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Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies David Sutton 9781847884855
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Why do 'Jaws', 'Field of Dreams', 'The Big Lebowski', and 'The Godfather' remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin cycles? "Hollywood Blockbusters: The... -
Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader David Howes 9781859738634
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.49With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and... -
Cosmos and Society in Oceania Daniel de Coppet 9781859730423
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western... -
Anthropology and the Individual: A Material Culture Perspective Daniel Miller 9781847884947
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis... -
Trench Art: Materialities and Memories of War Nicholas Saunders 9781859736081
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Trench art is the evocative name given to a dazzling array of objects made from the waste of industrialized war. Each object, whether an engraved shell case, cigarette lighter or a pen made from... -
Western Conceptions of the Individual Brian Morris 9780854968015
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67This is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on material... -
Visual Impact: Culture and the Meaning of Images Terence Wright 9781859734735
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99From the office to domestic interiors to shops, images surround us in modern life. The internet has increased this visual onslaught exponentially. Is there a systematic order to this seemingly... -
Ritual Communication Gunter Senft 9781847882950
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £29.99Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal ritual. Ritual communication extends beyond collective religious expression. It is an intrinsic part... -
Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Lionel Caplan 9781859736326
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary 'mixed-race' populations, descendants of the offspring of sexual unions involving European men (colonial officials,... -
Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities Noel Dyck 9781859736401
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Sport and dance command the passions and devotion of countless athletes, dancers and fans worldwide. Although conventionally thought to reside within separate social realms, these two embodied... -
Art as Far as the Eye Can See by Paul Virilio 9781847885401
Booksplease Price: £23.12Paul Virilio puts art back where it matters - at the centre of politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But in our new media world art has changed, its very materials have... -
Bite Me by Fabio Parasecoli 9781845207618
Booksplease Price: £34.19Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social,... -
Sport, Identity and Ethnicity by Jeremy MacClancy 9781859731451
Booksplease Price: £36.82Sport is now a major industry -- and one of increasing importance throughout both the developed and developing world -- but, until now, it has received little serious attention from anthropologists. ... -
Surrealism and Cinema by Michael Richardson 9781845202262
Booksplease Price: £32.95Surrealism has long been recognised as having made a major contribution to film theory and practice, and many contemporary film-makers acknowledge its influence. Most of the critical literature,... -
Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1995 by Reiner Pommerin 9781859731055
Booksplease Price: £36.82Postwar German culture -- East and West -- and the political implications of various cultural developments are the focus of this provocative study by some of Germany's leading cultural and... -
Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements by Abner Cohen 9780854967988
Booksplease Price: £86.43This study explores the dynamic relations between cultural forms and political formations in some urban cultural movements. The analysis is based on a detailed study of the structure and development... -
Elections, Parties and Political Traditions: Social Foundations of German Parties and Party Systems, 1867-1987 by Karl Rhoe 9780854966196
Booksplease Price: £96.35Examining the social, cultural and political foundations of German political parties past and present, this book concentrates on the social context in which the parties operate. German political... -
Brazilian Food by Jane Fajans 9780857850416
Booksplease Price: £113.11Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and enormous variation from geography and climate to cultures and languages. Within these boundaries are definable regions in which certain customs, history, and... -
The Sociology of International Relations by Marcel Merle 9780907582441
Booksplease Price: £103.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907582441Author Marcel MerleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Berg PublishersPublisher... -
Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar Germany by Martin Broszat 9780854965175
Booksplease Price: £43.76The only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the most fateful period in modern German history between 1929-1933.Book InformationISBN 9780854965175Author Martin BroszatFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
