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The Food of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels Through the Archipelago by Khir Johari
RRP: £44.99£43.59This is not a cookbook. It is the unwritten story of a people. Between the vast Indian and Pacific oceans lies a realm of extraordinary natural abundance: the Malay Archipelago, known widely as the Nusantara. These islands of Southeast Asia have... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: £15.99£11.61________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys has had a remarkable career as a journalist, steering... -
Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology by Ward H. Goodenough 9780521281966
RRP: £30.99£21.89How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social... -
Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation by Mark Pagel
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Expresses an infectious sense of wonder at the uniqueness of our species; it is hard not to be affected by his enthusiasm' Sunday TimesWhat explains the staggering diversity of cultures in the world? Why are there so many languages, even within small... -
Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text by Brian Morris 9780521339919
RRP: £30.99£26.43In this important, scholarly and wide-ranging text, Brian Morris provides a lucid outline of the nature of the explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber. In doing so he also unravels the many theoretical... -
A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities Byron J. Good (Harvard Medical School, USA) 9781405183147
RRP: £39.95£36.04A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors comprehensive... -
On British Islam: Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Shari'a Councils by John R. Bowen 9780691158549
RRP: £35.00£27.74On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shari?a councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in... -
Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
RRP: £20.99£18.77In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the global distribution of life and death, hope and harm, and endurance and exhaustion not merely sensible but... -
Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920 by Russell Davies
RRP: £18.99£14.52Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of... -
The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World Glenn Davis Stone 9781032260457
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population. This book is about the three fundamental forms of... -
The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
RRP: £12.99£9.09An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own makingOther species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and... -
Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: £43.99£38.44Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She... -
Unboxed: Board Game Experience and Design by Gordon Calleja
RRP: £29.00£22.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543958Author Gordon CallejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
How to Read Ethnography Paloma Gay y Blasco (University of St. Andrews, UK) 9781138126251
RRP: £36.99£32.53How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop... -
Anthropology and Archaeology: A Changing Relationship by Chris Gosden
RRP: £36.99£32.53Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects. This volume covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology. It... -
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo 9780063140189
RRP: £22.00£14.98NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You... -
Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance by Jean M. Langford
RRP: £22.99£20.01Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as... -
Raising Children: Surprising Insights from Other Cultures by David F. Lancy
RRP: £19.99£16.00Why in some parts of the world do parents rarely play with their babies and never with toddlers? Why in some cultures are children not fully recognized as individuals until they are older? How are routine habits of etiquette and hygiene taught - or not -... -
Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment by Derek P. McCormack 9780822371236
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons... -
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code by Michael McCullough
RRP: £20.00£14.69Why do we give a damn about strangers? Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be on the brink of solving it. It turns out that, over the last 12,000 years, we have become more and more... -
The Promise of Infrastructure by Nikhil Anand
RRP: £21.99£19.19From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an... -
Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense About Primitive Society by C R Hallpike 9789527065556
RRP: £14.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789527065556Author C R HallpikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Castalia HousePublisher Castalia HouseWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Sensory Studies Manifesto: Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences by David Howes
RRP: £22.99£20.01The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring groundbreaking experimentation in the world of art and design, where the focus is... -
The Inheritance by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
RRP: £22.99£20.41Elizabeth A. Povinelli's inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige-the region where family's ancestral alpine village is found. Far more than a map hanging above the family television, the... -
Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice by Kristin Surak
RRP: £23.99£20.84The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current... -
Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count by Richard E. Nisbett 9780393337693
RRP: £20.00£16.01Who are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson's statements, one factor has been... -
Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author by Steven Feld
RRP: £23.99£22.61This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people... -
Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World by Jeffrey H. Cohen
RRP: £21.99£19.19Significant scholarship exists on anthropological fieldwork and methodologies. Some anthropologists have also published memoirs of their research experiences. Renowned anthropologist Jeffrey Cohen's Eating Soup without a Spoon is a first-of-its-kind... -
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities by Will Roscoe 9781438484105
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438484105Author Stephen O. MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds by Lisa Messeri 9780822362036
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices... -
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Aries
RRP: £21.50£19.09Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.About the AuthorPhilippe Aries (1914-1984) was a French historian best known for his book Centuries of Childhood, the... -
Scheherazade Goes West by Fatema Mernissi 9780743412438
RRP: £12.99£12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743412438Author MERNISSIFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm)... -
Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein by Veena Das
RRP: £31.00£27.76How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise... -
Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession by Thomas Hendriks
RRP: £22.99£20.01Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger... -
Michel Foucault by Clare O'Farrell 9780761961642
RRP: £39.99£32.66A truly magnificent book... If there is a more comprehensive book on Foucault's work I have yet to see it. I anticipate those teaching and taking courses on Foucault's work will find Clare O'Farrell's book to be an invaluable resource. - Barry Smart,... -
Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World by Claudia Benthien
RRP: £28.00£21.80"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth": metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture... -
The Body: A Reader by Mariam Fraser
RRP: £45.99£40.53The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a... -
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience by Cheryl Mattingly
RRP: £22.99£19.56There is a growing interest in 'therapeutic narratives' and the relation between narrative and healing. Cheryl Mattingly's ethnography of the practice of occupational therapy in a North American hospital investigates the complex interconnections between... -
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture by Daniel Pruitt 9780228104490
RRP: £30.00£18.81A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West - and the present west. Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally... -
Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice by Sally Engle Merry
RRP: £28.00£27.39Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their...