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Observational Cinema: Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life by Anna Grimshaw
$24.76Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze. Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz provide... -
The Archaeology of Shamanism by Neil Price
RRP: $49.01$43.06In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed... -
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553371307Author Terence McKennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union: After 2004 by Kathy Burrell 9780754673873
RRP: $118.67$103.46Since the 2004 enlargement of the European Union over half a million Polish migrants have registered to work in the United Kingdom, constituting one of the largest migration movements in contemporary Europe. Drawing on research undertaken across a wide... -
Techniques, Technology and Civilization by Marcel Mauss 9781789208146
RRP: $30.90$25.14Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection... -
A Different Kind of War Story by Carolyn Nordstrom
RRP: $33.53$30.01A Different Kind of War Story takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during the fifteen-year war of terror that took a million lives-mostly civilian-and completely destroyed homes, crops,... -
Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory by Stephen Shennan 9780202307510
RRP: $59.33$52.28Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents... -
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M Diamond 9780060845506 [USED COPY]
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M Diamond
RRP: $24.50$15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845506Author Jared M DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 407Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 322g -
The Nature of Magic by Susan Greenwood 9781845200954
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice... -
Burmese Supernaturalism by Melford E. Spiro
RRP: $56.75$49.59Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years scholars of religion and anthropology have debated the... -
How about Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World by Felicitas D. Goodman
$24.76"Quite an interesting book... " -Religious Studies Review "It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." -The American Rationalist "... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and... -
The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics by Susan Brownell 9780520289017
$25.27Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or parks in China, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or rugby fields in Fiji, human beings test their physical limits, invest... -
Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion by James Maffie
$39.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607324614Author James MaffieFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 829g -
History Of Islamic Philosophy by Henry Corbin
RRP: $59.33$52.28First published in 1993. Published here for the first time in English, this highly important work by Henry Corbin, the Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian of religion, is a definitive interpretation of traditional Islamic philosophy from the... -
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Roger Lewin 9780349103457 [USED COPY]
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In My Mother's House: Civil War in Sri Lanka by Sharika Thiranagama
$34.19In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-better known as the Tamil Tigers-officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities... -
National Museums: New Studies from Around the World by Simon Knell 9780415547741
RRP: $51.59$45.74National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book... -
Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties Pbdirect by Ruth L. Tongue
RRP: $51.59$46.99This volume is a collection of a number of country folk tales. The tales reveal a good deal of fairy lore, some tree lore, including ghostly trees like crooker, the uncanny black dog makes his appearance in more than one tale and also include several... -
Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond by Stefan Helmreich 9780691164816
$28.12What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists--biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers--are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and... -
The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology by Anna Grimshaw
RRP: $32.24$27.32Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing',... -
Making Doctors by Simon Sinclair 9781859739556
RRP: $46.43$40.88Few outsiders realize that student illness is frequently, and ironically, a by-product of medical training. This unique study by a medical doctor and trained anthropologist debunks popular myths of expertise and authority which surround the medical... -
Two Andalusian Philosophers by Tufayl
RRP: $56.75$49.59First published in 1988. Two Andalusian Philosophers provides a short but comprehensive introduction to the central concerns of Islamic philosophy. The Story of Hayy ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufayl and The Definitive Statement by ibn Rushd represent the last,... -
Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics by John Gledhill
RRP: $38.69$29.70This book explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a 'view... -
Politics of Innocence: Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life by Simon Turner 9780857456090
RRP: $30.90$25.14Turner's ethnography of camp dynamics offers a detailed analysis of the tension between humanitarian constructions of refugees and refugees' own subjectivities. Through the analysis of the politics of innocence, Turner helps to elucidate a familiar... -
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age by Haidy Geismar 9781787352827
RRP: $25.80$21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352827Author Haidy GeismarFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 345g -
Elusive Unity: Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatan, Mexico by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero 9781607323532
$22.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323532Author Fernando Armstrong-FumeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of... -
Boards and Cords: An Anthropological Study of Cranial Modification by Tyler G O'Brien 9781538183489
RRP: $94.17$82.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538183489Author Tyler G O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
I�upiat of the Sii: Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges by Wanni W Anderson 9781646426041
RRP: $109.65$107.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426041Author Wanni W AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Islands and the Modernists: The Allure of Isolation in Art, Literature and Science by Jill Franks 9780786424573
RRP: $37.40$31.02This study examines five modernists in different disciplines - biology, painting, drama, fiction, and anthropology - whose work on islands made them famous. Charles Darwin challenged every presumption of popular science with his theory of evolution by... -
Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan by David L. Haberman 9780190086718
$132.17Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. It is often... -
Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town by Carol J. Greenhouse 9780801496783
RRP: $45.15$40.93Anthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law in a predominantly white, middle-class, suburban, principally Southern Baptist community. "A most stimulating book....Praying for Justice is very... -
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris 9780385334303
RRP: $21.93$14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385334303Author Desmond MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future by Roberto J. González 9780520402171
RRP: $32.25$27.34A 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... -
In Search of Chin Identity: A Study in Religion, Politics and Ethnic Identity in Burma by Lian H. Sakhong 9788791114151
RRP: $96.75$95.81Written by an exiled former Secretary General of the Chin National League for Democracy, this study contains valuable data on the Chin and their role in the history of Burma, and provides a clear analysis of the close relationship between religion,... -
Framing Borders: Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory by Ian Kalman 9781487509217
$61.88Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross-border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of... -
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War by Christine A Kray 9781646425648
$31.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425648Author Christine A KrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado -
Mixtec Evangelicals: Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group by Mary I. O'Connor 9781607324232
RRP: $95.46$93.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607324232Author Mary I. O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 380g -
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl: Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World by Alfredo López Austin 9781607323907
$46.10The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo Lopez Austin's 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religion y politica en el mundo nahuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the... -
The Ecology of Pastoralism by P. Nick Kardulias 9781607323426
RRP: $95.46$95.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323426Author P. Nick KarduliasFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 555g