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Heart of Lightness: The Life Story of an Anthropologist by Edith Turner 9781845451271
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36'Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie alone after Vic's death,... -
Heart of Lightness: The Life Story of an Anthropologist Edith L. B. Turner 9781845451264
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16'Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie alone after Vic's death,... -
Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation by Louise Carus Mahdi
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £36.80This interdisciplinary approach to rites of passage comprises 31 essays by outstanding contributors, including Marie-Louise yon Franz, Robert Bly, James Hall, Helen Luke, Victor Turner, and Marion... -
A Celebration of Demons Bruce Kapferer 9780854966042
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in... -
Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels by Lin Knutson 9781666903102
Booksplease Price: £66.59Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in... -
Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen: Rituals of Girlhood by Athena Bellas 9783319649726
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turner's work on liminality for a feminist agenda,... -
Foundations in Ritual Studies: A Reader for Students of Christian Worship by Professor of Liturgy Paul Bradshaw 9780801034992
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.47The new field of ritual studies applies anthropological methodology to the study of religious actions. The first collection of its kind, Foundations in Ritual Studies offers students of Christian... -
Partition: The story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947 by Barney White-Spunner 9781471148033
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Stands out for its judicious and unsparing look at events from a British perspective' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBetween January and August 1947 the conflicting... -
Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War by Clara Han
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist Anthropology Finalist, 2022 Victor Turner Prize An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography... -
Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War by Clara Han 9780823289462
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist Anthropology Finalist, 2022 Victor Turner Prize An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography... -
Hawthorne's Romances: Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry by Robert S. Friedman
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94First Published in 2000. Throughout the nineteenth century, the study of geometry remained at the core of educational curricula in the United States, strongly affecting how educated Americans... -
Failed Rites of Passage in Early Gothic Fiction by Markus Oppolzer 9783631611357
RRP: £47.20Booksplease Price: £42.65This study applies Victor Turner’s theory of liminality to an examination of early British Gothic fiction and its cultural context. Contrary to the widespread belief that the Gothic is escapist in... -
Covenant and Sacrifice in the Letter to the Hebrews by John Dunnill 9780521020626
Booksplease Price: £24.15Among the problems which Hebrews poses for interpretation, its use of sacrificial terminology must cause it to seem remote and obscure. Although the recent work of social anthropologists on the... -
Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal by Eugene Halton
Booksplease Price: £30.43In this critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acceptance of the myths of the mind/body dichotomy make them... -
Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal by Eugene Halton 9780226314617
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In this critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acceptance of the myths of the mind/body dichotomy make them... -
Mind, Body and Culture: Anthropology and the Biological Interface by Geoffrey Samuel 9780521374118
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Concerned with the aspects of human behaviour which have been traditionally described as cultural or social, the author draws on his background in physics to suggest a scientific approach involving a... -
The Anthropology of Experience by Victor W. Turner 9780252012495
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Fourteen 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,... -
Carnival and Theater: Plebian Culture and The Structure of Authority in Renaissance England by Michael D. Bristol
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its... -
Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art by Nino Zchomelidse 9780691151939
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £48.82Taking a new approach to medieval art, Meaning in Motion reveals the profound importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and intellectual experience of art and architecture in the Middle Ages... -
Comparative Criticism: Volume 9, Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values by E. S. Shaffer 9780521341721
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.30The ninth volume of this annual journal is concerned with the theme of 'Cultural perceptions and literary values', and continues the consideration of the relations of European with non-European... -
Political Anthropology: An Introduction, 3rd Edition by Ted C. Lewellen 9780897898911
Booksplease Price: £37.81In the foreword to the first edition, renowned anthropologist Victor Turner wrote that this book was a succinct and lucid account of the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the past four... -
Exaltation: Ecstatic Experience in Pentecostalism and Popular Music by Mark Jennings 9783034313483
RRP: £68.50Booksplease Price: £60.99Based on two richly described case studies - a Pentecostal worship service and popular music festival - this book draws on sociology, theology and religious studies in order to understand the... -
The Trickster in Contemporary Film by Helena Bassil-Morozow 9780415574655
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.67This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters... -
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between by Joan Faust 9781611494105
Booksplease Price: £91.39Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. The poet and his work have... -
Mind, Body and Culture: Anthropology and the Biological Interface by Geoffrey Samuel 9780521024945
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Concerned with the aspects of human behaviour which have been traditionally described as cultural or social, the author draws on his background in physics to suggest a scientific approach involving a... -
The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change and Social Transformation in South Central Africa by James A. Pritchett 9780299171544
Booksplease Price: £21.48Continuity and change in Zambia Bridging history and anthropology, this richly documented account of the Lunda-Ndembu people of northwestern Zambia has at its center the paradox of continuity and... -
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand by Alan Klima 9780691074603
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly... -
Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason by Bill Maurer 9780691121970
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "just" meaning? Mutual Life, Limited spends time among those who, in acknowledging the fictions of finance, are making money anew. It... -
The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch by Dean Andrew Nicholas 9781433102264
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £63.14The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch explores the use of deception in the Pentateuch and uncovers a new understanding of the trickster's function in the Hebrew Bible. While... -
Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy by E. Turner
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense felt by a group when their life together takes on... -
Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India by Tarini Bedi
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.27Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies 2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for... -
The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature by William R. Jordan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most promising... -
Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists by Robert R. Desjarlais 9780520235885
Booksplease Price: £32.73Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling... -
Thinking About 'Beowulf' by James W. Earl 9780804727952
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Bringing contemporary critical theory to bear on Beowulf, the author explores the literary originality of a poem often treated as oral and traditional. He grounds his work in three axioms about... -
The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature by William R. Jordan 9780520233201
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £56.44Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most promising... -
Carnival: Culture in Action - The Trinidad Experience by Milla Cozart Riggio 9780415271295
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.38This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and... -
Demythologizing the Romance of Conquest by Jeanne Armstrong 9780313310676
Booksplease Price: £61.63The contact of two different cultures in the colonization process produces a zone of cultural mingling; people who are betwixt and between. Armstrong examines the repercussions of colonization on the... -
They Lie, We Lie: Getting on with Anthropology by Peter Metcalf
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as... -
Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage by Alan Morinis 9780313278792
Booksplease Price: £96.65This interdisciplinary collection is a new landmark in the study of the world's pilgrimage traditions. Experts from many disciplines approach the subject from a variety of perspectives that are... -
Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism by Tracey Heatherington
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.89**Winner of the 2010 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, presented by the American Anthropological Association**Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic,...