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The Mythology in Our Language - Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £28.00£27.79In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's "Golden Bough," published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact - continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology's theoretical terms, like... -
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands by Sahana Ghosh 9780520395732
RRP: £25.00£19.59A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the... -
Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice by Sally Engle Merry
RRP: £28.00£27.39Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their... -
The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History by Michael Carrithers 9780521277570
RRP: £43.99£37.55The concept that people have of themselves as a 'person' is one of the most intimate notions that they hold. Yet the way in which the category of the person is conceived varies over time and space. In this volume, anthropologists, philosophers, and... -
The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny by Peter McGraw
RRP: £17.99£11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451665420Author Peter McGrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 224mm *... -
Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography by Stuart Elden
RRP: £39.99£35.46Michel Foucault's work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research. This book, the first to engage Foucault's geographies in detail... -
Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology by Kay Milton
RRP: £54.99£47.72Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their... -
At the Mountains' Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community by Frank Salomon
RRP: £37.99£33.38In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar... -
Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile by Clara Han 9780520272101
RRP: £30.00£23.29Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as... -
Ethnography: A Way of Seeing by Harry F. Wolcott 9780759111691
RRP: £42.00£37.33One of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive... -
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
RRP: £25.00£20.59The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from the... -
Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness by Pauline Leonard 9780367602765
RRP: £39.99£35.06Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations offers a timely and contemporary discussion of the role of organizations in maintaining or challenging structures and cultures based on racism and discrimination. It offers a key exploration of the... -
Coming Over: Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century by David Cressy 9780521338509
RRP: £29.99£22.85Coming Over discusses the English migration to New England in the seventeenth century and shows the importance of English connections in the lives of American colonists. David Cressy reviews the information available to prospective migrants, the... -
Cultural Property and Contested Ownership: The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin 9780367875473
RRP: £39.99£35.06Against the backdrop of international conventions and their implementation, Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among diverging parties and their interests. Cultural artefacts,... -
Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society by J. Patrick Williams
RRP: £39.99£35.06Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in... -
Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution, Expanded Edition by Donna Hart
RRP: £49.99£43.50Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds. The authors' studies of predators on... -
Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq by Omar Dewachi
RRP: £21.99£19.19Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of U.S.-led sanctions and invasions... -
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... -
The Sounds and Colors of Power: The Sacred Metallurgical Technology of Ancient West Mexico by Dorothy Hosler 9780262526623
£60.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526623Author Dorothy HoslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 930g -
An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology by Robert Layton 9780521629829
RRP: £26.99£21.89In this innovative introduction, Robert Layton reviews the ideas that have inspired anthropologists in their studies of societies around the world. An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology provides a clear and concise analysis of the theories, and... -
Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage, and Government Stability by Stephen M. Lyon 9781498582193
RRP: £35.00£30.95In Political Kinship in Pakistan, Stephen M. Lyon illustrates how contemporary politics in Pakistan are built on complex kinship networks created through marriage and descent relations. Lyon points to kinship as a critical mechanism for understanding... -
We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines by June Nash 9780231080514
RRP: £32.00£25.16In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.Book InformationISBN 9780231080514Author June NashFormat... -
In Far Japan: Glympses by Frank H. Hedges 9781138972414
RRP: £21.99£19.34First published in 2006. These unique sketches of Japan and Japanese life were written by Frank Hughes. foreign correspondent of the London Times, Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post. Shrines, mountains, traditional drums, misty rains and... -
Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali by Clifford Geertz
RRP: £35.00£27.74Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost... -
Anthropology of Religion: The Basics by James S. Bielo
RRP: £19.99£17.69Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples to address not only what is... -
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology by Professor Simon Coleman
RRP: £43.99£39.44The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is an invaluable guide and major reference source for students and scholars alike, introducing its readers to key contemporary perspectives and approaches within the field. Written by an experienced... -
Food Identities at Home and on the Move: Explorations at the Intersection of Food, Belonging and Dwelling by Raul Matta
RRP: £39.99£35.06How does food restore the fragmented world of migrants and the displaced? What similar processes are involved in challenging, maintaining or reinforcing divisions between groups coexisting in the same living place? Food Identities at Home and on the Move... -
Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities by Avtar Brah
RRP: £41.99£36.75By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, Cartographies of Diaspora throws new light on discussions about `difference' and `diversity', informed by feminism and post-structuralism. It examines these themes by exploring the intersections... -
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us by S. Lochlann Jain 9780520276574
RRP: £25.00£19.59Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding,... -
Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People by Rebecca Popenoe
RRP: £41.99£36.75While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls'... -
Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders by Peter Redfield 9780520274853
RRP: £25.00£19.59"Life in Crisis" tells the story of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution... -
Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: 'Working the Ground' in Scotland by Penny McCall Howard 9781526143693
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by... -
Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India by Sarah Pinto 9781512823745
RRP: £22.99£20.01In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of... -
Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication by Ray L. Birdwhistell 9780812210125
£28.31Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned... -
On Suicide Bombing by Talal Asad 9780231141529
RRP: £20.00£15.92Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic... -
Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action by Merrill Singer 9781538106464
RRP: £46.00£42.33The third edition of Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical and health anthropology. The narrative is guided by unifying themes. First, health-oriented... -
Discourse Analysis by Gillian Brown 9780521284752 [USED COPY]
RRP: £38.99£2.32Discourse 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... -
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... -
The Development of Soviet Folkloristics Pbdirect by Dana Prescott Howell
RRP: £43.99£38.84This volume provides an insight into the rise of folkloristics in Russia undergoing almost unprecedented changes in social and political conditions. It is a valuable resource to all non-Russian readers.Book InformationISBN 9781138845459Author Dana... -
Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto by Stephen J. Greenblatt
RRP: £24.99£21.18Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share...