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The Trickster in Contemporary Film Helena Bassil-Morozow (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) 9780415574662
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.59This 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... -
The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble by Jim Wafer 9780812213416
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Enter the fascinating world of the Condomble regions of Brazil, where interaction between spirits and human is considered an everyday occurrence. Jim Wafer uncovers the social life, rituals,... -
Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales by Kirin Narayan 9780195103496
RRP: €31.52Booksplease Price: €25.80Narayan presents 21 stories learned and told orally by one woman, Urmila Devi, in Kangra, North India. Included are stories told for worship and stories told for entertainment. In the process of... -
Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannee by Anna Servaes 9781628462104
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €51.19French traditions in America do not live solely in Louisiana. Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannee travels to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, to mark the... -
Below the Clock by JV Turner 9789357310598
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81"This isn't an ordinary murder. The dead man was the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the murder was in the House of Commons." The clock is Big Ben, above the Houses of Parliament. The Chancellor of... -
In Amazonia: A Natural History by Hugh Raffles 9780691048857
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.49The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In... -
Nurturing ‘Difficult Conversations’ in Education: Empowerment, Agency and Social Justice in the UK Katarzyna Fleming 9781350332157
Booksplease Price: €35.09This book offers a critical discussion on the necessity for 'difficult conversations' to take place in education, drawing on studies from across the UK. The editors and contributors address three key... -
The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance by Graham St. John
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this... -
Revision as Resistance in Twentieth-Century American Drama by Meredith M. Malburne-Wade 9781137469229
Booksplease Price: €55.62American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses... -
Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo 9789042029354
Booksplease Price: €128.60This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modern and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA,... -
Finding Cholita by Billie Jean Isbell
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.99Finding Cholita is fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period from the 1970s to today. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region's long... -
Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally by Sarah H. Davis 9780674049277
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €19.49How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her cancer may be cured by a healer who enters a trance to battle her demons? Whose actions are more (or less)... -
Nurturing ‘Difficult Conversations’ in Education: Empowerment, Agency and Social Justice in the UK Katarzyna Fleming 9781350332119
Booksplease Price: €114.66This book offers a critical discussion on the necessity for 'difficult conversations' to take place in education, drawing on studies from across the UK. The editors and contributors address three key... -
Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures by Graham St. John 9781845536268
Booksplease Price: €29.27A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, "Technomad" explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave. The book documents an emerging network of... -
Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China by Jay Dautcher 9780674032828
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €34.36The Uyghurs, a Turkic group, account for half the population of the Xinjiang region in northwestern China. This ethnography presents a thick description of life in the Uyghur suburbs of Yining, a... -
Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland by Mary M. Steedly 9780691655321
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €52.60When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became... -
The Drama of Social Life Jeffrey C. Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles) 9781509518135
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and "cultural pragmatics" are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary... -
Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless by Robert R. Desjarlais
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Desjarlais shows us not anonymous faces of the homeless but real people. While it is estimated that 25 percent or more of America's homeless are mentally ill, their lives are largely unknown to us... -
Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics Janet McIntosh 9780197808023
Booksplease Price: €17.48The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking book... -
Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics by Janet McIntosh 9780197808016
Booksplease Price: €79.84The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking book... -
Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China by David Johnson 9780674033047
RRP: €49.92Booksplease Price: €41.78This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the... -
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media - Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen by Flagg Miller 9780932885326
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €26.01In a groundbreaking study of contemporary Arab political poetry, Flagg Miller provides a wide range of insights into the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language and culture... -
Self & The Sacred: Conversion Autobiography by Rodger M. Payne 9781572330153
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63From about 1740 to 1850, evangelical Protestantism became a major cultural force in virtually all areas of America. Emerging from this religious movement was a rich vernacular literature of... -
Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author by Steven Feld
Booksplease Price: €35.51This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the... -
From Mimesis to Interculturalism: Readings of Theatrical Theory Before and After 'Modernism' by Graham Ley 9780859896405
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €74.10From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed... -
The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras by Daniel R. Reichman
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €25.78In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented... -
The Liminality of Fairies: Readings in Late Medieval English and Scottish Romance by Piotr Spyra 9780367521653
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies... -
On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture by Setha M. Low
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001 Leeds... -
Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community by Kenneth T. MacLeish 9780691165707
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €21.90Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers... -
Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place by Dara Downey
Booksplease Price: €54.44Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of "liminality" as a space of "in-between-ness" that... -
My Egypt Archive Alan Mikhail 9780300276800
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.54A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy... -
My Egypt Archive by Alan Mikhail
Booksplease Price: €25.81A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy... -
What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War by Sarah E. Wagner
Booksplease Price: €30.44Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic WritingNearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War. These are the stories of those who mourn and... -
Hunting Caribou: Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest by Karyn Sharp 9780803274464
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.75Denesuline hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in... -
No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things by Lawrence Cohen
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €31.21From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, "No Aging in India" captures the reader with its interplay of... -
Professional Music-Making in London: Ethnography and Experience Stephen Cottrell 9780754608899
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing in part on his own... -
Unexpected Ellen Wiles 9780008267889
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.62A funny, addictive and poignant novel about what happens when the lines between friendship, romance, and family begin to blur. 'Loved this clever and funny novel'... -
People of the Lakes: Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich'in Elders/Googwandak Nakhwach'anjoo Van Tat Gwich'in by Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation 9780888645050
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €36.53Many people have a mental picture of the Canadian north that juxtaposes beauty with harshness. For the Van Tat Gwich'in, the northern Yukon is home, with a living history passed on from Elders to... -
Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora by Chandra D. Bhimull 9781479843473
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.04Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2019 Sharon Stephens Prize, given by the American... -
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience by Cheryl Mattingly 9780521630047
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €74.05There is a growing interest in 'therapeutic narratives' and the relation between narrative and healing. Cheryl Mattingly's ethnography of the practice of occupational therapy in a North American...