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The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $38.64$34.33In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought... -
Decolonizing Sociology – An Introduction by A Meghji
RRP: $20.63$18.59Sociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores why, and how, sociology needs to be decolonized. It... -
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart by Ruth Behar
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007136Author Ruth BeharFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Engaging in Narrative Inquiry by D. Jean Clandinin
RRP: $51.59$45.23In Engaging in Narrative Inquiry, Second Edition, D. Jean Clandinin, a pioneer in narrative research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry, clarifying, extending, and refining methods. This updated edition looks at changes and... -
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh Brody 9780571370948
RRP: $16.76$10.73This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes: childhood in England in the shadow of the Second World War, the Derbyshire hills, a kibbutz... -
The Gift - Expanded Edition by Marcel Mauss
RRP: $16.77$14.81Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this crucial essay is returned to its original context, published... -
Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition by A. P. Elkin
RRP: $18.05$9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892814213Author A. P. ElkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: $14.18$10.02Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from... -
Archaeology: The Basics by Brian M. Fagan
RRP: $24.50$21.76Archaeology: The Basics, rewritten for this fourth edition, is a short, engaging book that takes the reader on a journey through the fascinating world of archaeology and archaeologists.Written in a non-technical style by two experienced archaeologists... -
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist) by Sarah Chaney
RRP: $21.92$14.54*A Blackwell's Book of the Year* *A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* *A Telegraph Best Book for Summer 2022* *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole... -
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell 9780671792251
RRP: $23.21$14.55This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.Book InformationISBN 9780671792251Author Paul FussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon &... -
African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice by Mwenda Ntarangwi 9781842777633
RRP: $34.82$30.24This overview of the history, application and teaching of anthropology in post-colonial Africa shows how the continent's anthropologists are redefining the historical legacy of European and American disciplinary hegemony, and developing distinctively... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: $38.70$30.73A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
How to Succeed in Your Social Science Degree by Hilary Arksey 9781412902267
RRP: $51.59$42.27'As a guide to living and studying at university, this book goes beyond describing basic study skills and instead invites the reader to use ideas from sociology to make sense of the role of being a student, the university as an institution and the... -
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers by Robert L. Trivers 9780195130621
RRP: $59.97$54.43Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of... -
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies by Yaron Matras
RRP: $14.18$10.02In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their cultureWho are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral... -
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott 9780691161037
RRP: $19.34$14.54James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of... -
Critical Chain: A Business Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
RRP: $42.56$37.62This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratt's novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like... -
Teotihuacan - The World Beyond the City by David M. Carballo
RRP: $81.21$65.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024675Author Kenneth G. HirthFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung
RRP: $30.96$20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241431Author Karen CheungFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Diseases in the Ancient Greek World by Mirko D. Grmek
RRP: $36.12$31.54What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different... -
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society by Victor Turner 9780801491511
RRP: $36.11$30.52In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new... -
Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali 9780816612871
RRP: $24.50$21.10"Noise is a model of cultural historiography. . . . In its general theoretical argument on the relations of culture to economy, but also in its specialized concentration, Noise has much that is of importance to critical theory today." SubStance"For... -
Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa by Jane I. Guyer
RRP: $30.96$29.71In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically... -
Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in Pe rsonal Relationships by Elliott 9781509549818
RRP: $20.63$18.59Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us... -
De-Pathologizing Resistance: Anthropological Interventions by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
RRP: $42.56$37.62In a time of renewed interest in insurrectionary movements, urban protest, and anti-austerity indignation, the idea of resistance is regaining its relevance in social theory. De-Pathologizing Resistance re-examines resistance as a concept that can aid... -
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance by Brandon Labelle
RRP: $37.41$28.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685950Author Brandon LabelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics by Jenny Reardon 9780691118574
RRP: $45.15$35.10In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology by Joshua R. Farris
RRP: $63.20$55.55In recent scholarship there is an emerging interest in the integration of philosophy and theology. Philosophers and theologians address the relationship between body and soul and its implications for theological anthropology. In so doing,... -
Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544
RRP: $11.60$9.26Perhaps the most daring TV documentary series ever produced in mainland China, which directly affected the thinking of Chinese youth on the eve of the 1989 democracy movement. This richly-annotated translation of the original filmscript by Su Xiaokang... -
On Collective Memory by Maurice Halbwachs
RRP: $36.12$35.33How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This... -
Make Prayers to the Raven: Koyukon View of the Northern Forest by Richard K. Nelson 9780226571638
RRP: $34.83$34.15"Nelson spent a year among the Koyukon people of western Alaska, studying their intimate relationship with animals and the land. His chronicle of that visit represents a thorough and elegant account of the mystical connection between Native Americans and... -
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond
RRP: $16.76$5.30From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both... -
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians by Jake Page 9780684855776
RRP: $28.38$19.41In the past two decades, a new breed of historians, anthropologists and archaeologist have uncovered a fuller, richer and surprising view of the entire American Indian experience. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a long... -
Civilization of Angkor by Charles Higham
RRP: $12.89$8.77A short history of the ancient civilization of Angkor, home to the spectacular temple of Angkor Wat.In the late sixteenth century a mythical encounter was reported on an elephant hunt in the dense jungle north of the Tonle Sap, or Great Lake, of central... -
Secrets of Voodoo by Milo Rigaud
RRP: $16.76$11.13Secrets of Voodoo traces the development in Haiti and the Americas of this complex religion from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods of loas and their function, the... -
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
RRP: $38.70$29.44In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks,... -
Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola 9780226212364
RRP: $39.99$34.48Successor to Claude Levi-Strausa at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its publication... -
The Countries & Tribes Of The Persian Gulf by Samuel Barrett Miles
RRP: $49.01$43.58This book is a collection of the notes of S.B. Miles, longtime British official in the Persian Gulf, and covers pre-Islamic history, pointing out that the inhabitants were masters of maritime commerce where trade included slaves, spices, gold, precious... -
Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives by Emily Mendenhall
RRP: $56.75$50.10While there is increasing political interest in research and policy-making for global mental health, there remain major gaps in the education of students in health fields for understanding the complexities of diverse mental health conditions. Drawing on...