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Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience by Cheryl Mattingly 9780521630047
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £62.23There 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... -
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between by Joan Faust 9781611495201
Booksplease Price: £51.70Andrew 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... -
Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life by Margaret Lock
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.62Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper": a singular, discrete biological organism with an... -
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Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life by Margaret Lock 9780822338307 [USED COPY]
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £39.86Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper": a singular, discrete biological organism with an... -
Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance by Graham St. John 9781845539566
Booksplease Price: £25.18Trance events have an uncanny ability to capture an era, and captivate an audience of travellers occupying the eternal theatre of the dance floor. As this book shows, the tendency within psytrance is... -
Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem by Craig D. Atwood 9780271058559
Booksplease Price: £32.96Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was a unique colonial town. It was the first permanent outpost of the Moravians in North America and served as the headquarters for their extensive missionary efforts. It was... -
Crossing Thresholds: A Practical Theology of Liminality in Christian Discipleship, Worship and Mission by Rosy Fairhurst
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £22.48We live in an age of enormous and rapid change, but how do people, organisations, even whole cultures and societies change? And where is God in such transformations? For more than a hundred years,... -
The Invisible Crowd by Ellen Wiles
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46'A fierce, big-hearted novel.' Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air'Pushes us to find our kinder selves.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You'A wonderful book.' Maurice Wren, Chief... -
Yuungnaqpiallerput / The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival by Ann Fienup-Riordan 9780295986692
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £35.53Honorable mention for the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyHonorable mention for the 2008 William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar... -
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire 9780691212647
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.19Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less... -
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire 9780691216430
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.60Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less... -
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith by Timothy Larsen 9780198757429
Booksplease Price: £33.42Throughout 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... -
Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies by Janet McIntosh
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £64.00Early in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that 'I know words. I have the best words', yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If... -
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dana-Ain Davis
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of Feminist Anthropology Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology Honorable Mention,... -
Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas by Kim Gutschow 9780674012875
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.43They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably... -
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dana-Ain Davis 9781479812271
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86Winner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of Feminist Anthropology Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology Honorable Mention,... -
Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies by Janet McIntosh 9781108745031
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.48Early in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that 'I know words. I have the best words', yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If... -
Why Do Men Barbecue?: Recipes for Cultural Psychology by Richard A. Shweder 9780674011359
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.88Why do American children sleep alone instead of with their parents? Why do middle-aged Western women yearn for their youth, while young wives in India look forward to being middle-aged? In these... -
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... -
Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair by Emma Tarlo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2017 Journeying around the globe, through past and present, Emma Tarlo unravels the intriguing story of human hair and what it tells us... -
Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India by Anand Pandian
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Ayya's Accounts explores the life of an ordinary man-orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather-during a century of tremendous hope and upheaval. Born in colonial India into a despised caste of... -
Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State by Neni Panourgia 9780823229673
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02This book simultaneously tells a story-or rather, stories-and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of... -
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 9780691220550
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.90What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern...