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The Melanesian World by Eric Hirsch 9780367730673
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and... -
Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru by Eric Hirsch
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this... -
Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia by Eric Hirsch 9781571816153
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $166.06In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent conomic... -
Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces Eric Hirsch 9780415117128
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and... -
Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru by Eric Hirsch 9781503630215
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this... -
Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia by Eric Hirsch 9781845450281
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $47.50In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent conomic... -
Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands Eric Hirsch (Brunel University, UK) 9780367684914
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds.For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands, the past is not... -
Mobile Web Services: Architecture and Implementation by Frederick Hirsch 9780470015964
Booksplease Price: $154.83Mobile Web services offer new possibilities and extraordinary rewards for the mobile telecommunications market. Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) implemented with Web services are fundamentally... -
Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception by Jeanette Edwards
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological... -
The Life of Total Football: The Origins and Development of Football's Most Entertaining Philosophy by James Jackson 9781801501897
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35The Life of Total Football tells the story of the origins, history and inspiration behind one of the purest and arguably most-entertaining styles of football in the history of the game.Total Football... -
The Gender-Technology Relation: Contemporary Theory And Research: An Introduction Rosalind Gill 9780748401611
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $93.95Provides a review of contemporary theory and empirical research into the relationship between feminism and social constructivism. Through case studies, the book focuses on issues raised by different... -
The Andean World Linda J. Seligmann 9780367732547
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of... -
Senses of Place by Steven Feld 9780933452954
Booksplease Price: $44.83The complex relationship of people to places has come under increasing scholarly scrutiny in recent years as acute global conditions of exile, displacement, and inflamed borders-to say nothing of... -
Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea by Lawrence Kalinoe 9780954557201
Booksplease Price: $80.67What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In the context of a burgeoning discourse of property, these are vital questions. Rationales of Ownership offers conceptual... -
Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea by Lawrence Kalinoe 9780954557218
Booksplease Price: $42.30What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In the context of a burgeoning discourse of property, these are vital questions. Rationales of Ownership offers conceptual... -
Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work David Gellner 9781859734872
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Most of us work in or for one, but there are surprisingly few sustained analyses of the problems and peculiarities of organizations. Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the... -
Knowing How to Know: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present by Narmala Halstead 9781845454777
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $47.50"This book is an important stimulus to ongoing debate, and showcases some of the best of recent approaches and challenges to the ways we know what we know." * Ethos This volume examines some... -
Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion: History, Cosmology and Spirits Diana Espírito Santo 9781350467637
Booksplease Price: $167.02How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices - religious, spiritual or otherwise - in places of both modernity and political trauma?This volume... -
Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands Allison Caine 9780816554164
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26In the high Andean grasslands 4,500 meters above sea level, Quechua alpaca herders live on the edges of glaciers that have retreated more rapidly in the past fifty years than at any point in the... -
Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands Allison Caine 9780816554171
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $125.39In the high Andean grasslands 4,500 meters above sea level, Quechua alpaca herders live on the edges of glaciers that have retreated more rapidly in the past fifty years than at any point in the... -
Projecting 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo 9781442218260
Booksplease Price: $158.87Projecting 9/11 examines sensibilities and ideologies that arose after September 11, 2001, and how these intersect with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in contemporary mainstream...