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Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs by Professor Rane Willerslev 9780520252172
RRP: £30.00£23.29This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir... -
Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity by Michael Carrithers 9780192892119
RRP: £52.99£41.68Why do humans have such diverse cultures and ways of life? Michael Carrithers presents an original and powerful answer to this central problem of anthropology, arguing that it is the ways in which people interact, rather than technological advances, that... -
Memory in Culture by Astrid Erll
RRP: £24.99£21.78This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting... -
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis: Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life Gibson Burrell 9781857421149
RRP: £43.99£38.84The authors argue in this book that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assumptions with regard to the nature of social science and the nature of society. The four... -
On Symbols and Society by Kenneth Burke
RRP: £27.00£26.47Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines-education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a... -
Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace: An Introductory Guide Colin Breen (Associate Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Ulster University, Northern Ireland.) 9781032509389
RRP: £36.99£32.53Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in... -
Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others by Charlotte Aull Davies
RRP: £39.99£35.06Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical... -
Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life Celine-Marie Pascale 9781509548248
RRP: £17.99£16.04For the majority of Americans, hard times have long been a way of life. Some work multiple low-wage jobs, others face the squeeze of stagnant wages and rising costs of living. Sociologist Celine-Marie Pascale talked with people across Appalachia, at the... -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson 9780198797524
RRP: £22.99£16.69Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing... -
Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation by William H. Sewell
RRP: £36.00£30.77While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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 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... -
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... -
The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745630953
RRP: £16.99£15.22Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to Bearn, the region in which he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu's... -
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 by Charlotte Sleigh 9781789142143 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.95£5.74What 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... -
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 Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Regime by Henning Hillmann
RRP: £30.00£23.29Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant... -
Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration: The Long March to the City by Dong Jie 9781847694195
RRP: £24.95£21.99Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are the backbone of China's fast growing economy, and yet little is known about their and their children's... -
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... -
Individuals and Societies for the IB MYP 1: by Concept by Paul Grace
£27.01Exam Board: IBLevel: MYPSubject: Social ScienceFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused... -
Plagues and People by William H. McNeill 9780385121224
RRP: £14.95£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385121224Author William McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer 9780520243262
RRP: £25.00£19.99Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues... -
Home Signs: An Ethnography of Life beyond and beside Language by Joshua O. Reno 9780226831268
RRP: £22.00£21.22An intimate account of an anthropologist’s relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication.Home Signs grew out of the anthropologist Joshua Reno’s experience of caring for and... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: £25.00£20.92An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation: Or the Method of Realizing Nirvana Through Knowing the Mind by W. Y. Evans-Wentz 9780195133158
RRP: £21.49£15.23The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahayana, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such... -
Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order by James Ferguson
RRP: £21.99£19.19Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its... -
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition by Theodore Roszak
RRP: £27.00£21.06When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels - and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their... -
Meadows Of Gold Masudi 9781138980617
RRP: £47.99£42.21First published in 1989. Mas'udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu'tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi'a dynasty of Iranian origin, had occupied Baghdad and taken... -
Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence by Diana Forsythe
RRP: £21.99£19.19Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in... -
Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: £50.00£39.12Faces of the State is a penetrating study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. In this new contribution to the anthropology of the state, Yael Navaro-Yashin brings recent poststructuralist and... -
Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing by Lars Krutak
RRP: £32.00£28.61The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to augment and enhance people's... -
Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images by Elizabeth Edwards 9780415254427
RRP: £37.99£33.38This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. The case studies presented focus on photographs active in different institutional, political,... -
How to Succeed in Your Social Science Degree by Hilary Arksey 9781412902267
RRP: £39.99£32.77'As a guide to living and studying at university, this book goes beyond describing basic study skills and instead invites the reader to use ideas from sociology to make sense of the role of being a student, the university as an institution and the... -
Learning to Save the World: Global Health Pedagogies and Fantasies of Transformation in Botswana by Betsey Behr Brada 9781501762420
RRP: £27.99£24.14Learning to Save the World provides an innovative analysis of how individuals inhabit, refuse, and reconfigure the contours of global health. In 2001, Botswana's government, faced with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world, committed... -
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...