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Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture by Emily Martin 9780691141060
RRP: £32.00£25.16Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the... -
A Man Without Words by Susan Schaller 9780520274914
RRP: £21.00£16.53For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic... -
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel Andrew Ross 9781788730266
RRP: £16.99£14.50"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men", utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic limestone... -
Feast: Why Humans Share Food by Martin Jones 9780199533527
RRP: £16.99£13.34Is sharing food such an everyday, unremarkable occurrence? In fact, the human tendency to sit together peacefully over food is actually rather an extraordinary phenomenon, and one which many species find impossible. It is also a pheonomenon with... -
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Judith Halberstam
RRP: £20.99£19.32In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary... -
Hong Kong Foodways by Sidney C H Cheung 9789888754359
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888754359Author Cheung C H SidneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press -
Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School by Danau Tanu 9781789207958
RRP: £23.95£19.49“[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration….[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less privileged contexts.”—Social Anthropology In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu... -
Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline by Theodore Dalrymple 9781566638517
RRP: £12.99£12.69In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless young-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows... -
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics by Myrl Beam
RRP: £19.99£17.54A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere's expansion has helped-and hindered-the LGBT cause What if the very structure on which social movements rely, the nonprofit system, is reinforcing the inequalities activists seek to eliminate? That... -
Ecological Intelligence: The Coming Age of Radical Transparency by Daniel Goleman
RRP: £12.99£9.09Although we all want to help the environment, our knowledge of what are 'green' choices is often so limited that we can do more harm than good. But now a new phenomenon, 'radical transparency', the availability of complete information about all aspects... -
Culture and Public Action by Vijayendra Rao
RRP: £27.99£24.54How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to... -
A Sociology of Educating by Roland Meighan 9780826481283
£43.04Intended to stimulate sociologically informed thinking about educating, this book has become firmly established in its field, winning places on reading lists for Education Studies, Initial Teacher Training and Continuing Professional Development courses... -
Writing Feminist Autoethnography: In Love With Theory, Words, and the Language of Women Writers by Elizabeth Mackinlay
RRP: £43.99£38.44Writing Feminist Autoethnography explores the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist theory and practice. Each chapter introduces the lives and works of a range of feminist thinkers and writers and considers the ways in... -
The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History by Michael Carrithers 9780521277570
RRP: £43.99£37.55The concept that people have of themselves as a 'person' is one of the most intimate notions that they hold. Yet the way in which the category of the person is conceived varies over time and space. In this volume, anthropologists, philosophers, and... -
Anthropological Theory Today Henrietta L. Moore (London School of Economics and Political Science and University of California, Riverside) 9780745620237
RRP: £19.99£17.69This important book makes a bold statement about the nature and value of anthropological theory at the beginning of the 21st century.About the AuthorHenrietta Moore is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Gender Institute at the London... -
The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny by Peter McGraw
RRP: £17.99£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451665420Author Peter McGrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 224mm *... -
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand 9780393326130
RRP: £12.99£9.92Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a friend of a friend. For the first time, Professor Jan Harold Brunvand, "who has achieved almost legendary status" (Choice), has collected the creepiest, most terrifying... -
The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations by Elizabeth Keating
RRP: £18.99£13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593420928Author Elizabeth KeatingFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs by Pat Shipman 9780674293946
RRP: £15.95£13.01“A lively tale of dog domestication and migration.”—Nature“When, where, and how did the partnership between dogs and humans begin? Was it an accident? Was it inevitable?…A tour de force drawing together under one proverbial roof what science can tell us... -
Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order by Noam Chomsky 9780745335643
RRP: £19.99£13.35From East Timor to the Middle East, from the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects is a vital compilation of Chomsky's writings on a broad array of subject... -
Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: £23.99£23.84Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to... -
Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation by Silvia M. Lindtner
RRP: £25.00£19.59A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "copycat" production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one... -
At the Mountains' Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community Frank Salomon 9781138037502
RRP: £37.99£33.38In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar... -
Village in the Vaucluse: Third Edition by Laurence Wylie 9780674939363
RRP: £31.95£31.71Laurence Wylie's remarkably warm and human account of life in the rural French village he calls Peyrane vividly depicts the villagers themselves within the framework of a systematic description of their culture. Since 1950, when Wylie began his study of... -
Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America by J. M. Fenster
RRP: £22.00£16.90Drawing from the intriguing (and sometimes unbelievable) true stories of the lives of everyday Americans, historian Julie M. Fenster traces the history of the weakening of our national ethics through the practice of cheating. From marital infidelity to... -
Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic by Narges Bajoghli 9781503610293
RRP: £19.99£17.54An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic. More than half of Iran's citizens were not alive at the time of the 1979 Revolution. Now entering its fifth decade in power, the Iranian... -
The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass: Studies in the Production of Knowledge by Didier Fassin
RRP: £23.99£20.84In recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national... -
Patina: A Profane Archaeology by Shannon Lee Dawdy
RRP: £24.00£23.03When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new worry arose-that New Orleans's unique historic fabric sat... -
Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres Jamie Woodcock 9780745399065
RRP: £16.99£11.54*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017* *Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize* Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high... -
Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction: The Struggle for Modernity by Helen Graham 9780198151999
RRP: £42.99£36.59Spanish cultural studies are still in their infancy and to date, there has been little interdisciplinary work. Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction maps out the new terrain, taking into account the major changes which have been taking place in the... -
Ethnography: A Way of Seeing by Harry F. Wolcott 9780759111691
RRP: £42.00£37.33One of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive... -
Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self by Paul Roquet
RRP: £21.99£19.19Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and what it means to use media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the... -
Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives Tanya E. Clement 9780262548724
RRP: £43.00£29.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548724Author Tanya E. ClementFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State Hastings Donnan 9781859732465
RRP: £37.99£33.38Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges - that is, sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain distinct identities while adapting to new ideas and experiences knows that... -
Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject by Sherry B. Ortner
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the... -
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
RRP: £25.00£20.59The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from the... -
Anecdotal Theory by Jane Gallop
RRP: £19.99£15.68"Anecdote" and "theory" have diametrically opposed connotations: humorous versus serious, specific versus general, trivial versus overarching, short versus grand. Anecdotal Theory cuts through these oppositions to produce theory with a sense of humor,... -
The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings by David F. Lancy 9781108837781
RRP: £89.99£79.80How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now in its third edition, this deeply engaging book delves into these questions by reviewing and cataloging... -
Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud 9780486827520
RRP: £6.49£4.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486827520Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Food Stylist's Handbook: Hundreds of Media Styling Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for Chefs, Artists, Bloggers, and Food Lovers by Denise Vivaldo 9781510721142
RRP: £18.99£18.57Acclaimed food stylist Denise Vivaldo shares the tips and secrets of the trade with cooks and foodies alike who want to become master stylists.It takes a steady hand to arrange the chocolate curls and drizzle the caramel sauce in elaborate designs on top...