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Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture by Patrick E. McGovern 9780691197203
£12.15A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient vinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive account of the earliest stages of the history and prehistory of viniculture, which... -
Individuals and Societies for the IB MYP 1: by Concept by Paul Grace
£21.70Exam 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... -
Social Theory Now by Claudio E. Benzecry
RRP: £28.00£27.39The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal Social Theory Today. Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda centered... -
The Looking Machine: Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking by David MacDougall
RRP: £19.99£17.61This new collection of essays presents the latest thoughts of one of the world's leading ethnographic filmmakers and writers on cinema. It will provide essential reading for students in cinema studies, filmmaking, and visual anthropology. The dozen... -
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... -
The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan by Gisli Palsson
RRP: £22.00£18.96The island nation of Iceland is known for many things majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in... -
Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method by Andrew Causey 9781442636651
RRP: £27.99£24.95In this meditation/how-to guide on drawing as an ethnographic method, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as a way of translating what they "see" during... -
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition by Patrick Vinton Kirch 9780520292819
£31.01The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe... -
Queer Methods and Methodologies (Open Access): Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research by Catherine J. Nash
RRP: £53.99£46.87Queer Methods and Methodologies provides the first systematic consideration of the implications of a queer perspective in the pursuit of social scientific research. This volume grapples with key contemporary questions regarding the methodological... -
Discourse Analysis by Gillian Brown 9780521284752 [USED COPY]
RRP: £38.99£2.55Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Discourse Analysis by Gillian Brown
RRP: £38.99£34.36Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a... -
Learning to Save the World: Global Health Pedagogies and Fantasies of Transformation in Botswana by Betsey Behr Brada 9781501762420
£26.50Learning 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 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... -
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City by Setha Low 9780367659752
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an 'engaged' approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers... -
Dissociation: Culture, Mind, and Body by David Spiegel 9780880485579
RRP: £70.00£56.57Dissociation challenges many comfortable assumptions. Dissociative phenomena are often stark, extreme, and vivid. The identities of individuals with dissociation disorders shift between apparent opposites. Their pain is ignored. Trauma victims report... -
Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran by Shahram Khosravi 9781512825565
£19.19In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared... -
Movers and Makers: Uncertainty, Resilience and Migrant Creativity in Worlds of Flux by Parminder Bhachu
RRP: £135.00£117.28We live in times of extreme change. There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses... -
Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology by Henrietta L. Moore
RRP: £62.95£54.84This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology... -
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis
RRP: £18.99£12.63In When Smoke Ran Like Water , the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000... -
Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic by Lisa Stevenson
£19.59In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide... -
Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age by David M. Berry
RRP: £16.99£15.22As the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities. In a world of automation, Big Data, algorithms, Google searches, digital... -
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss 9780393320435
RRP: £15.95£10.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393320435Author Marcel MaussFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)... -
Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions by Henrietta L. Moore 9780745636467
RRP: £17.99£15.94How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'. Rather... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 9780606412735
RRP: £37.35£31.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780606412735Author Jared DiamondFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Death Rituals of Rural Greece by Loring M. Danforth
£35.32This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of... -
Handbook of Political Anthropology by Harald Wydra 9781839108358
RRP: £51.95£46.45This ground-breaking collection introduces readers to the fascinating research field of political anthropology. The chapters engage in major theoretical and methodological debates to provide interpretive frames, analytical tools and ethnographic... -
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You, Second Edition: Busting Myths about Human Nature by Agustin Fuentes
£19.18A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment. There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and... -
Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation by Dr. Thomas Buckley
£19.59Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs. It challenges the widespread... -
Corporate Social Responsibility?: Human Rights in the New Global Economy by Charlotte Walker
RRP: £26.00£24.85With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and... -
Multiple Modernities by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
RRP: £45.99£40.13How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, or must a different set of questions be posed in this... -
Postmortal Society: Towards a Sociology of Immortality by Michael Hviid Jacobsen
RRP: £43.99£38.44Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which... -
No Place For Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue by Helen Stanton Chapple
RRP: £37.99£33.38The U.S. hospital embodies society's hope for itself-a technological bastion standing between us and death. What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry, mean for the dying patient in the hospital and for the status of dying in... -
Malay Kinship and Marriage in Singapore by Judith Djamour
RRP: £36.99£32.53Dr Djamour spent two years in Singapore, both in the city and in a Malay fishing village, and her first-hand account draws a lively and sympathetic picture of behaviour within the family and between kinsmen. It is nonetheless an important contribution to... -
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment by James I. Charlton
£19.59James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical,... -
Pakistan by Omar Noman
RRP: £130.00£112.11First published in 1988. This is the first serious academic study of the economic and political development of Pakistan between 1947, the birth of the State, and 1990. First published in 1988 as The Political Economy of Pakistan, this edition has been... -
Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present by Didier Fassin 9780520271173
£19.59In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning... -
The New Cultural History by Lynn Hunt
£19.59Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics,... -
The AntiWitch by Jeanne Favret-Saada
RRP: £19.00£16.20Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant anthropologists, and The Anti-Witch is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject is... -
How the World Changed Social Media by Elisabetta Costa 9781910634486
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910634486Author Daniel MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 425g -
War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future by Roberto J. Gonzalez
£19.59A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare-and why we must resist.War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting...