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Theory in Economic Anthropology by Jean Ensminger 9780759102064
RRP: £42.00£36.93This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. Editor Jean Ensminger and other contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding... -
Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World by Sergio González Varela 9781498570343
RRP: £30.00£26.68In Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World, Sergio González Varela examines the mobility of capoeira leaders and practitioners. He analyzes their motivations and spirituality as well as their ability... -
Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene by Peter Kraftl 9781538153642
RRP: £93.00£81.40This edited collection presents stories of children and young people's entanglements with times of ongoing crisis in the Anthropocene. The authors use biographical narratives and arts-based methodologies to further the discussion surrounding young... -
Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship Across Sexual Orientation by Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy 9780759101111
RRP: £42.00£36.93It started as a class project-a young, married, small-town white woman interviewing a gay acquaintance and his circle of friends. From this developed a three-year exploration of the complexities of carrying on gay-straight friendships. This reflexive,... -
Aegean Strategies: Studies of Culture and Environment on the European Fringe by P. Nick Kardulias 9780847686575
RRP: £55.00£48.03With a long, detailed historical record, a large corpus of archaeological data, and, more recently, a number of sophisticated analyses of current and previous environmental conditions, the Aegean region of the eastern Mediterranean offers a unique... -
Everyday Arias: An Operatic Ethnography by Paul Atkinson 9780759101395
RRP: £99.00£86.56Paul Atkinson explores the remarkable world of opera through his fieldwork with the internationally known Welsh National Opera company. In order to show us how cultural phenomena are produced and enacted, he takes us on stage and behind the scenes into... -
Contemporary Native American Political Issues by Troy Johnson 9780761990611
RRP: £41.00£36.08"How does one make a clear distinction between issues such as tribal sovereignty, indigenous rights, and law and justice? How do these topics differ, and can they be separated from, issues such as identity, health, and environment? The answer, of... -
Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology by Lawrence A. Kuznar 9780761991144
RRP: £47.00£41.20A strong advocate for anthropology as a science, Lawrence Kuznar reviews the recent challenges to this ideology from creationists and 'scientific' racists on one side and postmodernists, marxists and feminists on the other. Moreover, Kuznar provides a... -
Cosmopolitan Desire: Transcultural Dialogues and Antiterrorism in Morocco by Stephen William Foster 9780759110243
RRP: £42.00£36.93Foster's timely work looks at globalization processes and the transformations that occur within a diverse society. He investigates the multicultural blend of Western and Moslem cultures in Morocco, showing how a multicultural society deals with... -
Ethical Issues in Archaeology by Larry J. Zimmerman 9780759102712
RRP: £51.00£44.62Ethics in the field of archaeological research has become increasingly more complicated, particularly in response to the recent growth of contract archaeology. The past is not in fact "dead and buried," and ethical questions about this living record... -
New Directions in Anthropology and Environment: Intersections by Carole L. Crumley 9780742502659
RRP: £42.00£36.93Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent... -
Anthropology and Global History: From Tribes to the Modern World-System by Robert M. Carmack 9781442249011
RRP: £43.00£37.78Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present-utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history,... -
Forced to Flee: Human Rights and Human Wrongs in Refugee Homelands by Peter W. van Arsdale 9780739112335
RRP: £97.00£84.84"The Modern Refugee Era" began with the end of World War II. An extensive literature has been created on the issue of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons during this period. While much of this has focused on refugee "flight"... -
No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States by Kristin Haltinner 9781793643957
RRP: £30.00£26.68In No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, Kristin Haltinner examines the institutional and ideological forces that cause harm to women in childbirth in the rural United States. Interweaving the poignant and tragic stories... -
Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies around the World by Jean Pierre Williot 9781538159644
RRP: £30.00£26.68In this book, contributors examine the many meanings of the term 'nomad' through the study of food habits. Food and beverage products have become just as nomadic as other objects, such as telephones and computers, whereas in the past only food and money... -
Ethnography: A Way of Seeing by Harry F. Wolcott 9780759111684
RRP: £102.00£89.54One 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... -
Designing an Anthropology Career: Professional Development Exercises by Sherylyn H. Briller 9781538143285
RRP: £39.00£34.37Sherylyn Briller and Amy Goldmacher's Designing an Anthropology Career: Professional Development Exercises, Second Edition, provides undergraduate and graduate students with the tools they need to identify their career goals and follow through on them... -
Shane, the Lone Ethnographer: A Beginner's Guide to Ethnography by Sally Campbell Galman 9781442261402
RRP: £60.00£52.70Shane is at it again in this new, improved second edition of the classic introduction to ethnographic research. The new text still features our intrepid heroine as she learns what makes ethnography tick against a backdrop of Wild West metaphors, cowboy... -
The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters by Eric C. Jones 9780759113091
