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Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul by Melin Levent Yuna 9781032011349
RRP: $50.30$44.14Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdogan.In this book,... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts 9781526147684
RRP: $32.25$23.25The 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... -
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Aries
RRP: $27.74$24.11Reveals 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... -
The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles by Ian Armit 9780748606405
RRP: $39.99$36.31From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and... -
Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos by Gary Stewart
RRP: $34.82$29.52There had always been music along the banks of the Congo River-lutes and drums, the myriad instruments handed down from ancestors. But when Joseph Kabasele and his African Jazz went chop for chop with O.K. Jazz and Bantous de la Capitale, music in Africa... -
Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain by Dr. Freddy Foks
RRP: $38.70$29.44Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar... -
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation: Or the Method of Realizing Nirvana Through Knowing the Mind by W. Y. Evans-Wentz 9780195133158
RRP: $25.79$19.65The 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... -
Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania by Kelly Askew
$69.22Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew... -
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck 9780745612782
RRP: $23.21$20.69The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has... -
Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview by E. Richard Atleo
RRP: $39.99$34.62Western philosophy has long held scientific rationalism in a place of honour. Reason, that particularly exalted human quality, has become steadily distanced from the metaphysical aspects of existence, such as spirit, faith, and intuition.In Tsawalk,... -
Astrology, Science and Culture by Roy Willis 9781859736876
RRP: $46.43$40.88Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest. From daily horoscopes to in-depth and personalized star forecasts, astrology, for many, plays a crucial... -
Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism by Robert Zubrin
RRP: $18.05$11.95There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for--indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this... -
Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
RRP: $28.37$24.24Haitian Vodou breaks away from European and American heuristic models for understanding a religio-philosophical system such as Vodou in order to form new approaches with an African ethos. The contributors to this volume, all Haitians, examine the... -
The Stranger as My Guest – A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality by M Agier
RRP: $19.34$17.52The migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements, while on the other hand many citizens have responded by... -
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas 9781803284637
RRP: $16.76$11.73The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year 'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist 'A refreshing... -
Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences by Felicitas D. Goodman
RRP: $21.92$19.01"The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures." -Theological Book Review" . . . a... -
Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club by Anne Allison 9780226014876
RRP: $30.96$29.71In "Nightwork", Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or... -
The Supernatural After the Neuro-Turn by Pieter F. Craffert
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book takes what is often referred to as the "supernatural" to be normal natural phenomena that are closely linked to the neurobiology of the human species. Reflecting the neurocultural and biocultural perspective, the chapters cover phenomena such... -
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines: Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by W. Y. Evans-Wentz 9780195133141
RRP: $25.79$22.10Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th... -
A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao by Emily Ng 9780520303034
RRP: $38.70$29.44Traversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of... -
Technical Writing For Dummies by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts 9781394176755
RRP: $29.66$19.57Learn to document the technology that makes the world go Technical Writing For Dummies is a master class on how to build a career writing user manuals, e-learning, streaming, simulations, and more. It even zooms into the metaverse. Whether you're new to... -
Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain by Tony Jefferson
RRP: $37.40$32.37Praise for the first edition:'No one seriously interested in youth mass culture or style can afford to ignore this work.' - Stanley Cohen, The Times Higher Education Supplement 'The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies deserves our gratitude for... -
The Idea of Culture by Terry Eagleton 9780631219668
RRP: $32.19$28.10Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.About the AuthorTerry Eagleton is Professor of... -
On Symbols and Society by Kenneth Burke
RRP: $34.83$34.15Kenneth 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... -
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes by Arturo Escobar
RRP: $36.11$31.04In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization... -
When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics by Frank L. Holt
RRP: $38.69$33.98Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then,... -
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis: Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life by Mr Gibson Burrell
RRP: $56.75$50.10The 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... -
Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life by Celine-Marie Pascale 9781509548248
RRP: $23.21$20.69For 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... -
How To Live With Each Other: An Anthropologist's Notes on Sharing a Divided World by Farhan Samanani
RRP: $21.92$14.54An anthropologist looks at our modern world - and shows how we can build a better, more connected one Increasingly, we are coming to see difference, whether in the form of conflicting values or growing ethnic diversity, as an existential threat... -
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith 9781250003836
$16.19"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the... -
Archaeological Situations: Archaeological Theory from the Inside Out by Gavin Lucas
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology - but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start.Rather than... -
Sociology for Business: A Practical Approach by Martin Joseph 9780745604343
RRP: $24.50$21.76With material on changing occupational structures and business enterprises of the future, together with questions, case study and project material at the end of each chapter, Sociology for Business will be the most comprehensive and well organized book... -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson 9780198797524
RRP: $27.72$20.21Since 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... -
The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu
RRP: $20.63$13.52The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now... -
Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color by Nina G. Jablonski 9780520283862
RRP: $32.25$24.74Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible feature influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. Nina Jablonski begins this... -
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 5 - Practice by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: $23.21$15.66*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... -
Two Lenins, and a Gift of Modernity - A Brief Anthropology of Time by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov 9780997367539
RRP: $24.51$23.87Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical exploration... -
When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa by Didier Fassin 9780520250277
RRP: $36.12$28.07In this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis - the failure of the ANC government to stem the tide of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Didier Fassin traces the deep roots of the... -
Get Set for Sociology by Ian McIntosh
RRP: $24.50$22.12This volume assumes no prior knowledge of Sociology. For students who have never studied Sociology before, it will give an idea of what to expect. For students already studying Sociology at school or college, it will provide a concise but comprehensive... -
Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps by Julie Peteet 9780812220704
RRP: $33.53$31.44Nearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set against...