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The Serpent and the Rainbow by Davis
£12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684839295Author DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 274g -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316110
RRP: £25.99£10.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316110Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm)... -
The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Road From Coorain is the beautifully written narrative of Jill Ker Conway's journey from girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College).The inspiring and... -
A Goddess in Motion: Visual Creativity in the Cult of Maria Lionza by Roger Canals 9781800733718
RRP: £27.95£22.58The current practice of the cult of Maria Lionza is one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela. Based on long-term fieldwork, this book explores the role of images and visual culture within the cult. By adopting a... -
Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries by Christopher Whitehead
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this pioneering book, Christopher Whitehead provides an overview and critique of art interpretation practices in museums and galleries. Covering the philosophy and sociology of art, traditions in art history and art display, the psychology of the... -
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner 9780198718796
£22.67The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of personal and political ideals: Joan of Arc is the heroine... -
The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India by Afsar Mohammad 9780199997596
£32.09The Festival of Pirs is an ethnographic study of the religious life of the village of Gugudu in Andhra Pradesh. It focuses on the public event of Muharram, which is practiced by urban Shi'i communities across South Asia, but takes on a strikingly... -
Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern by Lottie Whalen 9781789147865
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century's capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and '20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political... -
Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
RRP: £27.00£19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046220Author Wendy Hui Kyong ChunFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs by Professor Rane Willerslev 9780520252172
RRP: £30.00£23.29This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir... -
Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race by Charles W. Mills
RRP: £24.99£21.67Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has... -
Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society by Daniel S. Milo 9780674504622
RRP: £24.95£19.89In this spirited and irreverent critique of Darwin's long hold over our imagination, a distinguished philosopher of science makes the case that, in culture as well as nature, not only the fittest survive: the world is full of the "good enough" that... -
Laos - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by John Walsh 9781857338805
RRP: £7.99£6.14Providing information not found in standard guides about daily interactions, cultural dos and don'ts, etiquette, and the ways business is conducted Culture Smart! Laos offers in-depth information to visitors seeking a genuine experience, including... -
Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices by Dee Reynolds
RRP: £35.95£34.35A key interdisciplinary concept in our understanding of social interaction across creative and cultural practices, kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy merely by observing the movements of another human being. Encouraging... -
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus by Jennifer S. Hirsch 9781324001706
RRP: £21.99£18.95The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Research has shown that by the time they graduate, as many as one in three women and almost one in six men will have been sexually assaulted. But why is sexual... -
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain 9781526630254
RRP: £12.99£8.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah Appel
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project-U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea-and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects... -
Irish/Ness is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland by Olaf Zenker 9781785332067
RRP: £27.95£22.58Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language,... -
The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses by David MacDougall
RRP: £35.00£27.74In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge... -
The Last of the Celts by Marcus Tanner 9780300115352
RRP: £22.50£21.68A search for authentic Celtic culture and its scattered, endangered survivors Travelling throughout the remote Celtic world, award-winning author Marcus Tanner describes the relentless pressure on Celtic communities to assimilate and warns that a... -
Anthropology and/as Education by Tim Ingold 9780415786553
RRP: £37.99£33.38There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people's lives. Here Tim Ingold argues that both anthropology and education are ways of studying, and of leading life, with others. In this... -
Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf by Richard Lewis
RRP: £15.99£10.93Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf is the story of an accomplished nation and her extraordinary people. Pursuing a "Lone Wolf" policy, Finland raised itself from a struggling, war-battered state in 1945 to one of the most developed countries in the world. The... -
Global Norms and Local Courts: Translating the Rule of Law in Bangladesh by Tobias Berger 9780198807865
£89.34What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in... -
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People by E. E. Evans-Pritchard 9780195003222
RRP: £67.99£39.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews'The best ecology and anthropology ever written.' Whole Earth ReviewBook InformationISBN 9780195003222Author E. E. Evans-PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint... -
Wine by Meg Bernhard
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often... -
New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming by Jeannette Mageo
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology. It incorporates new findings in neuroscience and philosophy of mind... -
Sticker by Henry Hoke
RRP: £9.99£7.67"A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history." - Publisher's Weekly "A book that sticks with you long after you've read it." Volume 1 Brooklyn "Hoke's writing is blunt and honest, and Sticker is a collection worth... -
Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars by Lisa Silverman 9780190257811
RRP: £34.49£31.65The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the... -
After Kinship by Janet Carsten
RRP: £25.99£21.31This innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of relatedness. Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? What is the impact of recent studies... -
The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism by Liisa H. Malkki
RRP: £21.99£19.19In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they... -
Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain by Dr. Freddy Foks
RRP: £30.00£23.29Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar... -
Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas by Stefan Helmreich 9780520250628
RRP: £30.00£23.69"Alien Ocean" immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists at sea and in labs in... -
Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing by Lars Krutak
RRP: £32.00£28.61The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to augment and enhance people's... -
Sky Shamans Of Mongolia: Meetings with Remarkable Healers by Kevin Turner
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946343Author Kevin B. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Cultural Misunderstandings: French-American Experience by Raymonde Carroll
RRP: £16.00£15.77Raymonde Carroll presents an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans-and indeed any members of different cultures-can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language. Cultural misunderstandings,... -
A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality by Christina Van Dyke 9780198861683
RRP: £34.49£29.67Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and... -
Principles of Shamanism by Leo Rutherford
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861714831Author Leo RutherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)... -
With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman among the Sami, 1907–1908 by Emilie Demant Hatt
RRP: £26.95£15.81With 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... -
The Twilight of the American Culture by M Berman 9780393321692
RRP: £20.00£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393321692Author M BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 146mm * 19mm -
The Jean Baudrillard Reader by Professor Steve Redhead
RRP: £27.99£26.01Jean Baudrillard was perhaps the most controversial of all social and cultural theorists. He has been variously vilified as a 'postmodernist', an 'overrated French theorist' and one of the 'intellectual imposters'. In his seventies he survived global...