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Stigma Syndemics: New Directions in Biosocial Health by Bayla Ostrach 9781498552141
RRP: £95.00£87.52Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for... -
Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet by Katharine Zywert 9781487506162
£75.01Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents strategies that both address core challenges, including climate change, stagnating economic growth, and... -
Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Qu bec by Roxanne Rimstead 9781442629905
£77.01Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Qu bec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Qu b cois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and... -
Anthropological Research in India: Retrospect and Prospects by Abhradip Banerjee 9781666937107
RRP: £85.00£74.91This book provides an opportunity for students, academicians, scholars, and researchers in India and around the world to familiarize themselves with the evolution, diversification, and development of anthropological research in India. Comprised of... -
Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Manual by Steven N. Byers 9781138357075
RRP: £135.00£117.68This manual provides students in academic laboratory courses with hands-on experience of the major processes of forensic anthropology. Designed to accompany the textbook Introduction to Forensic Anthropology, the manual introduces core procedures and... -
New Directions in Art, Fashion, and Wine: Sustainability, Digitalization, and Artification by Annamma Joy 9781666904093
RRP: £85.00£74.91Sustainability, digitalization, and artification have become the cornerstones of a successful business model in a world rocked by the effects of a pandemic and a climate crisis. Organizational strategies in the art, fashion, and wine industries have to... -
Re-Centering Women in Tourism: Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies by Frances Julia Riemer 9781666901061
RRP: £77.00£67.62Re-Centering Women in Tourism: Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. Placing a unique and long overdue theoretical frame around tourism, this volume contributes to... -
Transcendental Medication: The Evolution of Mind, Culture, and Healing by Christopher D. Lynn 9780367472641
RRP: £135.00£117.28Transcendental Medication considers why human brains evolved to have consciousness, yet we spend much of our time trying to reduce our awareness. It outlines how limiting consciousness-rather than expanding it-is more functional and satisfying for most... -
The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian by Candace S. Greene 9780803222113
£40.19Winter counts-pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past-marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include "the year the... -
The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation by Keith Brown 9780691099958
RRP: £35.00£31.73This book examines the relationship between national history, identity, and politics in twentieth-century Macedonia. It focuses on the reverberating power of events surrounding an armed uprising in August 1903, when a revolutionary organization... -
Essentials of Physical Anthropology by Eric Bartelink 9781305633810
£73.30Concise, well-balanced, and comprehensive, ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 10th Edition, introduces you to physical anthropology with the goal of helping you understand why it is important to know about human evolution. You'll learn how humans are... -
The Excavation of Ste Marie I by Kenneth E Kidd
RRP: £20.99£19.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592288Author Kenneth E KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 395g -
When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998 by Katherine Hite
£35.97The unanticipated arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London on October 16, 1998 served to punctuate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the most cataclysmic event in Chilean history-a violent coup d'etat that abruptly ended decades of democratic rule. A... -
China Live: People Power and the Television Revolution by Mike Chinoy
RRP: £14.99£14.70In China Live, Mike Chinoy provides an insider's view of two of the most important forces shaping our era—the rise of global satellite news and the rise of China. Exploring not only how events shape television, but how TV can shape the news as it... -
Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family? by Janet W. Salaff
£34.19-- Journal of Asian StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780231102254Author Janet SalaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 317Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
The Archaeology and Geomorphology of Northern Asia: Selected Works No. 5 by Henry N Michael
RRP: £41.00£37.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592530Author Henry N MichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 848g -
Where Rivers Meet the Sea: The Political Ecology of Water by Stephanie Kane
RRP: £67.00£57.77A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing lawBook InformationISBN 9781439909300Author Stephanie KaneFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Language Endangerment by David Bradley
RRP: £74.00£66.86Up 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,... -
Samba in the Night: Spiritism in Brazil by David J. Hess
£90.59An absorbing account of an anthropologist's fieldwork and explorations into alternative religions in Brazil, "Samba in the Night" invites the reader into the mysterious world of spirit mediums, poltergeists, psychic surgery, exorcism and... -
Native Anthropology: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony by Takami Kuwayama
£34.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876843762Author Takami KuwayamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press -
Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's Music and Organizational Culture by Stacy Jones
£113.14Striving to express the lived experience of women's music at The Club, Stacy Holman Jones has created a text that is itself performative, and the reader cannot resist playing a starring role. Her evocative narrative slips in and out of prose, dialogue,... -
The Renewal of the Priesthood: Modernity and Traditionalism in a South Indian Temple by C. J. Fuller
RRP: £35.00£27.74Much has changed for the priests at the Minakshi Temple, one of the most famous Hindu temples in India. In The Renewal of the Priesthood, C. J. Fuller traces their improving fortunes over the past 25 years. This fluidly written book is unique in showing... -
Germans and Texans: Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic by Walter Struve
RRP: £23.99£20.84During the brief history of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845), over 10,000 Germans emigrated to Texas. Perhaps best remembered today are the farmers who settled the Texas Hill Country, yet many of the German immigrants were merchants and businesspeople... -
Women At A Crossroads by M. Lewis Renaud
RRP: £37.99£33.38HIV ravaged the African continent faster and earlier than any other in the world, spreading primarily through unprotected heterosexual sex. Kaolack, Senegal is a town where travellers and prostitutes converge, and HIV transmission rates have soared,... -
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human by Eduardo Kohn
RRP: £80.00£61.89Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human - and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based... -
Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America by Camilla Townsend
RRP: £25.99£22.49With a common heritage as former colonies of Europe, why did the United States so outstrip Latin America in terms of economic development in the nineteenth century? In this innovative study, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North... -
Between Magic & Rationality: On the Limits of Reason in the Modern World by Vibeke Steffen
RRP: £42.99£35.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763542135Author Vibeke SteffenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)... -
Balut by Margaret Magat
£119.46In this book, Margaret Magat explores both the traditional and popular culture contexts of eating balut. Balut-fertilized duck or chicken eggs that have developed into fully formed embryos with feathers and beaks-is a delicacy which elicits passionate... -
The Measure and Meaning of Time in Mesoamerica and the Andes by Anthony F. Aveni
RRP: £62.95£50.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024033Author Anthony F. AveniFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
The Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects by Laura Nader
RRP: £27.00£21.06Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of... -
Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America and Europe by Carola Lentz
RRP: £135.00£117.68First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057025648Author Carola LentzFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 658g -
The Law of the Lifegivers: The Domestication of Desire by Rene Devisch
RRP: £135.00£117.68African societies are gifted with a rich creativity, often expressed in intimate corporeal terms. For the Yaka people of southwestern Congo, such manifestations can have individual, social, or even cosmic significance. The Law of the Lifegivers... -
Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society: Ponam's Progress in the Twentieth Century by A. H. Carrier
RRP: £125.00£108.26First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718651498Author A. H. CarrierFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic... -
In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil by Allan Charles Dawson
RRP: £27.99£24.95In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a... -
Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice by Vera Tiesler
£51.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024262Author Vera TieslerFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas by Karen Bassie-Sweet
£42.08The Ch'ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover clear continuity... -
Someone To Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old in Rural America by Dena Shenk
RRP: £125.00£107.86By 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... -
Recovering the Orient: Artists, Scholars, Appropriations by C. Andrew Gerstle
RRP: £135.00£118.28First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718653416Author C. Andrew GerstleFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic... -
Labour of Love: Beyond the Self-Evidence of Everyday Life by Oystein Gullvag Holter
RRP: £135.00£117.28Amazed at the stubborn nature of the sexual division of labour in modern society, five Norwegian researchers set out to explore the sources of this pervasive resistance to change. Moving from the neutral concepts of work and money, the lofty notions of... -
Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology by Paul U. Unschuld
RRP: £70.00£55.30Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei, a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work...