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American Ethnic Practices in the Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study by Jill Florence Lackey 9781498515139
RRP: $56.76$49.85American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is a work based on a twelve-year research project conducted in the greater Milwaukee area by Urban Anthropology Inc. The qualitative study examined the current strength of... -
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices by Jennifer R. Wies 9781498509053
RRP: $58.05$50.94Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in... -
Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo by Paul A. Christensen 9781498507660
RRP: $54.18$47.64Depictions of an alcohol-saturated Japan populated by intoxicated salarymen, beer dispensing vending machines, and a generally tolerant approach to public drunkenness, typify domestic and international perceptions of Japanese drinking. Even the popular... -
Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism by Carl A. Maida 9781442271142
RRP: $55.47$48.74Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores expert and lay approaches to sustainable urbanism, focusing on the politics and civic aesthetics of space and place; project-based learning and it consequences for the life chances of youth; and... -
Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World by Edward J. Hedican 9781442635883
RRP: $50.31$45.42Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process,... -
Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology: Platforms, Pathologies, and Plunder by Peter C. Little 9781666901092
RRP: $104.49$91.67This book explores technology and the global tech industry in relation to social, health, economic, and environmental relations and politics. Peter Little argues that the power and influence of electronics and Big Tech—from the proliferation of digital... -
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands by Sahana Ghosh 9780520395725
RRP: $103.20$92.38A 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... -
Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming by Eric Ramirez-Ferrero 9780231130240
$128.87In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men were five times more likely to die by suicide than by accident. What was causing these men-but not women-to... -
Medical Tourism and Inequity in India: The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare by Kristen Smith 9781793644190
RRP: $38.70$34.42In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores Indian private hospitals and their role in the global healthcare service supply chain within various religious, social, cultural, historical, and economic contexts. Drawing on critical... -
Transnational Mobility and Externalization of Eu Borders: Social Work, Migration Management, and Resistance by Petra Danková 9781666935875
RRP: $113.52$99.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666935875Author Petra DankováFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Where Men Hide by James B. Twitchell 9780231137348
$124.49"If you ask men if they spend any time hiding, they usually look at you as if you're nuts. 'What, me hide?' But if you ask women whether men hide, they immediately know what you mean."-from Where Men Hide Where Men Hide is a spirited tour of the dark... -
Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone by Ryo Morimoto 9780520394100
RRP: $103.20$80.35"There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma." 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... -
Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures by Brenda E.F. Beck 9781487529338
$87.73Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South... -
Seeing Like a Commons: Eighty Years of Intentional Community Building and Commons Stewardship in Celo, North Carolina by Joshua Lockyer 9781498592901
RRP: $38.70$34.42In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua Lockyer demonstrates how a growing group of people have, over the last eighty years, deliberately built Celo Community, a communal settlement on 1,200 acres of commonly owned land in the Appalachian Mountains of North... -
Black and Brown Education in America: Integration in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities by Samina Hadi-Tabassum 9781666900767
RRP: $99.33$91.44Black and Brown Education in America: Integration in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities is a decade long ethnographic study of Maywood, Illinois, and the impact of its recent demographic shift from a historically Black middle-class suburb outside of... -
The Latinization of Indigenous Students: Erasing Identity and Restricting Opportunity at School by Rebecca A. Campbell-Montalvo 9781793640994
RRP: $104.49$91.67Based upon research in rural central Florida, The Latinization of Indigenous Students examines how schools perceive and process demographic information, including how those perceptions may erase Indigeneity and help or hinder resource access.Based on... -
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century by Alin Rus 9781666915433
RRP: $125.13$109.96The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk plays. By focusing on northeastern Romania and southwest Ukraine-two of the most ruralized regions in Europe-this work reveals the... -
The Mobility Imperative: A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration by Augustin F. C. Holl 9781666903799
RRP: $113.52$99.45This work explores the long-term evolutionary implications of the "Mobility Imperative:" the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward a parsimonious but comprehensive model based on Extended... -
Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe by Anna Haebich 9783039110902
RRP: $60.89$49.65Inspired by the international conference `Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe' held in Australia in 2006, this book examines the experience and nature of exile - one of the most powerful and recurrent themes of the human condition. In response... -
Ethnography in Social Science Practice by Julie Scott-Jones 9780415543491
RRP: $69.65$60.46Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography's increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social... -
The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico: Pass Well over the Earth by Christine Eber 9780292745261
RRP: $28.37$22.63Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. The Journey of a... -
Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas by Cristobal de Molina 9780292743984
RRP: $21.92$18.37Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastian de Lartaun, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by Cristobal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives... -
Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea 9780292725478
RRP: $38.69$31.14Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique. To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth... -
Food and Gender: Identity and Power by Carole M. Counihan 9789057025730
RRP: $174.15$151.29This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or... -
Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives by Alan Bicker 9789057024832
RRP: $174.15$151.81The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts... -
Someone To Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old in Rural America by Dena Shenk 9789057005350
RRP: $46.43$40.88By providing descriptions of the experiences of thirty rural Minnesota women, often in their own words, this timely and topical book examines the expectations, beliefs and values of the women as they grow old in rural America. A lifecourse perspective... -
Contested Representations: Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa' by Shelly Ruth Butler 9789057005220
RRP: $174.15$151.29The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for... -
The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Hertz and its Legacy by Robert Parkin 9783718658619
RRP: $174.15$151.29Robert Parkin's book gives a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular. Hertz's activities as reviewer and phamphleteer are also covered. The introductory biographical chapter... -
The Gift by The Macat Team 9781912302123
RRP: $25.79$22.82Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low Income Neighborhood by Anna Seiferle-Valencia 9781912302109
RRP: $25.79$22.82Why is it that children from disadvantaged backgrounds find it so difficult - and often impossible - to achieve? Few questions are of such fundamental importance to the functioning of a fair and effective society than this one, yet the academic and... -
Structural Anthropology by Jeffrey A. Becker 9781912302093
RRP: $25.79$22.82Claude Levi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is perhaps even more influential beyond it. As one of the key figures in the development of... -
Insects and Human Life by Brian Morris 9781859738474
RRP: $174.15$151.29This pioneering book looks at the importance of insects to culture. While in the developed West a good deal of time and money may be spent trying to exterminate insects, in other cultures human-insect relations can be far more subtle and multi-faceted... -
From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences by Arpad Szakolczai 9781108423809
RRP: $122.55$110.75Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Using concepts developed by a series of 'maverick' anthropologists who... -
Language Endangerment by David Bradley 9781107641709
RRP: $34.82$29.41Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious,... -
Drawn from the Ground: Sound, Sign and Inscription in Central Australian Sand Stories by Jennifer Green 9781107028920
RRP: $116.10$105.04Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects may be used to represent story characters. This detailed study of... -
The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others by Alessandro Duranti 9781107026391
RRP: $86.43$77.30How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human interaction is variable across cultures and contexts. Through careful analysis... -
Partisan Publics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks by Ann Mische 9780691141046
RRP: $45.15$36.30During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann... -
The Concept of Action by N. J. Enfield 9780521895286
RRP: $122.55$110.23When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars have assumed a category of things called actions: 'requests', 'proposals', 'complaints', 'excuses'. The idea is both convenient and intuitive, but as this book argues, it... -
The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing by Michael Jackson 9780520275263
RRP: $38.70$30.04In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a... -
Pieces of Earth: The Politics of Land-Grabbing in Kashmir by Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail 9780199477616
RRP: $34.82$31.28This book is about the politics surrounding land grabbing for developmental projects by corporate led establishments such as the Indian National Hydroelectric Power Corporation in Kashmir. Kashmir, the author argues, has had a long past of political...