RRP: £125.00£109.35Throughout history, societies have had to decide whom to "sacrifice" and whom to help in times of disaster. This volume examines how elite groups attempt to maintain power through the use of particular economic, political, and ideological... -
Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene by Peter Kraftl 9781538153628
RRP: £85.00£74.51The Anthropocene is, firstly, a discourse of the earth systems sciences. However, if humans - in all their historical, cultural, social, economic and political diversity - are differently implicated in the emergence and consequences of the Anthropocene,... -
Research Design and Methods for Studying Cultures by Victor C. De Munck 9780759111448
RRP: £64.00£55.72This is a practical guidebook for conducting field research on cultural issues. The first third of the book describes how one constructs a research design. The rest of the book describes different methods that the author used during his own NSF sponsored... -
Essential Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach by Jean J. Schensul 9780759122031
RRP: £43.00£37.78This is Book 3 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition. Essential Ethnographic Methods introduces the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools that ethnographers and other qualitative researchers use on a regular basis. It provides... -
Explorations in Cultural Anthropology: A Reader by Colleen E. Boyd 9780759109537
RRP: £52.00£45.87Explorations in Cultural Anthropology is a collection of readings chosen to demonstrate the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective to real-world problems on local, regional, and global scales. It introduces undergraduates to... -
Introduction to Cultural Ecology by Mark Q. Sutton 9780759123281
RRP: £135.00£118.90All peoples and cultures face environmental issues-but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history. Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the... -
Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach by Margaret Diane LeCompte 9780759122079
RRP: £43.00£38.18This is Book 5 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition. Treating analysis as both a mechanical and a cognitive process, Book 5 begins by describing why analysis and interpretation of data are necessary. In the first two chapters the book... -
Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World by Terry L. Jones 9780759120044
RRP: £113.00£98.62The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea... -
Cooperation in Economy and Society by Robert C. Marshall 9780759119819
RRP: £117.00£102.46The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common... -
Vicos and Beyond: A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru by Tom Greaves 9780759119741
RRP: £98.00£86.10In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with... -
Research Design and Methods for Studying Cultures by Victor C. De Munck 9780759111431
RRP: £102.00£89.14This is a practical guidebook for conducting field research on cultural issues. The first third of the book describes how one constructs a research design. The rest of the book describes different methods that the author used during his own NSF sponsored... -
Historical Transformations: The Anthropology of Global Systems by Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 9780759111103
RRP: £102.00£89.54Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider numerous examples for which local phenomena can only be... -
Gaia and the Fate of Midas: Wrenching Planet Earth by Richard Krooth 9780761845089
RRP: £105.00£92.73GAIA shares the destiny of a living-and now suffering-Earth. ANIMA mundi, her myth embodies; it is the self-regulating and self-organizing flow of energy between the Sun and Moon and Earth's elemental surface and subterrain, oceans and atmosphere,... -
Textile Economies: Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational by Walter E. Little 9780759120617
RRP: £117.00£102.46Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse... -
Causal Explanation for Social Scientists: A Reader by Andrew P. Vayda 9780759113268
RRP: £52.00£45.47All social scientists, despite their differences on many issues, ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to answer those questions. The selected readings, all... -
Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology by Lawrence A. Kuznar 9780759111097
RRP: £40.00£35.22This second edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology arrives at just the right time, as new advances in science increasingly affect anthropologists of all stripes. Lawrence Kuznar begins by reviewing the basic issues of scientific epistemology in... -
Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us by Sing C. Chew 9780759104549
RRP: £40.00£35.22Ecological Futures, the final book in Sing C. Chew's trilogy on world ecological degradation, proposes that our own era exhibits ecological conditions similar to those of the past. The climate changes, environmental crises, mass population migrations,... -
Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration by Caroline B. Brettell 9780739115701
RRP: £46.00£40.35The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The individual scholars... -
Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration by Caroline B. Brettell 9780739115695
RRP: £113.00£99.02The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The individual scholars... -
The Quest for Integral Development in Nigeria: Its Social Ethical Requirements by Michael Ndubueze Diochi 9783631550175
RRP: £99.70£81.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631550175Author Michael Ndubueze DiochiFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 840g -
Islands and the Modernists: The Allure of Isolation in Art, Literature and Science by Jill Franks 9780786424573
RRP: £28.99£24.05This 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... -
Peripheral (Post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges, Piglia, Kalokyris and Kyriakidis by Eleni Kefala 9780820486390
RRP: £62.90£51.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820486390Author Eleni KefalaFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 640g