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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 5 - Practice by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: £17.99£12.14*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 5 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of practice: What are the practical, everyday, and lifelong... -
Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene by Mimi Sheller
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the... -
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World by Ghassan Hage
RRP: £24.00£23.03Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage... -
Five Families: Mexican Case Studies In The Culture Of Poverty by Oscar Lewis 9780465097050
£30.70One of the truly seminal works in modern cultural anthropology, Five Families is a dramatic and forceful account of the men, women, and children of five Mexican families and the impoverished communities in which they live.Book InformationISBN... -
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard Grinker
RRP: £23.99£20.51For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness... -
Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application by Satish Kedia 9780275978426
£39.49Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application, edited by Satish Kedia and John van Willigen, comprises essays by prominent scholars on the potential, accomplishments, and methods of applied anthropology. Domains covered in the volume include development,... -
Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews by Richard G. Smith
RRP: £23.99£19.51This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less... -
Hunting with Eagles: In the Realm of the Mongolian Kazakhs by Palani Mohan 9781858946436
RRP: £30.00£23.38Kazakh nomads have been grazing their livestock near the Altai Mountains in western Mongolia for many hundreds of years. Here, in this desolate landscape, where temperatures plummet to minus 40 degrees Celsius in winter, live the last of the men who use... -
Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer
RRP: £21.99£19.19Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new... -
The Dictionary of Woke: How Orwellian Language Control and Group Think are Destroying Westernsocieties by Kevin Donnelly 9781922810090
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922810090Author Kevin DonnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wilkinson PublishingPublisher Wilkinson Publishing -
The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Challenges and Opportunities by Darren O'Byrne 9781783482306
RRP: £44.00£38.64Cosmopolitanism has resurfaced as a prominent perspective within philosophy and the social sciences. Its critics, though, suggest that contemporary cosmopolitanism is abstract and ultimately meaningless, or that it is the globalized expression of a very... -
Hollywood Cinema by Richard Maltby
RRP: £37.95£36.23This extensively revised second edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema, providing a fascinating account of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world's most powerful film industry. Provides a fascinating account of... -
Excellence by John William Gardner 9780393312874
RRP: £16.00£12.92In Excellence, Mr. Gardner discusses the strengths and failings of our educational system, our confusion over the idea of equality, and the nature of leadership in a free society.About the AuthorA noted social commentator, John W. Gardner was a former... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts 9781526147684
RRP: £25.00£18.02The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it... -
Cultural Analytics by Lev Manovich
RRP: £38.00£26.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037105Author Lev ManovichFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Missionaries Norman Lewis 9781906011529
RRP: £12.99£8.60In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.Book... -
Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South by Gladys-Marie Fry 9780807849958
RRP: £37.95£22.61Celebrates the artistry of enslaved quilters; This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally published in 1989, Stitched from the Soul was the first book to... -
How Institutions Think by Professor Mary Douglas
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1986 Mary Douglas' theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions... -
The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We Think by Alexander Klose
RRP: £29.00£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262028578Author Alexander KloseFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 27mm -
The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England Nicholas Perkins 9781526167163
RRP: £25.00£17.92This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the... -
Life: A Critical User's Manual Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, USA) 9781509526659
RRP: £15.99£14.41How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other - the... -
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus Jennifer S. Hirsch (Columbia University) 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... -
The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings by David F. Lancy
£31.71How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this book sets out to answer these questions, and argues that our common... -
Navigators Quest For A Kingdom In Polynesia by Fata Ariu Levi 9781954076037
RRP: £24.00£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954076037Author Fata Ariu LeviFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ariu LeviPublisher Ariu LeviWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder
RRP: £23.99£21.24Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aime Cesaire (Martinique) and Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets... -
Face: One Square Foot of Skin by Justine Bateman
RRP: £27.95£18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617759222Author Justine BatemanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
I, Rigoberta Menchu by Rigoberta Menchu
RRP: £20.99£15.07Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother,... -
Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture by Jonathan Crary 9780262531993
£53.34Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception-in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. Suspensions of... -
Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
RRP: £20.99£18.37The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its "ontological turn," offers a vision of anthropology as "the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought."... -
Human Charlotte Sleigh 9781789142143
RRP: £13.95£9.73What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of the animal species Homo sapiens? This dazzling book gets to the very heart of our rather unscientific motivations and prejudices, showing how they are of... -
The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940 by Michael Joseph Roberto 9781583677315
RRP: £18.99£15.65Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany's Third Reich or Italy's National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses. We rarely think of fascism as... -
Travelling towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking Nicola Frost 9781800739499
RRP: £23.95£19.49As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection... -
Fear and Fortune: Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush by Mette M. High
RRP: £23.99£20.84Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the... -
Class Work: Vocational Schools and China's Urban Youth by Terry Woronov
RRP: £21.99£19.19Images of Chinese teens with their heads buried in books for hours on end, preparing for high-stakes exams, dominate understandings of Chinese youth in both China and the West. But what about young people who are not on the path to academic success? What... -
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human by Tom Boellstorff
RRP: £22.00£17.36Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts,... -
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard
£13.22What if the problems of modern society don't come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs? In this classic work from the defining intellectual of the postmodern, Jean Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy... -
The Open Fields of England by David Hall
RRP: £41.49£38.16The Open Fields of England describes the open-field system of agriculture that operated in Medieval England before the establishment of present-day farms surrounded by hedges or walls. The volume encompasses a wide range of primary data not previously... -
A History of the Yoruba People by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye 9782359260052
RRP: £54.95£45.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359260052Author Stephen Adebanji AkintoyeFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
RRP: £33.00£26.61When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and... -
Playing with Reality: Gaming in a Pandemic by Alex Humphreys 9781913724931 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£4.63What was it that got you through the Covid-19 pandemic? For some it was long walks; others turned to home baking. For millions it was video games, a booming industry which exploded in popularity over the pandemic years. Confined to our homes and with the...