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Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385124744Author Edward T. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development: Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century by David O'Kane 9780857452894
RRP: $36.06$29.13"This volume offers significant and new information on and insights into current developments in many different areas and - thanks to a comprehensive bibliography on Eritrea and theoretical foundations of the concept of biopolitics as an appendix... -
Sacred Waters: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells by Celeste Ray 9780367445133
RRP: $51.59$45.23Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life's most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest... -
Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone by Ryo Morimoto 9780520394117
$25.27"There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisoma." This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fukushima. Investigating the nuclear ghost among the graying population, Ryo Morimoto encounters... -
The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
RRP: $16.76$11.73An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own makingOther species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and... -
Key Debates in Anthropology by Tim Ingold 9780415150200
RRP: $61.91$53.93Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book includes the first six of these debates, spanning the period from 1988 to 1993. Each debate has four... -
How to Read Ethnography by Paloma Gay y Blasco
RRP: $47.72$41.96How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop... -
Anthropology and Archaeology: A Changing Relationship by Chris Gosden
RRP: $47.72$41.96Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects. This volume covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology. It... -
The Sensory Studies Manifesto: Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences by David Howes
RRP: $30.95$27.83The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring groundbreaking experimentation in the world of art and design, where the focus is... -
Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion by Simon Coleman
RRP: $56.75$49.59Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions, as well as in secular... -
Arabia & The Isles by Harold Ingrams
RRP: $174.15$151.81First Published in 1998. Harold Ingrams is an officer of the Colonial Administrative Service who has had a varied career. In the war of 1914--18 he served for five years with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and was wounded in Belgium in 1916. He... -
Magic - A Theory from the South by Ernesto de Martino
RRP: $34.19$32.65Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is a... -
An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork: A Multilogical Approach by Jason Orne
RRP: $51.59$45.23In an attempt to cope with the profusion of tools and techniques for qualitative methods, texts for students have tended to respond in the following two ways: "how to" or "why to." In contrast, this book takes on both tasks to give students a more... -
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village by Tone Bringa 9780691001753
$48.50"I have been able to follow a Bosnian community over a period of six years, during which it has undergone dramatic changes. In the late 1980s people were working hard against economic crisis. In 1990 they were full of optimism for the future. In January... -
The Composition of Anthropology: How Anthropological Texts Are Written by Morten Nielsen
RRP: $49.01$43.06How do anthropologists write their texts? What is the nature of creativity in the discipline of anthropology? This book follows anthropologists into spaces where words, ideas and arguments take shape and explores the steps in a creative process. In a... -
Introduction to Physical Anthropology by Robert Jurmain 9781337099820
$96.96INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY brings the study of physical anthropology to life! With a focus on the big picture of human evolution, the 15th Edition helps you master the basic principles of the subject and arrive at an understanding of the human... -
Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain by Nicolas Langlitz 9780520274822
$30.04"Neuropsychedelia" examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain." After the breakdown of this previously prospering area of psychopharmacology, and in the wake of clashes between counterculture and establishment in the late... -
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan 9780143038580
RRP: $23.22$15.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of James Beard Cookbook Award - Writings on Food.Book InformationISBN 9780143038580Author Michael PollanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher... -
Zooarchaeology and Field Ecology: A Photographic Atlas by Jack M. Broughton 9781607814856
RRP: $58.05$54.89This photographic atlas, developed over twenty years of teaching in the field, expedites the work of the zooarchaeologist by integrating both osteology and wildlife ecology into a single volume. Zooarchaeology, the study of animal remains found at... -
Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta by Jon P. Mitchell 9780415271530
RRP: $51.59$45.23Ambivalent Europeans examines the implications of living on the fringes of Europe. In Malta, public debate is dominated by the question of Europe, both at a policy level - whether or not to join the EU - and at the level of national identity - whether or... -
The Jungle: Calais's Camps and Migrants by Michel Agier 9781509530618
RRP: $20.63$18.59For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer by Loic Wacquant 9780195305623
RRP: $37.40$24.30When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters,... -
Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture by Christian Smith
$23.34What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative,... -
Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder by Chloe Silverman 9780691159683
$28.12Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a... -
Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life by Cheryl Mattingly
$28.12Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it... -
The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories by Partha Chatterjee
$45.56In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing... -
Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600 by Alida C. Metcalf
$36.39Dona Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea-their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the... -
Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses by Michael Taussig 9781138242982
RRP: $51.59$45.23In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically... -
Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture by Ernest Dale Saunders
$42.62Appearing for the first time in paperback and illustrated with line drawings, diagrams, and 26 half-tone plates, this study of the iconographic aspect of Japanese Buddhist sculpture surveys the significance of eight principal and six secondary hand... -
Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland by Begona Aretxaga 9780691037547
$30.04This book, the first feminist ethnography of the violence in Northern Ireland, is an analysis of a political conflict through the lens of gender. The case in point is the working-class Catholic resistance to British rule in Northern Ireland. During the... -
Threads: Gender, Labor and Power in the Global Apparel Industry by Jane L. Collins
RRP: $30.96$29.71Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third... -
The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations by Roger Bastide
$33.99Written by one of France's most brilliant and creative anthropologists, The African Religions of Brazil is regarded as a classic in Afro-American studies. First published in France in 1960, the book represents a singular effort to develop a theory of... -
Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism by Valene L. Smith 9780812212808
$41.25Tourism-one of the world's largest industries-has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry,... -
Making and Growing: Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts by Elizabeth Hallam 9781138244597
RRP: $61.91$53.93Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow... -
Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies by Mark Moberg 9780814796214
$31.14By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly $3 billion, a five-fold increase in four years. Consumers pay a "fair price" for Fair Trade items, which are meant to generate greater earnings for family farmers, cover the costs... -
A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson 9781913743796
RRP: $32.25$26.19Gregory Bateson died in 1980, but his work grows more and more relevant each year. In his wide-ranging, penetrating thought he illuminated many dimensions of human interaction and of our connection to the wider biological world. One of the questions... -
Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution by Susan Dewey 9781479841943
$31.14Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail it Working together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public... -
Young and Defiant in Tehran by Shahram Khosravi
RRP: $38.64$29.73With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution,... -
Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us by Avi Tuschman
RRP: $23.22$15.79By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light on the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today. It shows how political orientations arise from three clusters... -
With The Empress Dowager Of Chin by Katherine A. Carl
RRP: $154.80$134.17Published in the year 1986, With The Empress Dowager Of Chin is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.Book InformationISBN 9780710302182Author CarlFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Kegan PaulPublisher Kegan PaulWeight(grams) 700g