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Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences by Alex Mesoudi 9780226520445
RRP: £30.00£29.25Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian... -
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 Alphonso Lingis Reader by Alphonso Lingis 9781517905118
RRP: £19.99£17.54A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy Alphonso Lingis is arguably the most intriguing American philosopher of the past fifty years-a scholar of transience, someone... -
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins by Richard G. Klein 9780226439655
RRP: £76.00£74.46Since its publication in 1989, "The Human Career" has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein's innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and... -
Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon by Joseph Tobin
RRP: £22.99£21.04Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokemon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokemon quickly diversified... -
Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry Jane L. Collins 9780226113722
RRP: £24.00£23.03Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third... -
Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship by Ladislav Holy 9780745309170
£28.38This authoritative introductory text takes into account the changes in the conceptualisation of kinship brought about by new reproductive technologies and the growing interest in culturally specific notions of personhood and gender. Holy considers... -
The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives by Dr. Frank Faranda
RRP: £13.99£10.95Fear in Contemporary Society and its Consequences"A delightfully fearless and deeply sensitive examination of that most primal and formative human experience." Alan Burdick, author of Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation#1 New Release in... -
Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity by Adam B. Seligman 9780195336016
RRP: £29.49£19.04Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in... -
Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by Margot Weiss
RRP: £22.99£20.01Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area's pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more... -
Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective by Byron J. Good 9780521425766
RRP: £22.99£19.56Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for... -
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea by Paige West
RRP: £22.99£19.90In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea to consumers around the world. She illuminates the social lives of the people who produce coffee, and those who process, distribute, market, and consume it... -
Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai by Anne Rademacher 9780520296008
RRP: £30.00£23.69At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Building Green explores the experience of environmental... -
Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles by Marina Peterson
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International... -
And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America by Margaret Mead 9781571812179
RRP: £99.00£80.47Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a... -
Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide by Alexander Laban Hinton 9780520241794
RRP: £30.00£27.39Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it,... -
Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between by Ed Pulford
RRP: £22.00£19.52'Mirrorlands' is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russian Far East and Manchuria,... -
Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives by Cindi Katz 9780816642106
RRP: £21.99£19.59"Brilliant and intimate. The book is an eloquent rendition of the expansive spatial abstractions and mimetic revolutionary re-imagination it proposes." -Social and Cultural GeographyGrowing Up Global examines the processes of development and global... -
The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations by Roger Bastide
RRP: £25.50£22.84Written by one of France's most brilliant and creative anthropologists, The African Religions of Brazil is regarded as a classic in Afro-American studies. First published in France in 1960, the book represents a singular effort to develop a theory of... -
The Book of Touch Constance Classen 9781845200596
RRP: £35.99£32.09This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine... -
Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History by Michael Roper 9781526154033
RRP: £25.00£21.79Afterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, they experienced its effects from their... -
Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture Elizabeth Edwards 9781845203245
RRP: £35.99£31.69Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial... -
This is Not the Way: Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel by David J. Goldberg
RRP: £14.99£9.80Few subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of Jews in Western societies. David Goldberg, a progressive Rabbi with many years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes the most difficult issues of this... -
Provence, 1970 by Luke Barr
RRP: £14.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307718358Author Luke BarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age by Marco d'Eramo
RRP: £20.00£19.79We've all been tourists at some point in our lives. How is it we look so condescendingly at people taking selfies in front of the Tower of Pisa? Is there really much to distinguish the package holiday from hipster city-breaks to Berlin or Brooklyn? Why... -
Loss and Wonder at the World's End by Laura A. Ogden
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things-from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong-to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in... -
Buen Camino by Peter Murtagh 9780717148431
£20.42This is the story of an Irish father and his 18-year-old daughter and their 900-kilometre walk together across northern Spain along the ancient pilgrim route to the tomb of St James. Peter and Natasha's journey starts in drizzle and wind as they... -
The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia by Marilyn Strathern
RRP: £31.00£24.43In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike... -
Conversations With Landscape Karl Benediktsson 9781138244634
RRP: £47.99£41.81Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the... -
Sustaining Natures: An Environmental Anthropology Reader by Sarah R. Osterhoudt 9780295751450
RRP: £24.99£21.67Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate studentsEnvironmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded in respectful and systematic ethnographic research and writing that spotlights uncommon perspectives on... -
Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) 9780631206590
RRP: £45.95£40.51Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge of local societies - can offer vastly increased understanding of society and culture even in this age of mass... -
Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses Michael Taussig 9781138242982
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically... -
Shades of Noir by Joan Copjec 9780860916253
£22.31For this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywood. The films they saw, including The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet, and The... -
Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India by Arjun Shankar 9781478025092
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of "brown saviors"-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India's... -
Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion by Andrew Beatty 9781107605374
RRP: £26.99£22.80Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the world,... -
Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia by Mathijs Pelkmans
RRP: £27.99£24.14This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the... -
Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution by Susan Dewey 9781479841943
RRP: £24.99£21.67Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail it Working together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public... -
Understanding Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall 9781009098755
RRP: £39.99£34.23Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains... -
The Promise of Multispecies Justice by Sophie Chao
RRP: £20.99£18.37What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and other creatures? Leading thinkers in anthropology, geography, philosophy, speculative fiction, poetry, and contemporary... -
Young and Defiant in Tehran by Shahram Khosravi
RRP: £23.99£20.84With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution,...