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The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds Eduardo Viveiros De Cas 9780990505037
Booksplease Price: £27.15This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought... -
The Logic of Invention by Roy Wagner
Booksplease Price: £24.64In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of... -
Comparing Impossibilities - Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore by Sally Falk Moore 9780986132551
Booksplease Price: £31.24Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major... -
The Gift - Expanded Edition Marcel Mauss 9780990505006
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £12.35Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this crucial... -
The Elementary Forms of Corruption: Moral Imagination and Political Change in Brazil by Aaron Ansell 9781914363160
Booksplease Price: £24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914363160Author Aaron AnsellFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint < -
The AntiWitch by Jeanne Favret-Saada
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.19Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant anthropologists, and The Anti-Witch is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic... -
Before and After Gender - Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life by Marilyn Strathern 9780986132537
Booksplease Price: £27.45Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a... -
From Hospitality to Grace - A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus by Julian Alfred Pitt-Rivers 9780986132520
Booksplease Price: £40.28The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered,... -
Gifts and Commodities C. A. Gregory 9780990505013
Booksplease Price: £27.15C A Gregory's Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value,... -
Magic - A Theory from the South by Ernesto de Martino
Booksplease Price: £27.15Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the... -
Mistrust - An Ethnographic Theory Matthew Carey 9780997367522
Booksplease Price: £20.12Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and virtuous, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and... -
Two Lenins - A Brief Anthropology of Time Anthropology of Time Nikolai Ssorin-chaikov 9780997367539
Booksplease Price: £20.12Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time... -
Acting for Others - Relational Transformations in Papua New Guinea Pascale Bonnemere 9780997367584
Booksplease Price: £27.15For the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers simply by growing up and reproducing. What fathers and by extension, men actually are is a result of a... -
On Kings David Graeber 9780986132506
Booksplease Price: £26.26In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by... -
Four Lectures on Ethics - Anthropological Perspectives by Michael Lambek 9780990505075
Booksplease Price: £27.15Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists... -
Ways of Baloma - Rethinking Magic and Kinship From the Trobriands by Mark S. Mosko 9780997367560
Booksplease Price: £40.75Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that... -
The Mythology in Our Language - Remarks on Frazer`s Golden Bough Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780990505068
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.30In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's "Golden Bough," published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact - continental thinkers... -
The Chimera Principle - An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination Carlo Severi 9780990505051
Booksplease Price: £27.15Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi's The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions... -
How Is It Between Us?: Relational Ethics and Care for the World Jarrett Zigon 9781914363054
Booksplease Price: £24.80A new theory of relational ethics that tackles contemporary issues. In How Is It Between Us?, Jarrett Zigon puts anthropology and phenomenological hermeneutics in conversation to develop a new theory... -
The Fire of the Jaguar Terence Turner 9780997367546
Booksplease Price: £27.15Not since Clifford Geertz's "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" has the publication of an anthropological analysis been as eagerly awaited as this book, Terence S. Turner's The Fire of the... -
Translating Worlds - The Epistemological Space of Translation by Carlo Severi 9780986132513
Booksplease Price: £20.12Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of... -
Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society by Emile Benveniste 9780986132599
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.50Since its publication in 1969, emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society has been the classic reference for tracing the... -
Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice by Andrew Irving 9780997367515
Booksplease Price: £32.30The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to... -
Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things by Marilyn Strathern
Booksplease Price: £25.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999157077Author Marilyn StrathernFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint -
World - An Anthropological Examination Joao De Pina-cabral 9780997367508
Booksplease Price: £27.15What do we mean when we refer to the world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does the world mean for the ethnographer and the... -
Becoming Somebody Else: Blackouts, Addiction, and Agency Amongst London's Homeless by Joshua Burraway 9781914363290
Booksplease Price: £28.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914363290Author Joshua BurrawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint -
Cabinet's Finest Hour: The Hidden Agenda of May 1940 by David Owen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Using the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940. Eight months into the war... -
The Power of Judges by David Neuberger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The role of the Supreme Court has often been considered out of reach and incomprehensible to the vast majority of the public, while judges might be seen as a caste apart from society, remote to most... -
Truth in Public Life by Claire Foster-Gilbert
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Truth in Public Life explores the difficulty in defining truth, its critical importance in civilised society and the challenges and threats to telling the truth in different public service settings. ... -
The Peace That Never Was: A History of the League of Nations by Ruth Henig
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.48Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged,... -
Leon and Louise by Alex Capus
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.26Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Leon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are... -
Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Far from Winston Churchill's jibe that he was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," in this acclaimed biography, comprehensively revised in this new edition, Francis Beckett makes the... -
These Islands: A Letter To Britain by Ali M. Ansari
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Visiting Italy in the months preceding the Scottish referendum of 2014, Ali Ansari was struck by the admiration of Italian colleagues for the liberalism of a state that would allow, and even... -
28 June by Alan Sharp
Booksplease Price: £37.11On June 28, 1919, the Peace Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered Europe's... -
Ionel Bratianu: Romania by Keith Hitchins 9781905791767
Booksplease Price: £19.27At the beginning of 1918 the British War Cabinet endorsed the view of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, that after the war Austria-Hungary should be in a position to exercise a powerful... -
Goethe by Peter Boerner 9781908323514
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is recognised as a giant of world literature; an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a student, he composed pastoral plays in the style of the waning Rococo... -
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914 by David Owen 9781908323989
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23December 1905: Foreign Minister Edward Grey enters into secret talks with the French about sending British forces to their aid in the event of a German attack. The details were only revealed to the... -
In Search of Ancient North Africa: A History in Six Lives by Barnaby Rogerson 9781912208784
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. Throughout that time, there have always... -
The Words of My Father by Yousef Bashir 9781912208173
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, eleven-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games, school pranks, and meeting his father's impossibly high standards... -
Benes and Masaryk: Czechoslovakia by Peter Neville 9781905791729
Booksplease Price: £19.27Of even greater importance for Hungary's future were the activities of the champions of an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks. Tomas Masaryk, a Czech professor of philosophy and a future leader...