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It's Not About The Ball! by David Parkins
Booksplease Price: €7.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770493308Author David ParkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Tundra BooksPublisher Tundra... -
It's Not About The Diamonds! by David Parkins
Booksplease Price: €7.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770493285Author David ParkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Tundra BooksPublisher Tundra... -
It's Not About The Beanstalk! by David Parkins
Booksplease Price: €6.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770493278Author David ParkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Tundra BooksPublisher Tundra... -
Transformations of African Marriage by David Parkin
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.54Originally published in 1987, this book shows that there is still considerable continuity in the practices and ideas of marriage in Afican against a background of social and economic change. This... -
It's Not About The Tiny Girl! by David Parkins
Booksplease Price: €6.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770493292Author David ParkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Tundra BooksPublisher Tundra... -
The Politics of Cultural Performance David Parkin 9781571819253
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €28.99The line between what is regarded by people as "traditional" and "modern" is constantly being altered by new configurations of power. These essays examine the ways in which such... -
Kinship: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts by David Parkin
RRP: €130.84Booksplease Price: €119.01This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family.About the... -
The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making by David Parkin
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €43.82This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Africa. It gives an overview of developments since... -
The Politics of Cultural Performance by David Parkin 9781571818980
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €101.70The line between what is regarded by people as "traditional" and "modern" is constantly being altered by new configurations of power. These essays examine the ways in which such... -
Holistic Anthropology: Emergence and Convergence by David Parkin 9781845453541
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €101.34Many sub-fields of anthropology, which were for many years kept apart, have, over the last few years, been coming together in new, mutually fruitful ways as in areas such as museum ethnography,... -
The Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland by David Parkin 9781408125007
Booksplease Price: €79.55This authoritative work of reference gives a detailed assessment of the status and distribution of every species on the British and Irish lists, for the first time since 1971. The Status of Birds in... -
Holistic Anthropology: Emergence and Convergence David Parkin 9780857451521
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €28.99"This book...presents a powerful case for anthropology that provides a full and whole account of the contemporary world, as well as some dilemmas...Taken together, the different approaches and... -
The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making by David Parkin 9781800411470
RRP: €154.64Booksplease Price: €130.58This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Africa. It gives an overview of developments since... -
Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward by David Parkin 9780520360846
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €86.82This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties... -
Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward by David Parkin 9780520314375
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €37.24This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties... -
Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward by David Parkin 9781138861916
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.01This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties... -
Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward by David Parkin 9780415329989
Booksplease Price: €72.41This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties... -
The Anthropology of Evil David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes) 9780631154327
RRP: €48.73Booksplease Price: €46.18Evil may be said to be shadowy, mysterious, covert, and associated with night, darkness, secrecy. It is a force acting to destroy the integrity, happiness and welfare of 'normal' society. It is at... -
Kinship: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes) 9780631203599
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €45.17This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family.About the... -
Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes) 9780631229995
RRP: €52.30Booksplease Price: €50.18The most comprehensive reader on kinship available, Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the... -
The Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya by David Parkin 9780521404662
RRP: €135.66Booksplease Price: €131.08In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between... -
The Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya by David Parkin 9780521024983
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €46.66In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between... -
History of Film by David Parkinson 9780500204108
Booksplease Price: €25.57In this lively and up-to-date analysis of the history of film, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital film-making of the 21st century. ... -
The Southcoates Brickworks, Limited, V. David Parkinson Garbutt by Brett 9781275492790
Booksplease Price: €23.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275492790Author BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Gale, Making of Modern LawPublisher... -
Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Twelfth International African Seminar, Lusaka, September 1972 by David Parkin
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.14Originally published in 1975, the studies in this volume examine the range of factors which mediate the development of social processes in both town and country: as well as migration there is the ebb... -
Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean: Inside and Outside the Mosque by Stephen Headley 9781138862777
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.33In its attempt to squash the influence of animism and pantheism or polytheism and to promote the idea of the One and Only Absolute God, Islam has come up against a tendency within itself to... -
Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment, and Development by Elisabeth Croll
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.78Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third would development programmes. The contributors, all distinguished anthropologists with... -
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Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back by Martin Jenkins 9781406318647 [USED COPY]
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €3.01One of a new series of books, Read and Discover, designed to encourage children to learn about the world as they learn to read.Squishy bladderworts, sticky sundews, cobra lilies and Venus flytraps -... -
Manhood and Morality: Sex, Violence and Ritual in Gisu Society Suzette Heald 9780415185783
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82'An impressive and meticulously crafted African ethnography, which has theoretical and practical relevance for understanding masculinity and violence in general'- David Parkin, Professor of... -
The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa by Parker MacDonald Shipton 9780300116014
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €68.62This groundbreaking book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international aid and development. Drawing on extensive research... -
DNA Fingerprinting: Approaches and Applications by G. Dolf 9783034873147
Booksplease Price: €55.43Although DNA fingerprinting is a very young branch of molecular genetics, being barely six years old, its recent impact on science, law and politics has been dramatic. The application of DNA finger... -
Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research Paul Dresch 9781571818003
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €28.99The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some... -
Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health: Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa by Steven P. Black 9780813597720
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €114.42Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health tells the story of a unique Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa, and how they maintained healthy, productive lives... -
Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health: Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa by Steven P. Black
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.87Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health tells the story of a unique Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa, and how they maintained healthy, productive lives... -
Engaging Superdiversity: Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices Karel Arnaut 9781783096787
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €41.36This book is the fruition of five years' work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of... -
That Cat Can't Stay by Thad Krasnesky 9780979974656
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.95Narrated by a cat-loving little girl, this story is a hysterical romp through a family's pet adoption dilemma. Poor Dad does not like cats, and he voices his opposition to the steady stream of stray... -
Stable Levy Processes via Lamperti-Type Representations by Andreas E. Kyprianou
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €57.92Stable Levy processes lie at the intersection of Levy processes and self-similar Markov processes. Processes in the latter class enjoy a Lamperti-type representation as the space-time path... -
Power, Mobility and Voice: Jan Blommaert's Unfinished Business Karel Arnaut 9781836683575
RRP: €59.44Booksplease Price: €54.05Builds on the profound and challenging legacy of sociolinguist Jan Blommaert, one of the most important thinkers in contemporary sociolinguistics, who dismantled the theoretical and ideological... -
The Making of Psychotherapists: An Anthropological Analysis James Davies 9781855756564
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.32Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform... -
William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €25.95In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat...