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Through A Window by Jane Goodall
RRP: $14.18$9.55From the world-famous expert on chimpanzees - the powerfully compelling sequel to the international bestseller IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: 'An instant animal classic' TimeEquipped with little more than a notebook, binoculars, and her fascination with wildlife,... -
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: One Million Years of Life in the British Isles by Francis Pryor
RRP: $32.25$23.25An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'Highly compelling' Spectator, Books of the Year 'An evocative foray into the prehistoric past' BBC Countryfile Magazine 'Vividly... -
Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality by Nancy Lindisfarne 9781805260165
RRP: $32.25$27.84Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of 'true' human nature. How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian,... -
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas by Richard Price
RRP: $36.12$31.02Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a... -
Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines by Tim Ingold
RRP: $61.91$53.93Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia... -
The Socially Constructed Organization by David Campbell
RRP: $47.72$41.96This new work looks at the dynamics of organisations from a social constructionist viewpoint, taking the organisation as something that is constructed continuously through individual interactions with others, both within and without the organisation... -
The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames: Early Prehistory to 1500 BC by Tony Morigi 9780954962784
RRP: $45.14$40.26A review of the rich and diverse evidence for understanding past climate and environmental change in the Thames Valley, and the effects on plant and animal populations and the challenges and opportunities these presented to early humans. Part 1 of... -
The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull
RRP: $21.92$15.84The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology.For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in... -
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745639871
RRP: $12.89$11.55The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough... -
The Anthropology of Experience by Victor W. Turner
RRP: $28.37$24.24Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual,... -
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow
RRP: $32.25$24.74In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist... -
Lineages of the Feminine: An Outline of the History of Women by Emmanuel Todd
RRP: $32.25$28.66We are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We see it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide and in an increasingly vociferous critique of patriarchal domination. Why this sudden rise of an antagonistic conception of the... -
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris
RRP: $19.34$14.13War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the misery it causes poisons foreign policy for future... -
Prehistoric Flintwork by Chris Butler 9780752433400
RRP: $32.25$23.93Flint was a vitally important resource for prehistoric societies who put it to a diverse range of uses. Chris Butler has created a concise guide to recognising and categorising British prehistoric flintwork. The author begins by looking at the different... -
Essential Concepts in Sociology by Anthony Giddens 9781509548095
RRP: $19.34$17.52Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to... -
Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century by Ron Eyerman
RRP: $29.66$24.65Building on their studies of sixties culture and theory of cognitive praxis, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and formulation of new collective identities through the music of activism. They combine a... -
The Other Side of Eden by Hugh Brody
RRP: $16.76$11.04Hugh Brody has an international reputation as an anthropologist and documentary film-maker of the Inuit peoples. This book is a marvellous account of hunter-gatherer culture, gleaned from years of living and hunting with the Inuits of the Arctic and the... -
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination by Avery F. Gordon
RRP: $28.37$24.24"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. " -George Lipsitz "The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny."... -
Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings by Matthew Arnold
RRP: $24.50$22.10Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has... -
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination by Richard Mabey
RRP: $14.18$10.54In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds,... -
The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill by Tim Ingold
RRP: $47.72$41.96In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor... -
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category by David Valentine
RRP: $32.24$27.39Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category... -
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
RRP: $49.01$39.63Originally written in 1921 for the author's grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, simplicity and wisdom. Van Loon's witty, amiable tone animates the story of human history as a grand... -
Ethnography in Education by David Mills 9781446203279
RRP: $45.14$37.16'Written in a clear, accessible style, this inspirational book is both a practical guide and a survey of the different ways of doing ethnography. Drawing on wide-ranging examples and using classic and contemporary ethnographies, the authors demonstrate... -
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
RRP: $46.44$41.27The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study... -
Migration Studies and Colonialism by Lucy Mayblin
RRP: $21.92$19.63The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly... -
Correspondences by Ingold
RRP: $20.63$18.59We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters... -
My Life in Fragments by Zygmunt Bauman
RRP: $25.80$22.83Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that... -
Polygamy by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen
RRP: $49.01$43.06Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in... -
Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire by Stuart Tyson Smith 9780415369862
RRP: $49.01$43.06Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct... -
Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing by Michael T. Taussig
RRP: $42.57$41.86Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative... -
Asian America by Pawan Dhingra 9781509534296
RRP: $25.79$23.34Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit... -
The Culture of Craft by Peter Dormer 9780719046186
RRP: $19.34$14.34Peter Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. One of the key questions discussed in the book is what makes the... -
Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling by Rebecca Cassidy
RRP: $25.79$20.73Gambling is everywhere, on our TVs and phones, on billboards on our streets, and emblazoned across the chests of idolised sports stars. Why has gambling suddenly expanded? How was it transformed from a criminal activity to a respectable business run by... -
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
RRP: $14.18$10.02* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, author of... -
Sociology: Introductory Readings by Anthony Giddens 9781509549139
RRP: $25.79$23.34The fourth edition of this best-selling introductory reader has been thoroughly revised and updated to offer a stimulating and wide-ranging set of readings for anyone who wishes to engage with the scope of sociological thought and practice today. The... -
Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: $61.92$47.61Faces of the State is a penetrating study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. In this new contribution to the anthropology of the state, Yael Navaro-Yashin brings recent poststructuralist and... -
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton 9780811205702
RRP: $19.34$16.81"The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground-I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas... -
Where Are We Now: The Epidemic as Politics by Giorgio Agamben 9781912475353
RRP: $20.63$16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475353Author Giorgio AgambenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint ERISPublisher ERISDimensions(mm) 220mm * 138mm * 11mm -
The Women of the United Arab Emirates by Linda Usra Soffan
RRP: $47.72$41.96First published in 1980, this book looks at the factors which influenced the position held by women in the United Arab Emirates in the second half of the 20th century. It argues that Islamic Law has granted women rights and privileges in the spheres of...