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From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism by Michael Chanan
RRP: £19.99£15.76**Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023** For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however,... -
Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta
RRP: £12.99£8.56'A terrific portrait of Delhi right now' SALMAN RUSHDIE'An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEWINNER OF THE PRIX EMILE GUIMET DE LITTERATURE ASIATIQUE 2017WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD... -
The Making of a Man (and why we're so afraid to talk about it) by Obioma Ugoala 9781398504813
RRP: £10.99£7.00A POWERFUL MEMOIR AND MANIFESTO CHALLENGING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BLACK MAN IN BRITAIN "A blisteringly honest take on contemporary Britishness that manages to be both nuanced and shocking. Highly recommended." Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) You're a... -
Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin by Bettina Stoetzer
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal-originally an ecological... -
The Ecology of Others Question of Nature Philippe Descola 9780984201020
RRP: £10.95£9.34Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from... -
Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745662756
RRP: £16.99£15.22Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the... -
Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal by Mark Liechty
RRP: £31.00£30.59Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and repository of redemptive power and wisdom. Beatniks, hippie seekers, spiritual tourists, mountain climbers diverse groups of people have traveled there over the years,... -
Contested Terrain: Essays on Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist Discourse and Politically Engaged Scholarship by Ezekiel Gebissa 9781569022801
RRP: £29.95£19.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022801Author Ezekiel GebissaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 360g -
Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918–19 by Ida Milne
RRP: £14.99£11.12The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious... -
Chinese Business Etiquette by Scott D. Seligman 9780446673877
£15.08East-West business is booming as thousands of people flock to China. The author, with 25 years' experience of dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date advice on how to avoid costly misunderstandings, sidestep gaffes, interpret behaviour and make... -
Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method by Andrew Causey 9781442636651
RRP: £26.99£23.32In this meditation/how-to guide on drawing as an ethnographic method, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as a way of translating what they "see" during... -
EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier Matt Artz 9781032602998
RRP: £31.99£28.33EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier emphasizes anthropology's critical role at the frontier of emerging technologies (EmTech). The book explores the opportunities and challenges that arise as anthropologists venture into the territory of EmTech,... -
Introducing Levi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide by Boris Wiseman
RRP: £7.99£5.46Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levi-Strauss' thought, from his early work on the function of the incest... -
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times Margaret K. Nydell 9781473669970
RRP: £18.99£12.75For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab life, from religion and... -
The Time Of The Gypsies Michael Stewart 9780813331997
RRP: £49.99£43.50HIS IS A STUDY OF HOW some of the most marginal and exploited people that exist can imagine themselves to be princes of the world.During the past two hundred years the Gypsies of Eastern Europe have faced near enslavement by land owners, the physical and... -
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... -
Whithorn: An Economy of People, 1920-1960 by Julia Muir Watt
RRP: £14.99£12.55Whithorn: An Economy of People is an exploration of a unique face-to-face society in Galloway in the south west of Scotland. It paints a picture of a largely cashless economy based on trust, frugality and the skilled labour and strategies of its... -
Atlantis, an Autoanthropology by Nathaniel Tarn
RRP: £19.99£17.54Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he knew... -
Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self by Thomas J. Csordas
RRP: £24.99£21.18Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are 'inscribed' on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential... -
Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help by Eva Illouz 9780520253735
RRP: £30.00£23.29The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture - from "The Sopranos" to "Oprah", from the abundance of self-help books to the private consulting room, and from the support group to the magazine advice column. "Saving the Modern Soul"... -
Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' by Daniel E. Moerman 9780521000871
RRP: £22.99£18.08Daniel Moerman presents an innovative and enlightening discussion of human reaction to the meaning of medical treatment. Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures, but... -
Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran by Shahram Khosravi 9781512825565
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared... -
Healing the Wounded Mind: The Psychosis of the Modern World and the Search for the Self by Kingsley L. Dennis 9781912992041
RRP: £12.99£9.09There is a mental malaise creeping through the collective human mindset. Mass psychosis is becoming normalized. It is time to break free... One of the key problems facing human beings today is that we do not look after our minds. As a consequence, we... -
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment by James I. Charlton
RRP: £25.00£19.59James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical,... -
The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution by Juan Luis Arsuaga 9781405115339
RRP: £35.95£32.51This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the "chosen species" or merely an evolutionary accident. Written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World... -
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society by Beth A. Conklin
RRP: £23.99£20.84Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian... -
Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse 9780805211740
RRP: £13.99£9.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211740Author Ruth R. WisseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken Books -
An Invitation to Social Construction: Co-Creating the Future by Kenneth J. Gergen
RRP: £36.99£30.39This fully updated fourth edition of Gergen's An Invitation to Social Construction introduces you to a key theoretical movement in contemporary social science through a wide range of multidisciplinary examples. The fourth edition includes: wider... -
Movers and Makers: Uncertainty, Resilience and Migrant Creativity in Worlds of Flux Parminder Bhachu 9781472589224
RRP: £135.00£117.28We live in times of extreme change. There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses... -
Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism by Christopher Norris
RRP: £16.00£15.59We live in a world where questions of truth and of falsehood are left increasingly unattended. Such questions are often replaced by a relativism which allows any group the right to assert their values with impunity. Should, however, stories from an event... -
Glasgow: Going for a Song by Sean Damer 9780853157274
RRP: £15.00£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853157274Author Sean DamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd -
Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore by Chloe Ahmann 9780226833613
RRP: £24.00£23.03A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures. Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in... -
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century England by Steven Shapin 9780226750194
RRP: £36.00£35.23How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? This study engages these universal questions through a recreation of a... -
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication Heather Horst 9781845204006
RRP: £135.00£117.28Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income... -
Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
RRP: £47.95£42.78Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Second Edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer's experience of gathering... -
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter by Emily Martin
RRP: £25.00£19.59An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology-and their influence on the addictive nature of social mediaExperimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly,... -
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere 9780226289540
RRP: £18.00£15.40In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With... -
Mistrusting Refugees by E. V. Daniel
RRP: £27.00£21.06The twentieth century has seen people displaced on an unprecedented scale and has brought concerns about refugees into sharp focus. There are forty million refugees in the world--1 in 130 inhabitants of this planet. In this first interdisciplinary study... -
Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan by Larry W. Swanson
RRP: £62.00£44.42Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. At the very core of our existence, the brain generates our thoughts and feelings, directs our voluntary interactions with the environment, and coordinates... -
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Rachel Poliquin 9780271053738
RRP: £29.95£27.31From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an...