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The Press Freedom Myth by Jonathan Heawood 9781785905445
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74What does press freedom mean in a digital age? Do we have to live with fake news, hate speech and surveillance? Can we deal with these threats without bringing about the end of an open society? In... -
Concepts and Persons by Michael Lambek 9781487509057
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions... -
At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions Didier Fassin 9780745335599
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30The state is often regarded as an abstract and neutral bureaucratic entity. Against this common sense idea, At the Heart of the State argues that it is also a concrete reality with a morality,... -
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost by Girish Daswani 9781442626584
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92How do Ghanaian Pentecostals resolve the contradictions of their own faith while remaining faithful to their religious identity? Bringing together the anthropology of Christianity and the... -
Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century by Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Booksplease Price: £33.74What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts... -
Syncretism and Christian Tradition: Race and Revelation in the Study of Religious Mixture by Ross Kane 9780197532195
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £72.86Syncretism has been a part of Christianity from its very beginning, when early Christians expressed Jesus' Aramaic teachings in the Greek language. Defined as the phenomena of religious mixture,... -
Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century by Rukmini Bhaya Nair 9781350039247
Booksplease Price: £95.79What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts... -
The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others by Alessandro Duranti 9781107652033
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human interaction is variable... -
Sweden's Dark Soul: The Unravelling of a Utopia by Kajsa Norman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracised as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual... -
The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others by Alessandro Duranti 9781107026391
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.55How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human interaction is variable... -
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.26This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of... -
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith by Timothy Larsen 9780198757429
Booksplease Price: £35.55Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who... -
Notes from the Cevennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cevenol river,... -
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith by Timothy Larsen 9780199657872
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £31.34Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who... -
Benediction by Kent Haruf 9781447227533
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71Shortlisted for the Folio Prize'Unforgettable' - Anne Tyler'Stunningly original' - GuardianOne long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to... -
Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Superb. Uncomfortable, ambiguous, erotic . . . first rate prose and an old-fashioned ability to tell a story.' Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is A Half-formed ThingMaggie is entirely devoted to...