48The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now... -
Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology by Soren Blau
RRP: £49.99£45.10With contributions from 70 experienced practitioners from around the world, this second edition of the authoritative Handbook of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology provides a solid foundation in both the practical and ethical components of forensic... -
Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua by Cymene Howe
RRP: £22.99£18.37Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was... -
Story on a Plate: The Delicate Art of Plating Dishes by gestalten 9783899559873
RRP: £35.00£26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899559873Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement by Michelle Mary Lelwica 9781472594938
£23.47What happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel, or do what it's supposed to do? Who or what defines the ideals behind these expectations? How can we challenge them and live more peacefully in our... -
Facets of a Harmony: The Roma and Their Locatedness in Eastern Slovakia by Jan Ort
RRP: £16.00£15.77A crucial contribution to Romani studies focuses on a single Slovak village to explore universal issues of belonging. In this important contribution to contemporary Romani studies, Jan Ort focuses his anthropological research on a village in eastern... -
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour by Kevin N. Laland 9780199586967
RRP: £43.99£37.55Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has... -
The Lewis Land Struggle: Na Gaisgich by Joni Buchanan 9780861521661
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861521661Author Joni BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 8mm -
Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader by David Howes
RRP: £29.99£27.04With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience at the forefront of cultural... -
The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds by Eduardo Viveiro De Castro
RRP: £26.50£25.31This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume,... -
Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Semenova Ginzburg 9780156027519
RRP: £18.99£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027519Author Evgenia Semenova GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £27.99£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... -
Lycanthropy Reader by Charlotte F. Otten 9780815623847
£22.37Our 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;... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: £20.00£15.89Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
The Crisis of the Modern World by Rene Guenon 9780900588501
RRP: £20.95£20.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588501Author Rene GuenonFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams) 359g -
Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture by David Bordwell
RRP: £19.00£18.50Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the... -
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
RRP: £19.99£16.97In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and... -
Society Against the State - Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres
RRP: £20.00£15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299014Author Pierre ClastresFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 18mm -
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution by Cailin O'Connor 9780198789970
£34.01In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender,... -
What is Anthropology? by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745399652
RRP: £16.99£13.58Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in... -
Bangladesh - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Urmi Rahman
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... -
Australia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Barry Penney 9781857338287
RRP: £7.99£6.14Australia -Culture Smart! appears on Oprah's Austalian Adventure! Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common... -
Muslims, Minorities, and the Media: Discourses on Islam in the West by Laurens de Rooij
RRP: £125.00£107.86Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?News reports about... -
The Accursed Share: Volume 1: Consumption: Volume 1 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00£16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Japan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Paul Norbury 9781857338607
RRP: £7.99£7.11Culture Smart! Japan will guide you through modern Japan's shifting social and cultural maze. It provides invaluable insights into people's attitudes and behavior, and practical tips to help make your visit to this complex, rich, and dynamic society a... -
Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary by Veena Das 9780520247451
RRP: £30.00£23.29In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence... -
An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America by William Youmans 9780190655723
RRP: £28.49£27.88In 2006, the Al Jazeera Media Network sought to penetrate the United States media sphere, the world's most influential national market for English language news. These unyielding ambitions surprised those who knew the network as the Arab media service... -
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson 9780226901350
RRP: £16.00£13.84Until recently, evolution and religion have been considered contending, irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson takes the radical step of joining the two, while thinking of society as an organism, one in which morality and...