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Anthropology For Dummies by Cameron M. Smith
RRP: $23.21$15.66Study the science of all of us Anthropology is the organized study of what makes humans human. It takes an objective step back to view homo sapiens as a species and ask questions like: Given our common characteristics, why aren't all of us exactly the... -
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness by Donna J. Haraway 9780971757585
RRP: $14.13$10.76"The Companion Species Manifesto" is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in "significant otherness". In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not... -
The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition by Laird Scranton 9781594771330
RRP: $20.63$17.20The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, are famous for their unique art and advanced cosmology. The Dogon's creation story describes how the one true god, Amma, created all the matter of the universe. Interestingly, the myths that depict his creative... -
Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: $21.92$19.63Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of... -
Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up by Annette Lareau 9780226806433
RRP: $24.51$23.87A down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis. In-depth interviews and close observation are essential to the work of social scientists, but inserting one's researcher-self into the lives of others can be... -
The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745630953
RRP: $21.92$19.63Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to Bearn, the region in which he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu's... -
The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan
RRP: $12.89$9.17'One of the key feminist texts' Guardian The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for... -
Tales From the Fens by W H (Walter Henry) 1891-1 Barrett 9781014162533
RRP: $42.51$36.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014162533Author W H (Walter Henry) 1891-1 BarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Silent Language Anchor by Edward T. Hall
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385055499Author Edward T. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133345
$45.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133345Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 554Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams)... -
Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder
RRP: $34.82$29.99Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aime Cesaire (Martinique) and Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets... -
Chaldean Magic by Francois Lenormant
RRP: $16.76$15.92First published in 2008. Anyone interested in magic and its history will find this a fascinating book. In it, the author discusses Chaldean magic and sorcery, demonology, amulets, the ritual of the dead, the development of Chaldean mythology and the... -
Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography by John Van Maanen
RRP: $20.64$20.34For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detail... -
History Through Material Culture by Dr. Leonie Hannan
RRP: $16.76$11.92History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: $11.60$5.21Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim... -
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
RRP: $51.59$45.23In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The... -
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'shaun L Harrison
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175979Author Da'Shaun L. HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Postmodern Arts: An Introductory Reader by Nigel Wheale 9780415126113
RRP: $51.59$45.23For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. The Postmodern Arts begins by establishing definitions of both words, while also demonstrating the... -
Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life by Leo Charney
RRP: $39.99$38.55Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading... -
With Two Souls: Two midwives' recollections of love, life, birth, and death in rural Ethiopia by Indie McDowell
RRP: $16.76$11.73Recollections of birth and death, joy and tragedy that reveal the reality of maternity care in a remote setting. In 2016, English midwife Indie joined the staff at Attat Hospital in south-western Ethiopia, where Atsede led the midwifery services. It... -
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
RRP: $16.76$11.73_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The Times 'One of those few books that will turn... -
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson
RRP: $11.60$8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Latino Book Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525580454Author Wade HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity by Gary Tomlinson
RRP: $25.80$20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951528Author Gary TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Ukraine in Histories and Stories – Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals by Volodymyr Yermolenko
RRP: $25.80$21.71This collection of texts by writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukrainian history and analyses of the present with outlines of conceptual ideas and life stories. The authors present a... -
Applied Corporate Risk and Liquidity Management by Erik Lie 9780197664995
RRP: $81.27$73.26Cash holdings play a critical role for all corporations. They serve as a source of funding for investment projects that create value for shareholders and as a cushion against costly financial distress. On the other hand, excess cash holdings can induce... -
Ordinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart
RRP: $28.37$24.24Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen... -
A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon by Munira Khayyat
RRP: $32.25$24.74What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed... -
The Material Culture of Basketry: Practice, Skill and Embodied Knowledge by Stephanie Bunn
$36.61This book celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. While sometimes understudied and underappreciated, it has much in common with mathematics and... -
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: $109.65$71.01*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment *2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Overstory From The Center for Humans and Nature, a collection in five... -
From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life): v.3 by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671939
RRP: $21.92$20.77Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the... -
The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition by Arjun Appadurai
RRP: $28.37$28.24This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the... -
The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society by Viorica Marian
RRP: $28.38$20.15Why should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world?You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people... -
Myth and Meaning: Conversations on Mythology and Life by Joseph Campbell 9781608688517
RRP: $34.83$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608688517Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming by Jeannette Mageo
RRP: $49.01$43.06This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology. It incorporates new findings in neuroscience and philosophy of mind... -
A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies by Denielle Elliott
RRP: $34.82$31.10Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative,... -
Viewfinders: Thoughts on Visual Design Research by Bas Raijmakers
RRP: $25.80$20.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526204080Author Bas RaijmakersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint STBY LtdPublisher STBY Ltd -
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De Leon 9780520282759
RRP: $32.25$25.26In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur... -
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: $70.95$57.64The way in which the ruling ideas of a social system are related to structures of class, production and power, and how these are legitimated and perpetuated, is fundamental to the sociological project. In this second edition of this classic text,... -
Coromandel: A Personal History of South India by Charles Allen
RRP: $19.34$12.64COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book... -
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak
RRP: $45.15$35.10Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it...