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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518628Author Asher HoylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388292382Author Romila ThaparFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book CompanyDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as...

Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and...

In a pamphlet published in 2005 Mary Warnock expressed concerns about some of the concepts that she had helped to introduce in the field of special education almost three decades earlier. She argued that the role of special schools was unclear and the...

There 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...

A 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...

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many...

A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate...

In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583941171Author John RushFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Praise for the First Edition: `Totally reliable... the authors have produced a book urgently needed by all those charged with introducing students to the classics... quite indispensable' - Times Higher Education Supplement This is a fully updated...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679758693Author Dorothy RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non- European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization...

In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of...

`This is a thoughtful, honest and accessible text which I would certainly recommend to students. The chapter ordering is excellent and should take the student through a logical progression from the more established to the more contemporary approaches in...

The Sociology of Development Handbook gathers essays that reflect the range of debates in development sociology and in the interdisciplinary study and practice of development. The essays address the pressing intellectual challenges of today, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780029256206Author Alfred R. Radcliffe-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Introductory Sociology is one of the most ambitious, scholarly and popular textbooks in its field. This welcome new edition builds on the strengths of its predecessor in its thematic coherence, clarity of exposition and analytical depth. It is carefully...

Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet there is poor understanding of this transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups are especially susceptible. In this book, Wells adopts a...

This interdisciplinary reader provides a distinctive introduction to the way social, political and economic life is coordinated. It brings together three quite different models of coordination - markets, hierarchies and networks - and places them into a...

How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors interact, under the influence of evolutionary forces, to produce the diversity...

`This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395073592Author Saba DewanFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611250466Author Dr. Octavio Rettig HinojosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Divine ArtsPublisher Divine Arts

A call for new methods for anthropology, this book explores the nature of anthropological knowledge and the conditions of integration and communication with people. Starting with an analysis of anthropologists' guilt, Fan addresses issues of reflexivity,...

Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s...

Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399936323Author Kirsten BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Caw PressPublisher Caw PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553351217Author Wayne KritsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

An 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...

In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses contemporary sociological and anthropological research...

Trickster and transformer, powerful and vulnerable, Coyote is a complex figure in Indian legend. He was often the ultimate example of how not to be: foolish, proud, self-important. The tales in Old Man Coyote were told by the Crow Indians of present-day...

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226356792Author Henri HubertFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year"Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans."-SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and...