A Pocket Dictionary of Contemporary France: Petit Lexique de la France Contemporaine by Claudie Cox 9780854965342
Booksplease Price: £43.76Compiled by Claudie Cox This handy dictionary helps students acquire the specific vocabulary they encounter in covering current affairs in France -- particularly in the areas of politics, economics,... -
Europe and German Unification by Renata Fritsch-Bournazel 9780854966844
Booksplease Price: £37.81An assessment of the situation of Europe and German unification at the beginning of the 1990s. The author identifies fundamental issues and documents, with the use of quotations and extracts and the... -
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age by Dr Michael Leslie 9780857850300
Booksplease Price: £113.41The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the... -
Fascism and the Working Class in Austria, 1918-1934: The Failure of Labour in the First Republic by G. A. Lewis 9780854965816
Booksplease Price: £103.11Jill Lewis.Reviews'... persuasive and well-researched.'Labour History Review'The author's concern is to correct what she perceives as the customary approach to inter-war Austrian affairs that is... -
Oriana Fallaci - The Rhetoric of Freedom by Oriana Fallaci 9781859730744
Booksplease Price: £41.78Oriana Fallaci (b. 1930) is an awkward presence on Italian bookshelves, in world journalism and among feminists. This book, the first literary study of Fallaci, examines the implications of the... -
The Rise of Brands by Liz Moor 9781845203849
Booksplease Price: £35.83Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy, to the advertisements which cover our cities and the celebrities created by the media. We regard the brand as a... -
Design and Creativity by Guy Julier 9781847883070
Booksplease Price: £113.41Design and other creative industries not only shape our lives in numerous ways, providing 'cultural' goods such as films, music and magazines, but also shape the look and feel of everyday objects and... -
Slow Living by Geoffrey Craig 9781845201609
Booksplease Price: £35.83Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today's world. Slow Living explores the philosophy and... -
The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Homedressmaking by Barbara Burman 9781859732083
Booksplease Price: £36.82Throughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence and mass production, it is easy to forget that just... -
Postcards from the Cinema by Serge Daney 9781845206512
Booksplease Price: £36.04Postcards from the Cinema is the book Serge Daney, one of the greatest of film critics, never wrote. It is based around an interview that was to be the starting point for a book, a project cut short... -
Battlefield Tourism by David William Lloyd 9781859731741
Booksplease Price: £113.11In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this 'battlefield tourism' is chronicled in... -
No One Likes Us, We Don't Care: The Myth and Reality of Millwall Fandom by Garry Robson 9781859733721
Booksplease Price: £31.86Shortlisted for the Philip Abrams Memorial Book Prize 2001 'No one likes us, we dont care' is the anthem of the most notorious fans in British football. But little is known about the actual people... -
The Making of Totalitarian Thought by Josep R. Llobera 9781859737958
Booksplease Price: £36.82The totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century reveal disturbing and uncomfortable facts about human nature, social life, and moral progress. Totalitarianism, ironically, came at a time when the... -
Fashion and Music by Janice Miller 9781847884145
Booksplease Price: £116.38The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity,... -
Victorian Fashion Accessories by Ariel Beaujot 9781847886835
Booksplease Price: £116.38In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion... -
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World by Mark Golden 9781847888006
Booksplease Price: £113.41Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both... -
A POW's Memoir of the First World War: The Other Ordeal by Georges Connes 9781859737880
Booksplease Price: £36.82This lyrical memoir offers a fresh look inside the trauma of war and captivity during the First World War, with resonance for today's world.Georges Connes was a young literature graduate when he was... -
War and Memory in the Twentieth Century by Kenneth Lunn 9781859731994
Booksplease Price: £36.82This unique and absorbing book looks at the ways in which images and memories of war have emerged and endured in the twentieth century. Through a number of studies by the leading experts in the... -
Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities by Paul Williams 9781845204891
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £27.99The past 25 years has seen an extraordinary boom in a new kind of cultural complex: the memorial museum. These seek to research, represent, commemorate and teach on the subject of dreadful, violent... -
A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilisation from the 18th to the 21st Century by Jane Kromm 9781845204921
Booksplease Price: £44.28A History of Visual Culture is a history of ideas. The recent explosion of interest in visual culture suggests the phenomenon is very recent. But visual culture has a history. Knowledge began to be...